Reminds me of the back drop story that Chuck Barris of Gong Show Fame was really a Spook ?. Who is Dr. Oz ?, A daytime TV land fixture shilling the next great cure.
This on Barris:
Barris called himself "The King of Daytime Television," but to critics he was "The King of Schlock" or "The Baron of Bad Taste." The media mocked him and accused him of exploiting his contestants. "Let me ask you something — which does the most harm, a 'Gong Show' or the killings, pistol whippings and flying blood you see on evening 'drama?'" Barris once said in a Los Angeles Times interview. "And the critics blame me for cracking culture?"
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/chuck-barris-king-daytime-tv-who-claimed-be-cia-assassin-n736841