Congressman Larry McDonald died in a plane crash after this interview.

[Tom Braden, one of the “Crossfire” interviewers, was a CIA operative.](https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-thomas-braden4-2009apr04-story.html)

[CIA warned Richard Nixon not to fly on KAL 007. Congressman Larry McDonald was not warned](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KzIZ786pSbc)

“I’m glad the CIA is ‘immoral’”

Thomas W. Braden, The Saturday Evening Post, 20 May 1967, page 10 – 14
https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/braden_20may1967.html

“Tom Braden, a newspaper columnist whose 1975 book about his eight children, “Eight Is Enough,” inspired the ABC television series, died at his home in Denver on Friday. He was 92.”

“During World War II, Mr. Braden served with the British and United States armies.

**After the war he married Joan Ridley, who was an aide to Nelson A. Rockefeller. He joined the C.I.A. in 1950** and was involved in an agency operation to counter Communist influence in Europe through arts programs. **In 1954, with the help of a loan from Mr. Rockefeller, he bought a newspaper in Oceanside, Calif., The Blade-Tribune,** which he ran for more than a decade. His newspaper columns about his family later culminated in the book.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/arts/television/06braden.html