- In 1965 he interviewed Michael Caine about his experience playing a secret agent in the film 'The Ipcress File (1965)'. At the time of the interview, McCarry himself was secretly employed by the CIA.
- Originally intended to write a non-fiction book about the Kennedy Assassination, but the theory he posited was so controversial that his publisher told him no one would touch the book. Instead McCarry presented the assassination theory in fictional form in his novel "The Tears of Autumn," which became a best-seller.
- Was a deep-cover agent in the CIA from 1957-1967.
- His son, Caleb McCarry, is the Bush administration's "Cuba Transition Coordinator," tasked with assisting in the removal of the Communist government of Cuba.
- Has worked as a Hollywood script doctor for years. He did an uncredited rewrite on the film 'Breakdown (1997)', when John Frankenheimer was still attached to direct.
- Published his first novel at the age of 43.
- On the CIA: "I never met a stupid person in the agency. Or an assassin. Or a Republican. ...They were, at least in the operations side where I was, there were wall-to-wall knee-jerk liberals. And they were befuddled that the left outside the agency regarded them as some sort of right-wing threat. Because they were the absolute opposite, in their own politics.".
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