Sam Ogun: How a Nigerian journalist turned CIA spy In 1976, Sam Ogun, a Nigerian freelance journalist, confessed to how he spied on Nigeria for the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for nearly 10 years. He spoke with DRUM magazine. Read the summary of his interview: His work began in the early 1960s when he acted as an “information officer” for the American Motion Picture Export Company. His handler, an American film distributor known as Jack, paid him to write reviews of foreign films published in local newspapers and forwarded to New...