The CIA’s response claimed, “We did not locate any responsive records that would reveal an openly acknowledged CIA affiliation with the subject.” In reference to classified records, they also said that they can “neither confirm nor deny having such records.”

The CIA is denying any involvement with Barlow.

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“I was introduced to this world by a former spy named Robert Steele, who called me in the fall of 1992 and asked me to speak at a Washington conference that would be ‘attended primarily by intelligence professionals.’” Barlow also wrote, “Steele’s conference was attended by about 600 members of the American and European intelligence establishment, including many of its senior leaders.”

The CIA’s open source coordinator, Paul Wellner, invited Barlow to the CIA Headquarters after this conference. Barlow continued writing, “in early 1993, I passed through the gates of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.”

...If Barlow is writing in Forbes about how he not only spoke at a conference in front of 600 intelligence officers (including many senior leaders), but also how he entered the CIA headquarters only months later, how laughable is it that the FOIA request filed by by Outtrim resulted in the CIA denying any “openly acknowledged CIA affiliation” with Barlo