Wendi Stanton’s Reviews > Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy > Status Update

The https://www.outsideonline.com/1926591...
is worth the read if you care. It has more information and facts than the book ever pretended to.

Well, After some basic research. I think I'll give this 1 star. Due to inconsistent time line issues in the book. I'd find my self saying WTF at points where Obama, Bush and Bush Sr. were put in... out of order for events. I almost put it down then. but, like the rest of most of you I listened to the rest. I call it suspension of disbelief.

Fisher attended a summertime service at a Memphis megachurch, where he saw Jamie and Todd Smith. When the pastor wanted to recognize those who’d served in Operation Desert Storm, both brothers stood. Fisher couldn’t help but laugh that Jamie would lie about something so important. When he stared down Jamie among the flags and the hymnals, Jamie just smiled and put a finger to his lips. Shhh. 

A former deputy director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, who asked not to be named, told us he’d “never heard of any program within the DO/NCS”—the Directorate of Operations/National Security Service*—“that allowed for an undergraduate to go undercover.”

Smith also says he served in the National Guard during his youth, which is true: the Guard verifies it. Smith simultaneously enrolled in an Ole Miss ROTC program and the National Guard in the fall of 1992—meaning he joined up after the time he says he was a spook—but he dropped out in 1993, at which point the Guard discharged him.
We know for sure only that he worked as a Christian karate instructor while at Regent.

“Horseshit,” says Larry Johnson, a former CIA officer and a State Department deputy director in the office on counter terrorism from 1989 to 1993. Johnson says there’s no way the CIA would have plucked a kid from Ole Miss and given him serious duties.

so..
In the wartime years after 9/11, Smith used these stories to build a small empire that he lost just as quickly when people, including his own staff, began to realize that he’d made much of it up, and that neither he nor anybody at SCG was doing much harrowing work overseas.
including his own staff? I'd like to know more. Anyone willing? Did this staff feel like they were providing a service needed?