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Navy Vet Defies DOJ Over Spy Memoir | Wilmington News
Navy vet Zachary Young, who just won a $5 million defamation verdict against CNN, is now locked in a high-stakes battle with the Justice Department over his upcoming spy memoir, “American Spy.” The DOJ is threatening criminal prosecution and civil suits against his publisher, HarperCollins, if the book is released, claiming it violates his non-disclosure agreement and could endanger national security. Young insists he’s been cooperative and that the CIA’s refusal to specify what’s classified makes a fair review impossible — he believes the agency’s real goal is to silence him out of…
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