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Apr
20
Written by:
Diana West
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 9:16 AM
The Three Cups of Tea scandal keeps getting bigger.
Best-selling writer Jon Krakauer has published his own 75-page expose, Three Cups of Deceit (download here), which includes an account of how he, Krakauer, was taken to the cleaners as a donor to Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson's institute, CAI, even before he realized the Mortenson myth was extensively fabricated, which Krakhauer also details in shocking detail.
Of course, we've seen fabricated memoirs before. But Mortenson's takes the cake for both its use as charity bait for schoolchildren and bona fides for Mortenson's role as an unofficial advisor of Pentagon COINdinistas.
Now, the book's publisher is "reviewing" the book's content, and the Attorney General of Montana is opening an inquiry into Mortenson's charity CAI.
Maybe it was that comment quoted by Krakauer from a former treasurer of the CAI board who said that Mortenson regarded CAI as his personal ATM....
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