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Tom Wardell Braden | 'Crossfire' cocreator, 92

Tom Wardell Braden, 92, a former CIA agent who helped launch CNN's political-debate show Crossfire , died Friday at his home in Denver.

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Tom Wardell Braden, 92, a former CIA agent who helped launch CNN's political-debate show

Crossfire

, died Friday at his home in Denver.

Mr. Braden also was known for writing Eight Is Enough, a 1975 book about his eight children that inspired a TV show.

Mr. Braden was born in Greene, Iowa, and graduated from Dartmouth College. After serving with the British and U.S. armies during World War II, he joined the CIA.

He returned to Washington and helped start a local radio and TV show called Confrontation. Then in 1982, he took the same idea of partisan sparring and created Crossfire with Patrick J. Buchanan. He left the show in 1991. - AP

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