10 Most Notorious Walt Disney Urban Legends

6. The Name's Disney. Walt Disney.

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Walt Disney doesn't quite seem the type to be a spy for the FBI, but that's exactly what they want you to think! 

Among many claims in his 1994 book, Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince, Marc Eliot posits that Walt was in fact working with the FBI in order to help them combat communist threats. The basis for this is that the FBI had a number of files on him that had been redacted, and thus obviously they had to be covering something up. 

Walt clearly had many dealings with the Bureau, and was classed by them as a Special Agent in Charge (SAC), which simply meant that he could be relied upon to help with information should they have any need to ask him questions, but then that's far more mundane than the notion of him being some sort of super secret spy. 

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