Radio Lyrics: I am a sucker

I am a sucker.
Broadcast the story of an old defector, D.
Got out in 1959 and asked for asylum in the USA.
The CIA didn’t believe him (it was freezing hard!)
and blocked his path to a decent career.
So far so good. But. In the same program D said
that some recently declassified CIA file gives the name
of the agent who debriefed him and even quotes from the memorandum:
That D is a suspicious type, who
associates with beatniks and homosexuals and so on.
The day before broadcast I glanced at the file:
It was, indeed, the work of a CIA fuckwit
from the second wave of Russian emigration.
After it had aired D told me, in passing,
that it wasn’t from the official CIA webpages, but a hackers’ site.
What does that mean? That this agent fellow
could sue me. If he’s still alive, of course.
I am a sucker.

Translated from the Russian by Frank Williams