By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
Thomas Wassell, a former FBI agent who went on to become well-known Atlanta TV news anchor, has died at age 84 in Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Wassell worked as an agent from 1951 to 1960 in Chicago and Miami and later went on to become an anchorman at WSB-tv in Atlanta. He left the station in 1973 and became an information officer for the Georgia State Senate and retired in 1991, the paper reported.
The paper said he used to talk to his sons about his days in the FBI and his espionage cases.
“It sounded like something out of a James Bond movie or something,” his son John Wassell of Tucker told the paper.
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