and drug treatment, criminal history, family history of
alcohol use, drug use, and psychological problems, marital status,
satisfaction with marital status, living arrangements, number of
self-help meetings attended in last month, number of children, age of
each child, living arrangement of each child, and who had legal
custody of each child, how patient spent free time, number of close
friends, relationship with family and friends, emotional, physical,
and sexual abuse, and mental health history. Variables also include
the patient's rating of the importance of receiving treatment for
problems relating to health, employment, drug and alcohol use,
criminal activity, social relations, and mental health. The
interviewer's ratings of the severity of the patient's problems, his
level of misrepresentation, and his ability to understand are also
included for each of these areas. Part 2, Exit Data, variables include
interview date, RSAT site, admission date,claimed to have been born in South Australia in 1945 to German parents, attended boarding school in West Germany and studied engineering at the Technische Hochschule. Friedrich also claimed that, while working for an American construction company, he was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency and, under the codename "Iago", worked in Laos, Vietnam, Egypt, New Zealand and West Germany against far left-wing extremists before returning to Australia in 1975. Simon Caterson, writing in The Australian, described it as "one of the least reliable but most fascinating memoirs in the annals of Australian publishing". A subsequent 2017 essay by Caterson likening Friedrich to Jeff Tracy is titled "John Friedrich: Australia's Most Altruistic Fraudster".

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