‘Green Hornet’ Star Van Williams: The Actor With a Big Secret

There are lots of reasons why I loved The Green Hornet TV show when I was a kid: Despite its relatively short run on TV, the series, with Bruce Lee as Kato and Van Williams as the Green Hornet, was really well executed and a lot of fun to watch. I loved the theme music, the Green Hornet’s car, the Black Beauty, and all of the Green Hornet’s other amazing gadgets like the Hornet Sting, which would unlock any door and render other devices useless. At the time, however, I had no idea that Williams had a second career while he worked as an actor — but he would later claim that during the 1960s, he was also working abroad on behalf of the CIA.