mythomaniac

Describing himself as a mythomaniac, he admitted he had no training with the FBI, never interviewed Charles Manson and not played professional soccer for the Parisian team Red Star.

He told MPs: "I think I was duped. I think the technical term is a mythomaniac. The lay person's term is he was a premier league liar and a Sunday pub league retailer. At best."

But at that point, he said, he was considered “a renegade and a mythomaniac.”

Of course, they admit, he has also been fingered as a mythomaniac trickster.