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."

Having consorted with so many mythomaniacs, he has ended as an incorrigible fantasist.

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.