CubaSocialista
20th June 2006, 19:53
Any of you heard of this guy? He lives in Cuba now, and is wanted by the Government of the US. His work on what he did as a CIA agent is written in his book which is spoken about below.
Just showing that there are no absolute good or evil, no villain that cannot become heroic, and no hero who cannot become villainous. There are only shades of grey.
This guy is particularly concerned about the future of Cuba's Revolution.
Below is a Wikipedia description of him and his life.
Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (born July 19, 1935 in Tacoma Park, Florida) is a former CIA employee and author who published a controversial book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, detailing his experiences in, and the operation of, the CIA.
Agee joined the CIA in 1957 and worked as a case officer in several Latin American countries, notably Ecuador and Uruguay. But his fame or infamy lies in his career after his resignation in 1969. From the early 1970s he became the most visible CIA dissenter of former employees, including John Stockwell, who spoke out and wrote about the CIA’s role in the Third World.
Agee claimed that it was his Roman Catholic social conscience which made him increasingly uncomfortable by the late 1960s with his work. He became disillusioned with the CIA and its support for authoritarian governments across Latin America in the 1960s. He and other dissidents took encouragement in their stand from the Church Committee (1975-6), which cast a critical light on the role of the CIA in assassinations, domestic espionage, and other illegal activities. They wrote too about their outrage at the role of the CIA in the “destabilizing” and overthrow of democratically-elected governments, in particular in Chile (1973) and Jamaica 1974-9. Employees who worked closely with Agee said his resignation was forced due to his alcoholism, financial mismanagement and adultery with the wives of diplomats[1].
The Mitrokhin archive, which is a collection of KGB documents, taken from the KGB archives by Vasili Mitrokhin, and comments from Soviet defectors support the charges that Agee was an active and willing participant in Soviet disinformation operations. Oleg Kalugin, former head of the KGB’s Counterintelligence Directorate, claims that in 1973 Agee approached the KGB’s residence in Mexico City and offered what Kalugin called a “treasure trove of information.” Although the KGB was too suspicious to accept his offer, the DGI (Cuba’s intelligence service) “welcomed him with open arms.”
In 1975, Inside the Company was finally published worldwide, in 27 different languages while Agee was living in London. According to Edgar Anatolvevich Cheporov, London correspondent of the Novosti News Agency and KGB agent who claimed to have worked with Agee on “Inside the Company,” Agee removed all references to the CIA’s penetration into Latin American Communist parties from his transcript before final publication on the direction of the KGB’s Service A.
Agee became somewhat of a minor celebrity in the United Kingdom after Inside the Company revealed the identities of dozens of CIA agents in their London station. After numerous requests from the American government as well as an MI6 report that blamed Agee’s work for the execution of two MI6 agents in Poland, a request was put in to deport Agee from the UK. Although Agee fought this and was supported by dozens of left wing MP’s, journalists, and private citizens, he was eventually expelled from the UK on June 3, 1977, and traveled to the Netherlands. Agee was also eventually expelled from Holland, France, West Germany, and Italy. The head of the Western Hemisphere Division of the CIA, Ted Shackley, was tasked with stopping the publication of Agee's CIA Diary.
In 1978, Agee and a small group of his supporters began publishing the Covert Action Information Bulletin with, according to Vasili Mitrokhin, the help of both the KGB and the Cuban DGI, promoted "a worldwide campaign to destabilize the CIA through exposure of its operations and personnel.". In 1978 and 1979, Agee published the two volumes of Dirty Work, which exposed over 2000 covert CIA agents in Western Europe and Africa as well as details about their activities. Of the KGB’s work, Agee told Swiss journalist Peter Studer that “The CIA is plainly on the wrong side, that is, the capitalistic side. I approve KGB activities, communist activities in general. Between the overdone activities that the CIA initiates and the more modest activities of the KGB, there is absolutely no comparison.”
Agee's US passport was revoked in 1979. In 1980, Maurice Bishop's government conferred citizenship of Grenada on Agee, and he took up residence in that island. But the collapse of the Grenada Revolution removed that safe haven, and Agee then was given a passport by the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. He later found refuge in Cuba. Agee's own description of his odyssey was published in his autobiography, On The Run, in 1987.
In 1982, Congress passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, legislation that seemed directly aimed at Agee's works, the law that would later figure in the current investigation into the Valerie Plame scandal into whether Bush administration officials leaked a case officer's name to the media as an act of retaliation against her husband (Ironically, it was Bush’s own father, former DCI George H.W. Bush, who had vigorously lobbied for the IIPA as Vice President).
Today, Agee runs a website from his home in Havana, Cubalinda.com,[2] which uses loopholes to arrange holidays to Cuba for American citizens, who are generally prohibited by the Trading with the Enemy statute of US law from spending money in Cuba.
Agee is a socialist and a strong supporter of Fidel Castro and of the Cuban Revolution.
Just showing that there are no absolute good or evil, no villain that cannot become heroic, and no hero who cannot become villainous. There are only shades of grey.
This guy is particularly concerned about the future of Cuba's Revolution.
Below is a Wikipedia description of him and his life.
Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (born July 19, 1935 in Tacoma Park, Florida) is a former CIA employee and author who published a controversial book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, detailing his experiences in, and the operation of, the CIA.
Agee joined the CIA in 1957 and worked as a case officer in several Latin American countries, notably Ecuador and Uruguay. But his fame or infamy lies in his career after his resignation in 1969. From the early 1970s he became the most visible CIA dissenter of former employees, including John Stockwell, who spoke out and wrote about the CIA’s role in the Third World.
Agee claimed that it was his Roman Catholic social conscience which made him increasingly uncomfortable by the late 1960s with his work. He became disillusioned with the CIA and its support for authoritarian governments across Latin America in the 1960s. He and other dissidents took encouragement in their stand from the Church Committee (1975-6), which cast a critical light on the role of the CIA in assassinations, domestic espionage, and other illegal activities. They wrote too about their outrage at the role of the CIA in the “destabilizing” and overthrow of democratically-elected governments, in particular in Chile (1973) and Jamaica 1974-9. Employees who worked closely with Agee said his resignation was forced due to his alcoholism, financial mismanagement and adultery with the wives of diplomats[1].
The Mitrokhin archive, which is a collection of KGB documents, taken from the KGB archives by Vasili Mitrokhin, and comments from Soviet defectors support the charges that Agee was an active and willing participant in Soviet disinformation operations. Oleg Kalugin, former head of the KGB’s Counterintelligence Directorate, claims that in 1973 Agee approached the KGB’s residence in Mexico City and offered what Kalugin called a “treasure trove of information.” Although the KGB was too suspicious to accept his offer, the DGI (Cuba’s intelligence service) “welcomed him with open arms.”
In 1975, Inside the Company was finally published worldwide, in 27 different languages while Agee was living in London. According to Edgar Anatolvevich Cheporov, London correspondent of the Novosti News Agency and KGB agent who claimed to have worked with Agee on “Inside the Company,” Agee removed all references to the CIA’s penetration into Latin American Communist parties from his transcript before final publication on the direction of the KGB’s Service A.
Agee became somewhat of a minor celebrity in the United Kingdom after Inside the Company revealed the identities of dozens of CIA agents in their London station. After numerous requests from the American government as well as an MI6 report that blamed Agee’s work for the execution of two MI6 agents in Poland, a request was put in to deport Agee from the UK. Although Agee fought this and was supported by dozens of left wing MP’s, journalists, and private citizens, he was eventually expelled from the UK on June 3, 1977, and traveled to the Netherlands. Agee was also eventually expelled from Holland, France, West Germany, and Italy. The head of the Western Hemisphere Division of the CIA, Ted Shackley, was tasked with stopping the publication of Agee's CIA Diary.
In 1978, Agee and a small group of his supporters began publishing the Covert Action Information Bulletin with, according to Vasili Mitrokhin, the help of both the KGB and the Cuban DGI, promoted "a worldwide campaign to destabilize the CIA through exposure of its operations and personnel.". In 1978 and 1979, Agee published the two volumes of Dirty Work, which exposed over 2000 covert CIA agents in Western Europe and Africa as well as details about their activities. Of the KGB’s work, Agee told Swiss journalist Peter Studer that “The CIA is plainly on the wrong side, that is, the capitalistic side. I approve KGB activities, communist activities in general. Between the overdone activities that the CIA initiates and the more modest activities of the KGB, there is absolutely no comparison.”
Agee's US passport was revoked in 1979. In 1980, Maurice Bishop's government conferred citizenship of Grenada on Agee, and he took up residence in that island. But the collapse of the Grenada Revolution removed that safe haven, and Agee then was given a passport by the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. He later found refuge in Cuba. Agee's own description of his odyssey was published in his autobiography, On The Run, in 1987.
In 1982, Congress passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, legislation that seemed directly aimed at Agee's works, the law that would later figure in the current investigation into the Valerie Plame scandal into whether Bush administration officials leaked a case officer's name to the media as an act of retaliation against her husband (Ironically, it was Bush’s own father, former DCI George H.W. Bush, who had vigorously lobbied for the IIPA as Vice President).
Today, Agee runs a website from his home in Havana, Cubalinda.com,[2] which uses loopholes to arrange holidays to Cuba for American citizens, who are generally prohibited by the Trading with the Enemy statute of US law from spending money in Cuba.
Agee is a socialist and a strong supporter of Fidel Castro and of the Cuban Revolution.