Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (born July 19, 1935) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and author who wrote the book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary (1975)^[1], detailing his experiences in the CIA. Agee joined the CIA in 1957 and worked as a case officer with postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay, and Mexico. After leaving the service in 1968 he (like John Stockwell) became a leading opponent of CIA practices.^[2] is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence agency of the United States government. ... An author is any person(s) or entity(s) that originates and assumes responsibility for an expression or communication. ... Agent handler is a generic term common to many intelligence organizations which can be applied to Case Officers, those who aspire to be Case officers, controllers, contacts, couriers and other assorted trainees. ... Nickname: Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - District Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2: Jack... Stockwell John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty. ...

^[3] He resigned from the CIA in 1968.^[4] From the early 1970s, he became the most visible opponent of CIA practices.

Early years

Agee was born in Tacoma Park, Florida. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1956.^[5] The University of Notre Dame IPA: is a Roman Catholic institution located in Notre Dame, Indiana, immediately northeast of South Bend, Indiana, United States. ...

Leaving the CIA

Agee stated that his Roman Catholic social conscience had made him increasingly uncomfortable with his work by the late 1960s leading to his disillusionment with the CIA and its support for authoritarian governments across Latin America. 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. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... The term authoritarian is used to describe an organization or a state which enforces strong and sometimes oppressive measures against the population, generally without attempts at gaining the consent of the population. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... The Church Committee is the common term referring to the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church (D-ID) in 1975. ...

In the book Agee condemned the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City and wrote that this was the immediate event precipitating him leaving the agency. A 1978 silkscreen poster by Rini Templeton and Malaquías Montoya created to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the massacre. ... Nickname: Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: , Country Mexico Federal entity Federal District Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded (as Tenochtitlan) c. ...

While Agee claims that the CIA was "very pleased with his work"^[1], offered him "another promotion"^[1] and his superior "was startled"^[1] when Agee told him about his plans to resign, the journalist John Barron reports his resignation was forced "for a variety of reasons, including his irresponsible drinking, continuous and vulgar propositioning of embassy wives, and inability to manage his finances".^[6] John Barron (1930, Wichita Falls, Texas - February 24, 2005) was an American journalist who exposed Communist activities. ...

KGB involvement

The Mitrokhin Archive, 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, states that in 1973 Agee approached the KGB's resident in Mexico City and offered what Kalugin called a "treasure trove of information." But the KGB was too suspicious to accept his offer.^[7] The KGB sword and shield emblem appears on the covers of the three published works by Mitrokhin, co-author Christopher Andrew. ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for Committee for State Security, (Russian: ; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Disinformation, in the context of espionage, military intelligence, and propaganda, is the spreading of deliberately false information to mislead an enemy as to ones position or course of action. ... Oleg Kalugin Oleg Danilovich Kalugin (Russian: ), (born September 6, 1934) is a former KGB spy. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Nickname: Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: , Country Mexico Federal entity Federal District Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded (as Tenochtitlan) c. ... A treasure-trove is gold, silver, gems, money, jewellery, etc found hidden under ground or in cellar or attics, etc. ...

Kalugin states that:

While Agee was writing Inside the Company: CIA Diary, the KGB kept in contact with him through Edgar Anatolvevich Cheporov, a London correspondent of the Novosti News Agency.^[8]

Book published

Because of legal problems in the US, in 1975, Inside the Company was first published in Britain, while Agee was living in London.^[8] It was eventually published worldwide, in 27 different languages.^{[citation needed]} Playboy Magazine (August 1975) published excerpts from his book in the article titled What You Still Don't Know About The CIA! Ex-Company Man Philip Agee Tells All

Christopher Andrew in his book about the Mitrokhin archive claims that 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.^[8] This claim is patently wrong - the 'CIA Diary' is actually full of such references. Here are just a few examples: Christopher Maurice Andrew (born 23 July 1941) is a British historian and professor with a special interest in international relations and in particular the history of intelligence services. ... The KGB sword and shield emblem appears on the covers of the three published works by Mitrokhin, co-author Christopher Andrew. ...

Agee acknowledged that "Representatives of the Communist Party of Cuba also gave important encouragement at a time when I doubted that I would be able to find the additional information I needed." ^[1]

The London Evening news called Inside the Company: CIA Diary "a frightening picture of corruption, pressure, assassination and conspiracy". The Economist called the book "inescapable reading". Miles Copeland, a former CIA station chief in Cairo, said the book was "as complete an account of spy work as is likely to be published anywhere" ^[9] and it is "an authentic account of how an ordinary American or British 'case officer' operates . . . All of it . . . is presented with deadly accuracy."^[10] Miles Axe Copeland III (May 2, 1944—) is an American entertainment executive, best known for founding I.R.S. Records. ... Nickname: Egypt: Site of Cairo (top center) Coordinates: Government  - Governor Dr. Abdul Azim Wazir Area  - City 214 km²  (82. ...

The book was delayed for six months before being published in the United States, it became an immediate best seller. ^[8] The head of the Western Hemisphere Division of the CIA, Ted Shackley, was tasked with stopping the publication of Agee's CIA Diary.^{[citation needed]} The geographical western hemisphere of Earth, highlighted in yellow. ... Theodore Shackley (1927-2002) was an American CIA agent. ... “Publisher” redirects here. ...

Inside the Company

Inside the Company identifies 250 CIA officers and agents.^[4]

Agee's first overseas assignment was in 1960 in Ecuador where his primary mission was to force a diplomatic break between Ecuador and Cuba, no matter what the cost to Ecuador's shaky stability, using bribery, intimidation, bugging, and forgery. Agee spent four years in Ecuador penetrating Ecuadorian politics. He states that his actions subverted and destroyed the political fabric of Ecuador.^[3]

Agee helped bug the United Arab Republic code room in Montevideo, Uruguay, with two contact microphones placed on the ceiling of the room below.^[3] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Department Montevideo Department Altitude 43 m Coordinates 34º 53S 56º 10W Founded 1726 Founder Bruno Mauricio de Zabala Population 1,325,968 (2004) (1st) Demonym Montevideano Phone Code +02 Postal Code 10000 Montevideo (IPA: ) is the capital, largest city, and chief port of Uruguay. ...

On December 12, 1965 Agee explains how he visited senior Uruguayan military and police officers at a Montevideo police headquarters. He realized that the screaming he heard from a nearby cell was the torturing of an Uruguayan, a name he had given to the police as someone to watch. The Uruguayan senior officers simply turned up a radio report of a soccer game to drown out the screams.^[3] Department Montevideo Department Altitude 43 m Coordinates 34º 53S 56º 10W Founded 1726 Founder Bruno Mauricio de Zabala Population 1,325,968 (2004) (1st) Demonym Montevideano Phone Code +02 Postal Code 10000 Montevideo (IPA: ) is the capital, largest city, and chief port of Uruguay. ...

Agee also ran CIA operations within the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games. He then went to Cuba to do some research, in May 1971 and May 1972, and began to be monitored by the CIA in Paris.^[3][11] The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were held in Mexico City in 1968. ...

Agee stated that President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica, President Luis Echeverría Álvarez (1970-1976) of Mexico and President Alfonso López Michelsen (1974-1978) of Colombia were CIA collaborators or agents. ^[11] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Term of office: 1 December 1970 – 1 December 1976 Preceded by: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Succeeded by: José López Portillo Date of birth: 17 January 1922 Place of birth: Mexico City Profession: Lawyer First Lady: María Esther Zuno Party: PRI Luis Echeverría Álvarez (born 17 January 1922... Alfonso López Michelsen (b. ...

Expulsion

Agee became somewhat of a minor celebrity in the United Kingdom after the publication of Inside the Company. Agee revealed the identities of dozens of CIA agents in their London station.^[8] 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.^{[citation needed]} Although Agee fought this and was supported by dozens of left wing MPs, journalists, and private citizens, he eventually left from the UK on June 3, 1977, and traveled to the Netherlands.^[12] Agee was also eventually expelled from Holland, France, West Germany, and Italy. The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence Section 6), or the Secret Service, is the United Kingdom external security agency. ... June 3 is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ...

On January 12, 1975 Agee testified before the second Bertrand Russell Tribunal in Brussels that in 1960 he had conducted personal name checks of Venezuelan employes for a Venezuelan subsidiary of Exxon. Exxon was "letting the CIA assist in employment decisions, and my guess is that those name checks... are continuing to this day." Agee stated that the CIA customarily performed this service for subsidiaries of large U.S. corporations throughout Latin America. An Exxon spokesman denied Agee's accusations.^[10] The Russell Tribunal was a public international body organized by British philosopher and pacifist Bertrand Russell, along with Ken Coates and several others. ... Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), headquartered in Irving, Texas, is an oil producer and distributor formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. ...

In 1978, Agee and a small group of his supporters began publishing the Covert Action Information Bulletin, which promoted "a worldwide campaign to destabilize the CIA through exposure of its operations and personnel." Mitrokhin states that the bulletin had help from both the KGB and the Cuban DGI.^[12] The January 1979 issue of Agee's Bulletin published the FM 30-31B forgery.^[13] CovertAction Quarterly (named CovertAction Information Bulletin until 1992) is a American publication focused on and critical of the US Central Intelligence Agency. ... Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (March 3, 1922–January 23, 2004) was a Major and senior archivist for the Soviet Unions foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, and co-author with Christopher Andrew of The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, a massive account... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for Committee for State Security, (Russian: ; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ... The Cuban General Intelligence Directorate (Dirección General de Inteligencia), or DGI, was established under the Cuban Ministry of the Interior in late 1961 shortly after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. ... The US Army Field Manual 30-31B is a forgery purporting to be a classified appendix to a US Army Field Manual describing top-secret counter insurgency tactics. ...

In 1978 and 1979, Agee published the two volumes of Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe, and Dirty Work: The CIA in Africa which contained information on 2000 CIA personnel.^[12]

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.”^[14]

Agee's US passport was revoked in 1979.^[15][16] In 1980, Maurice Bishop's government conferred citizenship of Grenada on Agee, and he took up residence in that island. The collapse of the Grenada Revolution removed that safe haven, and Agee then was given a passport by the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. After a change of government there, this passport was revoked in 1990, and he was given a German passport, the nationality of his wife, the ballet dancer Giselle Roberge. They now live in Germany and Cuba. Agee has since been readmitted to both the USA and United Kingdom.^[17] Agee's own description of his odyssey was published in his autobiography, On The Run, in 1987. For other types of travel document, see Travel document. ... Maurice Bishop Maurice Rupert Bishop (May 29, 1944 – October 19, 1983) was a Grenadian revolutionary leader. ... The New Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation, or New JEWEL Movement, was a Marxist populist political movement in the Caribbean island nation of Grenada and the ruling organization of that country from 1979 to 1983. ... Sandinista! is also the name of a popular music album by The Clash. ... Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... On the Run is the third track from British progressive rock band Pink Floyds 1973 album, Dark Side of the Moon. ...

Intelligence Identities Protection Act

In 1982, the United States Congress passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA), legislation that seemed directly aimed at Agee's works. The law would later figure in the 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. Type Bicameral Houses Senate House of Representatives President of the Senate President pro tempore Dick Cheney, (R) since January 20, 2001 Robert C. Byrd, (D) since January 4, 2007 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, (D) since January 4, 2007 Members 535 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political... The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (PL97-200, 50 U.S. Code Secs. ... Valerie E. Wilson (born Valerie Elise Plame April 19, 1963, in Anchorage, Alaska) is a former United States Central Intelligence Agency officer who held non-official cover (NOC) status prior to the public disclosure of her classified covert CIA identity in a syndicated American newspaper column. ...

Current activities

Today, Agee runs a website from his home in Havana, Cubalinda.com^[18][19] which uses loopholes in American law to arrange holidays to Cuba for American citizens, who are generally prohibited by the Trading with the Enemy Act statute of US law from spending money in Cuba. In the 1980s NameBase founder Daniel Brandt had taught Agee how to use computers and computer databases for his research.^[20] According to an author's biography attached to an essay by Agee in March, 2007 in the Alexander Cockburn-edited magazine Counterpunch, Agee "has lived since 1978 with his wife in Hamburg, Germany. He travels frequently to Cuba and South America for solidarity and business activities." The Cubalinda travel service was begun in 2000. A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Nickname: (Spanish) City of Columns Position of Havana in the Americas Coordinates: , Country Cuba Province Ciudad de La Habana Municipalities 15 Founded 1515a Government  - Mayor Juan Contino Aslán Area  - City 721. ... The term loophole could refer to a number of things: See Embrasure; a slit in a castle wall Loophole (1954 movie) Loophole (1981 movie) for other meaning see Loophole at Wikionary Cash Loopholes ... Im sorry, I dont really know how to use Wikipedia. ... ...

Agee is a socialist and a strong supporter of Fidel Castro and of the Cuban Revolution. Socialism refers to a broad array of ideologies and movements which aim to improve society through collective and egalitarian action; and to a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community. ... Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born on August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba but on indefinite medical hiatus. ... The Cuban Revolution refers to the revolution that led to the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batistas regime on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement and other revolutionary elements in the country. ...

Quotes

Bibliography

• Agee, Philip (1975). Inside the Company: CIA Diary. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-004007-2. 
• Agee, Philip; Louis Wolf (Editor) (May 1988). Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe. Dorset Press. ISBN 0-88029-132-X. 
• Agee, Philip (June 1987). On the Run. L. Stuart. ISBN 0-8184-0419-1. 
• Agee, Philip (1982). White Paper Whitewash. Deep Cover Books. ISBN 0-940380-00-5. 

Footnotes

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See also

• Frank Snepp
• John Stockwell
• Ralph McGehee
• Lindsay Moran

Frank Warren Snepp (born 3 May 1943, Kinston, North Carolina) is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the CIA in Saigon during the Vietnam War. ... Stockwell John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty. ... Ralph McGehee is a self-described twenty-five year decorated veteran of the CIA and a critic. He is the creator of the CIABASE computer database. ... Lindsay Moran Lindsay Moran (born ?) is a former spy of the Central Intelligence Agency. ...

References

• Andrew, Christopher; Mitrokhin, Vasili. The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World. Basic Books (2005)
• Andrew, Christopher; Mitrokhin, Vasili. The Sword and the Shield. Basic Books (2001)
• Barron, John (1983). KGB Today: The Hidden Hand. Readers Digest Assn. ISBN 0-88349-164-8. 

External links

• Stunning Contrast - The Descent of the US; the Rise of Latin America (magazine article). Retrieved on 2006-03-14.

• CIA Diary Inside the Company, Excerpts from the book. Third World Traveler. Retrieved on 2006-07-30.

• Former CIA agent attempts to draw U.S. tourists to Cuba over Internet. CNN. Retrieved on 2006-07-30.

• USA & International Terrorism - By Philip Agee. Retrieved on 2006-07-30.

• Biography of Agee with a number of quotes and articles by him. Retrieved on 2006-07-30.