Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (July 19, 1935 – January 7, 2008) was a
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(CIA) case officer and writer, best known as author of the 1975 book,
Inside the Company: CIA Diary, detailing his experiences in the CIA. Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in
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,
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,
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and
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. After resigning from the Agency in 1968, he became a leading opponent of CIA practices. A co-founder of
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, he died in
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in January 2008.
Early years
Agee was born in Tacoma,
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. He graduated cum laude from the
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in 1956, and attended the University of Florida College of Law.
Leaving CIA
Agee stated that his Roman Catholic social conscience had made him increasingly uncomfortable with his work by the late
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leading to his disillusionment with the CIA and its support for authoritarian governments across
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. He and other dissidents took encouragement in their stand from the
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(1975-76), which cast a critical light on the role of the CIA in assassinations, domestic espionage, and other illegal activities.
In the book Agee condemned the 1968
Tlatelolco massacreThe Tlatelolco massacre, also known as The Night of Tlatelolco , was a government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City...
in
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and wrote that this was the immediate event precipitating his leaving the agency.
While Agee claimed that the CIA was "very pleased with his work", offered him "another promotion" and his superior "was startled" when Agee told him about his plans to resign, the anti-communist journalist
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claims that Agee's 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".
Agee was accused by
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of being responsible for the death of
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, a Harvard-educated classicist who was murdered by the
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while heading the CIA Station in
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. Bush had directed the CIA from 1976 to 1977.
KGB/Cuban intelligence involvement
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, former head of the
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’s Counterintelligence Directorate, states that in 1973 Agee approached the KGB's resident in
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and offered a "
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of information". The KGB was too suspicious to accept his offer.
Kalugin states that:
For his part, Agee claimed in his later work
On the Run that he had no intention of ever working for the KGB, which he still considered the enemy, and that he worked with the Cubans to assist left-wing and labour organizations in Latin America against fascism and CIA meddling in political affairs.
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.
Agee was accused of receiving up to $1 million in payments from the Cuban intelligence service. He denied the accusations, which were first made by a high-ranking Cuban intelligence officer and defector in a 1992
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report.
A later
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article stated that Agee posed as a CIA Inspector General in order to target a member of the CIA's Mexico City station on behalf of Cuban intelligence. According to the article, Agee was identified during a meeting by a CIA case officer.
Book published
Because of legal problems in the United States,
Inside the Company was first published in 1975
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, while Agee was living in
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.
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".
Agee acknowledged that "Representatives of the
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also gave important encouragement at a time when I doubted that I would be able to find the additional information I needed."
The
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called
Inside the Company: CIA Diary "a frightening picture of corruption, pressure, assassination and conspiracy".
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called the book "inescapable reading".
Miles Copeland, Jr.Miles Axe Copeland, Jr. was an American musician, businessman, and CIA officer who was closely involved in major foreign-policy operations from the 1950s to the 1980s...
, a former CIA station chief in
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, said the book was "as complete an account of spy work as is likely to be published anywhere" and it is "an authentic account of how an ordinary American or British 'case officer' operates...All of it...is presented with deadly accuracy."
The book was delayed for six months before being published in the United States; it became an immediate best seller.
Inside the Company
Inside the Company identified 250 alleged CIA officers and agents. The officers and agents, all personally known to Agee, are listed in an appendix to the book. While written as a diary, it is actually a reconstruction of events based on Agee's memory and his subsequent research.
Agee writes that his first overseas assignment was in 1960 to Ecuador where his primary mission was to force a diplomatic break between
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and
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, 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.
Agee helped bug the
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code room in
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,
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, with two contact microphones placed on the ceiling of the room below.
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 a Uruguayan, whose 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.
Agee also ran CIA operations within the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games and he witnessed the events of the
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.
Agee stated that President
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of
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, President Luis Echeverría Álvarez (1970–1976) of
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and President
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(1974–1978) of
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were CIA collaborators or agents.
Following this he details how he resigned from the CIA and began writing the book, conducting research in Cuba, London and Paris. During this time he alleges he was being spied on by the CIA.
Expulsion
Agee became somewhat of a minor celebrity in the
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after the publication of
Inside the Company. Agee 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
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, a request was put in to deport Agee from the UK. Although Agee fought this and was supported by dozens of left wing MPs, journalists, and private citizens, he eventually departed from the UK on June 3, 1977, and traveled to the
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. Agee was also eventually expelled from the
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,
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,
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and
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.
On January 12, 1975, Agee testified before the second
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in
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that in 1960 he had conducted personal name checks of Venezuelan employees for a Venezuelan subsidiary of what is now
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. 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.
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
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and the Cuban DGI. The January 1979 issue of Agee's Bulletin published the infamous
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, which the US government claims is a forgery.
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 of 2000 CIA personnel.
Agee told
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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
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was revoked in 1979. In 1980,
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's government conferred citizenship of
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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
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. After a change of government there, this passport was revoked in 1990, and he was given a
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passport, the nationality of his wife, ballet dancer Giselle Roberge. They later lived in
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and
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. Agee was later readmitted to both the U.S. and
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. Agee's own description of his odyssey was published in his
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,
On the Run, in 1987.
Intelligence Identities Protection Act
In 1982, the
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passed the
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(IIPA), legislation that seemed directly aimed at Agee's works. The law would later figure in the investigation into the
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scandal into whether Bush administration officials leaked a case officer's name to the media as an act of retaliation against her husband.
Late activities
Until his death, Agee ran a website in
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, Cubalinda.com which uses
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s in American law to arrange holidays to Cuba for American citizens, who are generally prohibited by the
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statute of US law from spending money in Cuba. In the 1980s
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founder Daniel Brandt had taught Agee how to use computers and computer databases for his research. 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
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,
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. He travels frequently to Cuba and
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for solidarity and business activities." The Cubalinda travel service was begun in 2000.
On December 16, 2007, Agee was admitted to a hospital in Havana, and surgery was performed on him due to
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s. His wife said on January 9, 2008 that he had died in Cuba on January 7 and had been cremated.
See also
- Frank Snepp
Frank Warren Snepp is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Five out of eight years in the CIA, he worked as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief CIA strategy analyst in the US Embassy, Saigon...
- John 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. After managing U.S...
- Ralph McGehee
Ralph Walter McGehee is an American former officer of the Central Intelligence Agency . He worked for the CIA from 1952 to 1977 yet went on to be a critic of the agency.-Life and career:...
- Lindsay Moran
Lindsay Moran is a former clandestine officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. She is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today...
- Victor Marchetti
Victor Marchetti is a former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a prominent paleoconservative critic of the United States Intelligence Community and the Israel lobby in the United States....
- L. Fletcher Prouty
Leroy Fletcher Prouty served as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President John F. Kennedy. A former colonel in the United States Air Force he retired from military service to become a banker, and subsequently became a critic of U.S...
- Peter Wright
Peter Maurice Wright was an English scientist and former MI5 counterintelligence officer, noted for writing the controversial book Spycatcher, which became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies...
Further reading
- Andrew, Christopher; Mitrokhin, Vasili. The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World. Basic Books (2005)
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