Philip Agee is dead

[malaise]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22571961/


Oh the irony!!!
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Barbara Bush, the wife of former President George H.W. Bush — himself a one-time CIA chief — in her autobiography accused Agee’s book of exposing a CIA station chief, Richard S. Welch, who was later killed by leftist terrorists in Athens in 1975. Agee, who denied any involvement in the killing, sued her for $4 million for defamation, and she revised the book to settle the case.

Agee’s actions in the 1970s inspired a law criminalizing the exposure of covert U.S. operatives.

But in 2003, he drew a distinction between what he did and the exposure of CIA officer Valerie Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, a prominent critic of President Bush’s Iraq policy.

“This is entirely different than what I was doing in the 1970s,” Agee said. “This is purely dirty politics in my opinion.”
Agee said that in his case, he disclosed the identities of his former CIA colleagues to “weaken the instrument for carrying out the policy of supporting military dictatorships” in Greece, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.

Those regimes “were supported by the CIA and the human cost was immense: torture, executions, death squads,” he said.

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[High Plains]

1. Agee, among the first to out the abuses and crimes of the CIA.

Lived in exile in Germany for most of the rest of his life.

[malaise]

2. I listened to him live in Jamaica

WIll never forget when he exposed those creating hell here.

[High Plains]

3. Ah, back in the days of Manley and Seaga.

The CIA had its dirty hands in many, many places.

[malaise]

4. Yep

and The Gleaner and Chamber of Commerce.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I thought of him with Walter Matthau's performance in "Hopscotch"

in 1980. Revealing the dirty little and big secrets of the CIA as a renegade agency.