Ex-CIA Agent Philip Agee Dead in Cuba

[Postman]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/09/international/i070201S75.DTL

Former CIA colleagues and some U.S. officials called Agee a traitor and alleged he was linked to Cuban and Soviet intelligence agencies. Agee denied the allegations and said he thought of himself as part of the American tradition of dissent and as "a critic of hypocrisy, a critic of crime in high places."

In denying Agee a new passport in 1987, Secretary of State George Shultz cited CIA reports that said he was a paid adviser to Cuban intelligence, had trained Nicaraguan security officials and had instructed security officials in Grenada before a U.S. invasion toppled a communist government there.
......(funny how the invasion of Grenada in 1983 was sold to the American people as "rescuing medical students", not toppling a gov't they didn't like)


Agee said that he disclosed the identities of his former 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.


....one man's traitor is another man's freedom fighter. Was he a traitor? To the International business and military industrial domination machines, I guess he was.

[TomInTib]

1. And Poppy shows up, again.

from article:

In 1989, Vice President George H.W. Bush — a former CIA director — said he had "nothing but disdain" for Agee: "Those who go around publicizing the names of CIA people abroad are despicable."



Aren't they, now?

[stillcool]

2. I loved his books...

.. great writer. Good article too..thanks.