Former CIA Agent Philip Agee Dies

Philip Agee, 72, a former undercover officer with the Central Intelligence Agency whose disillusionment with U.S. policy in support of dictatorship prompted him to name names and reveal CIA secrets, died Jan. 7 in Havana. In his controversial 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Mr. Agee detailed the inner workings of U.S. intelligence operations. The CIA, he claimed, was interested only in propping up decaying dictatorships and thwarting radical reform efforts. The book “caused serious damage to the national security,” the State Department said shortly after its publication, and in 1979, then-Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance stripped Mr. Agee of his passport.  This decision was upheld by the Supreme Court and in subsequent litigation.  Download haig_v. Agee.pdf Download agee_v. Baker.pdf Download agee_v. Barbara Bush.pdf

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