Posted on 01/09/2008 11:05:35 AM PST by ricks_place
HAVANA(Reuters)-Philip Agee, a former CIA spy who exposed its undercover operations in Latin America in a 1975 book, died in Havana, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma said on Wednesday.
Agee, 72, died on Monday night, the newspaper said, calling him a "loyal friend of Cuba and staunch defender of the people's struggle for a better world.".
His widow, German ballet dancer Giselle Roberge, told friends he had been in hospital since December 15 and did not survive surgery for perforated ulcers.
Agee worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for 12 years in Washington, Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico. He resigned in 1968 in disagreement with U.S. support for military dictatorships in Latin America and became one of the first to blow the whistle on the CIA's activities around the world.
His book "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" revealed the names of agents in Latin America and was published in 27 languages.
Agee said working as a case officer in South America opened his eyes to the CIA's Cold War goal in the region: to prop up traditional elites against perceived leftist threats through political repression and torture.
"It was a time in the 70s when the worst imaginable horrors were going on in Latin America--Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Guatemala, El Salvador--they were military dictatorships with death squads, all with the backing of the CIA and the U.S. government,"he wrote.
"That was what motivated me to name all the names and work with journalists who were interested in knowing just who the CIA were in their countries,"he said.
The U.S. government called him a traitor and said some of the agents he exposed were later murdered, an allegation Agee rejected.
Agee went to live in London but was deported by Britain in 1976 at the request of then secretary of state Henry Kissinger. The U.S. government revoked his passport...
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Military dictatorships, though brutal, saved most Latin Americans from a worst fate, permanent Communist Oppression.
Philip Agee greatly facilitate the dismantling of the CIA, and thus contributed to the many US Intelligence disasters incuding 9/11. Philip Agee is and was scum.
This is good news.
I got into a shouting match with this clymer back in college. Too bad he didn’t die years ago. Traitor.
So much for Cuba's vaulted health-care system. Calling Michael Moore.....
Cue the loving Drive-By Media tributes.
So, he benefitted from “superior” Cuban healthcare, eh.
Poetic justice fo shizzle
Wonderful news all around though too little - too late for CIA.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving traitor.
Hell was waiting. With its mouth open. To paraphrase Jonathan Edwards.
Read the new book - the “Boys from Delores” about the young Cuban boys and their Jesuit prep school.
Fidel? A coniving sociopath.
Raul? They called him the “Little Flea” because he buzzed around his older brothers friends and was a pest.
The other students who graduated with “El Jeffe”? They all were betrayed or harrased by him.
Read with great sadness the destruction of the Cuban nation, people, and spirit by the monster Fidel.
Hell is waiting for him too.
What a worthless piece of sh** to bring his kind of evil to bear for generations to come in American "intelligence" efforts.
he also got a few good agents killed when he named names.
Throw his ass to the sharks....
Whistleblower? Exposing any illegal or immoral actions of the CIA in general could be considered whistleblowing, but naming names makes him a murderer by proxy and a traitor.
Yup, Karma is a b*tch.
Burn in hell, traitor.
Hey, tell us more about that shouting match, sounds interesting!
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