Philip Agee passed away in Cuba on January 7 at the age of 72. He was a former agent for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who broke ranks in 1968 to expose its role in intervening into foreign countries on behalf of US corporate profits. For this act of bravery, his passport was revoked and US pressure saw him expelled from a number of European countries. Marcel Hatch, education coordinator for Cuba Education Tours in Vancouver (http://www.cubafriends.ca) pays tribute.
Born in 1935, Agee joined the CIA as a youth to help “save” the US from global “bad guys”. Over time he came to the conclusion that the real bad guys were the CIA, Washington, and the NY Stock Exchange.
In fact, he decided they were the forces behind most of the real bad guys in Latin America and thus shamelessly outed CIA criminal activities. Having made this discovery as a CIA agent, Agee went on to become the most prominent anti-imperialist whistleblower of the last quarter of the 20th century.
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In fact, he decided they were the forces behind most of the real bad guys in Latin America and thus shamelessly outed CIA criminal activities. Having made this discovery as a CIA agent, Agee went on to become the most prominent anti-imperialist whistleblower of the last quarter of the 20th century.
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