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Philip Agee

    July 19, 1935 – January 7, 2008

    Philip Agee was a case officer and writer, best known for detailing his experiences within the CIA. After his departure from the agency, he became a leading critic, co-founding CovertAction Quarterly. His writing focuses on exposing covert operations and critiquing intelligence practices. His work prompts readers to consider issues of power, surveillance, and ethics in international affairs.

    Philip Agee
    Journal D´un Agent Secret
    CIA gegen ElSalvador
    Generalprobe Grenada
    On the run
    Unheimlich zu Diensten
    Inside the Company
    • Inside the Company

      • 660 pages
      • 24 hours of reading
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      The CIA is the most powerful secret police force in the world. Its hand has been seen in many incidents, sometimes with reason, sometimes more dubiously; the Bay of Pigs, the Greek coup, the death of Che Guevara, the fall of Allende and countless other incidents have been seen as evidence of the CIA's work.Philip Agee worked for the CIA for twelve years, in three different countries. He began by accepting the 'Company's' views and aims, but as time went by he came to see it as a bureaucracy designed not to help those in whose countries it works, but simply as an arm of American interests. He spent three years writing a careful diary of his experiences.In doing so he describes the structure of the CIA, how it recruits, reveals a large number of international organizations founded by the CIA, names many agents and describes, with deadly accuracy, exactly what this vast, sleazy organization does. The picture that emerges is not glamorous; but it is convincing.

      Inside the Company
    • Philip Agee pracoval dvanáct roků v aparátu americké CIA - Ústřední zpravodajské služby - a vystřídal tři hlavní působiště: Ekvádor, Uruguay a Mexiko, kde organizoval podvratné akce. Ve své knize popisuje organizační strukturu CIA, funkční mechaniku činnosti jejího aparátu, způsoby všeobecné a odborné přípravy a podává zasvěcený pohled na situaci řady latinskoamerických zemí. Autor postupně dospěl k poznání, že CIA pod záminkou "obrany proti komunistické expanzi" zabezpečuje stále vyšší zisky amerických monopolů na úkor lidových mas jiných zemí. Proto se roku 1969 rozchází se CIA a ukrývá se v Mexico City, Paříži, Havaně a Londýně. Po vydání knihy v Anglii - byla mezitím přeložena do 12 jazyků - je Agee v červnu 1977 vypovězen a odchází do Holandska. V roce 1978 byl čestným hostem XI. světového festivalu mládeže a studenstva v Havaně.

      Byl jsem agentem CIA