Specialists in coups and killing
FOLLOWING THE death of rebel agent Philip Agee, TODD CHRETIEN describes the bloody history of the CIA.
PHILIP AGEE, the former CIA agent who rebelled against the U.S. spy agency, died in Cuba at the age of 72 last week.
Agee resigned in 1968 after working for the CIA for more than a decade--during which time he ran the CIA operation in Mexico during the 1968 Olympic Games, when hundreds of students were massacred by the Mexican Army at Tlatelolco.
He went on to write Inside the Company: CIA Diary in 1975, which not only recounted the long list of atrocities committed by the CIA, but also named 250 CIA agents around the world. Agee's U.S. passport was revoked in 1979, and in 1982, Congress passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, making it a crime to expose CIA operatives.
This law was intended to silence Agee and others who worked to expose the CIA's ongoing crimes. However, last year, it was used to convict former Bush administration official Lewis “Scooter” Libby on perjury charges for conspiring to expose CIA operative Valerie Plame as punishment for her husband Joseph Wilson's public contention that Iraq didn't have the components to make nuclear weapons.
Wilson was proved correct, and the Bush administration's drive to war on Iraq was exposed as having been based on a series of lies.
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