"His 1975 book, 'Inside the Company: CIA Diary,' infuriated American officials by identifying about 250 officers, front companies and foreign agents working for the United States. His example inspired several more books and magazines, including Covert Action Information Bulletin, written by close associates and sometimes with Mr. Agee’s help, which published the names and often the addresses of hundreds more agency officers working under cover around the world.
"The exposés of Mr. Agee and others led Congress to pass the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, which made it a crime to intentionally reveal the identity of a covert intelligence officer. An investigation of the possible violation of that law in 2003 after Valerie Wilson was named as a C.I.A. officer led to the perjury conviction last year of I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff."
Scott Shane in The New York Times writes an obit for Philip Agee, C.I.A. apostate.
Monday, January 14, 2008
In Good Company
Labels:
1970s,
books,
CIA,
Cold War,
diplomatic history,
George W. Bush
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