[lbo-talk] Agee, he dead

[C. G. Estabrook]

I met Agee in the 1990s, when he took advantage of his ambiguous legal 
situation and returned to the US for the first time in years, in order 
to attend a reunion of his college class at Notre Dame.  He was a 
charming and modest fellow who was surprised and pleased at how warmly 
his college classmates -- who came of age as he did, in the midst of the 
Cold War -- welcomed him.  Requiescat in pace. --CGE

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Guardian (London) - January 9, 2008
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2237937,00.html>
> 
> Outspoken CIA agent Philip Agee dies
> 
> Philip Agee, a former CIA agent who became a bitter critic of  
> Washington's Cuba policy, has died aged 72, Cuban state media  
> reported today.
> 
> Agee quit the CIA in 1969 after 12 years, mainly working in Latin  
> America. He was later denounced as a traitor by George Bush Sr and  
> was threatened with death by his former colleagues.
> 
> His famous 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, cited alleged  
> CIA misdeeds against leftwingers in the region and included a 22-page  
> list of people he claimed were agency operatives.
> 
> His US passport was revoked in 1979 because he was said to have  
> threatened national security. He eventually moved to Havana to open  
> up a travel site encouraging people to visit the island.
> 
> Agee was reported to have died following surgery on an ulcer.
> 
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