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Philip Agee member_of
CIA documented
“Now, you guys know Philip Agee. Philip Agee turns into a whistleblower later on of the CIA. But now he's part of the USAID Office of Public Safety people that are also in some cases like Agee dual hatted with the CIA because he was recruite…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 48:30
Philip Agee member_of
USAID documented
“Now, you guys know Philip Agee. Philip Agee turns into a whistleblower later on of the CIA. But now he's part of the USAID Office of Public Safety people that are also in some cases like Agee dual hatted with the CIA because he was recruite…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 48:30
Philip Agee member_of
Institute for Policy Studies host_asserted
“I didn't realize how important that particular entity was. But for those of you who followed through most of our journey here, you guys know who Ambassador Ladier is and the fact that he was bombed and assassinated via a car bomb in downtow…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 1:22:37
Philip Agee founded
Covert Action Information Bulletin host_asserted
“heard anything about him. What I want to do is share with you a little bit about his background because I find it quite interesting. He's written a couple of books. He is also the guy that started the Covert Action Information Bulletin, whi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 2:33
Philip Agee carried_out_attack
Ecuador book_quoted
“in the CIA. His successes had included bugging diplomat houses, subverting and bribing local officials, and disseminating lies, i.e. propaganda, through the Ecuadorian press. He had been rewarded with a transfer to Montevideo, which is Urug…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 9:00
Walter Pincus covered_up
Philip Agee host_asserted
“In 1975, he had been the person at the New York Times selected to review ex-CIA officer Philip Agee's best-selling expose called CIA Diary. In an unfavorable review, Pincus strongly suggested that Agee was in the league with Cuban intellige…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 45:41
Philip Agee wrote
Inside the Company documented
“Mexico City, Agee had basically decided that the CIA wasn't for him. He had divorced his wife, left the CIA, and began writing a book. Exercising the prudence that he had been taught at Langley, Agee was able to finish a very detailed recon…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 49:12
Angela Davis met
Philip Agee documented
“Upon her release, she tried to leave Brazil and exercise the freedom that she had been promised. Instead, the police followed her everywhere, and she saw that she was only compromising anyone that she met with. Angela went to Paris to study…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 51:12
Jeremy Hodap front_for
Philip Agee host_asserted
“was Phil Agee's CIA fake name. Other aspects of the job also disturbed him. In Washington, one training duty had been to run name checks for Standard Oil. Standard Oil. You mean Rockefeller? Yeah, that. That's Standard Oil. To reassure the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 14:14
Philip Agee founded
Covert Action Information Bulletin host_asserted
“um show you can buy a ticket to and um with some whistleblowers so there's going to be like and if you all don't know the covert action magazine um was the uh periodical that philip ag started many years ago and then it kind of went out of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 1:34:23
Philip Agee trained
The Farm documented
“branches like psychological operations and paramilitary. On graduation, almost everyone had chosen to work in that field. For more instruction, they drove out to a mysterious training ground called The Farm that happened to be Camp Perry, 1…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 52:02
Philip Agee carried_out_attack
Uruguay host_asserted
“Out of the service. Now, some people have suggested he was at Notre Dame and was kind of guided through his career, but that's neither here nor there. But that kind of gives you the background for his way of thinking. Also, he was involved …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 4:25
Philip Agee carried_out_attack
Dominican Republic host_asserted
“in the 1965 overthrow of the Dominican Republic. And of course, during that coup, they accused the nationalist president of being a communist, which we see is kind of a common denominator with most of these operations. And he also said out …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 4:58
Philip Agee carried_out_attack
Mexico host_asserted
“that it was the CIA that executed Che Guevara, not the Uruguayan government. And also, he said a whole bunch of other things. But we are going to pay attention to his first assignment in the CIA was to Ecuador, which he helped destabilize, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 5:28
George H.W. Bush removed_from_power
Philip Agee host_asserted
“He went to the Netherlands. They deported him. He went to France, West Germany, and Italy, and they all deported him. He eventually ends up in Cuba, which was the only country basically that would allow him to live. It wasn't his first choi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 6:26
Philip Agee founded
Covert Action Information Bulletin host_asserted
“That's how it ends. And if you guys don't know Philip Agee, he's the guy that started the Covert magazine. Very interesting guy. I've read his book. It's jaw dropping as I find all of these books. He was the guy that was kicked out of every…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 1:03:59
Philip Agee exiled_to
Cuba host_asserted
“He was kicked out of Germany. He was kicked out of Italy. The only place that he could go live was Cuba. That's it. That's telling, isn't it? SR-71. Colonel, this is something else. Thank you all for attending first here in the chat and on …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 1:04:27
Lyndon LaRouche exposed
Philip Agee guest_asserted
“All the New York Times or Washington Post article is, is the CIA trying to refute his reporting, which I found fascinating during this last three years. Very, very good information there. He was one of the first people that embraced Philip …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:30:06
Philip Agee carried_out_attack
Ecuador host_asserted
“that it was the CIA that executed Che Guevara, not the Uruguayan government. And also, he said a whole bunch of other things. But we are going to pay attention to his first assignment in the CIA was to Ecuador, which he helped destabilize, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 5:28
Mentions (75)
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And many of you, if you've done any research into this, have come across the name Philip Agee. He was a CIA whistleblower. After he left the Ecuadorian embassy, he was also stationed in Uruguay. From March 1964 to 1966, his account of CIA a…
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the CIA did, maligning this student conference because it was not friendly to the fascist dictator. Editorials on this began appearing in the local papers that the CIA controlled, and it was followed by publication and a forged letter from …
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As it is in all countries of the Atlantic Alliance, the former CIA agent Philip Agee later commented on the secret Cold War in France. For nowhere in Western Europe, with the exception of Italy, were the Communists as strong as in France in…
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And that happened. That whole thing was a setup. And it was a setup because they wanted Philip Agee, who was naming all of the CIA agents, to be able to not have to be a criminal if he continued to do it because he wouldn't stop doing it. T…
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to protect the CIA. And because they're compromised, they did exactly what the CIA wanted them to do. That shit's got to stop. So I don't know if you guys are familiar with Philip McGee. He was the CIA whistleblower that we basically kicked…
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So let me read what he actually said. I thought that was interesting. It is possible someone in the CIA would not be privy to those operations, meaning the fact that the CIA is the largest drug ring in the world. And I said, no, that's not …
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or retired, because generally speaking, if you actually leave the CIA as a whistleblower, as Agee did, you end up having to go in hiding, and you are excommunicated, and in his case, from the country, and had to go live abroad, because he w…
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All the New York Times or Washington Post article is, is the CIA trying to refute his reporting, which I found fascinating during this last three years. Very, very good information there. He was one of the first people that embraced Philip …
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tell his story before Philip McGee set up his own website and reporting place to tell the story of the misdeeds of the CIA, specifically about the overthrow of President Allende. I have a 22-minute video from 1984 on CNN, where basically it…
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I was contacted over the weekend by a reporter that works for Covert magazine. And for those of you guys who know, that's the magazine that Philip McGee, the whistleblower from the CIA, who they ran out of the country and stripped him of hi…
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And so I was able to help her out. And it was funny because after she looked through some of the references, she goes, okay, I've got to rewrite show number three. So anyway, hopefully, and she suggested that she's going to recommend to Phi…
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In 1975, he had been the person at the New York Times selected to review ex-CIA officer Philip Agee's best-selling expose called CIA Diary. In an unfavorable review, Pincus strongly suggested that Agee was in the league with Cuban intellige…
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But whatever their background, in the years following Mitterrand's murder, they found themselves publicly soiled, disavowed by their government, and out of a job. Not most of them. Some of them. We're going to talk about most of them tonigh…
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Mexico City, Agee had basically decided that the CIA wasn't for him. He had divorced his wife, left the CIA, and began writing a book. Exercising the prudence that he had been taught at Langley, Agee was able to finish a very detailed recon…
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discouraged U.S. publishers from publishing the book. But Agee's story had two happy endings. The book was published with great success in London, and after that, New York finally picked it up. In Paris, he met Angela, who came to live with…
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Upon her release, she tried to leave Brazil and exercise the freedom that she had been promised. Instead, the police followed her everywhere, and she saw that she was only compromising anyone that she met with. Angela went to Paris to study…
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And then it goes on to talk about how Philip Agee basically being exposed to the very same things that a Dan Meterone had been exposed to couldn't do it. He had to quit because he couldn't condone the torture and the underhandedness that th…
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That's how it ends. And if you guys don't know Philip Agee, he's the guy that started the Covert magazine. Very interesting guy. I've read his book. It's jaw dropping as I find all of these books. He was the guy that was kicked out of every…
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Before the year was out, Gastito died. Almost as soon as he took office, the vice president, Jorge Pachico-Orico, began to cry that they were having a communist invasion. It became an Uruguayan joke. Philip McGee, seasoned by nearly six yea…
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After that course, Otero was transferred for several weeks to undergo training controlled by the CIA. That's where he learned that basically the Office of Public Safety was part of this whole apparatus. Otero himself was on the CIA payroll.…
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Torture was not a total novelty in Uruguay, but the use of torture against political prisoners had never happened before. Philip Agee learned otherwise when he went with his CIA station chief, John Horton, to call on Colonel Rodriguez, Mont…
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The entire story is made up. First was to give an appearance of authenticity. Horton and Agee took a CIA dossier that they had made up to the police headquarters. As Rodriguez leafed through the false report, Agee heard a weird sound and it…
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But on the other hand, they were very efficient. John Horton was a prototype of a sadistic CIA operator. Now, on the drive back, he referred to what they had heard from upstairs and gave his usual nervous laugh. Shortly afterward, Otero con…
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Braga, the deputy chief of investigations, had ordered the torture when Brunati refused to talk. His beatings had gone on for three days. Agee resolved that he would never turn over another name to the police as long as Braga stayed with th…
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Secrecy no longer seemed glamorous, and the aliases with their surnames always capitalized struck him as weird. In other words, they give examples like the guy Daniel Gabosky was actually Ned Holman. Another guy by the name of Claude Karvan…
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was Phil Agee's CIA fake name. Other aspects of the job also disturbed him. In Washington, one training duty had been to run name checks for Standard Oil. Standard Oil. You mean Rockefeller? Yeah, that. That's Standard Oil. To reassure the …
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other branches of other U.S. corporations. A club of seven or eight U.S. businessmen met weekly in Montevideo with the U.S. ambassador and the CIA station chief. The head of General Electric's subsidiary was there and a man from Lone Star C…
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out of the CIA station. Faced with both direct and indirect evidence of how his various identifications were being used, Agee could come up with no better solution than not to give the police any more names. What if he had protested the tor…
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It set up regional purchasing offices in Buenos Aires, Rio, Lima, and Monteviedo. Helping out in that emergency, Philip Agee had contacted the assistant manager of the U.S. Bank, First National City Bank of New York in Uruguay, who also was…
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Some of the electronic leads, which we've read this before in other books, was shipped into Uruguay in diplomatic pouches. Philip Agee could have informed Benitez that the CIA routinely sent its equipment through the pouches. Even a lie det…
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but he was not a torturer. Philip Agee had never heard of him torturing a prisoner, nor had anyone else. Torture seemed to offend Otero, and he was doubly affronted when he found out it was not only a woman, but a friend of his. He went to …
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the police from middle America and the people that they were going to use to be in charge of these programs. The recruit in this instance had been four years in arriving at the agency in the spring of 1956. The CIA official first went to So…
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Now, you guys know Philip Agee. Philip Agee turns into a whistleblower later on of the CIA. But now he's part of the USAID Office of Public Safety people that are also in some cases like Agee dual hatted with the CIA because he was recruite…
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the inner workings of this program basically being a front for the CIA. Agee had come from a middle-class Catholic family in Tampa, Florida, and had already been hired by the CIA. Agee's intellectual approach to Catholicism presented more c…
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Villague, for example, was tormented by the prospect of an internal hell. He did, however, find comfort in lessons mastered at Notre Dame. And he agreed with his professors that the prime virtue of any decent citizen was his respect for aut…
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cultivates this hierarchy and this discipline where you never question the leaders. So that's very interesting. The CIA recruiter offered Agee a means of escape from going into the Air Force. And he basically was to become an officer, but h…
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into a military unit that was basically a CIA front. So this is one of those examples that we have found numerous times over this study where people in uniform are actually working for the CIA. So Guy said one of the first lessons he learne…
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that the International Syndicate actually manages the CIA. It is a company working for oligarchs. When his years in the Air Force ended, Agee was transferred to Washington in studies of Spanish, Soviet foreign policy, and communism. The CIA…
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the expansionist aims of the Soviet Union, and ways to foil them. In other words, it was basically a brainwashing course. Almost all of Agee's young colleagues wanted to go into the secret operations field. Agee was called on to master the …
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branches like psychological operations and paramilitary. On graduation, almost everyone had chosen to work in that field. For more instruction, they drove out to a mysterious training ground called The Farm that happened to be Camp Perry, 1…
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They were referred to as black trainees, not that they were black, just black covert operations. They were all kept away from people like Agee. The training was physical, in self-defense, lessons in maiming and killing with your bare hands,…
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had been broadened to include technical operations like telephone tapping, safe cracking, and lock picking. He was introduced into bugging devices that used infrared beams that could be transmitted to basically use the vibrations on windows…
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The International Cooperation Administration was sending public safety missions to work in local police departments. That program provided cover for CIA officers. The other police advisors, the one without company ties, were to be kept igno…
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His chief CIA contacted suggested strongly that he volunteer for duty in Latin America. Agee wanted to go to Southeast Asia. Among the various CIA divisions, the Western Hemisphere enjoyed the lowest prestige, you know, because they thought…
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Argentina and Brazil had moved over to the CIA upon its creation in 1945. Agui was embarrassed to find himself allied with them because he referred to them as gumshoe detectives. So Agui was suspicious for the way that he dug into his new a…
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That to operate, you didn't need to know anything about it. You just needed a few well-placed contacts. By August 1960, Agui heard exciting news. The branch chief of his division had approved him for an assignment in Ecuador. The CIA was ar…
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The job was a tribute to Agee's potential. Only one other member of his training class had been assigned earlier to the field, and that man was going no further than New York City. Under State Department cover, Christopher Thorin was appoin…
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At last, in December 1960, Phil Agee and his wife were flown first class into Ecuador just in time for their Independence Day festivities. Agee's first working day was very exciting. In the evening, him and his wife joined Jim Nolan, the CI…
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that controlled all of the country's movie theaters. Every guest that night seemed to be rich and somehow related, either by blood or marriage. Agee had the chance to meet an important contact, a nephew of the country's president, and also …
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who was later exposed as the leader of an illegal secret society of young police officers. Weatherwax dropped from sight after a while because of that. Now, Acosta was advising the CIA that Weathermax could return safely because everything …
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We left off on Friday with the next section that's going to focus on Philip Agee. And I thought Philip Agee, A-G-E-E, is a CIA, he was a CIA agent, that after he figured out what being a CIA agent was all about, decided he didn't want to be…
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heard anything about him. What I want to do is share with you a little bit about his background because I find it quite interesting. He's written a couple of books. He is also the guy that started the Covert Action Information Bulletin, whi…
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tattling on the CIA. Of course, they needed to be tattled on. But I find it interesting, just a couple of aspects. So I'm going to go over his career real briefly before we begin the part five of the actual book. So it says that he was born…
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a very small town just south of Gainesville, which is where the University of Florida is, for those of you who don't know. It also says that he grew up, not necessarily with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he didn't grow up on the wrong si…
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The Tampa's Jesuit Jesuit high school, which is where my girlfriend's sons went. This is a very exclusive school, by the way. Their sports program is top notch. He joined the he went to the University of Florida's College of Law and he join…
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Out of the service. Now, some people have suggested he was at Notre Dame and was kind of guided through his career, but that's neither here nor there. But that kind of gives you the background for his way of thinking. Also, he was involved …
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in the 1965 overthrow of the Dominican Republic. And of course, during that coup, they accused the nationalist president of being a communist, which we see is kind of a common denominator with most of these operations. And he also said out …
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that it was the CIA that executed Che Guevara, not the Uruguayan government. And also, he said a whole bunch of other things. But we are going to pay attention to his first assignment in the CIA was to Ecuador, which he helped destabilize, …
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Now, what I find very interesting after he basically spilled his guts about when he wrote the book Inside the Company, a CIA diary, he was basically excommunicated from the country. The Nixon administration basically canceled his passport a…
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He went to the Netherlands. They deported him. He went to France, West Germany, and Italy, and they all deported him. He eventually ends up in Cuba, which was the only country basically that would allow him to live. It wasn't his first choi…
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both as CIA director and as the president. He basically accused Agee of the murder of Richard Welch, who was the CIA operative that was assassinated. And I've talked about this quite often. He was assassinated by the CIA, not Agee. Agee had…
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He was assassinated to get Congress to stop investigating the CIA. Because his assassination happened right after the revelations of the family jewels in the mid-1970s. So, FYI. And also, not outside of their character, when Philip McGee di…
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Ask his widow to send his papers to the Robert Wagner Labor Archives. Well, it just so happens that the CIA intercepted those papers, rifled through them, took everything out that they wanted, and then shipped on the rest of whatever they d…
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That's who Philip McGee is. Back to the book. In February of what would be around March 1964, Philip McGee, CIA officer from Notre Dame, had been in Washington preparing for a change of assignment. He had received two promotions while assig…
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in the early 70s and becoming their entertainment liaison in the 1996. CIA's extremely bloody history of covert operations in that part of the world was so bad that it brought about their most damaging whistleblower, Phil Agee. It is likely…
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I didn't realize how important that particular entity was. But for those of you who followed through most of our journey here, you guys know who Ambassador Ladier is and the fact that he was bombed and assassinated via a car bomb in downtow…
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When they want to talk to me about the Bolsheviks, the Bolsheviks are just one piece of a pie, but it's the same pie. Do you got something else, Miles? Yeah. Were you in the space when Colonel Kirk was talking about Roosevelt's son? What ab…
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Who's going to win this battle between Mao and Chiang Kai-shek? Were you in there at that time? No. Okay. So he said that he came back to his dad and said, yeah, Mao's going to win. Now, Colonel Kirk said he thought Chiang Kai-shek was goin…
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The labor union, McCabe's parent organization. Gene Meekin, a labor specialist, worked directly for the trade union council, providing advice and editing radio scripts in a weekly newspaper. Ex-agency officer Philip Agee, the guy that the C…
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And the whistlers say he was a total traitor and a Cuban spy and et cetera, et cetera. And he's in jail now. But I actually tried to do some digging on him. And he was friends. It looks like he probably was like a double, triple agent. But …
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Good grief. Was in Chile at the time trying with the Black Wasps and the, I forget the name of the Cuban military. And they were trying to prevent the coup and with Allende and everything. And they were supplying weapons and whatnot. I'm ha…
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Chile, the coups, Operation Condor, Cuba. This guy's got a lot of information to share, I think. And then Philip Agee and being connected to him. And I think the, what was the Bolivian president? Was it Moreno? Morales. Evo Morales. Morales…
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There is something very interesting with this guy who the whistleboys are calling a traitor and is probably not a traitor, but he probably has all the juice. Yeah, because they called Philip McGee one as well. And Philip McGee was absolutel…
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um show you can buy a ticket to and um with some whistleblowers so there's going to be like and if you all don't know the covert action magazine um was the uh periodical that philip ag started many years ago and then it kind of went out of …
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A sprawling compound in the wooded area of Williamsburg, it was used by Navy Seabees as a base and then as a stockade for captured German sailors. Dulles turned it into a spy training base for recruits who were headed overseas. According to…