Inside the Company
by Philip Agee · first published 1975
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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
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The article makes no mention of the two most influential exposés by CIA insiders, Philip Agee's Inside the Company: CIA Diary (1975) and Frank Snepp's Decent Interval (1978). Either book would give a better illustration of conditions inside the CIA than any book the article mentions. Those two accounts made a deep…
on “Has the CIA Done More Harm Than Good?” ↗I highly recommend "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" by Philip Agee. Agee, a former South American CIA Station Chief, lost heart in the CIA after witnessing years of similar abuses by the U.S.
on “A Novel the CIA Spent a Fortune to Suppress” ↗…the CIA. Moreno was just an intermediate for them, like Chavez, Allende or Lua, to get over with eventually. In the end there's always either a fascist putsch or electorial takeover. Philip Agee's book "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" explains all the gory details.
on “Julian Assange arrested in London” ↗The book Inside the Company is the diary of a CIA officer in Uruguay and El Salvador during the late 60s and early 70s. He specifically recounts times where he allowed/encouraged the local police to torture dissidents, and how…
on “Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away” ↗…misreading what the new writeups on this story say about Agee's knowledge. He doesn't mention MINERVA and didn't know anything about the BND-CIA joint infiltration of the company. Here's what he writes in Inside the Company: The National Security Agency cannot break this code system mathematically but they can do so if sensitive recordings can be obtained of the vibrations of the encrypting machine when the discs clack…
on “How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades” ↗A similar book is Philip Agee's book "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" (1975), just not about Vietnam, but about Latin America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Agee#Leaving_the_CIA He also wrote books about the CIA in Europe (similar to Ganser's classic…
on “The CIA's Deadly Deceits and the Vietnam War, with Ralph McGehee (1986)” ↗…their interests. Which does include Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba. This goes on since the 60ies. But the CIA aligned countries do have the majority, so it will not lead to anything. Philip Agee "Inside the Company: CIA Diary"
on “Mexico calls for dissolution of the Organization of the Americas” ↗Philip Agee wrote about what the CIAs modus operandi was in "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" and his later books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Agee
on “Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee” ↗