Philip Agee has died in Cuba at 72

[bananas]

Announced on DemocracyNow! by Amy Goodman.
Story isn't up yet.
www.democracynow.org

[MADem]

1. Poppy Bush must be thrilled, as must Henry Kissinger. NT

[LTR]

2. No word from other sources

http://news.google.com/news?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&tab=wn&scoring=n&hl=en&q=%22Philip+Agee%22&btnG=Search+News

Here's more about him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Agee

[bananas]

4. posted in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3130796

[laststeamtrain]

3. I'm sorry to hear this.

He was an officer, a gentleman & a scholar. A humanist through & through.

[Sweet Pea]

5. Did I read that right!???????

That he outed over 2000 CIA agents all over the world???????? And some of them were executed by the country they were operating in????

[midlife_mo_Jo]

6. He turned into what he hated

A man who believed the end justified the means. Any means.

[ConsAreLiars]

8. Apparently not

Barbara (Mother of Monsters) Bush made the claim in a book that he was responsible for "one" killing and was sued by Agee. She lost the case and was forced to withdraw it from circulation and issue a new addition without that lie.

On the other hand, Agee outed CIA officers whose names could already be determined from public sources who were responsible for hundreds and thousands of murders, torture, disappearances, and propping up some of the most evil dictators on the planet. You may be pleased by the rape and murder of nuns and so on, but he was outraged and took action to obstruct that kind of evil.

Your values may differ from his, but in my view he was a whistleblower and an honorable man.

[BlueIris]

7. Kick.