Philip Agee, born on 19th of january in 1935, was an ex-CIA officer who became a prominent critic of CIA policies, detailing his experiences in the text "Inside the Company: CIA Diary". Agee ultimately defected to Cuba, dying there in 2008.
Philip Agee (1935 - 2008) served as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer for eight years, joining the organization in 1960. He was assigned posts in Montevideo, Mexico City, and Quito, Ecuador.
Agee resigned from the CIA in 1968 following the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City, in which the U.S.-supported government engaged in mass shootings and arrests of a crowd of more than ten thousand protesters. The same massacre also played a role in the political radicalization of Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas.
Agee moved to London and published "Inside the Company", a tell-all text that, among other things, detailed his work in spying on diplomats, engaging in illegal activity to force a diplomatic break between Ecuador and Cuba, naming President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica, President Luis Echeverría Álvarez of Mexico, and President Alfonso López Michelsen of Colombia as CIA collaborators, and exposing the identities of dozens of CIA agents.
For the exposure of agents, Agee was expelled from the United Kingdom. Agee was also eventually expelled from the Netherlands, France, West Germany and Italy, and was compelled to live under a series of socialist governments - Grenada under Maurice Bishop, then Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, and finally Cuba under Castro. Agee died in Cuba in January 2008.
"I don't think we have ever had real democracy in this country. Anyone who studies adoption of the constitution will understand quite clearly that; democracy - as we understand that on today; was the last thing the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution....it was: to establish strong central authority responding the elitist interests in United States.
That's private property. And those men who wrote the constitution were representatives of the elites. They were the lawyers, bankers, merchants, the land owners, slave owners and so forth. And they write the constitution for their own private interest$. That is how government has served ever since. And that is why we have so little democracy in United States."
- Philip Agee
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Out of necessity, I have been on various social media groups and the like for my city lately. It has not been good for my blood pressure.
First you've got the motorists who are screaming about ever having to slow down for anyone. This mindset drives me insane, at worst they're going to be a few minutes late. What's the big deal? Chill out, slow down and enjoy the cruise for a moment. They all rage against cyclists and pedestrians - the common talking point being "we pay for the roads through taxes on car use". Except they don't, taxes related to driving do not even come close to covering the costs where I'm from. You are being subsidized by non-drivers you entitled leaches.
Then we've got the landlords. I don't really get upset on the principle of rent-seeking like you guys do. Society isn't just and I've got a high tolerance for the morally dubious things we do for money in it. But listening to these people makes me scream. These parasites love bragging about pointless cruelty. I close my browser every time thinking Mao was too kind to landlords and shouldn't have stopped at China.
I'm politically apathetic, but if I stare too long into this abyss even I could be radicalized into the unabomber.
Uncle Ted was a eco-fascist dipshit.
Become a Maoist guerilla instead. They've got coherent theory, a workable plan for building a better society, and you actually get to have friends and be part of society instead of living in a shack being a weird jerk.