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Title: Inside the Company: CIA Diary by Philip Agee ISBN: 0-88373-028-6 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 July, 1975 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Detailed but odious work
Comment: This isn't a thriller and it can be very dry and tiresome at times. However, from the academic standpoint , this is an interesting work on the CIA.
Good or bad, this book was a product of its times, and I understand that. It wasn't fashionable in the 1970s to spy, and there were some controls needed on CIA.
However, I think Agee goes to far in releasing secrets.
Agee takes the reader through recruitment, training and CIA life. If he had stopped there and left out designations, cover and agent names it would be a sort of dry but informative work.
He didn't.
Aldrich Ames sold names and operations for money to the Soviet Union. Phil Agee sold them to a book publisher. I see little difference.
Rating: 4
Summary: Best Cold Look at Day to Day Clandestine Operations
Comment: I despise what Philip Agee did with this book, endangering the lives of real people and violating his oath as a commissioned officer in the clandestine service. I was also very surprised by the level of detail in the book, and concluded that he intended to betray the CIA well prior to leaving. I've served three overseas tours and three Washington assignments, and from all that time I can barely remember one cryptonym series and not a single true identity. I think Agee took notes and planned ahead to burn the CIA. This is a good diary, and I include it in this bibliography to represent the pedestrian side of the DO-the day to day monotony of going through the motions and doing agent recruitments and agent handling operations in third world countries where the bulk of what one does really does not contribute to U.S. national security or understanding.
Rating: 4
Summary: A must read. Shows the truth behind the CIA
Comment: Philip Agee does a wonderful job of unmasking the villains and personel of the CIA. It is written in a diary format, with each occasion listed to the exact date. Philip Agee was a former CIA agent positioned in Ecuador. His story depicts how the Company goes about their business and describes what their business is.
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Title: On the Run by Philip Agee ISBN: 0818404191 Publisher: L. Stuart Pub. Date: 01 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence by Victor Marchetti, John D. Marks ISBN: 0440203368 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1984 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Inside the CIA by Ronald Kessler ISBN: 067173458X Publisher: Pocket Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq by Tariq Ali ISBN: 1859845835 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story by John Stockwell ISBN: 0393009262 Publisher: W W Norton & Co Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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