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The spy who hit Mexico

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Thursday, January 10, 2008
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Philip B. Agee 1935-2008

Former CIA agent Philip B. Agee, who caused a stir

in 1975 by pointing out in a book that Mexican
presidents Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Luis Echeverría
Álvarez were "close collaborators" of the US Central
Intelligence Agency, died on Monday in La Havana,
Cuban media reported yesterday.

Agee worked for the CIA for 11 and a half years,

with assignments in Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico.
He resigned from the agency in 1968 for reasons of
conscience.

In his book Inside the Company: CIA Diary (Inside the

Company, Diario de la CIA), the former agent
identified Díaz Ordaz as Litempo-8 and Echeverría as
Litempo-14, in his capacity as CIA informants.

Documents of the espionage agency declassified

three decades later specified that Díaz Ordaz was
Litempo-2 and Echeverría Litempo-8.

The Litempo code was made up of the prefix Li,

which identified CIA operations in Mexico and
Tempo, which identified the relationship program
between the CIA and "senior elected officials" of
Mexico, according to the then correspondent of this
newspaper in Washington. José Carreño, on October
19, 2006.

When announcing the death of Agee in Havana, at

the age of 72, the Cuban press highlighted that since
his book was published, the former agent "devoted
himself to denouncing the terrorist, destabilizing
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and subversive activities of the United States

government." against progressive and revolutionary
governments and people in Latin America and the
Caribbean. "

Described by Cuban media as "a loyal friend of Cuba

and a fervent supporter of the struggle of the people
for a better world," Agee had established the
Cubalinda website in Havana, to facilitate US
citizens visiting the island and circumventing the
blockade. imposed by Washington.

Agee's widow, German dancer Giselle Roberge, told

the AP that Philip had been hospitalized in Havana
on December 16 for a perforation of ulcers from
which he had been operated.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País

Agee, he explained in 1978 that "entering the CIA
was not a very rare thing in the 50s for a young
university student like me. Everything was a product
of maccarthism, the cold war and traditional
education. " He rejected a first offer of income at
the age of 21, but later, "he said," it seemed much
more interesting to me and I joined the agency in
mid-1957. "

"Then, through my work over several years, I

changed my appreciation of what the CIA was and
what it meant to reject what its foundations were."

Agee's body was cremated on Tuesday, Cuban radio

reported. A ceremony is planned in his memory next
Sunday. In addition to his widow, he is survived by
two children from a previous marriage.

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