Event Details
January 01, 1973
Description
Agee offered CIA secrets to the KGB residency.
Participants (3)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Agee | person | 6 | View Entity |
| KGB | person | 2 | View Entity |
| KGB | organization | 198 | View Entity |
Source Documents (2)
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This document, page 119 of a House Oversight production, analyzes the distinction between whistle-blowers and spies through the historical examples of Philip Agee and Edward Snowden. It details Agee's 1969 departure from the CIA and subsequent provision of secrets to the KGB and Cuban intelligence. It parallels this with Snowden's 2013 theft of NSA data, arguing that Snowden's behavior—specifically taking a job to access secrets—aligns more with 'penetration agents' than whistle-blowers, and discusses the counterintelligence investigation into how he breached secure systems.
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This document appears to be page 148 from the book 'How America Lost Its Secrets' (likely by Edward Jay Epstein, based on the ISBN in the footer), included in a House Oversight Committee production. The text discusses the blurred lines between whistle-blowers and spies, citing historical examples such as Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, the 1971 FBI office burglary in Media, PA, and Philip Agee's defection to the KGB. It concludes by introducing the Edward Snowden case.
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