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A drop of treason : Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA / Jonathan Stevenson.
LIBRA JK468.I6 S748 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevenson, Jonathan, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agee, Philip.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- Intelligence officers--United States--Biography.
- Intelligence officers.
- Traitors.
- Traitors--United States--Biography.
- Employees.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "As the first agent to publicly betray the CIA, Philip Agee was on the run for over forty years--a pariah akin to Edward Snowden. Agee revealed in spectacular detail what many had feared about the CIA's actions, but he also outed and endangered hundreds of agents. Agee relentlessly opposed the CIA and the regimes it backed, whether in America or around the world. In Jonathan Stevenson's words, Agee became "one of history's successful viruses: undeniably effective and impossible to kill." In this first biography of Agee, Stevenson will reveal what made Agee tick, and what made him run"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A geopolitically charmed life
- The young spy
- The consolidation of dissidence
- Indefinite limbo
- Agee and the transatlantic Left
- Uneasy normalization
- Whipsawed, stalked, tired
- Posterity for a traitor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780226356686
- 022635668X
- OCLC:
- 1199330565
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