Bibliograph

A drop of treason, Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA, Jonathan Stevenson

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A drop of treason, Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA, Jonathan Stevenson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-325) and index

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individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A drop of treason

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1199330565

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Stevenson

Sub title

Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA

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

Table Of 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

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Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA

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