Agee, Philip and Poelchau, Warner. White Paper Whitewash. New York:
Deep Cover Books, 1981. 205 pages.
In 1968 Philip Agee was finally disgusted with his dirty work as a
CIA officer in Ecuador, Uruguay, and Mexico. He submitted a letter of
resignation and immediately slipped into Cuba, then went to France and
Britain. As he wrote his memoirs while scraping by on handouts, he
frequently wondered if some of the people who were helping him could be
trusted. The answer was "no" -- a typewriter that one friend loaned him
was discovered to contain a homing transmitter. Finally his book "Inside
the Company" was published in 1975, launching his career as history's most
celebrated anti-CIA activist. The CIA kept harassing Agee, even though he
retains his U.S. citizenship and has never been charged with a crime. He
was expelled from Britain, France, and Holland, and his U.S. passport was
revoked in 1979. Today he lives in Germany, is still trying to get his
passport back, and does speaking tours on U.S. college campuses.
Half of "White Paper Whitewash" is a reprint of the 1981 release by
U.S. State Department official Jon Glassman. This White Paper was the
opening salvo in the Reagan administration's war against Nicaragua. It
included documents allegedly captured from Salvadoran guerrillas, which
supported the notion of covert strategic Soviet and Cuban involvement in
Central America. Agee makes the case that the documents are fabricated.
ISBN 0-940380-00-5
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