Agee, Philip. On the Run. Secaucus NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1987. 400 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was expelled from Britain, France, and Holland, and his U.S. passport was
revoked in 1979.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.
While "Inside the Company" chronicles Agee's activities as a CIA
officer, "On the Run" is part two of his autobiography. It covers the
years between his resignation and the publication of his memoirs, and the
succession of legal problems in a number of European countries once he
became a celebrity. Besides reading almost like a thriller, this book is
also valuable as a history of the anti-CIA movement.
ISBN 0-8184-0419-1
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