Death of a traitor

Traitor Phillip Agee died in Cuba yesterday of a perforated ulcer. Hope he liked that Cuban medical care.

Agee, a former CIA agent, made it his mission to expose CIA agents around the world. For example, in 1975, Richard Welch was murdered in Greece after publication of an article in an English-language newspaper naming Welch as Chief of Station. In 1980, after Agee's principal collaborator named Richard Kinsman as CIA Chief of Station in Jamaica, his house was strafed with gunfire. In 1981 two CIA agents were assassinated in El Salvador after a front company was exposed by Agee in his book CIA Diary.

Agee has a small role in the Iran hostage crisis. Following the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Iran in 1979, more than 50 Americans were held hostage and some were alleged to be CIA agents. Agee offered to help the Iranian "students" identify the CIA agents. After the government moved to revoke his passport, he sued the Secretary of State, ultimately losing in a case called Haig v. Agee.