On the Run by Philip Agee

by Philip Agee

First printing of this memoir by the ex-CIA officer who wrote "Inside the Company", exposing many CIA operations & operatives. Author Agee tells of his expose of the CIA & its subsequent aftermath. Reads like an espionage thriller

Genres: History, Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Philip Burnett Franklin Agee was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer, best known as author of the 1975 book, 'Inside the Company: CIA Diary', detailing his experiences in the CIA.

Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico. After resigning from the Agency in 1968, he became a leading opponent of CIA practices. A co-founder of CovertAction Quarterly, he died in Cuba in January 2008.

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Philip Agee was one of the first former CIA employees to write an expose of its doings from an insider perspective. Entitled Inside the CIA, his book was initially published by Penguin in the UK, then reissued in many other languages in many other countries throughout the world, during which period Agee, repentent for all the damage he had done as an agent in the Third World, attempted to out other CIA agents assigned to U.S. embassies overseas.
This book details the persecution and slander Agee underwent from the time he left the agency after the 1968 Mexico Olympics until its publication in 1986, during which time he was expelled from the UK, Holland, Italy, Germany and other countries. Written at the request of Lyle Stuart, its publisher, the appeal of this text will be primarily for those who have read Agee's previous publications.

[M · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read a bunch of Ben Mcintyre (Sp, I'll fix it later) books and somehow came across this brilliantly written whistleblower book. Of course, it is out of print. Agee was the first Edward Snowden and this book shows many chapters in our history that have been buried or have been lied about...of course.
He travels around South America and Europe trying to escape the US government .It's soooo good. Like a Jason Bourne movie. What's crazy is, it is true.
P.S. When I wrote 'our history' I don't mean the USA, I mean the world.