AGENT OF INFLUENCE • 7when he was appointed commodore of the Royal Naval College at
Greenwich. He stood for the Greenwich constituency in the 1945
general election but lost. For the remainder of his life, until his death
in December 1968, he grew strawberries on his estate at Alton in
Hampshire. Agar’s first volume of memoirs,Footprints in the Sea,
was published in 1959, followed byShowing the Flagin 1962 and
Baltic Episode: A Classic of Secret Service in Russian Watersin
1963.AGEE, PHILIP.A careerCentral Intelligence Agency(CIA) officer
and a graduate of Notre Dame University, Agee spent 12 years with
the CIA’s Latin America Division, serving in the Directorate of Op-
erations in Ecuador, Uruguay, and Mexico. In 1967 he was posted to
Mexico City, where his marriage broke down. He resigned two years
later and became a source for theKGBand Cuban Intelligence. In
1971 he left the United States for London to write a controversial
expose ́,Inside the Company: CIA Diary, which revealed the identi-
ties of more than 2,000 CIA officers and their agents, thus virtually
paralyzing the CIA’s operations in the region. He also contributed to
a radical magazine,Counter-Spy, which named Richard Welch as the
CIA’s chief of station in Athens. Soon afterward, Welch was shot
dead outside his home by Greek terrorists. Undeterred, Agee contin-
ued to campaign against the CIA and wroteDirty Work: The CIA in
Western EuropeandDirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa.
Agee’s unwelcome activities in London resulted in his deportation
in June 1977 after lengthy legal hearings, and thereafter he was ex-
pelled from France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Agee’s U.S.
passport was withdrawn in 1979, but he was allowed to return to the
United States in 1987, using a Nicaraguan passport, to promote his
bookOn the Runand was never prosecuted. He now runs a success-
ful, Web-based travel information company promoting tourism in
Cuba.
AGENT OF INFLUENCE.Whereas aspyrequires access to classified
information or undertakes clandestine assignments for an espionage
network,agents of influenceconcentrate on peddling propaganda
without overtly declaring their commitment to a cause. Accordingly,
the activities of an agent of influence do not usually constitute a crim-
inal offense.