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When Philip Agee died in early January, Reuters called him a "whistleblower." Oh, is that what he was? Agee was a CIA agent who turned against his employer, and his country, and published Inside the Company: CIA Diary. The year was 1975. Agee's book exposed CIA agents around the world, and some of them came to harm, as did U.S. efforts in general. Agee said that he did not write the book in order to serve the KGB; instead he wrote it to serve "revolutionary organizations in the United States, in Latin America, and everywhere else." In other words, he joined the other side--he wanted a Communist world. And he was a huge cause celebre on the American left--toasted in ...