Playboy Interview: Philip Agee

August, 1975

Playboy Interview: Philip AgeeFlinching under an almost daily assault of headlines accusing the Central Intelligence Agency of everything from domestic spying to foreign coups and assassinations (with an occasional submarine-raising scheme out of Jules Verne), Americans--and the rest of the world--may well wish for the more innocent era of 1929, when Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson abolished an early version of the U. S. intelligence service, noting with a sniff that "gentlemen don't re...