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1975+/- : (PHILIP AGEE, ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR A FIFTH ESTATE [OC-5] AND COUNTERSPY MAGAZINE - OC-5 IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMMUNIST FRONT NCARL AND THE NATIONAL LAWYER'S GUILD CONFERENCE, THE CNSS, IPS - See sldo the ASSASSINATION OF CIA OPERATIVE RICHARD WELCH / NOVEMBER 17) Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate, and Counterspy:
Philip Agee and Victor Marchetti, along with members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, launched the journal CounterSpy, under the aegis of the Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate (OC-5). OC-5 stated that its purpose was to develop an "alternative intelligence community. . .with the flexibility of employing both revolutionary and reformist methods. "
In an early CounterSpy article, "Exposing the CIA", Agree spelled out the OC-5 program:
"The most effective and important systematic efforts to combat the CIA that can be undertaken right now are, I think, the identification, exposure, and neutralization of its people working abroad. . .we know enough about what the CIA does to resolve to oppose it. . .
OC-5's Annual Report, published in the winter of 1975 edition of CounterSpy, describes its connections with other members of the antiintelligence lobby, all of them working within the system:
". . .Among the many conferences attended by the Fifth Estate were: the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL) conference [NCARL was originally formed as a communist front to oppose congressional investigation of subversive organizations]; the National Lawyers Guild Conference (with whome we work closely);. . .and. . .the Center for National Security Studies."
In its first few years IPS played an important if quiet role in helping OC-5. . .On the OC-5 CounterSpy advisory board were Marcus Raskin, Victor Marchetti, Dave Dellinger of Chicago Seven fame, and several others, like Frank Donner and Sylvia Crane, both former members of the Communist party. CounterSpy's attorney was Alan Dranitzke, who was a leader of the Cuba Subcommittee of the National Lawyers Guild International Committee, and whose senior law partners include David Rein, a Communist party member, and Joseph Forer, a counsel for the Communist party, USA.
------- "VVAW and the Anti-intelligence Lobby"by S. Stephen Powell, Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies (publisher: Green Hill Publishers, Inc.), 1987, From S. Stephen Powell, Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies, 1987, 65-66: http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1105160/posts***
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I was doing some crossreferencing and noticed this interesting piece of information on the VVAW's links to the anti-intelligence lobby of the Church Committee era. Those familiar with Agee, etc. may remember that CounterSpy played a role in blowing the cover of CIA operative Richard Welch, which led to Welch's assassination. Powell's book describes numerous contacts between Agee and Soviet and Cuban intelligence. ------------ 1 posted on 03/25/2004 1:38:19 PM PST by Fedora

DECEMBER 1975 : (A PUBLICATION [COUNTERSPY] ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH PHILIP AGEE PUBLISHES THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF A CIA OPERATIVE IN ATHENS, GREECE BY THE NAME OF RICHARD WELCH - WELCH WAS ASSASSINATED SHORTLY THEREAFTER) In December 1975, a publication to which Agee reportedly had ties, published the name and address of CIA operative in Athens, Greece, Richard Welch. On December 23, 1975, Welch was shot to death outside his Athens home.
       The CIA blamed Agee for this death, although he denied having provided the agent's address to the publication. Agee, however, had written in the edition of the publication publishing Welch's address the following advice to foes of the CIA: "…the CIA people can be identified and exposed through periodic bulletins disseminated to our subscribers, particularly individuals and organizations in the foreign country in question. Photographs and home address in the foreign capital or Consular cities should be included… the people themselves will have to decide what they must do to rid themselves of the CIA." ------ "Philip Burnett Franklin Agee: CIA Case Officer in Latin America (1936 - )"http://www.angelfire.com/dc/1spy/Agee.html

12 posted on 12/30/2006 7:58:58 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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Thanks! BTW, Happy New Year! :-)


13 posted on 12/31/2006 5:55:12 PM PST by Fedora
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