Inside the Company

CIA Whistleblower: “The Shadow Government Is Real” - John Kiriakou - #1160

Modern Wisdom, 8 October 2026. The book comes up at 2 min 11 sec in.

Philip Agee is described as a CIA case officer in the 1960s who resigned after witnessing a torture session and then wrote 'Inside the Company,' documenting in an appendix roughly 1,200 names of undercover CIA officers he had encountered. The speaker notes the CIA wanted to execute Agee for it, and that he remained the most notorious whistleblower in CIA memory until Edward Snowden.

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