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'''''CounterSpy''''' was an [[United States|American]] [[magazine]] that published articles on [[covert operations]], especially those undertaken by the American government.<ref name="peake">Peake, Hayden B. [https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol47no4/article09.html The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf] ''Intelligence in Recent Public Literature'' vol. 47 no. 4. (note 18) {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060727225307/https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol47no4/article09.html |date=July 27, 2006 }}</ref> According to the magazine's list of back issues, ''CounterSpy'' published 32 issues from 1973 to 1984.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Knight|title=Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMIDrggs8TsC&pg=PA212|accessdate=February 3, 2016|year=2003|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-812-9|page=212}}</ref> The magazines was headquartered in [[Washington DC]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Angus MacKenzie|title=Secrets: The CIA's War at Home|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=67XBXqSP9KgC&pg=PA59|accessdate=February 3, 2016|date=April 1, 1999|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-21955-7|page=59}}</ref> |
'''''CounterSpy''''' was an [[United States|American]] [[magazine]] that published articles on [[covert operations]], especially those undertaken by the American government.<ref name="peake">Peake, Hayden B. [https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol47no4/article09.html The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf] {{wayback|url=https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol47no4/article09.html |date=20060727225307 }} ''Intelligence in Recent Public Literature'' vol. 47 no. 4. (note 18) {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060727225307/https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol47no4/article09.html |date=July 27, 2006 }}</ref> According to the magazine's list of back issues, ''CounterSpy'' published 32 issues from 1973 to 1984.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Knight|title=Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMIDrggs8TsC&pg=PA212|accessdate=February 3, 2016|year=2003|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-812-9|page=212}}</ref> The magazines was headquartered in [[Washington DC]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Angus MacKenzie|title=Secrets: The CIA's War at Home|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=67XBXqSP9KgC&pg=PA59|accessdate=February 3, 2016|date=April 1, 1999|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-21955-7|page=59}}</ref> |
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==Outing CIA operatives== |
==Outing CIA operatives== |
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Revision as of 13:32, 1 December 2016
CounterSpy was an American magazine that published articles on covert operations, especially those undertaken by the American government.[1] According to the magazine's list of back issues, CounterSpy published 32 issues from 1973 to 1984.[2] The magazines was headquartered in Washington DC.[3]
Outing CIA operatives
The magazine gained notoriety when CounterSpy founder and former Central Intelligence Agency agent Philip Agee advocated outing agents in their Winter 1975 issue. Agee urged the "neutralization of its [CIA] people working abroad" by publicizing their names so that they could no longer operate clandestinely.
The station chief in Costa Rica, Joseph F. Fernandez, first appeared in CounterSpy in 1975. However, the 1975 murder of Richard S. Welch, the CIA Station Chief in Greece, by Revolutionary Organization 17 November was blamed by some on disclosures in magazines such as CounterSpy.[4][5]
Though U.S. officials, including then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush, blamed CounterSpy for contributing to Welch's death, Welch was previously named as a CIA officer by several European publications, and the CIA had assigned him a house previously used by CIA station chiefs. Congress cited the Welch assassination as the principal justification for passing a law in 1982 making the willful identification of a CIA officer a criminal offense.
The 1975 CounterSpy defense came back into the news when Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA officer in 2003.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Peake, Hayden B. The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf Template:Wayback Intelligence in Recent Public Literature vol. 47 no. 4. (note 18) Archived July 27, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Peter Knight (2003). Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 212. ISBN 978-1-57607-812-9. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^ Angus MacKenzie (April 1, 1999). Secrets: The CIA's War at Home. University of California Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-520-21955-7. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^ Walker, Jesse (July 14, 2005). Agee's Revenge. Reason
- ^ Staff report (January 5, 1976). Kidnaping in Vienna, Murder in Athens. Time
- ^ Parry, Robert (July 26, 2005) Rove's Backers Use "CounterSpy Defense." consortiumnews.com