''CounterSpy'' was an American

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that published articles on covert operations, especially those undertaken by the American government.Peake, Hayden B
"The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf"
(Note 18). '' Studies in Intelligence'', Vol. 47, No. 4, July 27, 2006
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/ref> It was the official Bulletin of the Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community (CARIC). ''CounterSpy'' published 32 issues between 1973 and 1984 from its headquarters in Washington DC. MacKenzie, Angus
''Secrets: The CIA's War at Home''.
University of California Press, 1999.
p. 59.
/ref> It was continued by ''The National Reporter'' starting in 1985.

Personnel

Former Central Intelligence Agency personnel Victor Marchetti, Philip Agee, and

Stanley Sheinbaum Stanley K. Sheinbaum (June 12, 1920 – September 12, 2016) was an American peace and human rights activist. One of the so-called Malibu Mafia, Sheinbaum joined with other wealthy Angelenos to fund liberal and progressive causes and politicians. ...

joined ''CounterSpy''’s advisory board aimed at mitigating some of the pressure being exerted on the magazine by the CIA. ''CounterSpy'' was edited by Tim Butz and Winslow Peck. By April 1979, Philip Agee was no longer associated with CounterSpy in any capacity, his only institutional relationship at that point being with ''

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''. Advisory board *

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, Co-Director, Indochina Resource Center. * Sylvia Crane, Author,

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. *

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, '' Liberation Magazine''. * Dr. Ralph Lewis, Criminal Justice Research Director,

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. * Victor Marchetti, Author, former agent, Central Intelligence Agency. * K. Barton Osborn, former agent, military intelligence and Central Intelligence Agency. * Col. L. Fletcher Prouty (ret.), Author, former military liaison, Central Intelligence Agency. * Marcus Raskin, Co-Director, Institute for Policy Studies. * Kirkpatrick Sale, Author. *

, American Civil Liberties Union. * William Turner, Author, former agent,

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Outing CIA operatives

The magazine gained attention 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 IA/nowiki> people working abroad" by publicizing their names so that they could no longer operate clandestinely. The station chief in

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, Joseph F. Fernandez, first appeared in ''CounterSpy'' in 1975. However, the 1975 murder of Richard Welch, the CIA Station Chief in Greece, by Revolutionary Organization 17 November was blamed by some on disclosures in magazines such as ''CounterSpy''. Walker, Jesse
"Agee's Revenge".
'' Reason'', July 14, 2005
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the original.
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"Kidnaping in Vienna, Murder in Athens".
'' Time'', Vol. 107, No. 1, January 5, 1976, pp. 40-46. Archived fro
the original.
/ref> Agee denied the accusation that he had leaked Welch's name.Staff report
"Philip Agee"
(Obituary). '' The Times'', January 9, 2008. Archived fro
the original.
/ref> Though U.S. officials, including then-CIA Director

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, 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 the Intelligence Identities Protection Act in 1982 making the willful identification of a CIA officer a criminal offense.

References

External links

Full archives
''CounterSpy''
at altgov2.org. Single issues
''CounterSpy'', Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1976
at the Harold Weisberg Archive. {{italic title 1973 establishments in Washington, D.C. 1984 disestablishments in Washington, D.C. Cultural magazines published in the United States News magazines published in the United States Defunct political magazines published in the United States Magazines about espionage Magazines established in 1973 Magazines disestablished in 1984 Magazines published in Washington, D.C.

Personnel

Outing CIA operatives

See also

References

Further reading

External links