Philip Agee, born on 19th of january in 1935, was an ex-CIA officer who became a prominent critic of CIA policies, detailing his experiences in the text “Inside the Company: CIA Diary”. Agee ultimately defected to Cuba, dying there in 2008.

Philip Agee (1935 - 2008) served as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer for eight years, joining the organization in 1960. He was assigned posts in Montevideo, Mexico City, and Quito, Ecuador.

Agee resigned from the CIA in 1968 following the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City, in which the U.S.-supported government engaged in mass shootings and arrests of a crowd of more than ten thousand protesters. The same massacre also played a role in the political radicalization of Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas.

Agee moved to London and published “Inside the Company”, a tell-all text that, among other things, detailed his work in spying on diplomats, engaging in illegal activity to force a diplomatic break between Ecuador and Cuba, naming President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica, President Luis Echeverría Álvarez of Mexico, and President Alfonso López Michelsen of Colombia as CIA collaborators, and exposing the identities of dozens of CIA agents.

For the exposure of agents, Agee was expelled from the United Kingdom. Agee was also eventually expelled from the Netherlands, France, West Germany and Italy, and was compelled to live under a series of socialist governments - Grenada under Maurice Bishop, then Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, and finally Cuba under Castro. Agee died in Cuba in January 2008.

"I don’t think we have ever had real democracy in this country. Anyone who studies adoption of the constitution will understand quite clearly that; democracy - as we understand that on today; was the last thing the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution…it was: to establish strong central authority responding the elitist interests in United States.

That’s private property. And those men who wrote the constitution were representatives of the elites. They were the lawyers, bankers, merchants, the land owners, slave owners and so forth. And they write the constitution for their own private interest$. That is how government has served ever since. And that is why we have so little democracy in United States."

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    • Tervell [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      5 months ago

      yeah, Total Recall’s got some great guns, although I’m not sure if they were going exactly for the G11 here (that’s kind of blockier and chonkier, it’s like a rectangle with a scope and grip sticking out of the top and bottom, having a normal magazine kind of breaks the silhouette, but I guess there are a lot of limitation when working with existing props). The G11 was indeed featured in a lot of media as a “this is what we’ll be using in the future” gun, although it was more so video games since getting real G11s for a live-action production isn’t really an option. It, and the OICW too.

      Total Recall has these awesome Pancor Jackhammer mock-ups as well:

      older action movies in general often have a really great selection of guns, I much prefer it to all the tacticool shit of today. Like, did you know that the Half-Life MP5 with grenade launcher was actually a real thing (well, movie prop, from End of Days), they were on some wild shit: