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Philip Agee

1935 - 2008

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Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (; January 19, 1935 – January 7, 2008) was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer and writer of the 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, detailing his experiences in the CIA. Agee joined the CIA in 1957, and over the following decade had postings in Washington, D.C., Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico. After resigning from the Agency in 1968, he became a leading opponent of CIA practices. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Agee has received more than 469,892 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Philip Agee is the 5,194th most popular writer (up from 5,443rd in 2019), the 7,461st most popular biography from United States (up from 9,010th in 2019) and the 583rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 2.82

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Philip Agee ranks 5,194 out of 7,302. Before him are Juan Meléndez Valdés, Antti Tuuri, Gabriel Miró, Anna Haava, Bertalan Szemere, and Nicholas Culpeper. After him are Donald Rayfield, John Farey Sr., Gesualdo Bufalino, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Rita Mae Brown, and Solomana Kante.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Philip Agee ranks 373. Before him are Heinz Schneiter, Jimmy Makulis, Dariush Shayegan, Ramsey Lewis, Peter Schickele, and Leo Falcam. After him are Norbert Blüm, David McKee, Moisés Solana, Bobby Timmons, Avtandil Koridze, and Ingrid Noll. Among people deceased in 2008, Philip Agee ranks 260. Before him are Giovanni Viola, Hidetaka Nishiyama, Gustaw Holoubek, Tony Duvert, Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, and Edie Adams. After him are Jaime Gómez, Esbjörn Svensson, Tom Lantos, William F. Buckley Jr., Annemarie Renger, and Bill Miller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Agee ranks 7,461 out of 20,380. Before him are Dylan Walsh (1963), Gladys George (1904), Wendy O. Williams (1949), Edie Adams (1927), Michael Behe (1952), and Hassler Whitney (1907). After him are Dave Bing (1943), Saoirse Ronan (1994), Dennis Johnson (1954), Lucy Parsons (1853), David Selby (1941), and Karen Fukuhara (1992).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Philip Agee ranks 583. Before him are Louella Parsons (1881), Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923), Eve Ensler (1953), Richard Powers (1957), Ernie Pyle (1900), and Bart D. Ehrman (1955). After him are Rita Mae Brown (1944), Lester del Rey (1915), Louis L'Amour (1908), Theodora Kroeber (1897), William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), and Fran Lebowitz (1950).

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