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."
- Philip Agee
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A cool thing about coming into multidisciplinary martial arts later is discovering cross over between the styles on the same move. The different names for it, slight stylistic differences on when and how to implement it, and the general perception of the move. All that kind of stuff. Well anyway today I discovered I’m a master of “the most dangerous throw in judo,” the tani otoshi or as we call it in wrestling “kind of a heel stomp sit back or whatever.” Like just a basic mat return I favored because I never felt strong enough to consistently hit the lift on a forward mat return so I’d fake forward then sit to their hip and step on their far side heel to trip them backwards. Allegedly this is a very dangerous movement that threatens to destroy your opponents near side knee if they go down incorrectly and is banned in many top BJJ gyms, but I used it my entire wrestling career without injuring anyone so idk 🤷♂️
The more I roll with jiu jitsu guys the more I get why wrestling is the “violent art” counterpart to jiu jitsu’s “gentle art.” Someone asked me why I do a specific move when wrestling since it doesn’t move me closer to a takedown or to pin and I dumbfoundedly just responded “because it hurts him” not understanding that that wasn’t a clear goal in and of itself
Attitudes towards martial arts “it’s about disciple” “it’s about self defense”.
They’re the arts of Mars. It’s in the title. It’s the art of killing people. You should definitely practice the " this is too dangerous for sparring" moves because you should be practicing to get good at killing people. If you want inner peace there are movement arts for that.
To be fair we’re not talking about the dim mak here. The risk is unintentional long term damage to the knee which, as a guy who’s blown multiple knee ligaments, fucking sucks. I agree though for moves that are intentionally dangerous ie controlled motions. Rotational leg locks being banned in IBJJF rules is crazy to me, especially since they currently dominate the no gi meta
That’s a fun way to end a grapple. Flat back bump after struggle.