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DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss the Santa Cruz film premier of One Man’s Story: Phillip Agee 
 and the CIA.\n\nFilm and discussion with guest speaker, Dawn 
 Gable\n\nProduced by the Cuba-Irish connection of directors Roberto Ruiz 
 and Bernie Dwyer, One Man’s Story: Philip Agee, Cuba and the CIA (33 
 mins.) focuses on the dark side of U.S. foreign policy. The film allows 
 former CIA agent Phillip Agee to tell his captivating story - supported by 
 excellent archival material - of US covert, as well as open, operations in 
 Latin America. \n\n“I entered the CIA as a patriotic conformist from a 
 comfortable family,” explains Agee, now 71.  “It wasn’t until I got 
 down to Ecuador and had been working there a year or two that I began to 
 get a political education.”  In all, Agee worked 12 years for the CIA in 
 Washington, Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico before he resigned in 1968. \n\nHe 
 has since become one of the most important whistle blowers of our era, 
 exposing US involvement in brutal dictatorships and the use of mercenaries 
 secretly paid with US taxpayers’ money.  After his book, Inside the 
 Company, uncovered heinous secrets of US Intelligence in 1975, his passport 
 was taken away “to protect national security”. \n\nAgee is obsessed 
 with setting the record straight in the U.S. where recent history is barely 
 taught and what is presented comes through a fine sieve.  Now, with One 
 Man’s Story, his first hand testimony may spark alarm regarding current 
 US policy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia, to name a few, 
 and help young people realize what being “patriotic” really 
 means.\n\nAn outspoken critic of the U.S. blockade on Cuba, Agee encourages 
 U.S. citizens to continue doing business with and traveling to Cuba.  In 
 One Man’s Story,  after outlining terrorist acts perpetrated by the CIA 
 against Cuba since 1959,  Agee justifies Cuba’s need to send agents like 
 the Cuban Five to Florida to monitor Miami sponsored terrorism against the 
 island - a story portrayed by filmmakers, Dwyer and Ruiz in their previous 
 co-production, Mission Against Terror.  \n\nBernie Dwyer is an Irish 
 filmmaker and journalist for Radio Havana Cuba.  Ruiz, a documentary 
 filmmaker for Cuban TV, is a graduate in English and Spanish literature. 
 \n\nDawn Gable lived and worked in Cuba as a translator for Granma 
 International in Havana. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/21/18455065.php
SUMMARY:Film Premier - One Man’s Story: Phillip Agee, Cuba and the CIA
LOCATION:Veterans Memorial  Building - 846 Front Street, Santa Cruz 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/21/18455065.php
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