WHY THEY WANT TO DEPORT ME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300560018-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: January 9, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2005/01/11 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000300560)18-
LONDON SUNDAY TIMES 1 l /9
o
,, o ter Coat n "tnnet 0. a h c n as eel to
e
1972 Olympic gold modl) hung some_ form of identirtca-
R~riter ort CIA astir}tGnoty l.)tary Agee had learned the
act! names and met Pawlowski, the
t ri eves he kno+ta ex iec
the Home Secretary inttlyds t+ to nj story went on. white working?for
Deport me from. Britain. the CIA in Mexico City during
On Tuesday morning he will the 1968 Olympic Games.
begin to defend himself before) The Los Angeles Times never
ilerlyn Itees's advisory panel or, printed the stor
' three wise men against y. Nor did the
Washington Post, which receives
Charges whose substance lie will riy
not be told. Information reach- ft a wLOS ire service. TheeGuardian
trig him from " friends in high same wire Ice, contacted Agee
belie es Agee Is trespthat ible for' and used his denial for an article
'betraying Nato agents working based on Seeger's piece.
for British intelligence in Poland. Agee claimed then; and still
Agee knows only that he is maintains, that the information
accused of activities "harmful given to Seeger was a CIA-
to the security of the U
d 1 Inspired smear at a time when
it
n
e
, Fin-dom." lie will tell the pane[ they were trying to discredit ` " "` I'"'i""'b to to continue beyond the two days
of his work as an anti-C1A earn-' him Only a short time earlier ask }n the !louse. titledet them? May we be en all- I
iiaigner, using the knowledge he ~?Rich ard Welch', CIA station chief Agce denies in exhaustive titled to know, at the encl. what
soloed as a CIA agent between -in Athens, had been assassinated; detail any involvement It the the panel Secretary?
tten.ds to the
19oB and tot in various coun- his name had just been published Polish spy revelations. t is true home Secretary?
tries. But he will strenuously in a spook-spotting" article in that he was a CIA unctercocer' The answer to all these
deny any suggestion that he the American magazine Cou nter- agent - assigned to the Mexico questions is likely to ' he
intended to use his knowledge spy, and the agency blamed Agee Olympics, but he claims never negative. If so, Grant says he,
to damage British intelligence -'in so many words-for Welch's to have dealt with any Polish as a lawyer, will feel com-
operations. death. agents. Ile makes two other promised even by agreeing to
Rauch of the half mill [on-word Seeger stood by his story last central points- take part in such proceedings.
dossier he will week, saying that he had checked First, if he had given the "Justice will not only not be
present ,to the all the information carefully Information to the KG13 while done, it will be seen not to heI
panel, his blanket statement of .before writing it, He refused to in Cuba in 1971. why was the done."
Innocence. toil! concern rn what
can a called the Pe coat name his sources, but insister! spy yin- not broken up. until1 Press and public are not
that they were "highly reliable." 197;?
nection. It is a dramatic being admitted. But Apse is
plex spy story centring on coman- 1I would not comment on the Second, he hul already told setting up a Press headrluarters j
outstanding iritrrnational sports- suggestion that they had CIA: his CiA chiefs in Mexico City, in the nearby Institute of
c h of rte story. which connections. The Los Angeles before the Olympics, of his fatten- Contemporary Arts, and Will be
man. mun
began to surface in the `Vest 18 Times's foreign editor, Bob lion to resign. Ile was Involved heading straight there from
months surface was confirmed by -Gibson, said lie had decided not in a bitter dispute With his ex- I each session to give a blow-by-
The Sundae; Times last week j to use the story "because it wife over custody ?of .their chit- blow account to journalists,
from independent . sources. needed further checking." Those dren, and she had threatened to Mark Ilosenbatl, the other
If Agec:ssusp}signs are correct. I ,further checks had never in the expose him as a CIA agent to American journalist threatened
end been made, because of pres- force him to hack down.