Philip Agee, the spy who dragged everyone else in from the cold, has passed away in Cuba at 72.
Agee, whose 1975 book "Inside the Company," revealed numerous CIA activities and operatives worldwide and supercharged the Church Committee investigations of intelligence community abuses, had been an operative with the CIA from 1957 to 1968.
In 1979, the U.S. revoked Agee's passport, citing him as a threat to U.S. national security. He lived for some years in Hamburg and elsewhere until moving to Cuba in 2000.
Agee's revelations in "Inside the Company" and in the CovertAction Information Bulletain (now the CovertAction Quarterly) led to the passage in 1982 of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which was praised by ex-CIA chief George H.W. Bush (whose son's minions later outed Valerie Plame, but that's a thousand other stories).
Agee was a thorn in the side of the CIA and the intel community because he named names. Whether or not you agree with this tactic, it's important to remember that his motivation was to stop dirty ops and restore what he felt was the tarnished virtue of the Agency.
Rest in peace, sir.
AP obit.