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Philip Agee, 72, a former CIA spy who exposed its undercover operations in Latin America in a 1975 book, died in Havana, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma said.
His widow, German ballet dancer Giselle Roberge, said Agee did not survive surgery for perforated ulcers.
Agee worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for 12 years in Washington, Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico. He resigned in 1968 in disagreement with US support for dictatorships in Latin America, becoming one of the first to blow the whistle on the CIA's activities around the world.
His book Inside the Company: CIA Diary revealed the names of agents in Latin America and was published in 27 languages. The US government called him a traitor and said some of the agents he exposed were later murdered, an allegation Agee rejected.
- REUTERS
