working very hard indeed.
Reading the sections of your book on Uruguay, one felt that this third world country wasn't very different from Britain. You've been living here for the last couple of years, is that your impression?
I'm astounded practically week by week with the similarities between what I see here now and what I saw in Uruguay, In Uruguay you had a country which had a long tradition of liberal reform; it had a very high level of literacy: it had a welfare state and a mixed economy, But a small minority of people ownied the large bulk of land which produced the bulk of the wealth of the country: heel, wool and hides. Dependent in the main on imports, the country was confrunted with a permument trade imbalance, decline in productivity and increasing goverThe result was resistance to the Red Weekly 1 January 1975 Page B ger, both in the trade unions and also from the point of view of militant action, ie. the armed struggle, These were the highest priorities to penctrate.
But what you must understand is that the CLA is not concerned so much with the global policies of the USSR as such. It is opposed to socialist revolution anywhere whother it is in Russia or China or Mozambique or Sri Lanka or Cuba that is, a revolution in favour of the working class of the United States, The CIA, whose aim is to Keep the United States both united and capitalist, is therefore justifiably concerned at the spread of revolutson as such. The very cxistence of the Soviet Union and China is pos itive in terms of the interests of the American working class Why do you think that the United States is extremely reluctant to re-establish relations with Cuba? I's not because of the humiliation write a book about it. In other words. to try and open some minds to the reality that there isn't a 'third way' and that the US is merely trying to disguise the old imperialism with a new cloak.
I hope to contribute to the growing campaign in the United States to call into question these activities, and to work for the eventual abolition of the CIA as part of the overall process of weakening and finally defeating the ruling capitalist minority in the United States, Most importantly, I want ro show the methodology that lies behind the CIA's operations which is crue nol just for Latin America, but the entire world, This is so that the resolutionary movement can understand better the nature of the enemy and learn to spot and combat it better. They will be able to take counter-measures and reduce Philip Agee's book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, is published by Penguin Books on 2 January, price 95p.
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