The Philip Agee/Mark Hosenball Defence Committee has callea a national picket and march for Saturday 11 December. This will follow a Day of Action on 8 December for which there have already been calls for strike action by a number branches of the National Union Philip Agee told Red Weekly earlier this week that he had 'been very moved by the scope of response from the trade unions, the Labour Party and olner polical parties. Agee also spoke of what he sees as the reasons for his deportation "It's a continuation of something the CIA has been running for some 2½ years - a campaign to try and attack my credibility by establishing the other is the deterrence of other CIA people, of former employees, from doing the same thing.
The more specific factors are the political pressures loan, the presence of a brand new CIA chief, the presence of a new Home Secretary in Britain - having come from Northern Ireland he is obviously dependent on the security to Jamaica, where l analysed the CIA and uncovered nine people working there.' CHARGES The charges Agee faces are unspecific, that he is a 'threat to British security. The deportation order is being made under the Immigration Act, wnicha deportation rests discretion of the Home Secretary and a three-person panel appointed of by him. Agee comments on this of supposed "inreat' to British security *1 nave nevel worked in operations with the British security services. I never knew the structure of the services or the bureaucracy involved, never knew never knew the operations. So there is nothing I could have told them anyway, be they Cubans, or Soviets, or British citizens for that matter.' PROUD Of course Agee remains proud that he has damaged LORS. and arques that the present situation in Europe could be another reason why the CIA want him out of IMF the way:
*What I think they are thinking of in the next two years is Europe, which is going to be very critical with elections coming up in France and the situation in Italy and the Spanish trade union groups. So think they Vetwing heavily influenced scene coming which is going to be reminiscent of the early post-war years - and they really did intervene in a drastic way in Germany, Italy and France in those years.' That, perhaps, is one reason why Agee particularly wants to stay in decision entirely at the of open waged by the Defence Committee.
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is behind two in Whitehall. Britain. He intends to fight for that right both through any legal procedures he can and through the type campaign already being As far as legal procedures go, he an almost impossible situation. No specific been made against them, no evidence will be presented to them, there will be no witnesses and after tribunal there is no facility for appeal Agee himself has delivered 'a long series of questions' to Merlyn Rees, 'such as what are the contacts with cultural attaches we supposed to have had, when they were held, what time, with whom, how will they damage national secuBut it is the campaign which takes place outside the closed doors of the Home Office which offers the best means of stopping the deportations.
As the Agee/Hosenball Defence Committee put it earlier this week, unions and trade councils to send to the Home Secretary, your MP and your union's It is most important to show that the trade union movement OT IIS members, irrespective of race, creed or nationAnd remember the Day of Action on 8 December, and the picket and march on 11 December, which starts at 12 noon outside the Home Office paign Against WEEKLY Windar Singh of the Kent Workers against Racism denounces racist media coverage
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