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''CounterSpy'' was an American magazine that published articles on covert operations, especially those undertaken by the American government.〔Peake, Hayden B. (The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf� ) ''Intelligence in Recent Public Literature'' vol. 47 no. 4. (note 18)〕 According to the magazine's list of back issues, ''CounterSpy'' published 32 issues from 1973 to 1984. ==Outing CIA operatives== The magazine gained notoriety when ''CounterSpy'' founder and former Central Intelligence Agency agent Philip Agee advocated outing agents in their Winter 1975 issue. Agee urged the "neutralization of its The station chief in Costa Rica, Joseph F. Fernandez, first appeared in ''CounterSpy'' in 1975. However, the 1975 murder of Richard S. Welch, the CIA Station Chief in Greece, by Revolutionary Organization 17 November was blamed by some on disclosures in magazines such as ''CounterSpy''.〔Walker, Jesse (July 14, 2005). (Agee's Revenge. ) ''Reason''〕〔Staff report (January 5, 1976). (Kidnaping in Vienna, Murder in Athens. ) ''Time''〕 Though U.S. officials, including then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush, blamed ''CounterSpy'' for contributing to Welch's death, Welch was previously named as a CIA officer by several European publication, and the CIA had assigned him a house previously used by CIA station chiefs. Congress cited the Welch assassination as the principal justification for passing a law in 1982 making the willful identification of a CIA officer a criminal offense. The 1975 ''CounterSpy'' defense came back into the news when Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA officer in 2003.〔Parry, Robert (July 26, 2005) (Rove's Backers Use "CounterSpy Defense." ) consortiumnews.com〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CounterSpy Magazine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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