Philip Agee on the Persian Gulf crisis / interviewed by Dennis Bernstein.

Philip Agee, a 12 year veteran of the CIA, talks about the Bush administration giving the “green light” for Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. He provides an historical bakcground of United States and Iraqi relations, and the reasons why George Bush needs this crisis to cover up domestic ills and to get re-elected.|PHILIP AGEE ON THE PERSIAN GULF CRISIS / interviewed by Dennis Bernstein. – Agee, 12 year veteran of the CIA, talks about the Bush administration giving the “greelight” for Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and gives an historical background of U.S. and Iraq relations. He also gives reasons why Bush needs this crisis to cover up domestic ills and to get re-elected. – RECORDED: 22 Jan. 1991.