BBC - A US missionary group threatened with expulsion from Venezuela has denied spying for Washington.

I've known missionaries with New Tribes Mission in places such as Papua New Guinea, and it's hard for me to imagine more earnest and apolitical people.

Agee: When I was in the agency from the late 1950s on through to the late 1960s, the agency had operations going internationally, regionally, and nationally, attempting to penetrate and manipulate the institutions of power in countries around the world, and these were things that I did in the CIA—the penetration and manipulation of political parties, trade unions, youth and student movements, intellectual, professional and cultural societies, religious groups and women’s groups and especially of the public information media.