He was merely following his conscience in revealing the CIA's subversion and sabotage of democratically elected governments and genuine movements for social justice. While Agee was writing "Inside the Company", the KGB kept in contact with him through Edgar Anatolyevich Cheporov, a London correspondent of the Novosti News Agency. Agee was accused of receiving up to US$1 million in payments from the Cuban intelligence service. He denied the accusations, which were first made by a high-ranking Cuban intelligence officer and 'defector' in a 1992 "Los Angeles Times" report. A later "Los Angeles Times" article claimed that Agee posed as a CIA Inspector General staff member in order to target a member of the CIA's Mexico City station on behalf of Cuban intelligence. According to this story, Agee was identified during a meeting by a CIA case officer. According to files from KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin, Agee was sent documents by an "anonymous sender". The document was a classified State Department circular, signed by Henry Kissinger himself. In 1977, it was published with an introduction by Agee. KGB files noted by Mitrokhin claim that the originator was Service A, the Active Measures branch of the First Chief Directorate. Mitrokhin's KGB files noted by Mitrokhin claim that "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" was "prepared by Service A, together with the Cubans". Mitrokhin's notes however do not indicate what the KGB and DGI contributed to Agee's text. At Service A's request, Agee removed all references to CIA penetration of Latin American Communist parties from his typescript before publication. In 1978 Agee began the publication of the Covert Action Information Bulletin. Mitrokhin's files claim that the bulletin was founded on the KGB's initiative and the group running it was "put together" by First Chief Directorate counterintelligence. There is no evidence that any member of the group apart from Agee himself was aware of KGB or DGI involvement. KGB headquarters assembled a team to keep the Bulletin supplied with material specifically designed to compromise the CIA. A document entitled "Director of Central Intelligence: Perspectives for Intelligence, 1976-1981", was supplied to Agee by the KGB. Agee highlighted in his commentary Director of Central Intelligence William Colby's complaint that Agees work was among the most serious problems facing the CIA. In Dirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa, Agee met with Oleg Maksimovich Nechiporenko and A. N. Istkov of the KGB and they gave him a list of CIA officers working in Africa.