At the height of the Cold War, arguably no one in the CIA exercised more power than James Jesus Angleton, head of counterintelligence. He pioneered an illegal information-gathering campaign that spied ...

When Americans think about the CIA today — if they think about it at all — they probably picture a secluded compound in Langley, Va., where Matt Damon matches wits with Joan Allen. But those who grew ...

The ghostly visage of James Jesus Angleton appeared on the front page of the Washington Times on Jan. 3, 2023, in a story by reporter Bill Gertz about newly released documents related to the ...

THE GHOST: THE SECRET LIFE OF CIA SPYMASTER JAMES JESUS ANGLETON By Jefferson Morley St. Martin’s Press, $27.95, 336 pages As a holiday gift, permit me to save you 28 bucks and however much time you ...

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The two most fascinating and controversial intelligence professionals of the Cold War were Kim Philby (1912-1988), an officer of Britain’s MI6 who passed secrets to the Soviets, and James Jesus ...

Born in Boise in December 1917, James Angleton befriended poet and fellow Idahoan Ezra Pound in Italy before beginning what would be a legendary but checkered career in espionage. In his new book ...

It’s hard to know what to think about Russiagate. James Jesus Angleton, the legendary Cold War head of CIA counterintelligence, liked to refer to intelligence work as “the wilderness of mirrors,” and ...