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 ...
DAVID WISE writes frequently about intelligence and espionage. He is the author of, among other books, "Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors that Shattered the CIA." More than three decades after ...
Historian and novelist Holzman (Donald and Melinda Maclean) delivers a comprehensive yet tedious chronicle of the relationship between British double agent Kim Philby and CIA counterintelligence chief ...
The debate over CIA interrogation methods goes back a long way. Some examples: James Angleton's 1963 instructions on what's acceptable, and Yuri Nosenko, a former double agent for the KGB and the CIA.
One of the CIA's most powerful and infamous spymasters is at the center of potential new revelations about the John F Kennedy assassination. Among the 80,000 pages Donald Trump says he will release ...
Oswald ' drank to excess and beat his wife' Similarly, the transcript of an interview of former CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton contained odd deletions. Angleton, talking in 1975 to a ...
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 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 ...
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 ...