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As chief of counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, James Jesus Angleton built a formidable reputati...
Es una película de ficción basada en acontecimientos reales y se publicitó como que narra la historia inédita del nacimiento de la contrainteligencia en la CIA. El principal personaje de la película, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), está basado en James Jesus Angleton y Richard M. Bissett. El personaje de William Hurt, Phillip Allen, se basa ...
25 de jun. de 1978 · James Jesus Angleton was born in 1917 in Boise, Idaho. He was named Jesus after his maternal grandfather: His father had married a Mexican woman while serving in Mexico under Gen. John J. ...
In recent years, disclosures from former higher -ups in the agency about highly damaging Soviet espionage operations suggest that Angleton was far more accurate in his suspicions and assessments than was once believed. Angleton died of lung cancer on May 12, 1987 at 69 years of age. Head of Counter-Intelligence for the CIA and a noted mole-hunter.
18 de jun. de 2023 · James Jesus Angleton (1917 – 1987) was chief of counterintelligence for the CIA and the righthand man of longtime CIA director Allen Dulles. Though Angleton guarded Dulles’s secrets for years, as the Catholic inched near his meeting with death he began to unburden himself of the secrets he’d harbored for years, confessing to unspecified evils.
Norwegian authorities did the dirty work for the Americans, but the puppet strings were being pulled from the offices of the Counterintelligence Staff across the Atlantic. Ingeborg Lygren was not an isolated case. She was just one of many suspected spies targeted by America's most powerful spy hunter, James Jesus Angleton. James Jesus Angleton. 1.
James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 – May 11, 1987) was an American intelligence operative who served as chief of the counterintelligence department of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1975. According to Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms, Angleton was "recognized as the dominant counterintelligence figure in the ...
