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Volume 61, No. 4 (December 2017) The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
12 de may. de 1987 · James Jesus Angleton was born in Boise, Idaho. His father, James Hugh Angleton, had chased Pancho Villa into Mexico with Gen. John J. (Black Jack) Pershing, and while in Mexico, he had married a ...
In this Book. As chief of counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, James Jesus Angleton built a formidable reputation. Although perhaps best known for leading the agency's notorious “Molehunt”—the search for a Soviet spy believed to have infiltrated the upper levels of the American ...
As chief of counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, James Jesus Angleton built a formidable reputati...
This is the story of James Jesus Angleton, chief of counter-intelligence at the CIA for two decades, from the early 1950s to 1974, as put forth by Michael Holzman. Holzman wants to believe that he, working in his own way as a detective, has found the key to Angleton's spectacular rise in the CIA and, later, his spiraling downfall.
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.
23 de abr. de 2013 · A Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Georgetown University Center for Peace & Security Studies joint conference.
