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Jun 21, 2024 · James Jesus Angleton. James Jesus Angleton was chief of CIA Counterintelligence from 1954 to 1975, and was significantly involved with ferreting out Soviet disinformation received by the CIA. He later became convinced that there was a KGB mole working inside the CIA and engaged in an intense search. There is debate whether this hunt for the ...
- Andrea Groce
- 2017
Jun 10, 2024 · The agency’s longtime director of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton, founded two surprisingly good literary journals while at Yale—one featured original work by Ezra Pound, E. E ...
Dec 2, 2022 · Three CIA directors graduated from Yale - George H.W. Bush, Porter Goss and R. James Woolsey - as did James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence who debriefed prominent KGB defectors and later became convinced that the Soviet Union had compromised the CIA and launched a years-long effort to root out suspected moles.
1 day ago · Perhaps the most intriguing of Wilford’s case studies focus on two other figures from the agency’s distant past: Cord Meyer and his close friend James Jesus Angleton. Both were Yalies with a literary bent: Meyer, when he was not playing goalie on the Yale hockey team, edited the college’’s literary magazine.
Jun 22, 2024 · But in truth there was nothing childlike about what men like Copeland were empowered to do by their legendary spymasters Wild Bill Donovan, Allen Dulles and James Jesus Angleton, who though only gaining a brief mention here is probably the most fascinating, complex and influential figure in the history of Cold War espionage.
Jun 7, 2024 · These works brought Epstein into contact with James Jesus Angleton, a veteran of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of the CIA. Angleton, a strong anti-Communist, handled counterintelligence, probing the efforts of the KGB to penetrate Western intelligence services through false defectors, double agents, disinformation and such.
Jun 24, 2024 · Dr. Benjamin Church, American Continental Army. Dr. Benjamin Church was the surgeon general of the Continental Army who was a spy for the British from 1772-1775, when he was caught divulging intelligence regarding American munitions, military plans, and equipment during the Revolutionary War. He was tried and convicted of treason, sentenced to ...
