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Nov 13, 2017 · The CIA delayed responding to requests for information about its longtime counter-espionage chief, James Angleton, as it tried to minimize the disclosure of his activities related to...
- Ray Locker
- Washington Enterprise Editor
Dec 17, 2022 · At that point, here is what happened, per the memo: James Jesus Angleton, the chief of CIA counter-intelligence, passed the FBI’s message on to something called the Special Investigations...
Aug 19, 2022 · From 1954 to 1974 was in charge of counterintelligence in CIA. Angleton is one of the most written about US intelligence figures ever; lit- erature about him, his life, and his effects is treated in an essay in Stud- ies in Intelligence by CIA Chief Histo- rian David Robarge.
- What’s in The Declassified JFK Assassination Documents?
- What The Experts Say
- Will These Declassified Documents Fuel More Conspiracy Theories?
- How Many JFK Assassination Files Have Been Declassified?
1) Of the documents that were originally set to be released, some 3,100 had never been seen by the public before. Though few experts expected the final batch of files to offer up a “smoking gun” proving Lee Harvey Oswalddid not act alone in killing Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, the last batch of files were expected to provide more insight...
Gerald Posner, an expert on the Kennedy assassination and author of the book Cold Case, speculatedthat the revelations contained in the files might have proven embarrassing to some prominent figures: “There may be people who were informing to the CIA at the time who have moved on to careers in politics and business, and the revelation that they wer...
Despite the commission’s official conclusion in 1964 that Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy, many people have held fast to the belief that more than one person had to be involved. (It certainly didn’t help that Oswald never stood trial for the crime, having been shot to death by Jack Rubytwo days after Kennedy’s assassination.) Speculation abou...
Of the total library of files—which encompasses some 5 million pages—88 percent has been open and available to the public since the late 1990s, according to the National Archives. An additional 11 percent had been released in redacted form, with sensitive portions excised. Leading up to October 2017, the Archives released a batch of material that J...
- Sarah Pruitt
Imagine the paranoia that at last enveloped him and profoundly damaged the agency. 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.
- William M. Chace
- 2010
Aug 5, 2019 · In it, Morley concluded that “Cram’s findings about Angleton … clarified the fate of another one of his victims, James Leslie Bennett, chief of counterintelligence for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.”
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Apr 18, 2012 · His zeal both a benefit and a liability, longtime CIA counter-intelligence chief James Angleton is remembered with a mixed legacy. In this interview, Cambridge historian and Cold War expert Christopher Andrew discusses the complex personality behind one of the era’s towering figures.
