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Feb 24, 1975 · February 24, 1975 12:00 AM EDT. I n the best tradition of the spy masters, James Jesus Angleton, 57, always worked in the shadows, his identity as the Central Intelligence Agency’s chief of ...
- Kim Philby
- Anatoliy Golitsyn
- Yuri Nosenko
- Looking Back on Angleton
- Angelton The Intelligence Officer
In the mid-1990s, this writer had a History Fellowship to the Center for the Studies of Intelligence. One of the projects assigned was to assist former Director Richard Helms with his research within the CIA’s archives. Helms remarked in the late-1990s, and again in his memoir how the defection of the UK intelligence officer Kim Philby hit Angleton...
In December 1961, a KGB major, Anatoliy Golitsyn approached the CIA station chief in Helsinki, Finland and asked for asylum. Golitsyn was a middling officer within the KGB, and as noted in the book, Cold Warrior, his impact on the West would be momentous. The CIA station chief whisked him out of Helsinki, with his family to Stockholm then on to the...
In the spring of 1962, Yuri Nosenko, an officer within the KGB Second Chief Directorate (Counterintelligence) and on a TDY to Geneva, managed to slip away from a delegation to which he was providing security and volunteer his services to the United States. Over a series of four meetings in Geneva, Nosenko provided a fire hose of actionable counteri...
Richard Helms wrote in his memoir, “A look over my shoulder” (2003) how Angleton was “one of the most complex men I have ever known.” He also wrote how Angleton’s dismissal (retirement) from the CIA that only one other officer of his Agency contemporaries “to have inspired more public attention is Allen Dulles.” Helms observed that post-Soviet Unio...
Angleton’s career in U.S. intelligence spanned many years. He is, unfortunately remembered for the ignoble actions of the latter half of his career which overshadowed the success of his early career. Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky would note many years after Angleton’s death, how KGB operational failures occurred because of Angleton’s reputatio...
Jan 1, 2018 · The Cram file illuminates a pregnant moment in the history of America’s secret government, when the CIA began to reckon with the legacy of James Angleton, a founding father of the deep state, a ...
- Jefferson Morley
James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 – May 11, 1987) [1] 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 ...
Feb 27, 2016 · Michael Holzman, in the 2008 study James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Intelligence, looks in depth at the impact on Angleton of the New Criticism in the 1930s, a school of analysis ...
- Christopher Dickey
- World News Editor
The report, first obtained by Judicial Watch, sheds new light on the agency’s role in the burglary that brought down President Richard Nixon in 1974 and changed the course of American politics. James Jesus Angleton, chief of the agency’s Counterintelligence Staff, reached the peak of his powers during the Nixon’s presidency.
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Jul 7, 1991 · When Angleton finally walked out the CIA door, the cleanup of his messy legacy began. It may well continue today, with bemused CIA staffers finding yet another hidden safe brimming with files ...
