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James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 - May 12, 1987), known to friends and colleagues as Jim and nicknamed "the Kingfisher," was the long-serving director of the CIA's counter-intelligence division, a poet, and an avid fly-fisherman and orchid-grower. December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... CIA, see CIA (disambiguation). ...

Life and career

Angleton was born in Bose, Idaho. His father, James Hugh Angleton, was a cavalry officer who worked for NCR and later joined the OSS. His parents met in Mexico (his mother, Carmen Mercedes Moreno, was a Mexican citizen; his middle name comes his maternal grandfather) while his father was serving under General John "Black Jack" Pershing. He mostly grew up in Rome, Italy, where his family moved after his father bought NCR's Italian subsidiary, but he completed his pre-university education as a boarder at Malvern College in England. He completed his undergraduate education at Yale University in 1941 after launching a poetry review, Furioso, with his roommate, E. Reed Whittemore, Jr., that published works by the likes of T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and E. E. Cummings. He went on to attend Harvard Law School before joining the United States Army in 1943 and was recruited into the OSS later that year. He was selected for counter-intelligence training in London, where he was brought under the tutelage of MI5 agents such as Kim Philby (Philby was already a mole for the KGB). He is thought to have been one of the few to have access to the Ultra program, the decryption operation which successfully cracked iterations of the Enigma code, effectively neutralizing the German U-boat campaign in the Atlantic. He subsequently served as a counter-intelligence agent in Italy, where he remained in service after the transfer of OSS operational functions to the War Department's Strategic Services Unit, which became part of Central Intelligence Agency under the National Security Act of 1947. While in Rome, he became the chief counter-intelligence officer for Italy but returned to the United States shortly before the establishment of the CIA, rising to the rank of major while still a military officer. Bose is a Bengali surname. ... 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The CIA recruited him shortly after its formation, and he continued his counter-intelligence activities there, first returning to Rome and his previous counter-intelligence position, where the knowledge of cryptography he had obtained from Ultra is said to have served him well. He turned his attentions to the KGB and the the Soviet nuclear weapons program with its probable reliance on technology leaked from the American Manhattan Project. Some of this information and subsequent leaks which helped the Soviets develop the hydrogen bomb were made by way of Donald Duart Maclean, with whom Angleton would have been acquainted from his ties to MI5 and whom Philby, in his capacity as counter-intelligence lead for the British embassy in Washington, DC, assisted in escaping capture by the Americans and British with his defection to the USSR. It is likely that Angleton came to suspect Philby's allegiances in this period, even as the two maintained a regular lunch date. Maclean's espionage and defection effectively ended Philby's regular career in MI5. The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... Control panels and operators for calutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... Donald Duart Maclean (1913-1983) was one of the Cambridge Five, members of MI5 who acted as spies for Russia in the Second World War. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...

Beginning in 1951 Angleton was responsible for cooperation with Israel's Mossad and Shin Bet agencies, a relationship he managed closely for virtually the remainder of his career. (It has been claimed that, in this capacity, Angleton directed CIA assistance to the Israeli nuclear weapons program.) In 1954 Allen Dulles, who had recently become Director of Central Intelligence, named Angleton Deputy Director of Counterintelligence, a position he retained for the rest of his CIA career. Dulles also assigned him responsibility for coordination with allied intelligence services. From this period Angleton was characterized by colleagues as a chain-smoking workaholic who had no reservations about checking cocktail party boastings against official service record — or placing colleagues under surveillance for minor violations of protocol, written or otherwise, including personal indiscretions. One of Angleton's biggest coups under Dulles was obtaining a transcript of Nikita Kruschev's 1956 speech to the Soviet Party Congress denouncing Josef Stalin, which the agency made public for its immense propaganda value. Angleton is further said to have by then leaked doctored versions of the speech to numerous foreign government in a disinformation campaign, although Angleton is said to have admitted that this claim was itself disinformation he kept in circulation and that this effort was refused by others in the CIA leadership. 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... The State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, transliteration: ; Arabic: دَوْلَةْ اِسْرَائِيل, transliteration: ) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ... Ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks) is an Israeli intelligence agency, commonly referred to as Mossad. ... Shabak emblem Defender who shall not be seen The Shin Bet (in Hebrew, שבכ SHABAK an acronym of Sherut Bitahon Klali שירות ביטחון כללי), is the Internal General Security Service of Israel. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Allen Welsh Dulles (April 23, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an influential director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953 to 1961 and a member of the Warren Commission. ... In the United States, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) serves as the head of both the Intelligence Community and the Central Intelligence Agency. ... Nikita Khrushchev in 1962 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв) (nih-KEE-tah khroo-SHCHYOFF) (April 17, 1894 – September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... 1956 is a leap year starting on Sunday. ... Joseph Stalin Iosif (Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 18791 – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a political leader in the Soviet Union. ... This article is about the type of communication. ... Disinformation, in the context of espionage, military intelligence, and propaganda, is the spreading of deliberately false information to mislead an enemy as to ones position or course of action. ...

It is thought that the combination of Angleton's close association with Philby and Philby's effective duplicity caused Angleton to develop a profound paranoia that was probably clinical and advanced. It was only with the defection of Anatoliy Golitsyn in 1961 that Philby was confirmed as a Soviet model, although this was not adequately corroborated until 1963 (Philby eluded those sent to capture him and defected). Although Golitsyn was a questionable source (he also claimed that British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB agent), Angleton accepted significant information obtained from his debriefing by the CIA. In fact, it is claimed that Golitsyn, in asking to defect rather than become a double-agent, implied that the CIA had already been seriously compromised by the KGB. Golitsyn may have concluded that the CIA failed to debrief him correctly because of misdirection of his debriefing by a mole in the Soviet Russia Division. After Golitsyn raised this possibility with MI5 in a subsequent debriefing in Britain, MI5 raised this concern with Angleton, who responded by requesting that DCI Richard Helms allow him to assume responsibility for Golitsyn and his further debriefing. Paranoid redirects here. ... Anatoliy Mikhaylovich Golitsyn (b. ... 1961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first upside-down year - i. ... Events January-February January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. ... James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC (March 11, 1916 – May 24, 1995) was one of the more successful Labour Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and a 1960s icon. ... Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 - October 23, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973. ...

In 1964, Yuri Nosenko, a KGB officer working out of Geneva, Switzerland, insisted that he needed to defect, as his role as a double-agent had been discovered, prompting his recall to Moscow. Nosenko was allowed to defect, although his credibility was immediately in question because the CIA was unable to verify a recall order. Nosenko made two extremely controversial claims: that Golitsyn was not a double-agent but a KGB plant and that he had information on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by way of the KGB's history with Lee Harvey Oswald in the time Oswald lived in the Soviet Union. Regarding the first claim, Golitsyn's had said from the beginning that the KGB would try to plant defectors in an effort to discredit him. Regarding the second claim, Nosenko told his debriefers that he had been personally responsible for handling Oswald's case and that the KGB had judged Oswald unfit for their services due to mental instability and had not even attempted to debrief Oswald about his work on the U2 spy planes during his service in the United States Marine Corps. Although other KGB sources corroborated Nosenko's story, he repeatedly failed lie detector tests. Judging the latter claim improbable and faced with further challenges to Nosenko's credibility (he also falsely claimed to be a lieutenant colonel, a higher rank than he held in fact), Angleton did not object when David Murphy, then head of the Soviet Russia Division, ordered him held in solitary confinement for approximately three-and-a-half years. 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As Golitsyn helped Angleton identify sections within the Soviet Russian Division that were leaking to the Soviets, Angleton pressed Golitsyn on the KGB technique and strategy for planting information at the CIA. Golitsyn's indication was that the KGB was orchestrating a larger campaign to understand how the CIA analyzed information, supporting a larger goal of a capability to manipulate the CIA unwittingly to assist the KGB in their objectives. Angleton extrapolated from this his theory of a "wilderness of mirrors" (the term is thought to be a reference to T. S. Eliot's "Gerontion"), which entailed that the KGB was capable of manipulating the CIA to believe what they wanted through channels that the CIA was unabled to identify and defend against. In the wake of Golitsyn's establishing to Angleton's satisfaction the existence of KGB moles in the Soviet Russia Division, Angleton effectively suspended the careers of those in the teams alleged to be compromised. Angleton became increasingly convinced that the CIA was thoroughly compromised by the KGB, and Golitsyn convinced him that the KGB had been reorganized in 1958 and 1959 to consist mostly of a shell of pawns, who were the people the CIA and FBI were recruiting at the time, directed by a small cabal of agents who managed those pawns to manipulate their Western counterparts. Hoover eventually curbed cooperation with the CIA because Angleton refused to relent on this hypothesis, and Angleton came into increasing conflict with the rest of the CIA, particularly the Directorate of Operations, over the efficacy of their intelligence-gathering efforts, which he questioned without having to elaborate his larger views on KGB strategy and organization. DCI Helms was not willing to tolerate the resulting paralysis. Golitsyn, who was after all a major in the KGB and had defected years before, was able to marshall few facts to provide concrete support for his far-reaching theoretical views of the KGB. The senior leadership of the CIA came to this conclusion after a hearing in 1968, and Angleton was thereafter not able to directly draw upon Golitsyn.

In the period of the Vietnam War and then detente, Angleton was convinced of the necessity of the war and believed that the strategic calculations underlying the resumption of relations with China was based on a KGB staging of the Sino-Soviet. He went so far as to speculate that Henry Kissinger might be under KGB influence. DCI William Colby, who was reorganizing the CIA in an effort to curb Angleton's influence (beginning with stripping him of control over the Israeli "account"), with the concommitant effect of weakening counter-intelligence, demanded his resignation, after Seymout Hersh told Colby on December 20, [[1974] that he was going to publish a story in the New York Times about domestic counter-intelligence activities against antiwar protesters and other domestic dissidents organizations under Angleton's direction, in violation of the CIA Charter and the National Security Act, which assigned all such domestic functions to the FBI (none of these violations were included in the subsequent Rockefeller Commission report). These activities resulted in the generation of 10,000 case files on American citizens and included such information collection activities as opening mail (Angleton is rumoured to have maintained that practice since the 1950s, when he brought to Dulles's attention how the American Federation of Labor was directed funds diverted to them by the CIA). The intelligence so gathered was said to have been reported directly to DCI Helms. Angleton's resignation was announced on Christmas Eve, just as the President demanded Colby report on the allegations and various Congressional committees announced they would launch their own inquiries. Angleton was never prosecuted for his involvement in these activities. Three of Angleton's senior aides in counter-intelligence, Raymond Rocca, Angleton's deputy, William J. Hood, the executive officer of the counter-intelligence division, and Newton S. Miller, his chief of operations, were coaxed into retirement within a week of his resignation after it was made cleared that they would be transferred elsewhere in the agency rather than promoted, and the counter-intelligence staff was reduced from 300 people to 80. Hersh reported that Angleton subsequently called him to claim that his wife, Cicely, had left him as a result of the story (a friend of Hersh's immediately laughed off this claim, telling Hersch that Angleton's wife had left him years ago and since returned — and knew well enough that Angleton worked for the CIA). Rumours swirled around Washington thereafter that Colby was himself the KGB mole, but these were never conclusively attributed to Angleton. Angleton was awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA's highest honor, in 1975. The Vietnam War was a war fought roughly from 1957 to 1975 after the North Vietnamese government secretly agreed to begin involvement in South Vietnam. ... For the Spanish amulet, see: Detente bala. ... The Great Wall of China, stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the 3rd century BC to guard the north from raids by men on horses. ... Henry Kissinger The neutrality and accuracy of this article are disputed. ... William Egan Colby (January 4, 1920–April 27, 1996) became director of the CIA on September 4, 1973, after James R. Schlesinger. ... December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations of United States. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

Golitsyn was considered discredited within the CIA even before Angleton's ouster, but the two did not appear to have lost their faith in one another. The two sought the assistance of William F. Buckley, Jr. (himself once a CIA man) in authoring New Lies for Old, which advanced the argument that the USSR planned to fake its collapse to lull its enemies into a false sense of victory. Buckley refused but later went on to write a novel about Angleton, Spytime: the Undoing of James Jesus Angleton. William Frank Buckley Jr. ...

Angleton died of lung cancer in Washington's Sibley Hospital on May 12, 1987. He was survived by a son, James Charles Angleton, and two daughters, Guru Sangat Kaur and Lucy d'Autremont Angleton. Lung cancer is a malignant tumour of the lungs. ...

Legacy

Angleton's zeal and paranoia was regarded as counter-productive, if not destructive, for the CIA. In the wake of his departure, counterintelligence efforts were undertaken with far less zeal. It is thought that this overcompensation is responsible for the oversights which allowed Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and others to compromise the CIA and American intelligence community generally long after his departure. Edward Jay Epstein is among those who have argued  (http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/question_angleton.htm) that the positions of Ames and Hanssen (well-placed Soviet counterintelligence agents in both the CIA and FBI) would collectively allow the KGB to deceive in the American intelligence community in the manner he hypothesized. Aldrich Hazen Ames (born June 16, 1941 in River Falls, Wisconsin) is a former Central Intelligence Agency agent and analyst, who in 1994 was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. ... Robert Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) was an FBI agent who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. ...

The 1970s were generally a period of upheaval for the CIA: during George H. W. Bush's tenure as DCI President Ford authorized the creation of a "Team B" under the aegis of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board — the group (in fact, groups) so assembled concluded that the Agency and intelligence community generally had, in particular, seriously underestimated strategic nuclear strength in Central Europe in their National Intelligence Estimate (the Team B analysis was shown to be the more accurate of the two, but only after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union); the Church Commission brought no small number of skeletons out the Agency's closet. The organization inherited by Admiral Stansfield Turner on his appointment as DCI by President Carter in 1977 was shortly to face further cuts, and Turner used Angleton as a totem for the excesses in the Agency he hoped to curb, both during his service and in his memoirs. Order: 41st President Vice President: Dan Quayle Term of office: January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 Preceded by: Ronald Reagan Succeeded by: Bill Clinton Date of birth: June 12, 1924 Place of birth: Milton, Massachusetts First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush Political party: Republican George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12... Order: 38th President Vice President: Nelson A. Rockefeller Term of office: August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977 Preceded by: Richard Nixon Succeeded by: Jimmy Carter Date of birth: July 14, 1913 Place of birth: Omaha, Nebraska First Lady: Betty Ford Political party: Republican Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ... Stansfield Turner (born December 1, 1923) was a U.S. admiral. ... Order: 39th President Vice President: Walter Mondale Term of office: January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 Preceded by: Gerald Ford Succeeded by: Ronald Reagan Date of birth: October 1, 1924 Place of birth: Plains, Georgia First Lady: Rosalynn Carter Political party: Democratic James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ...

A handful CIA employees had their careers frozen after coming under the suspicions of Angleton and his staff, and the CIA has since had to pay out large awards to three to whom no reasonable explanation could be offered in mitigation, under what Agency employees have called the "Mole Relief Act". 120 employees are said to have been placed on review, fifty investigated, and sixteen considered serious suspects. When Golitsyn defected, he claimed that the CIA had a mole who had been stationed in West Germany, was of Slavic descent, had a last name which may have ended in "sky" and definitely began with a "K", and operated under KGB codename "Sasha". Angleton believed this claim, with the result that anyone who approximated this description fell under his suspicion. National motto: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (German: Unity and Justice and Freedom) Official language German1 Capital Berlin Largest City Berlin Chancellor Gerhard Schröder President Horst Köhler Area - Total - % water Ranked 61st 349,223 km² 2. ...

Angleton and conspiracy theory

Angleton is a recurring figure in swaths of conspiracy theory. His awareness of if not involvement CIA efforts to rehabilitate various agents of the Third Reich (the Nazis had no shortage of deeply convinced anti-Communists who did in fact work for the CIA and other Western governments after the war, with some thereby avoiding or at least deferring prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity) contributes to projected roles in assisting ODESSA and the rat line. His involvement with the Mossad contributes to projected roles in assisting ZOG or other would-be elements of Zionist or other Jewish world domination schemes and regimes produced by antisemites. His involvement in the defection of Nosenko and awareness of Nosenko's claims about Soviet control of Oswald, as well as later published remarks about the Mafia and the Church Commission, as well as accounts of his involvement in covering up CIA involvement in the Kennedy assassination (he was the primary CIA contact for inquiries into the Kennedy assassination after the CIA completed an initial investigation in December 1963), contribute to theories about awareness of, if not involvement in that assassination on his and the CIA's part. Angleton was said to have been personally convinced of some KGB role in the Dallas assassination. Golitsyn's claims about Soviet duplicity in faking their own collapse have been taken by some to be prophetic. Angleton has also been identified in various UFO literature, including material about Project Blue Book. There are also claims, themselves possibly conspiracy theory, that Angleton accused William Colby and/or Gerald Ford of being KGB agents, which would almost certainly be conspiracy theory on his part. It has also been said that Angleton was either homo- or bisexual and was in fact under the control of the KGB, who were blackmailing him. This proposed logo for a US government agency was dropped due to fears that its Masonic symbolism would provoke conspiracy theories A conspiracy theory is a theory that claims an event or series of events is the result of secret manipulations by two or more individuals or an organization, rather... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... A war crime is a punishable offense, under international law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. ... This article is in need of attention. ... ODESSA (German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen; The Organization of Former SS-Members) was an alleged Nazi fugitive network set up towards the end of World War II by a group of SS officers. ... Zionist Occupied (Occupational) Government, or ZOG, is a term used to refer to the belief that the United States government is controlled by Zionists where the word Zionists is sometimes used as a euphemism for Jews. ... A bilingual poster in Romanian and Hungarian promoting a film about Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1930s. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility towards or prejudice against Jews (not, in common usage, Semites in general — see the Scope section below). ... This article is about the organized crime groups. ... Project Blue Book was one of a series of systematic studies of Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) conducted by the United States Air Force. ...

Secondary Sources

• "Huge CIA Operation Reported in US against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents During Nixon Years," Seymour Hersh, New York Times, December 22, 1974
• "President Tells Colby to Speed Report on CIA," Seymour Hersh, New York Times, December 24, 1974
• "3 More Aides Quit in CIA Shake-Up," Seymour Hersh, New York Times, December 30, 1974
• "The Angleton Story," Seymour Hersh, New York Times, June 25, 1978
• Wilderness of Mirrors, David C. Martin, 1980
• "James Angleton, Counterintelligence Figure, Dies," New York Times, May 12, 1987
• Deception: the Invisible War between the CIA and the KGB, Edward Jay Epstein, 1989
• Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton and the CIA's Master Spy Hunter, Tom Mangold, 1991
• Molehunt: the Secret Search for Traitor that Shattered the CIA, David Wise, 1992

External Links

• a general overview of Angleton's career with some useful citations (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SSangleton.htm)
• article on Angleton and Golitsyn from Edward Jay Epstein's web site (http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/looking.htm)
• article on Stansfield Turner from Edward Jay Epstein's web site, including references to Angleton (http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/whokilled.htm)
• Tom Mangold did a story on Angleton for the PBS program Frontline (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/919.html)
• useful background information mixed in with UFO tinfoil hat material (http://www.rense.com/politics6/secret.htm)