"How would you handle Castro?" If you asked the average American to name a CIA agent, he or she would probably go blank. Because many of these men spoke Russian or had worked in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, their forced retirement critically weakened the CIA’s ability to collect intelligence on the Soviet Union.Angleton’s obsession with uncovering spies in American led him to authorize one of the CIA’s first domestic spying operations, Operation Lingual. Murphy was so impressed with Angleton that he agreed and sent him to England.Right away, Angleton proved himself to be a hard worker, often sleeping on a cot in his office after working late into the night.
Son Jim had meanwhile entered Harvard Law School and married Cicely d'Autremont of Tucson, Ariz., a junior at Vassar. One was Bertha Dasenburg, his personal assistant. But among Kalaris and his staff, Cram detected an edginess that Angleton, in Elba, might somehow return and wreak vengeance on those who had dared to violate his files by reading them.The most arresting information in the book is the author's confession regarding his sources for this book and Legend.
Says Angleton: "If one has lived much of his life abroad, as I have, one is apt to judge his country more precious than do those who know no other country well." He was an owl; he stayed up late, talking, reading or playing poker." The young Yale intellectual struck up an instant friendship with his pipe-smoking English tutor, and the relationship deepened when Philby was posted to Washington as Station Chief in 1949. Beginning in 1955, all U.S. mail sent to and received from the Soviet Union was opened and copied at a secret facility just outside JFK Airport. About ten of the pages contained "phrases" which described a love affair, and "after reading only a few phrases it was clear that her lover had been the President of the United States, although his name was never mentioned. The evidence suggests that in both cases, the gun was virtually touching Marys body when it was fired. I wanted the antidotes, in case the Russians used a poison on a defector in Britain, while M16 wanted to use the poisons for operations abroad.Henry and Dixon both discussed with me the use of poisons against Nasser, and asked my advice.
It is claimed that In December 1947 Angleton returned to the United States. The first bullet was fired at the back of the head. Philby later explained they had lunch at Kim Philby was told of the breakthrough.
I couldn't get him to leave the job on his own.
The day after my ordeal with Hoover, I lunched with James Angleton, the CIA Chief of Counterintelligence. He predicted that the KGB would send false defectors with information that contradicted what he was saying.
They also recognized they held a political hot potato in their hands.
In one section, Cram looks at the reliability of information found in books about the American and British intelligence agencies.
Angleton has been sharply criticized in recent years in the memoirs of some intelligence officials, including Adm. Stansfield Turner, the director of Central Intelligence under President Carter. As a fellow CIA officer recalled, he enjoyed the role of “Delphic Oracle.” He was “seldom seen, but frequently consulted.”Angleton came to believe that the KGB had mounted a massive disinformation campaign designed to mislead the Western allies.
"On 17th December, 1974, Colby called Angleton into his office and told him that he wanted him to retire. Angleton made the transition to an Agency employee and is known as one of the founding officers.During the first several years of his career at the Agency, Angleton helped establish the structure of the new intelligence organization. "If I were to pick a Soviet agent at the Agency, it would be Angleton for all the harm he's done," said one. Angleton was inclined to doubt Mr. Nosenko's insistence that the Soviet security agency, the K.G.B., had no connection to the attack on the President. Learn more about Throughout his youth, Angleton was educated at English preparatory schools, including Chartridge Hill House in Buckinghamshire, England. Our mission. For years he headed the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy and was the trusted bridge between the American embassy and Italian industry.His son's familiarity with high cuisine, wine and good tailoring was thus all naturally acquired. No one else had the means necessary to plant the WWIII virus in Oswald's files and keep it dormant for six weeks until the president's assassination.
Kalaris was forced to call in a "crack team of safebusters to drill open the door".
In this post Angleton served as the CIA's exclusive liaison with Israeli intelligence. The newspaper sent a journalist to interview Bradlee about the issues raised by Truitt.