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April 7, 2022

James Jesus Angleton part 2: We're Just Getting Started!

James Jesus Angleton part 2: We're Just Getting Started!

Jim Angleton was not an ignorant man – he hoarded information the way some unhealthy people hoard newspapers and broken kitchen appliances. Neither was he unintelligent nor unsophisticated – he was a keenly critical and thoughtful individual schooled in literary criticism and spycraft.

But James Jesus Angleton, convinced of his own suspicions, which were reinforced by great personal betrayal, became a tyrant of sorts – working within a private world that he constructed – ending up lost, confused, and unable to see his way out of the maze of mirrors he’d built around himself.

https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Secret-Spymaster-James-Angleton/dp/1250080614

https://spartacus-educational.com/SSangleton.htm

https://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62447

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/26/russia.theobserver

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/apr/26/greatspeeches1

https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/agency-people-james-angleton-master-spy-hunter/

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