Mangold, Tom. Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's Master Spy
Hunter. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 462 pages.
From 1954-1974, legendary OSS-veteran James Jesus Angleton was the
CIA's spycatcher-in-chief. Drawing on interviews with more than 200 Agency
veterans, British journalist Tom Mangold and researcher Jeff Goldberg shred
Angleton's carefully-cultivated wizard's persona. They depict a dangerous
fanatic who trashed innocent lives, paralyzed the CIA's crucial Soviet
division, and otherwise harmed the cause he claimed to serve. A pseud-
Englishman (his mother was Mexican), Angleton was badly suckered by Kim
Philby, the British intelligence superstar who was secretly an agent of
the KGB. After Philby's defection to Moscow in 1963, the badly-burned
Angleton turned the CIA inside out looking for other moles.
Ordinary counterintelligence work virtually halted as Angleton's inner
circle harassed loyal intelligence officers, and bounced real defectors
back to the KGB as suspected agents. When the Agency came under attack in
the 1970s, Director William Colby used Angleton's illegal (and defunct)
domestic surveillance program as an excuse to show Angleton the door.
Mangold tells this horrific tale calmly -- never stopping to ask whether
organizations like the CIA make sad lives like Angleton's inevitable.
-- Steve Badrich
ISBN 0-671-66273-2
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