The ghostly visage of James Jesus Angleton appeared on the front page of the Washington Times on Jan. 3, 2023, in a story by reporter Bill Gertz about newly released documents related to the ...

IN THE SPY TRADE, COUNTERINTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES are sometimes called "spiders" for the webs they weave. The greatest of all spiders, the black widow of the cold war, was James Jesus Angleton. For ...

The two most fascinating and controversial intelligence professionals of the Cold War were Kim Philby (1912-1988), an officer of Britain’s MI6 who passed secrets to the Soviets, and James Jesus ...

James Jesus Angleton, the longtime head of the CIA's counterintelligence division, was consumed by an Ahab-like pursuit of double agents deep inside the agency. Angleton is gone now, but wheels-within ...

One in an occasional series. I remembered that my old friend, James Jesus Angleton (long-time head of CIA’s counterintelligence operations) had been suspicious of the snipers, and so, as one had been ...