Word: angleton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND how CIA counterintelligence whiz James Jesus Angleton felt during his obsessive Ahab-like hunt in the 1960s for a Soviet mole who had buried himself in the agency. All life becomes reduced to a hall of mirrors, as someone you almost certainly know has constructed a dual identity of shocking duplicity...
...story begins with James Jesus Angleton, the director of the CIA for about twenty years before he was forced out of his post...
...convinced was Angleton that there was a mole in the inner sanctum of the Agency that he effectively halted all espionage efforts in Russia, fearing that whatever information could be gleaned would find its way back to Moscow via the mole...
...with the dawn of new era in the CIA and with the self-conscious effort to leave the pathologies of Angleton behind, the CIA got lax with its own personnel...
...younger Ames' interest in spycatching may have been stoked by his father, a pipe-smoking member of the CIA counterintelligence staff created and run by the monomaniacal mole hunter James Jesus Angleton. But Carleton had an undistinguished career tracking communist parties and front groups. After he retired from the agency in the 1960s, few remembered much about him beyond his penchant for taking long naps at his desk. Still, the father, now dead, left one important legacy to the CIA: his son, who in 1962 signed on as a trainee...