You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The life of the imposingly christened James Jesus Angleton, former chief of CIA counter-intelligence ...

One of the CIA's most powerful and infamous spymasters is at the center of potential new revelations about the John F Kennedy assassination. Among the 80,000 pages Donald Trump says he will release ...

At the height of the Cold War, arguably no one in the CIA exercised more power than James Jesus Angleton, head of counterintelligence. He pioneered an illegal information-gathering campaign that spied ...

James Jesus Angleton, aficionado of poetry and former director of counterintelligence for the CIA, quoted TS Eliot to describe the ambiguous world of espionage as a "wilderness of mirrors". But ...

When Americans think about the CIA today — if they think about it at all — they probably picture a secluded compound in Langley, Va., where Matt Damon matches wits with Joan Allen. But those who grew ...

DAVID WISE writes frequently about intelligence and espionage. He is the author of, among other books, "Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors that Shattered the CIA." More than three decades after ...

I went to Georgetown in search of a spy hunter’s darkest secrets; I came away with a personal lesson in how the CIA makes history — by erasing it. Last summer I paid a visit to Georgetown University’s ...

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THE GHOST: THE SECRET LIFE OF CIA SPYMASTER JAMES JESUS ANGLETON By Jefferson Morley St. Martin’s Press, $27.95, 336 pages As a holiday gift, permit me to save you 28 bucks and however much time you ...