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 ...

Soul Coughing’s Mike Doughty and longtime collaborator Andrew “Scrap” Livingston merge their talent as Ghost of Vroom with their self-titled album. Doughty continues to pen songs that emerge as short ...

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 ...

Born in Boise in December 1917, James Angleton befriended poet and fellow Idahoan Ezra Pound in Italy before beginning what would be a legendary but checkered career in espionage. In his new book ...

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It’s hard to know what to think about Russiagate. James Jesus Angleton, the legendary Cold War head of CIA counterintelligence, liked to refer to intelligence work as “the wilderness of mirrors,” and ...

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 ...

James Jesus Angleton’s CIA code name was “Mother.” Midway through “The Good Shepherd,” a Soviet intelligence agent talking to Matt Damon’s Edward Wilson calls him “Mother.” That exchange confirmed ...

Michael Ledeen breaks out his ouiji board again to get some advice from James Jesus Angleton. Well-known Rabbi Eli Schlanger was identified as one of the victims. Zohran Mamdani now says he wants to ...

James Jesus Angleton’s CIA code name was “Mother.” Midway through “The Good Shepherd,” a Soviet intelligence agent talking to Matt Damon’s Edward Wilson calls him “Mother.” That exchange confirmed ...

It had been quite a while since I had spoken with my old friend, the late James Jesus Angleton, but the news from Israel that Amos Manor (born Arthur Mendelowitz in 1918 in Transylvania), the ...