biography
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Angleton, James (Jesus)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1917–87)
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| biography:
| Public official, born in Boise, Idaho, USA. He studied at Yale, and in World War 2 became a member of the Office of Strategic Services. As director of counter-intelligence at the CIA (1954–74), he came to distrust everyone, pursuing Soviet agents within the CIA itself as well as throughout the world. His resignation was demanded in 1974 following the revelation that he had conducted clandestine mail-opening and surveillance searches within the Agency in pursuit of a Soviet ‘mole’. The classic image of a paranoid intelligence officer, he was said to relax by reading poetry and cultivating orchids. |
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