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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 was T.S. Eliot who coined the phrase “wilderness of mirrors” in his poem, “Gerontion.” It was the saga of the CIA’s James Jesus Angleton’s betrayal by Soviet double-agent Kim Philby that made the ...

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 ...

A new podcast illuminates why the spy agency preferred pop music in the cultural Cold War. Rudolf Schenker of Scorpions performs on stage during Bloodstock Festival 2019.(Katja Ogrin / Redferns) James ...

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to get a good connection with the late James Jesus Angleton, long-time head of CIA counterintelligence, on the Chandra Levy/Gary Condit matter. Angleton pointed out ...