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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...