As one explores his life the author uncovers numerous policy decisions and actions taken by Angleton that on the surface seem controversial and once implemented evolve into the dominant policy of the emerging national security state. Morley’s monograph is not a complete biography, but more of a work of synthesis that briefly explores Angleton’s background then delves into the affect that the spymaster had on American foreign and intelligence policies.
Angleton’s life and intelligence career is the subject of Jefferson Morley’s new study, THE GHOST: THE SECRET LIFE OF CIA SPYMASTER JAMES JESUS ANGLETON that successfully answers the questions: Was Angleton a defender of the republic? Did he become the embodiment of double government? Was he an avatar of the emerging “deep state?” For Morley the answer to these question seems to be an emphatic, yes. Of these men it is safe to say that Angleton probably affected American national security the most between the onset of the Cold War and the investigation into CIA activities that permeated the mid to late 1970s.
One name that sometimes remains in the shadows is James J. CIA, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit concerning certain JFK assassination files, in which Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued a key decision.When one thinks of the history of the CIA the names that readily come to mind are “Wild” Bill Donavan, Allen W. I’m the editor of JFK Facts, a blog about the assassination of President Kennedy. I’ve covered the Iran-Contra scandal, America’s drone wars, the Occupy movement, the banning of cluster munitions, and the Trump-Russia investigation. Bush, I exposed Oliver North’s favorite drug trafficker in the Post and celebrated about the late great singers Eva Cassidy and Chuck Brown. I moved on to the racial politics of George H.W. I’ve started out investigating the CIA’s role in Central America in the 1980s.
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