Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Mangold's first-class biography of James Angleton, CIA counterintelligence chief from 1955 to 1975, who died in 1987, concentrates on Angleton's obsessive search for Soviet double agents within the agency. When the investigation outside his own department failed to produce a ``mole,'' Angleton moved against the counterintelligence staff itself. The result, as Mangold reveals, was an internal-affairs skirmish that claimed several innocent victims. No spy was ever found. The great ``molehunt'' caused so much damage to Western intelligence that some suspected Angleton himself of being a Soviet agent. Mangold relates the episode involving Yury Nosenko, who defected to the West in 1964; Angleton, convinced he was a Soviet plant, kept him a secret prisoner of the CIA throughout much of the 1960s and tried unsuccessfully to force a ``confession'' from him. The book is an intriguing account of self-destructive paranoia in America's intelligence community. Mangold is the author of The Tunnels of Cu Chi. Photos. (June)
Library Journal
A character straight from a John le Carre novel, recently the subject of a PBS Frontline documentary, and still a figure of controversy, Angleton was for 22 years the chief of the CIA's counterintelligence staff. With his neurotic, obsessive, and destructive belief in a master Communist conspiracy and in the penetration of the CIA by Soviet moles, Angleton not only betrayed defectors and ruined his CIA colleagues; wrecked careers and lost lives followed his tread. Based on exhaustive research, Mangold's fascinating account argues persuasively that Angleton did more to damage U.S. intelligence than all the Soviet spies put together. Angleton was ``responsible for the loss of priceless intelligence from the very heart of the KGB and the GRU'' without ever catching one mole. This book is sure to reopen the bitter major debate over Golitsyn and Nosenko. Reservation: Mangold does not pursue broader questions about the cost of America's Cold War anti-Communist neuroses that drove the country for so many years. For international affairs and espionage collections.-- H. Steck, SUNY at Cortland
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  • ISBN-13: 9780671662738
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication date: 5/25/1991
  • Pages: 464

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