At the height of the Cold War, arguably no one in the CIA exercised more power than James Jesus Angleton, head of counterintelligence. He pioneered an illegal information-gathering campaign that spied ...

DAVID WISE writes frequently about intelligence and espionage. He is the author of, among other books, "Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors that Shattered the CIA." More than three decades after ...

THE GHOST: THE SECRET LIFE OF CIA SPYMASTER JAMES JESUS ANGLETON By Jefferson Morley St. Martin’s Press, $27.95, 336 pages As a holiday gift, permit me to save you 28 bucks and however much time you ...

I went to Georgetown in search of a spy hunter’s darkest secrets; I came away with a personal lesson in how the CIA makes history — by erasing it. Last summer I paid a visit to Georgetown University’s ...

Oswald ' drank to excess and beat his wife' Similarly, the transcript of an interview of former CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton contained odd deletions. Angleton, talking in 1975 to a ...

When Americans think about the CIA today — if they think about it at all — they probably picture a secluded compound in Langley, Va., where Matt Damon matches wits with Joan Allen. But those who grew ...

The debate over CIA interrogation methods goes back a long way. Some examples: James Angleton's 1963 instructions on what's acceptable, and Yuri Nosenko, a former double agent for the KGB and the CIA.

The Nov. 15 obituary on Antoinette Bradlee, "Former wife of prominent Post editor," inaccurately described the conduct of our late father, CIA counterintelligence chief James J. Angleton. This is what ...