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If there is anything even remotely resembling the “deep state” that Donald Trump and other Right-Wing conspiracy nuts obsess about, it certainly existed from the 1950s to the early 1970s in the heyday of the Central Intelligence Agency. Of course, Allen Dulles (1893-1969), who ran the CIA from 1953 to 1961, was a key figure in the secret government that operated with a mind of its own during that period. But so was the much less well-known chief of counterespionage at the Agency, James Jesus Angleton (1917-87). Unfortunately, for most of the half-century since Jim Angleton ran amok, much of his story has remained untold. But now it’s available for all to see in Jefferson Morley‘s revealing 2017 biography, The Ghost. The book is a deeply distressing account of how one man nearly destroyed the CIA.

Like so many of his colleagues in the early CIA, Angleton was the product of a privileged background (Yale, Harvard Law) and a stint in the OSS. In this forerunner to the CIA, he worked with several men who later rose to prominence in the Agency (Frank Wisner

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James Jesus Angleton

Central Intelligence Agency officer (1917–1987)

James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 – May 11, 1987)^[1] was an American intelligence operative who served as chief of the counterintelligence department of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1975. According to Director of Central IntelligenceRichard Helms, Angleton was "recognized as the dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world".^[2]

Angleton served in the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime predecessor to the CIA, in Italy and London during World War II. After the war, he returned to Washington, D.C. to become one of the founding officers of the CIA. He was initially responsible for the collection of foreign intelligence and liaison with counterpart organizations in allied countries. In 1954, Allen Dulles promoted Angleton to chief of the Counterintelligence Staff. As chief, Angleton was significantly involved in the defection of Soviet KGB agents Anatoliy Golitsyn and Yuri Nosenko. Through Golitsyn, Angleton became convinced the CIA harbored a high

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“The Ends of a State”: James Angleton, Counterintelligence and the New Criticism

John Kimsey
DePaul University

Abstract
Before becoming CIA counterintelligence chief during the height of the Cold War, James Angleton was an acolyte of Modernist poetry and booster of the New Critics, many of whom he cultivated pre-World War II when, as an undergraduate at Yale, he co-founded the avant-garde journal Furioso. Recruited into the OSS by Yale’s Norman Pearson, Angleton recruited individuals associated with the New Criticism into postwar counterintelligence work, which he described, adapting Eliot, as “a wilderness of mirrors.” Detailing such connections, this essay further argues that certain principles—as well as contradictions—of New Critical thought inform Angelton’s counterintelligence practice.I.A. Richards’s notion of poetry as “pseudo-statement,” i.e., a form of deception that is morally defensible because it affirms life in the face of dehumanizing mechanism (the latter being seen as a force which menaces the modern West