Joseph J. Trento’s The Secret History of the CIA builds a detailed, 500-page case that this country’s most famous intelligence agency leaks like a sieve. Drawing on investigative journalism plus the ...
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.
IN THE SPY TRADE, COUNTERINTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES are sometimes called "spiders" for the webs they weave. The greatest of all spiders, the black widow of the cold war, was James Jesus Angleton. For ...
"Don't get lost in the wilderness of mirrors," Kim Philby, the English archmole, warns his CIA colleague in TNT's "The Company," a six-hour, three-part docudrama about the CIA, the KGB and the Cold ...
Historian and novelist Holzman (Donald and Melinda Maclean) delivers a comprehensive yet tedious chronicle of the relationship between British double agent Kim Philby and CIA counterintelligence chief ...
James Angleton, the counterintelligence chief, never believed he was genuine, but then Angleton placed his faith in only one Russian defector, who persuaded him that the Sino-Soviet split that emerged ...
WASHINGTON — The code names assigned to a series of informants on whom the FBI relied for information about Soviet intelligence activities were released for the first time, as part of the opening of ...
I just got off the phone with a legendary spy. Well, let me amend that: a legendary counterspy. Legendary at I just got off the phone with a legendary spy. Well, let me amend that: a legendary ...