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James Jesus Angleton

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Chief of the CIA's counterintelligence (CI) staff from 1954 to 1975

United StatesWritersLived 1917 to 1987 · aged 69
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James Jesus Angleton was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who served as chief of the counterintelligence department of the CIA from 1954 to 1975.

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Angleton's passport, c. 1953Angleton's passport, c. 1953Angleton (right) with head of Mossad Global Operations Meir Amit (1966).Angleton (right) with head of Mossad Global Operations Meir Amit (1966).

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James Jesus Angleton was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who served as chief of the counterintelligence department of the CIA from 1954 to 1975. According to the director of central intelligence, Richard Helms, Angleton was "recognized as the dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world".

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Lived 1917 to 1987 · aged 69
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