An excerpt from THE GHOST in the Daily Beast.
On or around Monday, Nov. 2, 1959, the CIA’s counterintelligence office—run by the fabled spy hunter James Angleton—first learned of a man named Lee Harvey Oswald.
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–David Ignatius, columnist for the Washington Post and author of The Director.