The Spybrary podcast, which covers espionage fact and fiction, notes that the facts of James Angleton’s CIA empire far exceed how his career is depicted in spy fictions like William F. Buckley’s novel Spy Time and Robert DeNiro’s movie, The Good Shepherd.
“Whatever you think you know about Angleton, I guarantee there’s something in THE GHOST that will surprise you.”
I’ll be talking at Boston University on Monday evening, December 4, about CIA spymaster James Angleton, founding father of the Deep State. The event is free and open to the public.
I’ll sketch what the new JFK files tell us about Angleton’s role in the events of 1963. I’ll bring to life one of the most powerful unelected officials ever to serve in the U.S. government. And I’ll sell you a book if you want to know more.
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From my new piece in the U.K. Telegraph, a look at the gay milieu of Washington as the Cold War spy games played out:
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1) Was Angleton the mole? 2) Who killed JFK? 3) What’s the deal with Trump & the Deep State? I’m talking about all this, plus the Mossad and MKULTRA. In other words, I’m talking about THE GHOST, today Saturday Dec. 2 at 3;30 PM, at Politics & Prose,5015 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington
Last Sunday I talked about THE GHOST with Peter Slen, host of CSPAN’s Book TV program. …
My conversation with Sharon Weinberger, editor of Foreign Policy.
Listen:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/22/spies-lies-and-the-murder-of-a-president/
I’ll be appearing at the Miami Book Fair on Sunday, November 19, at 12:30 pm with Nicholas Reynolds, the author of a new book on Ernest Hemingway’s career as a spy. It should be fascinating.
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Many people have asked me about my reaction to this release, and I’ve gleaned what I can from a very complicated release.
I’ll be talking about what we now know about James Angleton’s role in the events of 1963 on Friday, November 17, at 4 pm CT, at the 2017 JFK Lancer November In Dallas Conference.
WhoWhatWhy has the good news about the new JFK files. It’s confusing but… …
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“Angleton was was a leading architect of America’s strategic relationship with Israel that endures and dominates the region to this day,” Jefferson Morley writes in The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton. More than any other man, the longtime chief of U.S. counterintelligence made possible Israel’s shift “from an embattled settler state into a strategic ally of the world’s greatest superpower.”
Source: The goy and the golem: James Angleton and the rise of Israel
Michael Scott and I will talk about THE GHOST and the consequential friendship of James Angleton and Win Scott, Michael’s father, at Chevalier’s Books in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 7 pm. …
The government’s release of long-secret JFK assassination records is generating headlines and hype worldwide. But the truth is the majority of the JFK files that were supposed to be released in October 2017 remain secret—and may forever if the CIA has its way. …
In Angleton, he has a character beyond the imagination of John LeCarré, perhaps even of Patricia Highsmith.
Source: Minneapolis native’s ‘Ghost’ is a gripping bio of a CIA spy hunter – StarTribune.com
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Some of the best reporting on the new JFK files is coming from USA Today.
In today’s story, the national daily notes an essential newsworthy fact revealed in the newly declassified records.
Within hours of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the CIA started to distance itself from any connection to suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, recently released secret records from the National Archives show.
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USA Today: CIA started to disavow knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald within hours of killingRead More »
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