James Jesus Angleton was chief of CIA Counterintelligence from 1954 to 1975. His official position within the organization was "Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence".
Highly involved in the JFK assasination. (Video at the End)
Source https://wikileaks.org/wiki/On_the_take_and_loving_it
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James Jesus Angleton -
Deputy Director of Counter
Intelligence & Guardian of The
CIA's Greatest Secret
By Timothy S. Cooper
Private Investigator - Copyright 2000
3-4-00
James Jesus Angleton was born on 9 December, 1917, in Boise, Idaho, to
NCR businessman and OSS Colonel James Hugh Angleton, and Mexican born
Carmen Mercedes Moreno. Upon Graduation from Yale in 1941, Angleton
moved to Harvard Law School where he met his future wife Cicely
d'Autremont of Duluth, Minnesota. Inducted into the Army on 19 March,
1943, Angleton was recruited into the OSS in August through the efforts
of Angleton's father and Norman Pearson, his old English professor from
Yale who was, at that time, head of the OSS Counter Intelligence
division in London.(1)
ANGLETON AS CI AGENT IN OSS X-2 OPERATIONS DURING WW II
James Angleton was assigned the Rome desk after Italy's capitulation to
the Allies and was made a OSS Lieutenant who ran CI activities that
included such countries as Austria, Germany, Spain, the Mediterranean,
and Switzerland. As part of OSS operations in the European Theatre of
Operations, Angleton mastered the arts of "black" propaganda and
"playback" that is, the method of reading the effectiveness of one's own
disinformation on the enemy. In 1944, Angleton was given charge of the
OSS Special Counterintelligence Unit Z made up of U.S. and British
agents and was the youngest member of X-2 and was the only American
member that was allowed access to the top secret British ULTRA code
breaking intelligence. After the war, Angleton was promoted to captain
and received the Legion of Merit from the U.S. Army which cited him for
successfully apprehending over a thousand enemy intelligence agents. He
was also decorated by the Italian government and was awarded the Order
of the Crown of Italy, the Order of Malta-Cross of Malta, and the
Italian War Cross for Merit. In October 1945, President Truman dissolved
the OSS and had all research and analysis units moved to the State
Department and operational units to the War Department and were
re-designated as Strategic Services Unit. Angleton stayed on in the SSU
in Rome and became the vital station chief in charge of the 2677
Regiment which made Angleton the senior U.S. intelligence officer Italy
until it became the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the
Central Intelligence Agency.(2)
THE MAKING OF JAMES ANGLETON AS MASTER SPY HUNTER
Angleton's war experience in counterintelligence operations had affected
him to the extent that he became absorbed into the 'hall of mirrors'
world of intelligence and refused to leave the service after much
insistence and disappointment of his father. James would pour over the
many CI files he had amassed while in Italy and was forever changed by
the intrigue and the possibilities of a career in the CIG. In the summer
of 1947 Angleton returned to the United States to live in Tucson,
Arizona, to be with his wife and family, but his love for the service
was overpowering and on 30 December, 1947, he was hired by the CIA as a
senior aide to the director of the Office of Special Operations
(OSO).(3) It was during this period that Army G-2 and other intelligence
agencies were trying to crack the Soviet VENONA code used by espionage
agents operating in the United States sending back sensitive information
regarding the Manhattan Project based at Los Alamos, New Mexico, and it
is possible that Angleton was on special assignment prior to officially
reporting to OSO who had the responsibility of running counterespionage
operations.(4)
Angleton's primary mission in OSO included overseeing a classified
component that operated espionage and counterespionage activities abroad
and read all sensitive material coming across his desk and passed them
back to OSO operators in countries were CIA had interests. In 1949,
Angleton had moved up the chain of command within OSO and held a GS-15
position. Angleton developed a philosophy that "If you control
counterintelligence, you control the intelligence service" and quickly
realized the significance of the B-29 detection of Joe-1, the Soviet's
first atomic weapon detonation in August 1949 and Angleton knew the
technology required by the Soviets was not home grown, but the product
of espionage and immediately set out to discover who the moles were that
passed on America's most guarded secret to Moscow. As with all covert
actions, counterintelligence operated without specific mentioning in the
National Security Act of 1947 and Angleton set out to acquire
information of the most guarded secret of all.
JAMES ANGLETON AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
Aside from the technology theft of atomic secrets, the most guarded
secret within the CIA was the scientific and technical information
regarding new weapons developments and the planned use of a new
generation of thermal nuclear weapons and high altitude reconnaissance
platforms to spy on countries hostile to United States strategic
interests. One of the technical secrets of the United States was the
study and transfer of advanced electronics gleaned from Air Force
studies of unconventional aircraft and missile research carried on at
several AEC facilities and proving grounds. The FBI and the CIA were
aware of Soviet espionage rings operating in the United States, Canada
and the United Kingdom whose main task was providing any and all
technical and scientific information on advanced technologies which
would provide an advantage to the Soviet Union in the event another
world war would break out.
By 1949, military intelligence authorities had classified the "flying
saucer" phenomenon as Top Secret and Army CIC had passed on information
that the Soviets may have developed saucer-shaped aerial weapons capable
of delivering atomic bombs or dissipating radioactive materials over
NATO countries as a stopgap measure to make up for the nonexistent
nuclear weapons arsenal. In early 1947, the nonexistent nuclear arsenal
in the United States was a closely guarded secret as well and no doubt
this fact set in motion the nuclear arms race which terrified Angleton.
OSO was probably aware of Soviet knowledge of the bomb gap existing
within both superpowers and the flying saucer invasion of the United
States which crossed Angleton's desk put a scare into his psyche which
is reflected in a credo he shared with other OSO staff members: "You who
believe or half believe, I can say this now, that I do believe in the
spirit of Christ and the life everlasting, and in this turbulent social
system which struggles sometimes blindly to preserve the right to
freedom and expression of spirit. "In the name of Jesus Christ I leave you."
After General Walter B. Smith was appointed as DCI, Angleton continued
on as OSO Staff A (foreign intelligence operations) inside the CIA's
clandestine division. In 1951, he was given the all important Israeli
desk which he held tight control for twenty years because it was a
source of vital Soviet information in the Middle East. As more and more
UFO (5) sighting reports made their way to CIA headquarters, unevaluated
reports were forwarded to counterintelligence when the locations were
identified as coming from Soviet bloc countries. During this period,
Angleton made good liaisons with FBI contacts who were equally concerned
with protecting vital atomic research facilities and no doubt many
domestic reports were read by Angleton as they came across his desk in
the "L" Building across the Lincoln Memorial. When Smith was coaxed away
from his power base as DCI, Allen Dulles, Angleton's friend form the OSS
days became the new DCI and in late 1954, promoted Angleton to the
position of deputy director and Chief of Counterintelligence with direct
access to Dulles and all foreign UFO intelligence from the Intelligence
Advisory Committee who had been established to look into national
security implications involving the UFO phenomena.(6) In order to cement
Angleton's counterintelligence charter together, General James H.
Doolittle was commissioned by Dulles to conduct an outside survey of CIA
counterintelligence operations and concluded that the CIA was loosing
ground to the KGB and recommended that more stringent and ruthless
measures be taken against Soviet penetration. Dulles endorsed the
Doolittle Report by ordering a more powerful tool to stop and interdict
the moles within the CIA and he personally chose Angleton to head the CI
Staff. Perhaps this is why foreign and domestic UFO sighting reports
diminished shortly afterwards.
During Dulles' tenure as DCI from 1953 to 1961 (the longest in CIA
histroy), Angleton enjoyed a privileged position not shared by other
directors despite the fact that Angleton reported to the Deputy Director
of Operations (DDO) and on many occasions bugged the phones and
residences of high ranking U.S. government officials and foreign
dignitaries with Dulles' approval and over the objection of the DDO. If
the situation called for it, Angleton could go around proper channels
for acquiring personal data on anyone within the CIA and other agencies
which was clearly outside of CIA charter and violated FBI jurisdiction.
As the new head of CI, Angleton had to organize a staff, write the
rules, and oversee all clandestine operations aimed at Soviet military
and security organs of the GRU and KGB.(7) The CI Staff was primarily
tasked with preventing penetrations at home and abroad and protecting
CIA operations through careful research and analysis of all incoming
intelligence reports. By keeping the most vital and sensitive files to
himself, Angleton became a storehouse of secrets which helped him
consolidate his power base. Officially, Angleton was allowed access to
everyone's personnel, operational, and communications files within the
CIA and reviewed all proposed and active operations and the approval of
recruitment of agent assets. This did not engender trust nor cooperation
and Angleton did not concern himself nor his staff with such intrusions.
One of Angleton's former Chief of Operations, "Scotty" Miller, expressed
the environment in which CI Staff operated as one of a "watchdog"
snooping around to sniff out either Soviet deception or manipulation.
ANGLETON AND THE MJ-12 DIRECTIVE
Among all the controversial documents leaked to the public in the last
twenty years regarding state secrets and the UFO phenomena is the
fantastic revelations of the CIA's unacknowledged MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE
files disclosing the most guarded of all classified
subjects-extraterrestrial life forms and their technologies.(8)
In order to secure this knowledge and prevent foreign countries from
learning this vital secret and get an edge on the United States,
President Harry S. Truman signed a finding that basically said that no
one (including a chief executive) was to be in possession of, or
disclose the finding without a "need to know" clearance which was above
Top Secret.(9) The directive was secretly implemented without the
consent or knowledge of the Congress and concealed by the wording of the
National Security Act of 1947 which prohibits disclosing classified
matters without presidential approval and prior agreement by the
Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency as amended in
later national security acts. Knowledge of the finding was limited to
only a select few within the intelligence and scientific community of
the government and as long as the secret remained unresolved, there
would be no official acknowledgement. The only official study program
Project BLUE BOOK was taken over by the CIA in 1953 as a public
experiment and used as a debunking tool to discount the extraterrestrial
reality and possibly to quash any attempts by the KGB and GRU to glean
any technological or defense secrets from the study.
Like the Manhattan Project, MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE or MJ-12 (as used in some
leaked documents) was a joint government/military/private sector
undertaking that encompassed every facet of national security functions
and the CIA was the premiere intelligence agency tasked with the first
line of defense of the United States during the 55-year Cold War between
the Capitalist West and the Communist East worlds. When Angleton assumed
his throne as Chief of Counterintelligence, no doubt that Truman's
directive was the most excellent and inviting instrument to carry on his
mole hunt career within the CIA against the KGB and GRU. MJ MAJESTIC
TWELVE enjoyed greater protection than that of the hydrogen bomb program
of the early 1950's and with that, the Soviets were driven to not only
penetrate the secrets of the H-bomb program itself, but the ultimate
prize that lay scattered throughout the maximum security research
facilities of the U.S. Government located in the Southwest and Eastern
United States. The shocking truth of the Soviet atomic weapons espionage
program called ENORMOUS had dealt a tremendous blow to U.S. and British
security when it was learned that British diplomats operating within the
State Department and American Army technicians at Los Alamos National
Laboratories had not only supplied blueprints and materials to their KGB
handlers in New York for the atomic bomb, but stole the proposed plans
for the hydrogen bomb as well and left security officials guessing what
else did the Soviet spies steal from under their noses.(10)
As far as we know, there was no successful penetration by KGB or GRU
agents into the CIA's UFO program due in large part by the disgraceful
and unlawful actions taken by Angleton's CI Staff. After the fallout
from the Burgess-MacLean-Phibly defections and the execution of the
Rosenbergs, Angleton tightened the security and dedicated himself fully
to the safeguarding of what secrets that still alluded the Soviets and
embarked on a vicious mole hunt that would almost paralyze the CIA until
his departure in 1974.
During the Eisenhower Administration the CIA was at its apex in covert
operations piling up one success after another where cores of Soviet
moles were detected and sent home to Moscow. Comments from the White
House were nil when it came to the UFO problem though the supposed
meeting of extraterrestrials and Eisenhower in 1954 was given some
publicity, it was largely discounted in the press though some had tried
to connect Eisenhower's heart attack with the meeting, national
magazines and the media were downplaying the UFO sightings here and
abroad as part of a cold war hysteria that accompanied the "duck and
cover" scare that seemed to grip the nation. No real problems popped up
until the 1960 presidential elections when Democratic presidential
candidate Senator John F. Kennedy accused the Republican incumbent
President Eisenhower of allowing a "missile gap" to exist and charged
that the United States was getting to close to the Soviet Union through
detente'.
Soon after Kennedy became president, he began to needle the CIA for
information on UFO's (11) which was unnerving at the outset to Allen
Dulles after he was burned on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of
Castro's communist enslaved island of Cuba in April 1961. The once
cordial relationship that had existed fell apart and Dulles knew his
time as DCI was short.(12) Knowing the explicit instructions contained
in the 24 September, 1947 Truman directive prohibits the DCI from making
disclosures to a chief executive who obviously did not have a "need to
know" clearance would not only compromise the CIA, but the lengthy and
costly UFO program deemed so necessary to national security by all
involved, simply could not be jeopardized for any one, even the
President of the United States. Knowing the character of Allen Dulles
and James Angleton, I can only speculate as to what kind of response
Kennedy got. According to the DCI Top Secret/MJ 12 document, it leaves
no doubt that Dulles was not going to cooperate with Kennedy's request
and forwarded it to Angleton for consideration and feedback. MJ MAJESTIC
TWELVE included spin-off projects that were obviously equally sensitive
activities of the CIA such as PARASITE, PARHELION, ENVIRO, PSYOP, GREEN,
SPIKE, and HOUSE CLEANING. Other sensitive and covert programs could be
affected as well, such as MK ULTRA, ARTICHOKE and DOMESTIC which all
appear to have been valid projects associated with MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE.
The full implications of the above are not clear at present but it is
obvious that the other projects were held in readiness for some kind of
mass indoctrination and deception undertaking in a national crisis.
MURDER, INC.
The strain mounted on the CIA by Kennedy was reaching a flash point of
wills and with the Noresenko affair(13) driving Angleton to obsession, a
UFO leak crisis brought new strains on Angleton as he had learned that
Hollywood screen star Marilyn Monroe's phone conversation with a New
York art dealer(14) discussing Kennedy's secret visit to an undisclosed
military base to see alien artifacts and her disdain over the soured
relationship she had endured with President Kennedy and his brother, the
United States Attorney General had been recorded by CIA domestic
electronic surveillance experts. Since 1955, Monroe had been under
surveillance by the CIA and the FBI had maintained a security dossier on
her because of her marriage with a well known American writer who was
suspected of having communist affiliations and her trip to Russia and
the press coverage she received while she was there.(15) The wire tap
report also mentions nationally recognized New York syndicated reporter
Dorothy Kilgallen as having conversations with Monroe regarding the
Roswell UFO crash of 1947 and President Kennedy's politically motivated
NASA Apollo moon program. Dorothy Kilgallen made headlines in 1955 when
she disclosed a private conversation with a British cabinet official
that UFOs are real and that the U.S. and British authorities considered
the matter as the highest importance. The significance of the wire tap
has to do with the fact that Monroe was murdered the following day in
her Brentwood condo. According to internationally recognized private
investigator and director of the Nick Harris Detective Agency, Milo
Speriglio, Monroe was the victim of a national security management hit
by the CIA and the mob.(16) The suggestion that somehow the CIA was
involved in a domestic murder of an American citizen is not too far
fetched when considering the past abuses coming from Angleton's CI
program of 'absolute security at any cost' philosophy. Whether Angleton
authorized the hit is not known, but the modus operandi of the way her
body was found and moved around and the fashion in which the autopsy
records were changed to reflect suicide and the theft of her secret red
diary one day after her autopsy is similar to the past methods used by
Angleton's covert CIA Counterintelligence operators.
ACTIVE MEASURES
The final straw for Angleton came when President Kennedy fired off a top
secret memorandum to him outlining a previous discussion concerning a
classification review of all CIA UFO files that could affect national
security. Dated 12 November, 1963, just ten days before he would be
gunned down in the streets of Dallas, Texas, Kennedy informed
Angleton(17) that we was setting things in motion to actually share
sensitive CIA UFO intelligence data with the Russians through the
director of NASA.(18) This request was made on the same day he requested
James Webb(19) to begin Kennedy's peace overture to the Russians via
joint space exploration. Webb, being a board member of the intelligence
community most likely interpreted Kennedy's program to mean the sharing
of classified UFO data under which the current directive forbid. In
Kennedy's top secret memorandum(20) he outlined for Angleton specific
items he wished to have disclosed to Webb, such as "[to] have the high
threat cases reviewed with the purpose of identification of bona fide as
opposed to the classified CIA and USAF sources."(21) And, "that we make
a clear distinction between the known and unknowns in the event the
Soviets try to mistake our extended cooperation as a cover for
intelligence gathering of their defense and space programs."(22)
Finally, Kennedy wanted Angleton to "arrange a program of data sharing
with NASA mission directors in their defensive responsibilities."(23)
This was unprecedented and totally unacceptable to Angleton and the CIA!
Here Kennedy was requesting the Central Intelligence Agency, the
agency he swore he would "break into a thousand pieces" to just hand
over the most guarded secret-ever! This memo was passed on to William
Colby(24) who indicated to someone in Angleton's staff in a hand written
note that says, "Response from Colby, Angleton has MJ directive" and is
dated November 20, 1963, just two days before Kennedy dies. It seems
that Kennedy's request bounced around from Angleton's desk possibly
seeking consensus on the request or passing the buck back to Angleton.
In either case, it was a hot potato for which Angleton had to deal with.
It is also significant that Kennedy's NSAM No. 271 was the last coming
from Kennedy's desk just before he left Washington for Dallas. What the
real significance is was buried somewhere within the CIA and Angleton
spent many a day trying to figure out who ordered Kennedy's execution.
Was Angleton set up, or did he unintentionally supply the needed
ingredient for the murder of the century? In either case, the secret
remained safe.
POSTSCRIPT
One of the few former CIA officers to speak publicly on the Kennedy
assassination and the UFO secret is Victor Marchetti, who at one time
was Assistant to the Deputy for Plans and Operations under DCI William
Colby. In a rare interview with Second Look magazine in 1979, Marchetti,
author of the sensational book Cult of Intelligence which was vetted and
censored by the CIA prior to publication (the only book to include the
redacted portions within the text), made some interesting observations
regarding the CIA's UFO intelligence gathering program and why the
subject is not open for discussion. In a introduction piece for his web
site Robert Collins, a retired air force intelligence officer produced
an insightful forward for Marchetti in which Marchetti said: "My theory
is that we have, indeed, been contacted-perhaps even visited-by
extraterrestrial beings, and that the U.S. Government, in collusion with
other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this
information from the general public." Marchetti alluded to "rumors" at
the highest levels within the CIA that the NSA has information as well
and must be kept away from public viewing. We know now that the NSA does
have sensitive COMINT files ,that, for reasons of national security
cannot disclose. One of these NSA files that Marchetti speaks of might
be the NSA intercept of Kennedy's phone conversation with Khrushchev
dated 12 November, 1963, in which Kennedy spoke of a "situation that
affects both our countries and the world," and "a problem that we share
in common." It is believed that the UFO problem became a national
security item when President Truman authorized the covert establishment
of the National Security Agency whose primary responsibility bordered on
"special activities" perhaps as outlined in an alleged Intelligence
Estimate prepared by national security officials on 30 September, 1947,
in which one of the concerns stated that "what we are up against is
controlled by intelligent operators" and that "these objects are real
and not illusionary." It is not surprising that in 1968, a NSA employee
drafted a significant analysis of the intelligence community's
ambivalence toward the UFO camouflage and warned of dire consequences
unless the defense establishment wakes up and recognizes the danger
these phenomena pose in the nuclear age.
On a final note, the legend of James Jesus Angleton and his "wilderness
of mirrors" as he often referred to his daunting task of protecting
vital state secrets faded into obscurity on 11 May, 1987 and with him
the secret that would emerge almost precisely the day he died. Perhaps
Jim was not the real bad guy in the counterintelligence game. Perhaps,
he was its victim.
September 25, 1943 OSS memo released through the FOIA in September 1989.
U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with
Respect to Intelligence Activities, Final report, Book VI, April 23,
1976, pp. 154-55.JJA personal records. Angleton took a seven-month leave of absence to
remain in Tucson, Arizona for unspecified reasons not substantiated by
the need to be with his wife and family as is believed by other writers
regarding Angleton's absence from CIA Washington headquarters during May
through December 1947; COLD WARRIOR JAMES JESUS ANGLETON: THE CIA'S
MASTER SPY CATCHER by Tom Mangold, Touchstone Book published by Simon &
Schuster, 1991, p. 361.The National Security Council on December 12, 1947, had adopted
measures to counter the espionage and counterespionage threat as
specified in NSCID 1 and later amended in NSCID 5 that authorized the
Director of Central Intelligence to "conduct all organized Federal
espionage and counterespionage operations." According to CIA Historian
Arthur B. Darling, atomic weapons research became an overriding issue
and coordination with the Office of Scientific Research and Development
with the AEC through CIA consultant Dr. H.P. Robertson through General
Vandenberg's directive containing an agreement between Dr. Vannevar Bush
which facilitated the transfer of Manhattan Engineering District files
to the Director of Central Intelligence for proper collection of foreign
atomic energy research. Secret OSO activities in this area was not
allowed to fall into administrative control of the AEC nor FBI which
Vandenberg thought should remain within CIA intelligence operations; THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: AN INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT TO 1950 by
Arthur B. Darling, Penn State Press, 1990, pp. 197-239.The term U.F.O. as defined by Air Force intelligence directives is
used here to reflect unconventional aircraft and missiles, not
interplanetary spacecraft.CIA FOIA response letter dated March 26, 1976, to July 14, 1975 FOIA
request made by Ground Saucer Watch of Phoenix, Arizona, in which it
stated that the NSC tasked the CIA a requirement to determine the actual
UFO threat. The CIA responded through the Office of Scientific
Intelligence by creating the Intelligence Advisory Committee to study
the threat aspects. Military members of the IAC fought vigorously to
maintain participation in areas relating to AEC intelligence collection
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff represented by General Todd (who is
mentioned in a FBI memo regarding JSC ignorance of flying saucer data in
- was at odds with the CIA about duplication of efforts by the
Military Intelligence Division in producing UFO intelligence data for
the IAC; THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: AN INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT TO
1950 by Arthur B. Darling, PENN STATE PRESS, 1990, pp. 349-356.
The KGB-the Committee for State Security was a non-military arm of
the Soviet Intelligence Service. The GRU was the military arm. The KGB
received its title in 1954. When mentioning the Russian Intelligence
Service, KGB and GRU are referenced generically to include both
organizations.This remarkable fact is substantiated in the mistakenly downgraded
Top Secret Canadian Department of Transport Intra-Department
Correspondence from Wilbert B. Smith to Dr. Robert I. Sarbacher, an
American physicist and Science Consultant in the U.S. Defense
Department's Research and Development Board and a member of the Guidance
& Control Panel. Dated 21 November, 1950, Smith acknowledged that UFO
studies were "considered by the United States authorities to be of
tremendous significance" and that the "matter is the most classifies
subject in the United States Government, rating higher than the H-bomb."September 24, 1947 Top Secret/MAJIC EYES ONLY Project WHITE HOT
Preliminary Estimate in Five Parts (Unacknowledged by the U.S.
Government); THE MAJESTIC DOCUMENTS by Dr. Robert M. Wood, Ph.D. and
Ryan S. Wood, Wood & Wood Enterprises, 1998, pp. 43-81.25 November, 1955 Top Secret memorandum from Rear Admiral Edwin T.
Layton, Deputy Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff, to the
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, ref. J.C.S. 1712/5. This report deals
with the Burgess-MacLean defection after it was learned that sensitive
weapons research information had been sent to Moscow through diplomatic
means and the CIA was informed of the defection which Angleton was
devastated to learn that Kim Philby, a long standing friend of British
intelligence was part of the spy ring.Unacknowledged June 28, 1961 Top Secret National Security Memorandum
from President John F. Kennedy to Allen Dulles, Director of Central
Intelligence, Subject: Review of MJ-12 Intelligence Operations as they
relate to Cold war Psychological Warfare Plans. It is a one line request
that says, "I would like a brief summary from you at your earliest
convenience."Unacknowledged CIA Top Secret/MJ 12 Counterintelligence carbon copy
draft directive from Director of Central Intelligence to MJ 1-7 with
eight tabs on government watermark onion skin paper (circa 1961).Yuriy Ivanovich Norsenko was a Soviet KGB officer who defected in
1962 and Angleton had him detained and tortured for three years
believing the warning given by another KGB defector Anatoliy Mikaylovich
Golitsyn that Norsenko was ordered to defect and act as a disinformation
plant to spread misleading information to the CIA regarding Soviet
capabilities and intentions. Later CIA analysis suggested that it was
Golitsyn who was the real mole planted within the CIA, not Norsenko.
Angleton was convinced that Golitsyn was a bona fide defector and
Golitsyn's information was used by Angleton and the CI mole hunt
virtually destroyed the CIA;s covert operations for some time.Top Secret CIA wire tap report dated 3 August, 1962 between Howard
Rothberg and Marliyn Monroe with references to Project 40, MOON DUST,
5412, and MJ-12. The report was given to James Angleton and has his
signature at the bottom right hand portion of the document establishing
that CI was aware of Monroe's' desire to blackmail the Kennedy's with
their indiscretions made to her while they were engaged in a sexual
affair with her prior to August.FBI file Number 105-40018-1, formerly classified Secret. CIA is
copied on 19 August, 1955 FBI document from Mr. Dennis A. Flinn,
Director, Office of Security, Department of State and copy sent to
Director, Central Intelligence Agency with attention: Deputy Director,
Plans, SECRET. Declassified on 11 November, 1978. Subject matter was
redacted.Crypt 33: The Saga of Marilyn Monroe-The Final Word by Adela Gregory
and Milo Speriglio, Birch Lane Press, 1993.This would be amazing since no one in government knew that James
Angleton worked for the CIA much less his existence since there were few
pictures of Angleton and very few within the agency knew who he was and
what he did. It is also interesting, that until his appearance before
the Church Committee in 1975 the public did not know about Angleton nor
his counterintelligence position at the CIA. His identity was kept
secret for twenty years.National Security Action Memorandum No. 271, dated November 12, 1963
to The Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Subject: Cooperation with the USSR on Outer Space Matters. President
Kennedy instructs James Webb as Administrator of NASA to "assume
personally the initiative and central responsibility within the
Government for the development of a program of substantive cooperation
with the Soviet Union in the field of outer space, including the
development of specific technical proposals. I assume that you will work
closely with the Department of State and other agencies as appropriate."
Kennedy had requested an interim report on NASA's progress in this
adventure by December 15, 1963. Of course, after he was killed this
program was never acted upon.It should be pointed out here that James E. Webb had served on
President Truman's Psychological Warfare Strategy Board and had assisted
in revising NSC 10/2 for the Office of Policy Coordination (Covert
Operations) in 1948 for the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff for
emergency plans in case of war. He also was the author of the Webb Staff
Study that worked out cooperation between the military and the CIA
concerning IAC intelligence sharing of foreign atomic research with the
AEC which allowed the DCI prerogatives in the dissemination to key
executive officials. He at one time had considered the DCI slot after
Rear Admiral Hillenkoetter left office in 1950.Top Secret Kennedy memorandum to the Director [of Counter
Intelligence], Subject: Classification review of all UFO intelligence
files affecting National Security, dated 12 November, 1963.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
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