In a series of sensational speeches, Republican senator Joe McCarthy had woven together the threats of communism and homosexuality into twin fervours that historians have dubbed the 'Red Scare' and the 'Lavender Scare'. Philby and Angleton's friendship blossomed in the spring of 1950, amid a moral panic in Washington. Its impact was political and psychological. His betrayal of Angleton was ideological and emotional. Philby touched on homoerotic currents as electric and buried as the phone lines those spies routinely wiretapped. These were times fraught with sexual tension in intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. That is why I have written a biography of Angleton - not only to capture Kim Philby through American eyes, but to understand the impact his audacious treachery had on the CIA in its formative years. | Espionage, American - History - 20th century.As a double agent, Philby not only betrayed his home country, but the Americans who placed so much trust in their more experienced British counterparts. | Intelligence service - United States - History - 20th century. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-313) and index.Īngleton, James, 1917-1987. This edition published by arrangement with St. In this gripping biography - the first in over 20 years - investigative reporter Jefferson Morley reveals the man behind the myths: from Angleton’s friend ship with the poets Ezra Pound and TS Eliot, to his links with the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington from the intelligence secrets he unwittingly shared with British double agent Kim Philby, to his obstruction of the investigation into the JFK assassination and from his initiation of the US's first foray into mass surveillance of its citizens, to his obsession with hunting for communist moles - a search that nearly destroyed the Agency. From World War II to the Cold War, Agnleton was virtually untouchable, operating beyond the view of the public, Congress, and even the president himself. CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton was one of the most important unelected officials in the US government in the 20th century. 'A revelatory new biography of the sinister, powerful, and paranoid man at the heart of the CIA for more than three tumultuous decades.

Viii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits 24 cm The ghost : the secret life of CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton / Jefferson Morley Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google Booksīrunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2017

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