Volume 38, Number 14 · August 15, 1991
Turn of the Screw
By Murray Kempton
Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton, The CIA's Master Spy Hunter
by Tom Mangold
Simon and Schuster, 462 pp., $24.95
James J. Angleton was installed as chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterintelligence Staff in 1954. He would run it for the next twenty years for a succession of agency directors whose original admiration for his judgment mounted to sustained awe of his omniscience and then plunged, by no means prematurely, into alarms for his sanity.
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