Michael Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence

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Notes

¹For an excellent review of the nonfictional and fictional depictions of Angleton, see David Robarge, ‘The James Angleton Phenomenon: “Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors”: Wandering in the Angletonian Wilderness’, Studies in Intelligence 53/ 4 (2009) pp.43–55, <https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol53no4/201ccunning-passages-contrived-corridors201d.html> (accessed 5 September 2011).

²On this, see Michael Holzman, ‘The Ideological Origins of American Studies at Yale’, American Studies 40/2 (1999) pp.71–99, <https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/amerstud/article/viewFile/2679/2638> (accessed 5 September 2011). The theme here is that Yale University's American Studies programme served to train recruits not just for government service but also specifically for intelligence work.

³ Numbers, Chapter 13.

⁴Yale historian Robin Winks provides a more contextually realized discussion of Angleton's view of ambiguity. See Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939–1961 (New York: William Morrow 1987) pp.325–8. Winks' reference to Angleton's ‘Talmudic interest in the elliptic’ is especially on point (Winks, p.333).

⁵Harold A.R. (‘Kim’) Philby, My Silent War (London: MacGibbon & Kee 1968).

⁶Nigel West, ‘Failing the Grade on Judging Angleton’, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 23/1 (2010) p.186.

⁷The most balanced presentation of the Nosenko affair remains Richards J. Heuer, Jr., ‘Nosenko: Five Paths to Judgment’, Studies in Intelligence 31/3 (1987) pp.71–101. Also in H. Bradford Westerfield (ed.), Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955–1992 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 1995) pp.379–414, <http://intellit.muskingum.edu/alpha_folder/H_folder/Heuer_on_NosenkoV1.pdf> (accessed 5 September 2011).