James Angleton: The Man Who Broke the CIA From the Inside

About this episode

The episode explores James Angleton's role in the CIA and the internal chaos caused by his obsessive hunt for Soviet spies.

James Angleton ran counterintelligence for the CIA for 20 years. His job was to find Soviet spies hiding inside Western intelligence. He was brilliant, obsessive, and almost certainly right that the threat of a mole was real. But the hunt he launched tore the CIA apart from the inside, and the greatest deception of his career was one he never saw coming.Help us reach 10k followers on Instagram! @⁠theconspiracypod⁠ ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at https://ziprecruiter.com/THEORY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Topics covered

• CIA
• counterintelligence
• Soviet spies
• moles
• deception

Keywords

• James Angleton
• CIA history
• intelligence
• spy
• mole hunt

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