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Mole-Hunt: How the Search for a Phantom Traitor Shattered the CIA Paperback – January 1, 1994

by David Wise (Author)

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Explains how, by launching a twenty-year investigation for a spy within the agency, chief of CIA counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton sparked an operation of paranoia and vendettas that destroyed several careers. Reprint.

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The author traces the CIA's Cold War efforts to uproot Soviet spies within its ranks.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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371 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Avon Books
Publication date

January 1, 1994
Dimensions

4.25 x 1.25 x 7 inches
ISBN-10

0380721279
ISBN-13

978-0380721276
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David C. Martin
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avon Books; Reprint edition (January 1, 1994)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 371 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0380721279
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0380721276
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 1.25 x 7 inches

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Uncle Chino

Fascinating and Scarey

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2008

This is a great book about the CIA and Jim Angleton. It is the kind of true story that is almost hard to believe because it is so compelling and so interesting. There have been several movies that have been based on some of the characters and events in this book. Matt Damons character in The Good Sheperd is a carbon copy of Angleton and also Michael Keaton played him in the mini series The Company.

I recommend this book to everybody.

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After Angleton was forced to resign from his long-held position ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2016

After Angleton was forced to resign from his long-held position as Chief of Counter-Intelligence, a CIA after-action report concluded that Angleton was a KGB agent -- a super-mole at the heart of American intelligence, whose duty was to catch, among others, himself! All his misadventures and so-called faults hang upon this single thread -- which almost nobody has investigated, probed, revealed, including David Wise. The two exceptions are Ernest Volkman's book on intelligence operations, and Norman Mailer's hints toward the end of "Harlot's Ghost." Angleton wasn't fooled by Kim Philby or Nosenko or Golytsen; he was conniving with them to pull the CIA inside-out. Angleton as KGB super-mole sheds a new light on the Walker family spy ring and many others. John Le Carre needs to resurrect George Smiley, send him to America to unmask Philby, only to discover that Angleton was the super-spy behind the spies that causes so many deaths and ruined so many reputations. Meanwhile, it would help a lot -- in understanding why Philby and others "betrayed" their countries -- if scholars and authors would show how post-war British and American imperialism was itself a betrayal of democratic aspirations, both at home and abroad.

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