Cold warrior: James Jesus Angleton : the CIA's master spy hunter

Tom Mangold

Simon & Schuster, 1991 - Biography & Autobiography - 462 pages

James Angleton was the most controversial and mysterious counterintelligence spymaster in the CIA's history. Veteran reporter Tom Mangold covers every phase of the spymaster's career and lays bare the dangerous, illusory world of high intelligence in the white heat of the Cold War. His tale is as suspenseful as a work of fiction.

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User Review  - RandyStafford - LibraryThing

My reaction to reading this book in 1995. Fascinating story of one man’s obsession and paranoia and how it greatly crippled the CIA’s intelligence work against the Soviet Union during the Cold War ...

COLD WARRIOR: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter

User Review  - Jane Doe - Kirkus

Among the top men who kept the CIA's secrets during the height of the cold war was James Jesus Angleton, chief of counterintelligence. Whether the austere and obsessive operative (who died in 1987 ...

Contents

• Preface: 9
• A Note on Sources: 11
• Acknowledgments: 13

About the author

Tom Mangold has been an investigative reporter with BBC TV and a reporter for the Sunday Mirror and the Daily Express. As a war correspondent, he covered Vietnam, two Middle East wars, and the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. His first book, The File on the Tsar, was an international bestseller.
John Penycate is a journalist who has reported regularly for BBC TV’ s weekly public affairs shows The Money Programme and Panorama and has interviewed major political and business leaders. He lectures at the journalism schools of London and Westminster universities. A resident of London, Penycate is active in institutes and societies concerned with the media and public affairs.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cold warrior: James Jesus Angleton : the CIA's master spy hunter
• Author: Tom Mangold
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1991
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 22, 2008
• ISBN: 0671662732, 9780671662738
• Length: 462 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Espionage, American; Espionage, American/ History/ 20th century; Intelligence service; Intelligence service/ United States/ History/ 20th century; Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence; Spies; Spies/ United States/ Biography; True Crime / Espionage