"In his day, Jim was recognized as the dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world."
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Richard Helms, A Look Over my Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency (New York: Random House, 2003), 275.
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James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 β May 12, 1987) was a long-serving chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) counter-intelligence (CI) staff (Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counter-Intelligence/ADDOCI).
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