Thomas Keske
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 Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: Poetry Fans of the CIA |
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POETRY FANS OF THE CIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jesus_Angleton
James Jesus Angleton, known to colleagues as Jim and
nicknamed "the Kingfisher", was a long-serving chief
of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) counter-intelligence
(CI) staff (Associate Deputy Director of Operations for
Counterintelligence/ADDOCI). He is known as the "mother"
of today's CIA for his deep role in its formation
and operations.
A poetry aficionado with known ties to Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot,
and an avid fly-fisherman, gemologist and orchid-breeder,
Angleton functioned as principal adviser to successive
Directors of the CIA, most notably Allen Dulles and
Richard Helms. His creative genius for scenario-building
and thoroughly penetrating understanding of espionage,
deception, and false flag operations remain uneclipsed
to this very day. His excesses as a counter-intelligence czar,
arising from extreme paranoia that may have been clinical,
had adverse effects on the Agency, especially during
the 1970s.
Even the KGB used much of his tradecraft as training tools
for their case officers and assets.
According to former CIA officer Robert Baer: "Angleton was
truly a bit of a lunatic. He fancied himself as a serious poet.
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NOTE: no relationship to the other Jesus known commonly
"Jesus Christ" |
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