James Jesus Angleton

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James Angleton.

James Jesus Angleton was a CIA-agent from 1954 until 1974. His nickname was the Kingfisher. He served in the CIA in the counterintelligence section. He is known as the mother of today's CIA for his deep role in its formation and operations. He may of been thought of as the mother, but his codename was "father". The reason they called him the Kingfisher was for his amazing talent of catching spies. A time which shook him badly was when it was found out that Kim Philby was a spy, he had lead a long term espionage ring at the CIA under some of the greatest CIA minds ever, and not one of them suspected a thing; this shook James badly and from that point on wards his relentlessness and exceptional talent became only stronger saying that he would never let another one get by him.

Robert Baer, a former agent has went on record saying "Angleton was truly a bit of a lunatic. He fancied himself as a serious poet. He was half-Mexican [via his mother], very tall and gangly, a raconteur who could stay up all night talking. In fact, he fairly well destroyed the CIA single-handedly because of his paranoia. He put a security system into place that ensures even today that CIA people work in a bubble, isolated from the way the world works."

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