As chief of counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, James Jesus Angleton built a formidable reputation. Although perhaps best known for leading the agency's notorious "Molehunt" -- the search for a Soviet spy believed to have infiltrated the upper levels of the American government -- Angleton also played a key role in the U.S. intervention in the Italian election of 1948, in Israel's development of nuclear weapons, and in the management of the CIA's investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He later led CIA efforts to...
As chief of counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, James Jesus Angleton built a formidabl...
Anti-Communism was part of the persistent American populist tradition, an instrument ready at hand for the use of corporations against unions, Republicans against the New Deal, segregationists against African Americans. As Robert Ivie pointed out, "The nation's adversary is characterized as a mortal threat to freedom, a germ infecting the body politic, a plague upon the liberty of humankind, and a barbarian intent upon destroying civilization." The language of Anti-Communism, even in the absence of Communism itself, is still present in American English, laying ready at hand to be put to new...
Anti-Communism was part of the persistent American populist tradition, an instrument ready at hand for the use of corporations against unions, Republi...
