First among his disasters was an unshakable belief in a so-called Monster Plot, a baseless Sino-Soviet strategic deception campaign cooked up in Moscow and Beijing to convince the West of an ideological rift between the two Marxist giants. Over those twenty years, his growing influence produced an Agency tied up in knots. Seven years later, Allen Dulles appointed him head of counterintelligence where he remained until his ouster in August 1974. In 1947, Angleton joined the newly-created Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). One important influence on him was Kim Philby, a close friend, head of counterintelligence for British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), and a star of the notorious Cambridge Spy Ring that for years passed secrets to Moscow. A product of Yale University and Office of Strategic Services, the dark and brooding Angleton spent much of World War II in London learning the counterintelligence trade at the feet of British experts believed to be among the world’s best at this practice. This year marks forty–eight years since William Colby fired James J. The Ghost of Angleton - Review of The Fourth Man (pdf) It was a review about The Fourth Man by Robert Baer: I wrote a book review in the summer of 2022 for the Fall 2022 issue of the Association of Former Intelligence Officer’s (AFIO) official publication, The Intelligencer: Journal of US Intelligence Studies.
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