James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 – May 11, 1987) [1] was an American CIA officer who served as chief of the counterintelligence department of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1975.

Perhaps one of the most well-known Agency figures is James Angleton. In particular, Angleton was noted for his work as the Chief of Counterintelligence during the Cold War. James Angleton was born in Boise, Idaho, on December 9, 1917.

詹姆斯·耶萨斯·安格尔顿 （ James Jesus Angleton ，1917年12月09日-1987年05月12日）， 中央情报局 （Central Intelligence Agency, CIA）官员。曾长期领导美国中央情报局反间谍部门（Central Intelligence Agency's Counter-Intelligence, CI）。

2017年11月13日 · The CIA delayed responding to requests for information about its longtime counter-espionage chief, James Angleton, as it tried to minimize the disclosure of his activities related to Soviet...

Angleton’s career ended abruptly amid controversy over damaging disclosures about Agency domestic operations that forever changed the place of intelligence in the American political system. Angleton’s real and perceived legacy still influences counterintelligence practices in the US government and public perceptions of CIA.

2018年1月1日 · The Counterintelligence Staff, created in 1954, had been headed for 20 years by James Jesus Angleton, a legendary spy who deployed the techniques of literary criticism learned at Yale to find...

Almost no one, however, would be able to identify James Jesus Angleton, despite his key role as leader of the agency’s head of counter-intelligence (CI) operations during the height of the Cold...

Angleton became the target of agency opponents and critics who opposed his counterintelligence methods. He was investigated and later cleared by the Senate Intelli- gence Committee that probed CIA activities in the mid-1970s.

6 天之前 · James Jesus Angleton, was born in 1917 in Boise, Idaho, and served in the CIA for more than 30 years, since its inception in 1947. Maintaining the rank of counter-intelligence chief for more than two decades, Angleton was a widely …

James Angleton, the erudite Central Intelligence Agency officer whose search for Soviet agents inside the Government stirred an uproar in the murky worlds of intelligence for a generation, died here this morning of lung cancer.