Cold Warrior - James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter

Cold Warrior - James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter by Tom Mangold. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780671697488.

Angletons story is the last great secret of the cold war and Mangold tells it like a psychlogical thriller. Much more than a spy story. A true story of obsession and suspicion, Cold Warrior takes us into the mind of James Jesus Angleton, the CIAs ruthless head of counterintelligence and legendary spy catcher. Based on more than three years of research and 300 interviews, Cold Warrior charts Angletons involvement in some of the most notorious counterespionage events of the sixties and seventies, including a fierce witch-hunt inside the CIA that destroyed the careeers of some of the bureaus top officers, changing the face of the Cold War in the process. Rarely has the dangerous, illusory world of international espionage been so fully revealed. A searing indictment of Angletons tenure as the CIAs top spy catcher..the research is compelling, backed up by devastating on-the-record quotes. Scrupulously documented..a book more than worthy of its extraordinary subject.