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The Ghost

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Biography, History
Unabridged   9.75 hour(s)
Publication date: 10/31/2017

The Ghost

The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton

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Audio CD ISBN:9781681688893
Digital Download ISBN:9781681688909

Summary

In The Ghost, investigative reporter Jefferson Morley tells CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton's dramatic story, from his friendship with the poet Ezra Pound through the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington to the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate scandal.

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From World War II to the Cold War, Angleton operated beyond the view of the public, Congress, and even the president. He unwittingly shared intelligence secrets with Soviet spy Kim Philby, a member of the notorious Cambridge spy ring. He launched mass surveillance by opening the mail of hundreds of thousands of Americans. He abetted a scheme to aid Israel's own nuclear efforts, disregarding U.S. security. He committed perjury and obstructed the JFK assassination investigation. He oversaw a massive spying operation on the antiwar and black nationalist movements and he initiated an obsessive search for communist moles that nearly destroyed the Agency.

In The Ghost, investigative reporter Jefferson Morley tells Angleton's dramatic story, from his friendship with the poet Ezra Pound through the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington to the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate scandal. From the agency's MKULTRA mind-control experiments to the wars of the Mideast, Angleton wielded far more power than anyone knew. Yet during his seemingly lawless reign in the CIA, he also proved himself to be a formidable adversary to our nation's enemies, acquiring a mythic stature within the CIA that continues to this day.

Reviews/Praise

"Serving up a suitably intriguing profile of this quintessential spy, journalist Morley’s mosaiclike biography painstakingly pieces together the complex webs of subterfuge and deception Angleton created during his storied career." —Booklist

“The best book ever written about the strangest CIA chief who ever lived. No screenwriter or novelist could conjure a character like Angleton, but Morley's stellar reporting and superb writing animate every page of this work. It's essential history and highly entertaining biography.” —Tim Weiner, National Book Award–winning author of Legacy of Ashes

The Ghost is the compulsively readable, often bizarre true-life story of American spymaster James Jesus Angleton. Capturing the extent of Angleton’s eccentricity, duplicity and alcohol-fueled paranoia would have challenged the writing skills of a Le Carre or Ludlum, and Jeff Morley has done it with flair.” —Philip Shenon, author of A Cruel and Shocking Act

Author Bio

Jefferson Morley is a journalist and editor who has worked in Washington journalism for over thirty years, fifteen of which were spent as an editor and reporter at the Washington Post. The author of Our Man in Mexico, a biography of the CIA's Mexico City station chief Winston Scott, Morley has written about intelligence, military, and political subjects for Salon, the Atlantic, and the Intercept, among other publications. He is the editor of JFK Facts, a blog. He lives in Washington, DC.