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    The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
    The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
    The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
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    The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton

    Written by Jefferson Morley

    Narrated by John Pruden

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateOct 31, 2017
    ISBN9781681688909
    The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
    Author

    Jefferson Morley

    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 others. He is the editor of JFK Facts, a blog. He lives in Washington, DC.

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      The narrator is absolutely terrible, and the writing isn’t great.

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      Absolutely spellbinding A glimpse of history CIA of the world and I had no idea about

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