Long before Game of Thrones dubbed its spymaster The Spider, James Jesus Angleton earned that name. His internal witch hunts still leave us wondering—madman, genius, or both? World News Editor “Mr.

At the height of the Cold War, arguably no one in the CIA exercised more power than James Jesus Angleton, head of counterintelligence. He pioneered an illegal information-gathering campaign that spied ...

One of the CIA's most powerful and infamous spymasters is at the center of potential new revelations about the John F Kennedy assassination. Among the 80,000 pages Donald Trump says he will release ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The life of the imposingly christened James Jesus Angleton, former chief of CIA counter-intelligence ...