#Counterintelligence
7 entries tagged Counterintelligence.
People (4)
- Igor Kurganov Igor Kurganov is a Russian-born former professional poker player who gained operational influence over Elon Musk's charitable giving during the COVID-19 pandemic, slept in Musk's Austin home, and was the subject of FBI preliminary inquiries into foreign interference before being removed from Musk's inner circle by wealth manager Jared Birchall in May 2022.
- James Jesus Angleton James Jesus Angleton served as the CIA's chief of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974, running the illegal HT/LINGUAL mail opening program, overseeing Operation CHAOS domestic surveillance, opening a 201 file on Lee Harvey Oswald in 1960 under a deliberately wrong name, maintaining the CIA's Israeli intelligence liaison under KK MOUNTAIN, and conducting a mole hunt triggered by his betrayal by Kim Philby that destroyed dozens of CIA officers' careers while the actual Soviet penetrations - Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen - operated undetected for years after his 1974 firing.
- Jonathan Buma Johnathan Buma is a former FBI special agent who specialized in Russian counterintelligence at the Los Angeles field office, who handled Peter Thiel as a confidential human source from summer 2021, who originated the FBI's first Hunter Biden tax inquiry in January 2019, who worked the Giuliani-Ukraine investigation, who publicly accused the FBI of pro-Trump political bias, and who was arrested at JFK on March 17, 2025 and charged with unlawfully disclosing confidential records.
- Richard Ober Richard Ober (c.1921-2001) was the CIA officer who directed Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS) from its 1967 creation through its 1974 termination, reporting to James Angleton and maintaining a covert White House office with access to Nixon administration principals.
Organizations (2)
- Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) is West Germany's domestic counterintelligence service, established September 7, 1950, whose most significant Cold War achievement was exposing Günter Guillaume as a Stasi agent in April 1974, precipitating Chancellor Willy Brandt's resignation.
- MI5 MI5 (the Security Service) is the United Kingdom's domestic counterintelligence and security agency, founded 1909; it appears in this vault through its Cold War counterintelligence operations against KGB penetrations of British institutions, the Spycatcher affair involving former MI5 officer Peter Wright, its relationship to the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE) network, and its roles in the surveillance and monitoring of political organizations.
Programs (1)
- Operation CHAOS Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS) was a CIA domestic counterintelligence program (August 1967-March 1974) that infiltrated antiwar and counterculture organizations, maintaining files on approximately 7,200 Americans and a 300,000-name index before exposure by the Church Committee.