#JamesAngleton
2 entries tagged JamesAngleton.
People (1)
- Anatoli Golitsyn Anatoli Golitsyn was a KGB major who defected to the CIA in Helsinki in December 1961, provided intelligence that led to several confirmed Western penetrations, convinced James Angleton that a high-level Soviet mole existed in the CIA, and argued that subsequent defectors including Yuri Nosenko were KGB plants - a framework that paralyzed CIA Soviet operations for a decade without producing a confirmed mole.
Programs (1)
- HTLINGUAL HTLINGUAL was the CIA's covert mail-opening program that operated from 1952 to 1973, intercepting and photographing approximately 215,000 pieces of first-class mail between the United States and the Soviet Union at the New York international mail facility without judicial authorization, in violation of federal postal statutes.