John Stockwell on Foreign Spies, the CIA and Double Agents

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John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty and is the highest ranking CIA agent ever to go public. After managing U.S. involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies, a book which remains the only detailed, insider's account of a major CIA "covert action."

James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 - May 12, 1987), was a long-serving chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) counter-intelligence (CI) staff (Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counter-Intelligence/ADDOCI).

According to one-time Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms: "In his day, Jim was recognized as the dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world." Investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein agrees with the high regards given to Angleton by his colleagues in the intelligence business, and adds that Angleton earned the "trust... of six CIA directors -- including Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Allen W. Dulles and Richard Helms. They kept Angleton in key positions and valued his work." * Norman Mailer loosely based the character of Hugh Montague (or Harlot) in Harlot's Ghost on Angleton. Likewise, the mysterious spymaster Eliot, in David Morrell's novel The Brotherhood of the Rose, is clearly based on Angleton, as is the character "Mother" in Orchids for Mother by Aaron Latham. Angleton appears in Chris Petit's novel, The Passenger. * The 2006 film The Good Shepherd is loosely based on Angleton's life and his role in the formation of the CIA. * Angleton features heavily in the 2006 fictional espionage thriller "The Passenger" by Chris Petit which focuses on the events proceeding the 1988 terrorist attack on a Pan-American airplane that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. * The three part 2007 TNT Network television miniseries The Company features Angleton (portrayed by actor Michael Keaton) and his failure to recognize Kim Philby as a Soviet spy and his subsequent over-compensating mole-hunting paranoia. * James Jesus Angleton is the name of the main character in The Fatima Mansions' "Brunceling's Song" on their 1995 album Lost in the Former West. * The 2003 BBC TV production of Cambridge Spies includes several scenes with a young James Jesus Angleton depicted as being assigned to Kim Philby during the war. * The Bob Howard-Laundry Series of Charles Stross features a senior Laundry agent whose nom de guerre is James Angleton after the CIA chief. * The phrase "wilderness of mirrors" appears in a 1994 song by the Canadian rock trio Rush. Lyricist/Drummer Neil Peart used the phrase in the song "Double Agent," and cites both Angleton and T. S. Eliot in the liner notes as sources of the phrase. * James Jesus Angleton pops up often, as an entry and elsewhere, in Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups by Robert Anton Wilson.

Victor Marchetti (1930 - ) is a former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a prominent paleoconservative critic of the United States Intelligence Community and the Israel lobby in the United States.

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[jianenohashi]

Thanks for posting all the great videos, especially of John Stockwell.

[professorcurtis]

Remember the BBC TV show called; The Prisoner. In the intro, the Government gassed the agent, #6, and took him away. Of course this was all fiction. Now Stockwell says that in the 1980's our Govenrment would drug agents and place them into a Government mental hospital.

The truth is truly stranger than the fiction.

[k9thru12]

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"if the

Soviet Union

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United States

would quickly seek out new enemies

to justify its own military-industrial complex."

[deltapunk21]

"critics of the us government" aka communist pigsa nd soviet propagandists and moles Leftist imbeciles need to stop making up crap. There were no "bizarre" accusations fascist only factual and proven truths that have been confirmed every inch of the way Angleton was correct Golitsyn told the truth and Aldrich Ames and Rchard Hanson Counterintel chiefs prove that. These jokers are proven christic/ips marxie pigs and fraud receiving money to lie about "our government" its all bs.

[ISleepNow]

Good segment, pretty sure I have this on tape. Another good one is 'The Terrorism Syndrome" where he discusses Terpil/Wilson.