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- James Jesus Angleton was born on 9 December, 1917, in
Boise, Idaho, to NCR businessman and OSS Colonel James Hugh Angleton, and
Mexican born Carmen Mercedes Moreno. Upon Graduation from Yale in 1941,
Angleton moved to Harvard Law School where he met his future wife Cicely
d'Autremont of Duluth, Minnesota. Inducted into the Army on 19 March, 1943,
Angleton was recruited into the OSS in August through the efforts of Angleton's
father and Norman Pearson, his old English professor from Yale who was,
at that time, head of the OSS Counter Intelligence division in London.(1)
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- ANGLETON AS CI AGENT IN OSS X-2 OPERATIONS DURING WW
II
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- James Angleton was assigned the Rome desk after Italy's
capitulation to the Allies and was made a OSS Lieutenant who ran CI activities
that included such countries as Austria, Germany, Spain, the Mediterranean,
and Switzerland. As part of OSS operations in the European Theatre of Operations,
Angleton mastered the arts of "black" propaganda and "playback"
that is, the method of reading the effectiveness of one's own disinformation
on the enemy. In 1944, Angleton was given charge of the OSS Special Counterintelligence
Unit Z made up of U.S. and British agents and was the youngest member of
X-2 and was the only American member that was allowed access to the top
secret British ULTRA code breaking intelligence. After the war, Angleton
was promoted to captain and received the Legion of Merit from the U.S.
Army which cited him for successfully apprehending over a thousand enemy
intelligence agents. He was also decorated by the Italian government and
was awarded the Order of the Crown of Italy, the Order of Malta-Cross of
Malta, and the Italian War Cross for Merit. In October 1945, President
Truman dissolved the OSS and had all research and analysis units moved
to the State Department and operational units to the War Department and
were re-designated as Strategic Services Unit. Angleton stayed on in the
SSU in Rome and became the vital station chief in charge of the 2677 Regiment
which made Angleton the senior U.S. intelligence officer Italy until it
became the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence
Agency.(2)
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- THE MAKING OF JAMES ANGLETON AS MASTER SPY HUNTER
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- Angleton's war experience in counterintelligence operations
had affected him to the extent that he became absorbed into the 'hall of
mirrors' world of intelligence and refused to leave the service after much
insistence and disappointment of his father. James would pour over the
many CI files he had amassed while in Italy and was forever changed by
the intrigue and the possibilities of a career in the CIG. In the summer
of 1947 Angleton returned to the United States to live in Tucson, Arizona,
to be with his wife and family, but his love for the service was overpowering
and on 30 December, 1947, he was hired by the CIA as a senior aide to the
director of the Office of Special Operations (OSO).(3) It was during this
period that Army G-2 and other intelligence agencies were trying to crack
the Soviet VENONA code used by espionage agents operating in the United
States sending back sensitive information regarding the Manhattan Project
based at Los Alamos, New Mexico, and it is possible that Angleton was on
special assignment prior to officially reporting to OSO who had the responsibility
of running counterespionage operations.(4)
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- Angleton's primary mission in OSO included overseeing
a classified component that operated espionage and counterespionage activities
abroad and read all sensitive material coming across his desk and passed
them back to OSO operators in countries were CIA had interests. In 1949,
Angleton had moved up the chain of command within OSO and held a GS-15
position. Angleton developed a philosophy that "If you control counterintelligence,
you control the intelligence service" and quickly realized the significance
of the B-29 detection of Joe-1, the Soviet's first atomic weapon detonation
in August 1949 and Angleton knew the technology required by the Soviets
was not home grown, but the product of espionage and immediately set out
to discover who the moles were that passed on America's most guarded secret
to Moscow. As with all covert actions, counterintelligence operated without
specific mentioning in the National Security Act of 1947 and Angleton set
out to acquire information of the most guarded secret of all.
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- JAMES ANGLETON AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
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- Aside from the technology theft of atomic secrets, the
most guarded secret within the CIA was the scientific and technical information
regarding new weapons developments and the planned use of a new generation
of thermal nuclear weapons and high altitude reconnaissance platforms to
spy on countries hostile to United States strategic interests. One of the
technical secrets of the United States was the study and transfer of advanced
electronics gleaned from Air Force studies of unconventional aircraft and
missile research carried on at several AEC facilities and proving grounds.
The FBI and the CIA were aware of Soviet espionage rings operating in the
United States, Canada and the United Kingdom whose main task was providing
any and all technical and scientific information on advanced technologies
which would provide an advantage to the Soviet Union in the event another
world war would break out.
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- By 1949, military intelligence authorities had classified
the "flying saucer" phenomenon as Top Secret and Army CIC had
passed on information that the Soviets may have developed saucer-shaped
aerial weapons capable of delivering atomic bombs or dissipating radioactive
materials over NATO countries as a stopgap measure to make up for the nonexistent
nuclear weapons arsenal. In early 1947, the nonexistent nuclear arsenal
in the United States was a closely guarded secret as well and no doubt
this fact set in motion the nuclear arms race which terrified Angleton.
OSO was probably aware of Soviet knowledge of the bomb gap existing within
both superpowers and the flying saucer invasion of the United States which
crossed Angleton's desk put a scare into his psyche which is reflected
in a credo he shared with other OSO staff members: "You who believe
or half believe, I can say this now, that I do believe in the spirit of
Christ and the life everlasting, and in this turbulent social system which
struggles sometimes blindly to preserve the right to freedom and expression
of spirit. "In the name of Jesus Christ I leave you."
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- After General Walter B. Smith was appointed as DCI, Angleton
continued on as OSO Staff A (foreign intelligence operations) inside the
CIA's clandestine division. In 1951, he was given the all important Israeli
desk which he held tight control for twenty years because it was a source
of vital Soviet information in the Middle East. As more and more UFO (5)
sighting reports made their way to CIA headquarters, unevaluated reports
were forwarded to counterintelligence when the locations were identified
as coming from Soviet bloc countries. During this period, Angleton made
good liaisons with FBI contacts who were equally concerned with protecting
vital atomic research facilities and no doubt many domestic reports were
read by Angleton as they came across his desk in the "L" Building
across the Lincoln Memorial. When Smith was coaxed away from his power
base as DCI, Allen Dulles, Angleton's friend form the OSS days became the
new DCI and in late 1954, promoted Angleton to the position of deputy director
and Chief of Counterintelligence with direct access to Dulles and all foreign
UFO intelligence from the Intelligence Advisory Committee who had been
established to look into national security implications involving the UFO
phenomena.(6) In order to cement Angleton's counterintelligence charter
together, General James H. Doolittle was commissioned by Dulles to conduct
an outside survey of CIA counterintelligence operations and concluded that
the CIA was loosing ground to the KGB and recommended that more stringent
and ruthless measures be taken against Soviet penetration. Dulles endorsed
the Doolittle Report by ordering a more powerful tool to stop and interdict
the moles within the CIA and he personally chose Angleton to head the CI
Staff. Perhaps this is why foreign and domestic UFO sighting reports diminished
shortly afterwards.
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- During Dulles' tenure as DCI from 1953 to 1961 (the longest
in CIA histroy), Angleton enjoyed a privileged position not shared by other
directors despite the fact that Angleton reported to the Deputy Director
of Operations (DDO) and on many occasions bugged the phones and residences
of high ranking U.S. government officials and foreign dignitaries with
Dulles' approval and over the objection of the DDO. If the situation called
for it, Angleton could go around proper channels for acquiring personal
data on anyone within the CIA and other agencies which was clearly outside
of CIA charter and violated FBI jurisdiction. As the new head of CI, Angleton
had to organize a staff, write the rules, and oversee all clandestine operations
aimed at Soviet military and security organs of the GRU and KGB.(7) The
CI Staff was primarily tasked with preventing penetrations at home and
abroad and protecting CIA operations through careful research and analysis
of all incoming intelligence reports. By keeping the most vital and sensitive
files to himself, Angleton became a storehouse of secrets which helped
him consolidate his power base. Officially, Angleton was allowed access
to everyone's personnel, operational, and communications files within the
CIA and reviewed all proposed and active operations and the approval of
recruitment of agent assets. This did not engender trust nor cooperation
and Angleton did not concern himself nor his staff with such intrusions.
One of Angleton's former Chief of Operations, "Scotty" Miller,
expressed the environment in which CI Staff operated as one of a "watchdog"
snooping around to sniff out either Soviet deception or manipulation.
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- ANGLETON AND THE MJ-12 DIRECTIVE
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- Among all the controversial documents leaked to the public
in the last twenty years regarding state secrets and the UFO phenomena
is the fantastic revelations of the CIA's unacknowledged MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE
files disclosing the most guarded of all classified subjects-extraterrestrial
life forms and their technologies.(8)
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- In order to secure this knowledge and prevent foreign
countries from learning this vital secret and get an edge on the United
States, President Harry S. Truman signed a finding that basically said
that no one (including a chief executive) was to be in possession of, or
disclose the finding without a "need to know" clearance which
was above Top Secret.(9) The directive was secretly implemented without
the consent or knowledge of the Congress and concealed by the wording of
the National Security Act of 1947 which prohibits disclosing classified
matters without presidential approval and prior agreement by the Department
of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency as amended in later national
security acts. Knowledge of the finding was limited to only a select few
within the intelligence and scientific community of the government and
as long as the secret remained unresolved, there would be no official acknowledgement.
The only official study program Project BLUE BOOK was taken over by the
CIA in 1953 as a public experiment and used as a debunking tool to discount
the extraterrestrial reality and possibly to quash any attempts by the
KGB and GRU to glean any technological or defense secrets from the study.
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- Like the Manhattan Project, MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE or MJ-12
(as used in some leaked documents) was a joint government/military/private
sector undertaking that encompassed every facet of national security functions
and the CIA was the premiere intelligence agency tasked with the first
line of defense of the United States during the 55-year Cold War between
the Capitalist West and the Communist East worlds. When Angleton assumed
his throne as Chief of Counterintelligence, no doubt that Truman's directive
was the most excellent and inviting instrument to carry on his mole hunt
career within the CIA against the KGB and GRU. MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE enjoyed
greater protection than that of the hydrogen bomb program of the early
1950's and with that, the Soviets were driven to not only penetrate the
secrets of the H-bomb program itself, but the ultimate prize that lay scattered
throughout the maximum security research facilities of the U.S. Government
located in the Southwest and Eastern United States. The shocking truth
of the Soviet atomic weapons espionage program called ENORMOUS had dealt
a tremendous blow to U.S. and British security when it was learned that
British diplomats operating within the State Department and American Army
technicians at Los Alamos National Laboratories had not only supplied blueprints
and materials to their KGB handlers in New York for the atomic bomb, but
stole the proposed plans for the hydrogen bomb as well and left security
officials guessing what else did the Soviet spies steal from under their
noses.(10)
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- As far as we know, there was no successful penetration
by KGB or GRU agents into the CIA's UFO program due in large part by the
disgraceful and unlawful actions taken by Angleton's CI Staff. After the
fallout from the Burgess-MacLean-Phibly defections and the execution of
the Rosenbergs, Angleton tightened the security and dedicated himself fully
to the safeguarding of what secrets that still alluded the Soviets and
embarked on a vicious mole hunt that would almost paralyze the CIA until
his departure in 1974.
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- During the Eisenhower Administration the CIA was at its
apex in covert operations piling up one success after another where cores
of Soviet moles were detected and sent home to Moscow. Comments from the
White House were nil when it came to the UFO problem though the supposed
meeting of extraterrestrials and Eisenhower in 1954 was given some publicity,
it was largely discounted in the press though some had tried to connect
Eisenhower's heart attack with the meeting, national magazines and the
media were downplaying the UFO sightings here and abroad as part of a cold
war hysteria that accompanied the "duck and cover" scare that
seemed to grip the nation. No real problems popped up until the 1960 presidential
elections when Democratic presidential candidate Senator John F. Kennedy
accused the Republican incumbent President Eisenhower of allowing a "missile
gap" to exist and charged that the United States was getting to close
to the Soviet Union through détente'.
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- Soon after Kennedy became president, he began to needle
the CIA for information on UFO's (11) which was unnerving at the outset
to Allen Dulles after he was burned on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion
of Castro's communist enslaved island of Cuba in April 1961. The once cordial
relationship that had existed fell apart and Dulles knew his time as DCI
was short.(12) Knowing the explicit instructions contained in the 24 September,
1947 Truman directive prohibits the DCI from making disclosures to a chief
executive who obviously did not have a "need to know" clearance
would not only compromise the CIA, but the lengthy and costly UFO program
deemed so necessary to national security by all involved, simply could
not be jeopardized for any one, even the President of the United States.
Knowing the character of Allen Dulles and James Angleton, I can only speculate
as to what kind of response Kennedy got. According to the DCI Top Secret/MJ
12 document, it leaves no doubt that Dulles was not going to cooperate
with Kennedy's request and forwarded it to Angleton for consideration and
feedback. MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE included spin-off projects that were obviously
equally sensitive activities of the CIA such as PARASITE, PARHELION, ENVIRO,
PSYOP, GREEN, SPIKE, and HOUSE CLEANING. Other sensitive and covert programs
could be affected as well, such as MK ULTRA, ARTICHOKE and DOMESTIC which
all appear to have been valid projects associated with MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE.
The full implications of the above are not clear at present but it is obvious
that the other projects were held in readiness for some kind of mass indoctrination
and deception undertaking in a national crisis.
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- MURDER, INC.
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- The strain mounted on the CIA by Kennedy was reaching
a flash point of wills and with the Noresenko affair(13) driving Angleton
to obsession, a UFO leak crisis brought new strains on Angleton as he had
learned that Hollywood screen star Marilyn Monroe's phone conversation
with a New York art dealer(14) discussing Kennedy's secret visit to an
undisclosed military base to see alien artifacts and her disdain over the
soured relationship she had endured with President Kennedy and his brother,
the United States Attorney General had been recorded by CIA domestic electronic
surveillance experts. Since 1955, Monroe had been under surveillance by
the CIA and the FBI had maintained a security dossier on her because of
her marriage with a well known American writer who was suspected of having
communist affiliations and her trip to Russia and the press coverage she
received while she was there.(15) The wire tap report also mentions nationally
recognized New York syndicated reporter Dorothy Kilgallen as having conversations
with Monroe regarding the Roswell UFO crash of 1947 and President Kennedy's
politically motivated NASA Apollo moon program. Dorothy Kilgallen made
headlines in 1955 when she disclosed a private conversation with a British
cabinet official that UFOs are real and that the U.S. and British authorities
considered the matter as the highest importance. The significance of the
wire tap has to do with the fact that Monroe was murdered the following
day in her Brentwood condo. According to internationally recognized private
investigator and director of the Nick Harris Detective Agency, Milo Speriglio,
Monroe was the victim of a national security management hit by the CIA
and the mob.(16) The suggestion that somehow the CIA was involved in a
domestic murder of an American citizen is not too far fetched when considering
the past abuses coming from Angleton's CI program of 'absolute security
at any cost' philosophy. Whether Angleton authorized the hit is not known,
but the modus operandi of the way her body was found and moved around and
the fashion in which the autopsy records were changed to reflect suicide
and the theft of her secret red dairy one day after her autopsy is similar
to the past methods used by Angleton's covert CIA Counterintelligence operators.
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- ACTIVE MEASURES
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- The final straw for Angleton came when President Kennedy
fired off a top secret memorandum to him outlining a previous discussion
concerning a classification review of all CIA UFO files that could affect
national security. Dated 12 November, 1963, just ten days before he would
be gunned down in the streets of Dallas, Texas, Kennedy informed Angleton(17)
that we was setting things in motion to actually share sensitive CIA UFO
intelligence data with the Russians through the director of NASA.(18) This
request was made on the same day he requested James Webb(19) to begin Kennedy's
peace overture to the Russians via joint space exploration. Webb, being
a board member of the intelligence community most likely interpreted Kennedy's
program to mean the sharing of classified UFO data under which the current
directive forbid. In Kennedy's top secret memorandum(20) he outlined for
Angleton specific items he wished to have disclosed to Webb, such as "[to]
have the high threat cases reviewed with the purpose of identification
of bona fide as opposed to the classified CIA and USAF sources."(21)
And, "that we make a clear distinction between the known and unknowns
in the event the Soviets try to mistake our extended cooperation as a cover
for intelligence gathering of their defense and space programs."(22)
Finally, Kennedy wanted Angleton to "arrange a program of data sharing
with NASA mission directors in their defensive responsibilities."(23)
This was unprecedented and totally unacceptable to Angleton and the CIA
! Here Kennedy was requesting the Central Intelligence Agency, the agency
he swore he would "break into a thousand pieces" to just hand
over the most guarded secret-ever! This memo was passed on to William Colby(24)
who indicated to someone in Angleton's staff in a hand written note that
says, "Response from Colby, Angleton has MJ directive" and is
dated November 20, 1963, just two days before Kennedy dies. It seems that
Kennedy's request bounced around from Angleton's desk possibly seeking
consensus on the request or passing the buck back to Angleton. In either
case, it was a hot potato for which Angleton had to deal with. It is also
significant that Kennedy's NSAM No. 271 was the last coming from Kennedy's
desk just before he left Washington for Dallas. What the real significance
is was buried somewhere within the CIA and Angleton spent many a day trying
to figure out who ordered Kennedy's execution. Was Angleton set up, or
did he unintentionally supply the needed ingredient for the murder of the
century? In either case, the secret remained safe.
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- POSTSCRIPT
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- One of the few former CIA officers to speak publicly
on the Kennedy assassination and the UFO secret is Victor Marchetti, who
at one time was Assistant to the Deputy for Plans and Operations under
DCI William Colby. In a rare interview with Second Look magazine in 1979,
Marchetti, author of the sensational book Cult of Intelligence which was
vetted and censored by the CIA prior to publication (the only book to include
the redacted portions within the text), made some interesting observations
regarding the CIA's UFO intelligence gathering program and why the subject
is not open for discussion. In a introduction piece for his web site Robert
Collins, a retired air force intelligence officer produced an insightful
forward for Marchetti in which Marchetti said: "My theory is that
we have, indeed, been contacted-perhaps even visited-by extraterrestrial
beings, and that the U.S. Government, in collusion with other national
powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general
public." Marchetti alluded to "rumors" at the highest levels
within the CIA that the NSA has information as well and must be kept away
from public viewing. We know now that the NSA does have sensitive COMINT
files ,that, for reasons of national security cannot disclose. One of these
NSA files that Marchetti speaks of might be the NSA intercept of Kennedy's
phone conversation with Khrushchev dated 12 November, 1963, in which Kennedy
spoke of a "situation that affects both our countries and the world,"
and "a problem that we share in common." It is believed that
the UFO problem became a national security item when President Truman authorized
the covert establishment of the National Security Agency whose primary
responsibility bordered on "special activities" perhaps as outlined
in an alleged Intelligence Estimate prepared by national security officials
on 30 September, 1947, in which one of the concerns stated that "what
we are up against is controlled by intelligent operators" and that
"these objects are real and not illusionary." It is not surprising
that in 1968, a NSA employee drafted a significant analysis of the intelligence
community's ambivalence toward the UFO camouflage and warned of dire consequences
unless the defense establishment wakes up and recognizes the danger these
phenomena pose in the nuclear age.
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- On a final note, the legend of James Jesus Angleton and
his "wilderness of mirrors" as he often referred to his daunting
task of protecting vital state secrets faded into obscurity on 11 May,
1987 and with him the secret that would emerge almost precisely the day
he died. Perhaps Jim was not the real bad guy in the counterintelligence
game. Perhaps, he was its victim.
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- 1. September 25, 1943 OSS memo released through the FOIA
in September 1989.
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- 2. U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations
with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Final report, Book VI, April 23,
1976, pp. 154-55.
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- 3. JJA personal records. Angleton took a seven-month
leave of absence to remain in Tucson, Arizona for unspecified reasons not
substantiated by the need to be with his wife and family as is believed
by other writers regarding Angleton's absence from CIA Washington headquarters
during May through December 1947; COLD WARRIOR JAMES JESUS ANGLETON: THE
CIA'S MASTER SPY CATCHER by Tom Mangold, Touchstone Book published by Simon
& Schuster, 1991, p. 361.
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- 4. The National Security Council on December 12, 1947,
had adopted measures to counter the espionage and counterespionage threat
as specified in NSCID 1 and later amended in NSCID 5 that authorized the
Director of Central Intelligence to "conduct all organized Federal
espionage and counterespionage operations." According to CIA Historian
Arthur B. Darling, atomic weapons research became an overriding issue and
coordination with the Office of Scientific Research and Development with
the AEC through CIA consultant Dr. H.P. Robertson through General Vandenberg's
directive containing an agreement between Dr. Vannevar Bush which facilitated
the transfer of Manhattan Engineering District files to the Director of
Central Intelligence for proper collection of foreign atomic energy research.
Secret OSO activities in this area was not allowed to fall into administrative
control of the AEC nor FBI which Vandenberg thought should remain within
CIA intelligence operations; THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: AN INSTRUMENT
OF GOVERNMENT TO 1950 by Arthur B. Darling, Penn State Press, 1990, pp.
197-239.
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- 5. The term U.F.O. as defined by Air Force intelligence
directives is used here to reflect unconventional aircraft and missiles,
not interplanetary spacecraft.
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- 6. CIA FOIA response letter dated March 26, 1976, to
July 14, 1975 FOIA request made by Ground Saucer Watch of Phoenix, Arizona,
in which it stated that the NSC tasked the CIA a requirement to determine
the actual UFO threat. The CIA responded through the Office of Scientific
Intelligence by creating the Intelligence Advisory Committee to study the
threat aspects. Military members of the IAC fought vigorously to maintain
participation in areas relating to AEC intelligence collection and the
Joint Chiefs of Staff represented by General Todd (who is mentioned in
a FBI memo regarding JSC ignorance of flying saucer data in 1947) was at
odds with the CIA about duplication of efforts by the Military Intelligence
Division in producing UFO intelligence data for the IAC; THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY: AN INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT TO 1950 by Arthur B. Darling, PENN
STATE PRESS, 1990, pp. 349-356.
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- 7. The KGB-the Committee for State Security was a non-military
arm of the Soviet Intelligence Service. The GRU was the military arm. The
KGB received its title in 1954. When mentioning the Russian Intelligence
Service, KGB and GRU are referenced generically to include both organizations.
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- 8. This remarkable fact is substantiated in the mistakenly
downgraded Top Secret Canadian Department of Transport Intra-Department
Correspondence from Wilbert B. Smith to Dr. Robert I. Sarbacher, an American
physicist and Science Consultant in the U.S. Defense Department's Research
and Development Board and a member of the Guidance & Control Panel.
Dated 21 November, 1950, Smith acknowledged that UFO studies were "considered
by the United States authorities to be of tremendous significance"
and that the "matter is the most classifies subject in the United
States Government, rating higher than the H-bomb."
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- 9. September 24, 1947 Top Secret/MAJIC EYES ONLY Project
WHITE HOT Preliminary Estimate in Five Parts (Unacknowledged by the U.S.
Government); THE MAJESTIC DOCUMENTS by Dr. Robert M. Wood, Ph.D. and Ryan
S. Wood, Wood & Wood Enterprises, 1998, pp. 43-81.
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- 10. 25 November, 1955 Top Secret memorandum from Rear
Admiral Edwin T. Layton, Deputy Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff,
to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, ref. J.C.S. 1712/5. This report
deals with the Burgess-MacLean defection after it was learned that sensitive
weapons research information had been sent to Moscow through diplomatic
means and the CIA was informed of the defection which Angleton was devastated
to learn that Kim Philby, a long standing friend of British intelligence
was part of the spy ring.
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- 11. Unacknowledged June 28, 1961 Top Secret National
Security Memorandum from President John F. Kennedy to Allen Dulles, Director
of Central Intelligence, Subject: Review of MJ-12 Intelligence Operations
as they relate to Cold war Psychological Warfare Plans. It is a one line
request that says, "I would like a brief summary from you at your
earliest convenience."
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- 12. Unacknowledged CIA Top Secret/MJ 12 Counterintelligence
carbon copy draft directive from Director of Central Intelligence to MJ
1-7 with eight tabs on government watermark onion skin paper (circa 1961).
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- 13. Yuriy Ivanovich Norsenko was a Soviet KGB officer
who defected in 1962 and Angleton had him detained and tortured for three
years believing the warning given by another KGB defector Anatoliy Mikaylovich
Golitsyn that Norsenko was ordered to defect and act as a disinformation
plant to spread misleading information to the CIA regarding Soviet capabilities
and intentions. Later CIA analysis suggested that it was Golitsyn who was
the real mole planted within the CIA, not Norsenko. Angleton was convinced
that Golitsyn was a bona fide defector and Golitsyn's information was used
by Angleton and the CI mole hunt virtually destroyed the CIA;s covert operations
for some time.
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- 14. Top Secret CIA wire tap report dated 3 August, 1962
between Howard Rothberg and Marliyn Monroe with references to Project 40,
MOON DUST, 5412, and MJ-12. The report was given to James Angleton and
has his signature at the bottom right hand portion of the document establishing
that CI was aware of Monroe's' desire to blackmail the Kennedy's with their
indiscretions made to her while they were engaged in a sexual affair with
her prior to August.
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- 15. FBI file Number 105-40018-1, formerly classified
Secret. CIA is copied on 19 August, 1955 FBI document from Mr. Dennis A.
Flinn, Director, Office of Security, Department of State and copy sent
to Director, Central Intelligence Agency with attention: Deputy Director,
Plans, SECRET. Declassified on 11 November, 1978. Subject matter was redacted.
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- 16. Crypt 33: The Saga of Marilyn Monroe-The Final Word
by Adela Gregory and Milo Speriglio, Birch Lane Press, 1993.
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- 17. This would be amazing since no one in government
knew that James Angleton worked for the CIA much less his existence since
there were few pictures of Angleton and very few within the agency knew
who he was and what he did. It is also interesting, that until his appearance
before the Church Committee in 1975 the public did not know about Angleton
nor his counterintelligence position at the CIA. His identity was kept
secret for twenty years.
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- 18. National Security Action Memorandum No. 271, dated
November 12, 1963 to The Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. Subject: Cooperation with the USSR on Outer Space Matters.
President Kennedy instructs James Webb as Administrator of NASA to "assume
personally the initiative and central responsibility within the Government
for the development of a program of substantive cooperation with the Soviet
Union in the field of outer space, including the development of specific
technical proposals. I assume that you will work closely with the Department
of State and other agencies as appropriate." Kennedy had requested
an interim report on NASA's progress in this adventure by December 15,
1963. Of course, after he was killed this program was never acted upon.
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- 19. It should be pointed out here that James E. Webb
had served on President Truman's Psychological Warfare Strategy Board and
had assisted in revising NSC 10/2 for the Office of Policy Coordination
(Covert Operations) in 1948 for the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff for
emergency plans in case of war. He also was the author of the Webb Staff
Study that worked out cooperation between the military and the CIA concerning
IAC intelligence sharing of foreign atomic research with the AEC which
allowed the DCI prerogatives in the dissemination to key executive officials.
He at one time had considered the DCI slot after Rear Admiral Hillenkoetter
left office in 1950.
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- 20. Top Secret Kennedy memorandum to the Director [of
Counter Intelligence], Subject: Classification review of all UFO intelligence
files affecting National Security, dated 12 November, 1963.
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- 21 Ibid.
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- 22 Ibid.
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- 23 Ibid.
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- 24 Ibid.
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