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James Jesus Angleton
As the CIA's Counterintelligence Chief, James Jesus Angleton had access to
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James Jesus Angleton was born on December 9, 1917 in Boise, Idaho, to NCR
businessman/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 US Army on March 19, 1943, Angleton was
recruited into the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in August through the
efforts of Angleton's father and Norman Pearson, his old English professor
from Yale who at that time was head of the OSS Counterintelligence division
in London.1
OSS COUNTERINTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS DURING WW II
James Jesus Angleton was assigned the Rome desk after Italy's capitulation to
the Allies, and was made an OSS Lieutenant who ran counterintelligence (CI)
activities in such countries as Austria, Germany, Spain and Switzerland as
well as the Mediterranean area. As part of OSS operations in the European
theatre, 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, he was given charge of the OSS Special
Counterintelligence Unit Z, made up of US and British agents, and was the
youngest member of X-2 and the only American member allowed access to the
top-secret British ULTRA code-breaking intelligence.
After the war, Angleton was promoted to Captain and was awarded the Legion of
Merit from the US 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 redesignated it as the Strategic Services Unit (SSU).
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 US intelligence
officer in Italy until the SSU became the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) in
1946, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).2
THE MAKING OF JAMES ANGLETON AS A MASTER SPY HUNTER
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, despite much insistence and
disappointment from 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. On December 30, 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 to send back sensitive information regarding the Manhattan
Project based at Los Alamos, New Mexico. It is possible that Angleton was on
special assignment prior to officially reporting to the OSO, which had the
responsibility of running counterespionage operations.4 Angleton's primary
mission in the OSO included overseeing a classified component that operated
espionage and counterespionage activities abroad, and reading all sensitive
material coming across his desk and passing it to OSO operators in countries
where the CIA had interests. In 1949, he moved up the chain of command within
the OSO and held a GS-15 position.
Angleton developed the philosophy, "If you control counterintelligence, you
control the intelligence service". He quickly realised the significance of
the B-29 detection of Joe-1, the Soviet's first atomic weapon detonation in
August 1949, and knew that the technology acquired by the Soviets was not
home-grown but the product of espionage. He immediately set out to discover
who the moles were who passed on America's most guarded secret to Moscow. As
with all covert actions, counterintelligence operated without specific
mention in the National Security Act of 1947, so Angleton set out to acquire
information on the most guarded secret of all.
ANGLETON AS CHIEF OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
Aside from the theft of atomic secrets, the most guarded secret within the
CIA was the scientific and technical information regarding new weapons
developments, including the planned use of a new generation of thermonuclear
weapons and high-altitude reconnaissance platforms for spying on countries
hostile to US strategic interests. One of the technical secrets was the study
and transfer of advanced electronics gleaned from US Air Force studies of
unconventional aircraft and missile research carried on at several Atomic
Energy Commission 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. The main task of these rings
was to provide any and all technical and scientific information on advanced
technologies which would give an advantage to the Soviet Union in the event
of another world war breaking out.
By 1949, military intelligence authorities had classified the "flying saucer"
phenomenon as Top Secret, and the Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) had
passed on information that the Soviets could 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. The OSO was probably aware of Soviet knowledge of the bomb gap
existing within both superpowers. Moreover, the flying saucer invasion of the
United States - reports of which crossed Angleton's desk - put a scare into
Angleton's 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."
After General Walter B. Smith was appointed Director, Central Intelligence
(DCI), Angleton continued on with OSO Staff A (foreign intelligence
operations) inside the CIA's clandestine division. In 1951, he was assigned
the all-important Israeli desk, which he held under tight control for 20
years because it was a vital source of Soviet information in the Middle East.
As more and more UFO5 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 established good links with FBI contacts who were equally concerned
with protecting vital atomic research facilities, and no doubt he read many
domestic reports as they came across his desk in the "L" Building across from
the Lincoln Memorial.
When Smith was coaxed away from his power base as DCI, Allen Dulles -
Angleton's friend from OSS days - became the new Director. In late 1954, he
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 (IAC) which had been
established to look into national security implications involving the UFO
phenomenon.6 In order to cement Angleton's counterintelligence charter,
Dulles commissioned General James H. Doolittle to conduct an outside survey
of CIA counterintelligence operations. Doolittle concluded that the CIA was
losing 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 in
number shortly afterwards.
During Dulles's tenure as DCI from 1953 to 1961 (the longest in CIA history),
Angleton enjoyed a privileged position not shared by other directors. This
was despite the fact that Angleton reported to the Deputy Director of
Operations (DDO), and on many occasions bugged the phones and residences of
various high-ranking US Government officials and foreign dignitaries with
Dulles's approval and over the objection of the DDO. If the situation called
for it, Angleton could go around proper channels to acquire personal data on
anyone within the CIA and other agencies, which was clearly outside the CIA
charter and violated FBI jurisdiction.
As the new head of CI, Angleton had to organise a staff, write the rules and
oversee all clandestine operations aimed at the Soviet Intelligence Service
military and security organs, 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 he reviewed all proposed and
active operations and approved the recruitment of agent assets. This did not
engender trust or cooperation, but Angleton did not concern himself or his
staff with such intrusions. One of Angleton's former Chief of Operations,
"Scotty" Miller, described the environment in which CI Staff operated as that
of a "watchdog" snooping around, sniffing out Soviet deception and
manipulation.
ANGLETON AND THE MJ-12 DIRECTIVE
Among the controversial documents leaked to the public in the last 20 years
regarding state secrets and the UFO phenomenon, are the CIA's unacknowledged
Majestic Twelve/MJ-12 files which disclose the most guarded of all classified
subjects: extraterrestrial life-forms and their technologies.8
In order to secure this knowledge and prevent foreign countries from learning
this vital secret and getting an edge on the United States, President Harry
S. Truman signed a directive 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 knowledge or consent of
Congress and was concealed by the wording of the National Security Act of
1947, which prohibits the disclosure of classified matters without
presidential approval and prior agreement by the Department of Defense and
the Central Intelligence Agency, as amended in later versions of the National
Security Act.
Knowledge of the finding was limited to only a select few within the
government's intelligence and scientific communities. 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 defence secrets from the study.
Like the Manhattan Project group, 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. The CIA was the
premier intelligence agency tasked with maintaining the first line of defence
of the United States during the 55-year Cold War between the capitalist West
and the communist East. When Angleton assumed his throne as Chief of
Counterintelligence, no doubt Truman's directive was a most inviting
instrument, allowing him to carry on his mole-hunting career within the CIA
against the KGB and GRU.
Majestic Twelve enjoyed greater protection than did the hydrogen bomb program
of the early 1950s. With that, the Soviets were driven to penetrate not only
the secrets of the H-bomb program itself, but the ultimate prize that lay
scattered throughout the US Government's maximum security research facilities
located in the southwestern and eastern United States.
The shocking truth of the Soviet atomic weapons espionage program, Enormous,
dealt a tremendous blow to US and British security when it was learned that
British diplomats operating within the US State Department, as well as US
Army technicians at Los Alamos National Laboratories, had not only supplied
blueprints and materials for the atomic bomb to their KGB handlers in New
York, but had stolen the proposed plans for the hydrogen bomb as well.
Security officials were left guessing as at what else the Soviet spies had
stolen from under their noses.10
As far as we know, there was no successful penetration by KGB or GRU agents
into the CIA's UFO program - in large part, due to the disgraceful and
unlawful actions taken by Angleton's CI Staff. After the fallout from the
Burgess-MacLean-Philby defections and the execution of the Rosenbergs,
Angleton tightened security and dedicated himself to safeguarding whatever
secrets still eluded the Soviets. Thus he embarked on a vicious mole-hunt
that would almost paralyse the CIA until his departure in 1974.
During the time of the Eisenhower administration (1953&endash1960), 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. However,
comments from the White House were nil when it came to the UFO problem,
although Eisenhower's supposed meeting with extraterrestrials in 1954 was
given some publicity. While it was largely discounted by the Press, some did
try to connect Eisenhower's heart attack with the meeting. The national media
were downplaying the UFO sightings in the US and abroad as part of a Cold War
hysteria that accompanied the "duck and cover" scare that seemed to grip the
country. No real problems popped up until the 1960 presidential elections
when Democratic 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 too close to the Soviet Union
through d�tente.
Soon after Kennedy became President, he began to needle the CIA for
information on UFOs,11 which was unnerving at the outset to Allen Dulles
after he was burned over the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro's
communist-enslaved Cuba in April 1961. The once cordial relationship that had
existed fell apart, and Dulles knew his time as DCI was short - as evidenced
in his 1961 draft directive to MJ-12.12 He knew that the explicit
instructions contained in the September 24, 1947 Truman directive -
prohibiting the DCI from making disclosures to a chief executive who
obviously did not have a "need to know" clearance - would compromise the CIA,
but also that the lengthy and costly UFO program, deemed so necessary to
national security by all involved, simply could not be jeopardised for anyone
- not 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. The DCI Top Secret/ MJ-12
document leaves no doubt that Dulles was not going to cooperate with
Kennedy's request of June 28, 1961, which he forwarded to Angleton for
consideration and feedback.
Majestic Twelve/MJ-12 included spin-off projects that were obviously equally
sensitive activities of the CIA, such as Parasite, Parhelion, Enviro, Psyop, G
reen, 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 operational projects associated with 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.
MARILYN MONROE AND MURDER, INC.
The pressure put on the CIA by Kennedy was reaching a flashpoint of wills;
and with the Noresenko affair13 driving Angleton to obsession, a UFO leak
crisis brought new strains on Angleton. He learned that Hollywood screen star
Marilyn Monroe's phone conversation with a New York art dealer14 - in which
she discussed Kennedy's secret visit to an undisclosed military base to see
alien artifacts, and her disdain over her soured relationships 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 to a well-known American writer
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 recognised 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 A
pollo Moon program. Dorothy Kilgallen made headlines in 1955 when she
disclosed a private conversation with a British Cabinet official who told her
that UFOs are real and that the US and British authorities consider the
matter as of 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 Milo
Speriglio, internationally recognised private investigator and director of
the Nick Harris Detective Agency, 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 with its "absolute security at any cost" philosophy. Whether Angleton
authorised the hit is not known, but the modus operandi of the way her body
was found and moved around, the fashion in which the autopsy records were
changed to reflect suicide, and the theft of her secret red diary one day
after her autopsy, all have similarities to the methods used by Angleton's
covert CIA Counterintelligence operators.
JFK AND THE CIA'S UFO FILES
The final straw for Angleton came when President Kennedy fired off a Top
Secret memorandum to him,17 outlining a previous discussion concerning a
classification review of all CIA UFO files that could affect national
security. It was dated November 12, 1963 - just 10 days before he would be
gunned down in the streets of Dallas, Texas.
Kennedy informed Angleton that he was setting things in motion to share
sensitive CIA UFO intelligence data with the Russians through the director of
NASA, James Webb.18 This request was made on the same day he requested Webb19
to begin Kennedy's peace overture to the Russians via joint space
exploration. Webb, being a board member of the intelligence community,19 most
likely interpreted Kennedy's program to mean the sharing of classified UFO
data, which was forbidden under the current directive.
In Kennedy's Top Secret memorandum,20 he outlined for Angleton the 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", 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". Finally, Kennedy wanted Angleton to "arrange a program
of data-sharing with NASA mission directors in their defensive
responsibilities".
This was unprecedented and was 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" - just to hand over the most
guarded secret ever! This memo was passed on to William Colby, who indicated
to someone in Angleton's staff in a handwritten note, "Response from Colby:
Angleton has MJ directive".21 The note is dated November 20, 1963 - just two
days before Kennedy's assassination.
It seems that Kennedy's request was bounced to and from Angleton's desk;
either consensus was being sought, or the buck was being passed back to
Angleton. In any case, it was a hot potato that Angleton had to deal with. It
is also significant that NSAM No. 271 was the last to come from Kennedy's
desk, just before he left Washington for Dallas. Whatever the real
significance, it 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.
NSA SPECIAL ACTIVITIES
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.
Retired Air Force intelligence officer Robert Collins produced for his
website an insightful foreword to an extract from the Marchetti interview, in
which he quotes Marchetti as saying: "My theory is that we have, indeed, been
contacted - perhaps even visited - by extraterrestrial beings, and that the
US 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 that this must be kept away from public
viewing.
We know now that the National Security Agency does have sensitive COMINT
files, which for reasons of national security it cannot disclose. One of
these NSA files that Marchetti speaks of might be the NSA intercept of
Kennedy's phone conversation with Khrushchev on November 12, 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 issue when
President Truman authorised 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 September 30, 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, an NSA employee drafted a significant
analysis of the intelligence community's ambivalence towards the UFO
camouflage and warned of dire consequences unless the defence establishment
woke up and recognised the danger these phenomena pose in the nuclear age.
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 May 11, 1987. But the secret that went with
him re-emerged almost precisely the day he died.
Perhaps Jim was not the real bad guy in the counterintelligence game. Maybe
he was its victim.
Endnotes:
1. September 25, 1943 OSS memo, released through the FOIA in September 1989.
2. US Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to
Intelligence Activities, Final Report, Book VI, April 23, 1976, pp. 154-55.
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's Washington headquarters during May
through December 1947. See Tom Mangold, Cold Warrior James Jesus Angleton:
the CIA's Master Spy Catcher, Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster, 1991, p.
361.
4. On December 12, 1947, the National Security Council (NSC) adopted measures
to counter the espionage and counterespionage threat, as specified in NSCID
1, later amended in NSCID 5, that authorised 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 was 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 were not allowed to fall into administrative control
of the AEC nor FBI, as Vandenberg thought they should remain within CIA
intelligence operations. See Arthur B. Darling's The Central Intelligence
Agency: An Instrument of Government to 1950, Penn State Press, 1990, pp.
197-239.
5. The term "UFO", as defined by Air Force intelligence directives, is used
here to reflect unconventional aircraft and missiles, not interplanetary
spacecraft.
6. CIA FOIA response letter, dated March 26, 1976, to a July 14, 1975 FOIA
request made by Ground Saucer Watch of Phoenix, Arizona, in which it stated
that the NSC tasked the CIA with 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. The Joint Chiefs of Staff,
represented by General Todd (who is mentioned in an FBI memo regarding Joint
Staff Council ignorance of flying saucer data in 1947), were at odds with the
CIA about duplication of efforts by the Military Intelligence Division in
producing UFO intelligence data for the IAC. See Arthur B. Darling, ibid.,
pp. 349-356.
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 organisations.
8. This remarkable fact is substantiated in the mistakenly downgraded Top
Secret Canadian Department of Transport intra-departmental correspondence,
dated 21 November 1950, from Wilbert B. Smith to Dr Robert I. Sarbacher, an
American physicist and science consultant in the US Defense Department's
Research and Development Board and a member of the Guidance and Control
Panel. Smith acknowledged that UFO studies were "considered by the United
States authorities to be of tremendous significance" and that the "matter is
the most classified subject in the United States Government, rating higher
than the H-bomb".
9. September 24, 1947 Top Secret/MAJIC/ Eyes Only Project White Hot
Preliminary Estimate in Five Parts (unacknowledged by the US Government). See
Robert M. Wood, PhD, and Ryan S. Wood, The Majestic Documents, Wood & Wood
Enterprises, 1998, pp. 43-81.
10. November 25, 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. JCS 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
after the CIA was informed of the defection. Angleton was devastated to learn
that Kim Philby, a longstanding friend of British intelligence, was part of
the spy ring.
11. Unacknowledged June 28, 1961 Top Secret National Security Memorandum from
President John F. Kennedy to The Director [Dulles], Central Intelligence
Agency, Subject: Review of MJ-12 Intelligence Operations as they relate to
Cold War Psychological Warfare Plans. It is a one-line request that reads: "I
would like a brief summary from you at your earliest convenience."
12. Unacknowledged CIA Top Secret/ MJ-12 Counterintelligence carbon copy of
draft directive from Director of Central Intelligence to MJ-12 members 1 to
7, with eight tabs on government watermark onion skin paper, circa 1961.
13. Yuriy Ivanovich Norsenko was a Soviet KGB officer who defected in 1962.
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, not Norsenko, who was the real
mole planted within the CIA. Angleton was convinced that Golitsyn was a bona
fide defector and he used Golitsyn's information, but the CI mole-hunt
virtually destroyed the CIA's covert operations for some time.
14. Top Secret CIA wire-tap report, dated August 3, 1962, of discussion
between Marilyn Monroe and Howard Rothberg, with references to Project 40,
Moon Dust, the 5412 Committee and MJ-12. The report was given to 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 Kennedys
over their indiscretions during a sexual affair with her prior to August.
15. FBI file No. 105-40018-1, formerly classified Secret. CIA is copied on an
August 19, 1955 FBI document from Mr Dennis A. Flinn, Director, Office of
Security, Department of State. A copy was sent to Director, Central
Intelligence Agency, for the attention of Deputy Director, Plans, and was
marked Secret. It was declassified on November 11, 1978, but the subject
matter was redacted.
16. See Adela Gregory and Milo Speriglio, Crypt 33: The Saga of Marilyn
Monroe &endash The Final Word, Birch Lane Press, 1993.
17. This would be amazing, since no one in government knew that James
Angleton worked for the CIA, much less of 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 or his CIA
Counterintelligence position. His identity had been kept secret for 20 years.
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 Kennedy was
killed, this program was never acted upon.
19. It should be pointed out here that James E. Webb served on President
Truman's Psychological Warfare Strategy Board and 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. Webb considered the DCI slot
after Rear Admiral Hillenkoetter left office in 1950.
20. Top Secret Kennedy memorandum to the Director [of Counter Intelligence],
Subject: Classification review of all UFO intelligence files affecting
National Security, dated November 12, 1963.
21. ibid.
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About the Author:
Timothy S. Cooper is an independent researcher and writer who has worked in
security and investigation fields for 15 years. A Vietnam veteran, he began
researching military UFO intelligence operations in 1988 and has collected
extensive CIA and NSA files. He has also acquired the largest collection of
MJ-12 documents and privately owned, original Project Blue Book files in the
USA.
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