Title: Spy Character study
Product review: James Jesus Angleton, former head of counterintelligence with the CIA, was quite an enigma. I recall two interviews with two former heads of the CIA. One said that Angleton was so paranoid that he was useless. The other basically said that, of course he was paranoid: He was paid to be paranoid. Buckley's experiences with the OSS during WorldWar II show, along with his good sense (and I say this despite not being a Conservative, as Buckley is). Buckley does theorize about how Angleton got the way he was, but I'll leave that up to the reader to discover. This is an absolutely fascinating read.
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