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James Jesus Angleton was born on 9 December, 1917 in Boise, Idaho, United States, is a Central Intelligence Agency officer (1917–1987). Discover James Jesus Angleton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 9 December, 1917
Birthday 9 December
Birthplace Boise, Idaho, United States
Date of death 11 May, 1987
Died Place Washington, D.C., United States
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1916

Carmen Moreno was born in Mexico but was already a naturalized American citizen before she married James H. Angleton in December 1916.

1917

James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 – May 11, 1987) was an American intelligence operative who served as chief of counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1975.

According to Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms, Angleton was "recognized as the dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world".

Angleton served in the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime predecessor to the CIA, in Italy and London during World War II.

After the war, he returned to Washington, D.C. to become one of the founding officers of the CIA.

He was initially responsible for the collection of foreign intelligence and liaison with counterpart organizations in allied countries.

James Jesus Angleton was born December 9, 1917, in Boise, Idaho, the eldest of four children of James Hugh Angleton (1888–1973) and Carmen Mercedes Moreno (1898–1985).

His parents met in Nogales, Arizona, while his father was a U.S. Army cavalry officer serving under General John Pershing.

1930

James Hugh Angleton joined the National Cash Register Corporation, rising through its ranks until in the early 1930s he purchased the NCR franchise in Italy.

In Italy, he became head of the American Chamber of Commerce.

Angleton's boyhood was spent in Milan, Italy.

He studied as a boarder at Malvern College in England before attending Yale University.

As a Yale undergraduate, Angleton edited the Yale literary magazine Furioso with Reed Whittemore.

Furioso published many of the best-known poets of the interwar period, including William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings and Ezra Pound.

Angleton carried on an extensive correspondence with Pound, Cummings and T. S. Eliot, among others, and was particularly influenced by William Empson, author of Seven Types of Ambiguity.

Angleton was trained in the New Criticism at Yale by Maynard Mack and others, chiefly Norman Holmes Pearson, a founder of American Studies.

He briefly studied law at Harvard, but did not graduate.

1943

In 1943, Angleton joined the U.S. Army.

During World War II, Angleton served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and led its Italian branch.

He also served in London under Norman Holmes Pearson in the X-2 Counter Espionage Branch of the OSS.

1944

By February 1944, he was chief of the Italy desk for X-2 in London.

While in London, Angleton met the famous double agent Kim Philby.

In November 1944, Angleton was transferred to Italy as commander of Secret Counterintelligence Unit Z, which handled Ultra intelligence based on the British intercepts of German radio communications.

By the end of the war, Angleton was head of X-2 for all of Italy.

In this position, Angleton helped prevent the execution of Italian naval commander Junio Valerio Borghese, whose elite unit Decima MAS had collaborated with the Schutzstaffel during the war.

Angleton was interested in the defense of installations such as ports and bridges and offered Borghese a fair trial in return for his collaboration.

He dressed him up in an American uniform and drove him from Milan to Rome for interrogation by the Allies.

Borghese was then tried and convicted by an Italian court of collaboration with the Nazi invaders but not of war crimes.

1947

Upon his return to Washington after World War II, Angleton was employed by the various successor organizations to the OSS and eventually became one of the founding officers of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947.

1948

Angleton remained in Italy after the war, establishing connections with other intelligence services and playing a major role in the 1948 Italian general election.

The election was won by the US-backed Christian Democratic Party over the Soviet-backed Italian Communist Party.

Angleton's tour in Italy as an intelligence officer is regarded by biographer Jefferson Morley as a critical turn not only in his professional life.

His personal liaisons with Italian Mafia figures helped the CIA in the immediate postwar period.

1949

In May 1949, he was made head of Staff A of the Office of Special Operations, where he was responsible for the collection of foreign intelligence and liaising with counterpart intelligence organizations in foreign countries.

1951

Beginning in 1951, Angleton was responsible for "the Israel desk" as liaison with Israel's Mossad and Shin Bet agencies.

1954

In 1954, Allen Dulles promoted Angleton to chief of the Counterintelligence Staff.

As chief, Angleton was significantly involved in the defection of Soviet KGB agents Anatoliy Golitsyn and Yuri Nosenko.

Through Golitsyn, Angleton became convinced the CIA harbored a high-ranking Soviet mole and engaged in an intensive search.

Whether this was a highly destructive witch hunt or appropriate caution remains a subject of intense historical debate.

Investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein agrees with the high regard in which Angleton was held 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."