Angleton’s [Redacted] Tale of Israeli Nukes

How ancient secrecy serves contemporary purposes

[Editor’s Note: This article is a sequel to Monday’s post, “In the Last of the JFK Files, Israel's Nuclear Secrets Are Safe.”]

Fired in December 1974, Angleton testified to investigators in June 1975.

When former CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton arrived to testify to the Senate Select Committee 49 years ago, he was a defeated but defiant man.…