Excavating Angleton

A deep dive into the long-secret testimony where the legendary counterintelligence chief gave a candid account of the his special relationship with Israel

In The GrayZone, Kit Klarenberg excavates the declassified Church Committee testimony of spymaster James Angleton with unusual thoroughness. I’ve written about this testimony both in my 2017 book, “The Ghost” (when key portions were still redacted), and in JFK Facts (mostly in relation to the JFK assassination story). Klarenberg adds the long-suppressed details and underappreciated context.

Veteran CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton secretly oversaw a top-level spy ring involving Jewish émigrés and Israeli operatives without “any clearances” from Congress or Langley itself, according to recently declassified documents published as part of the Trump administration’s pledge to disclose all available information on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The files provide a fresh and often disturbing look at a spy described by historian Jefferson Morley as “a leading architect of America’s strategic relationship with Israel,” detailing Angleton’s role in transforming the…