From the JFK files, a spymaster's dictum on national security

From the new JFK files comes the long-suppressed testimony of CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton. Among other things, he spoke on the nature of the national security state:

It is inconceivable that a secret intelligence arm of the Government has to comply with all of the overt orders of the Government.”

The transcript of Angleton's closed-door …