Spytime: The Undoing of James Angleton


Spytime The Undoing of James Angleton
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Mouse over for member price Synopsis: SPYTIME is a fictionalized account of the extraordinary rise and fall of notorious molehunter James Jesus Angleton, founder of U.S. counterintelligence and one of the most coldly compelling personalities of the Cold War. Size Height: 7.8 in. Width: 5.3 in. Thickness: 1.0 in. Weight: 11.2 oz. Publisher's Note: James Jesus Angleton was an enigma, a secretive man whose power was at its peak during the height of the Cold War. Founder of U.S. counter-intelligence, hunter of moles and foes of America, his name has become synonymous with skulduggery and subterfuge. Angleton pursued his enemies, real and imagined, with a cool, calculating intelligence. Eventually convinced that there was a turncoat within the highest reaches of the U.S. government, Angleton turned all of his considerable skills to finding and exposing him. The result was a near-victory for U.S. Intelligence-and total defeat for himself. A brilliant re-creation of a world that included Soviet defectors, the infamous traitors Burgess, MacLean, and Philby, and American presidents from Truman to Carter, Spytime traces the making-and unmaking-of a man without a peer and, at the end, a man without a country to serve.