“14-00000 • SEP.28. 1998 3:39PM , A NO.279 SECRET SENSITIVE NOFORN P.22 I This would suggest that Angleton may have lacked the opportunity that others had had to observe the kinds of behavior Soviet defectors have displayed in sorting out who …”
“… ed. IMS/ESG/HCS is retrieving its records for unredacted copies of the records and will make them available. CIA-IR-04 - Disposition of Angleton Files 16 SECRET”
“several months Angleton has been very cooperative with the Bureau, He has volunteered voluminous infor mation of interest to the Bureau and he has followed Bure …”
“… in Wells'house, and then proceeded in a restaurant to 8 regurgitate this entire matter. 9 Senator Tower. Which restaurant was it? 10 Mr. Angleton. It was the Sea Catch. 11 Senator Baker. Did you ever have any impression that w a n o • PAUL 12 it might be recorded, is that what you …”
“OP SECRET sedre ‘ ,2 . to n 98‘ Phone (Area 2021 $44-6000 e you were employed with the Agency, Mr. Angleton? I believe that might be a fair question. Senator Tower. In your capacity as Head of Counter- , 5 6 -intelligence, dlaRst ever come to …”
“Office Memo andum graupinS Font ID 64 204 • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Wo TO FROM SUBJECT: I * A. W. CIA 0 50 JAMES ANGLETON 0 KM OLUK 8 10/6/08 CA. #8871826 1 : DATE:April 30, INFORMATHON ALL 1Classified by SP484V/KEA HEREIN is O CLASSIFIED EXCEPT WHER …”
“… n the 4 handling of information received from Angle ton in the future, if' So 2 the Liaison Section could work out a procedure whereby Angleton might be referred to as a Bureau informant. This would permit the Supervisors receiving the Angleton material firsthand to transmit‘ it …”
“… u swear the testimony you're about to give will be ON the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? C Mr. Angleton. I do. Mr. Miler. I do. CD Senator Hart of Colorado. Thank you very much. 1 !6 2 wwrerng Mr. Angleton at least has been before us …”
“… ashington, D.C. 20003 in order to get the rest of the guys, but they said no, we've O. got to take this fellow to court now? to Mr. Angleton. That used be prevalent back in the ‘50s. To Today I don't think they've got many cases. I mean, I don't to to think that the job is …”
“… t woetie Phone (Area 202) $44-6000 1 asset inhibit you in any way from using the asset or the Agency © 2 from utilizing it? 3 Mr. Angleton. Absolutely, because so much of the infor- 4 mation that we wanted to take up with him was also related to , 5 FDI information. 6 Mr. …”
“expecting to receive an inquiry in Washington from the FBI. Mr. Angleton then admitted that this! coverage was one of the biggest and most secret operations being conducted by Litry that if it were known withi …”
“which sets forth instructions concerning the handling of information transmitted to the Bureau by Angleton, 7-26-98 CIA HA.3 wen DFGL/5,0 *OP C ASCEER PY LLP AobrY 0 2. SID /KSR 5668 HER H‘LLA_2 M8 A Nrene IN THIS DOC: MIENT EXCEPT LEE …”
“… dly relationship, with persons connected 23 with the new State of Israel or the hoped-for state of Israeli back in the 1940's? 25 Mr. Angleton. That is right. TOP SECRET NW 50955 Docla:32423393 Page 12 t”
“* Memo to Mr. Belmont Re: Central Intelligence Agency, Information Received from James Angleton the Bureau,_ particularly receives from the Israeli with regard to that information which he Intelligence Service. Angleton is now …”
“NNA $ : Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 OF SECRET 35 Mr. Angleton, I have heard that, but I haven’tlooked at the dossier for the last ten years. He came to our attention 5 basically in connection with th …”
“… ge by 1 the FBI of the aaswaeillimbassyWashIF 110ue Dungs, between February, 1969, and October, 1972, developed information showing that Angleton, during this period in his official capacity at 1 CIA, had frequent personal liaison contacts with the UmbeSSs 9am E. Israel, Israeli I …”
“… Helms, the CIA chief of clandestine services and later the agency’s director, placed Scelso in charge of the assassination investigation. Angleton, a counterintelligence official with close ties to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, “immediately went into action to do all the Investigatin …”
“… f my mind was the fact that we had problems with N 1 2 the Israelis in the nuclear field. 5 Mr. Aaron. What problems were those? 4 Mr. Angleton. They were very sensitive problems. And 5 I don't think that they really shed any light on things that 6 you are talking about here. N …”
“IB MW -Phone (Area 202) Md TOP SECRET 1 TESTIMONY OF JAMES ANGLETON © 2 . ACCOMPANIED BY SCOTTY MILER 3 Mr. Johnson. I wonder if we could begin by having both 4 of your gentlemen give us some informat …”
“… FROM: v.V. Keug. Tolson. Ladd — __ Nichols Belmont. C V SUBJECT: 0 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY-- INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM JAMES ANGLETON AB Cless --- Glavin--- Harbo___ dosen _____ 1 Tracy --------- Gearey --------- Mohe SYNOPSIS: 0 - Mien Gandy — NWa Winterrowd — …”
“… 1974, is there any connection between your de- To t parture and handling of Israel? And if there is, what is N the connection? Mr. Angleton. Well, I think I have said it all to the”; tor On TOP SECRET NW 50935 Docld:32423393 Page 17”
“him. 20 Senator Mathias. The Bureau, not the CIA? 21 Mr. Angleton. I am certain we never did, no. 22 Senator Mathias. But you think the FBI did? 23 : Mr. Angleton. That is just my sensation that they d …”
“S tre e t, S .E ., W a sh in g to n , D .C . 20003 Can you break it out that way? 19 20 Mr. Angleton. Well, it is difficult to break out, but the primary thing of all is the question of penetration in the 21 U.S. Government, and then in …”
“relimatters, t has been the practice of Israel i//S) supervisors to clear with Angleton before disseminating information from him, outside- the Bureau.6) * 70 D In taking u p such a matter with Angleton 1 last week it 4 2 …”
“which were T IN AND/OR, CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO . not reported through normal CIA channels. CIA Directors 0 permitted Angleton to run several intelligence projects, many of them with the Israeli Intelligence Service. He was CD given authority by CIA to handle thes …”
“FT TAOTT el Sri& Re: Central Intelligence Agency Memo to Mr , Belmont LOT Information Received from James Angleton ■ Intelligence division. Angleton handles special cases of various nature and he is usually given considerable freedom and leeway in di …”
“… rintelligence (SCI) units for Vietnam were modeled after SCI units employed by X-2, the counterintelligence arm of the wartime OSS—where Angleton began his intelligence career. Perhaps those early > / experiences shaped in some way Angleton’s later preference for conducting counter …”
“TOP SECRET 20 € $22357 202) $46-6000 interests and the interests of Israel were in conflict? Mr. Angleton. We never got into that. >f course, you 5 “only had to read the paper every day to see that./ 4 Mr. Miller. But how did they come up ? Y …”
“… his stuff was there, but it wasn’t being pro- 3 ressionally worked upon. 4 Senator Baker. You have mentioned the Watergate twice, 5 Mr. Angleton, 6 Cantyou shed any light on that period in the Agency's 0 7 life, the Imect that the Watergate investigation had or any C 8 involv …”
“TOP SECRET WksI 9’ c um rn tzoz OMV) suoue 1 Mr. Angleton. Well, it would be an ad hoc discussion © 2 between the Director and the Secretary, and probably others. 3 the Attorney General. 4 M …”
“000/12% -17127 7485 Senator Baker. Did he have a prominent responsibility? 2) .2 Mr. Angleton. He was man that had very difficult 5 case abroad, which meant that it had to be buried, no leakages. ■ 4 And I used him twice, and one w …”
“Phone (Area 202) $44-6000 1 OF SECRET 51 1 assassination? 2 Mr Angleton. Relating to assassination, KGB agents, 5 VASSALL Vassily, the British agents, and many agents in France, a 4 alleged penetration in the …”
“any help out of him in that regard? 21 Mr. Angleton. He knows that I would have cut his throat. 22 Mr. Kirbow. That would have jeopardized your entire 23 contact with the Israeli's? 24 …”
“… lems, they gave me the account. VMr. Miller. What ws the nature of the arrangement that was agreed upon between the two services?” YA Angleton. In most simplistic serma, they were in- to E formed that we would not work with^nem against the Arabs, that we would work with them o …”
“… was it in Israel. 20 Mr: Kirbow. Did you express any concern to Mr. 21 Szulc about the use of Dr. Mann's name in this article? 22 Mr. Angleton. Not Dr. Mann's name. My expression was 23 that if you — I said that article, false as it is, ith the 24. many things injected in it — …”
“SECRET/SCOPE)(s) Memorandum to Mr. W. R. Wannall Re: Senstudy 75 DETAILS : According to referenced memorandum, James Angleton, former Chief, Counterintelligence Operations, CIA, advised the FBI on 6/26/75 that he had recently testified under oath without counsel …”
“… of that that 15 whatever denial you made of the transfer of atomic parts of 16 ‘7 % thestory didn’t get across to Mr. Szulc? 17 Mr. Angleton. No, I think it got across to him. 18 Mr. Schwarz. Can you recall your words to him that 410 First Street, S.E.. wasniecton, O.C. 20003 …”
“… h us to help on the trans i- tio n o f t he whole counter intelligence program. Chairman Church. Why did he retire? Mr. Colby. That was the Angleton case, Mr. Chairman, and the facts of tha t case were that I had had some professional differences in the organization with Mr. Angleton as …”
“… e have been 7 available to this country. 8 Mr. Kirbow. And it's not available today because of this 303 9 spreading of the 10 Mr. Angleton. Well, that's what they say. I mean I've 1 11 had one or more chief of intelligence who have surreptitiously 1 12 seen me since my …”
“… / 6000 14 of one or more distinguished # nuclear % scientists or physicists 15 for the purpose of developing atomic weapons? 16 Mr. Angleton. That is completely false. 17 Mr. Aaron. Mr. Angleton, did you confirm or deny that 18 to Mr. Szulc? 4 1 0 Feest S treet, S.E.. W ashi …”
“… Phone € 5 That is a point at which the U.S. policy differed from 4 the policy which was adopted by British and France and Israel? 5 Mr. Angleton. Correct./ 5 6 Senator Mathias. And would a situation of that sort con- 7 %), W front roves difficulties in You/oeratkons because — 8 …”
“Chairman Church. Why did he retire? Mr. Colby. That was the Angleton case, Mr. Chairm an, an d t he facts of that case were that I had had some professional differences in the organization with Mr. Angleton a …”
“… r you move in to take him on as double 3 or whether you move in to arrest him. 4 Mr. diGenova. And that isn’t being done today. 5 Mr. Angleton. Well, they can’t do it because they don’t have 6 Mr. Rocco and they have fired most of the personnel. One of 7 the best men we had was …”
“… s to h elp on the transi- tion of the whole c oun ter in tel lig enc e program. Chairman Church. Why did he retire? Mr. Colby. That was the Angleton case, Mr. Chairman, and the facts of that case were that I had had some professional differences in the organization with Mr. Angle ton as …”
“… to anyone out there that you thought this might have been o n N1 ) D setup by a foreign source, or from internally? to “"Io.”“ Mr. Angleton. What might be a setup? ora Mr. Kirbow. That this whole Szulc interview, story and TOP SECRET 1 NW 50955 DocId: 32423393 Page 46”
“e Angleton case, Mr. Chairman, and the facts of that ca se w er e th at I h ad had so me pro fes sio nal differences in the organization with Mr. Angl …”
“… anaged to get him. And I turned the 8 phone over to Papich, because I did not want to be on the IC iil 9 record showing that this was Angleton, et cetera. 10 And Papich talked to Bill, and actually I didn't hear 11 It was something about, I will see you • PAUL the discussion …”
“… his article which has just 22 comebout he mentions him with his biographical sketch. 23 Senator Baker. Who was your successor? 24 Mr. Angleton. George Kalaris. I had never known him before. TOP SECRET 1 NW JIB”
“ately the Seymour Hirsh article o f D ecember 22nd came to our attention before it was actual ly pub lished, and so I brought Mr. Angleton up and said that I was going to make two bas ic decisions. I w as g oi ng to move the Israeli account from his control and I was going to p …”
“Angleton from 1958-64 and never dealt with him directly on a single matter. Is there a list of B&F officers assigned to the CI staff from 1959-63? D …”