“STANDARD FORM NO.6 Office Memorandum Entan E. • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO t DATE: June 10, 1953 P/ FROM: v.V. Keug. Tolson. Ladd — __ Nichols Belmont. C V SUBJECT: 0 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY-- INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM JAMES ANGLETON AB Cless --- Glavin---”
“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 WH”
“* 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 furnishing the Liaison Agent blank memora”
“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 7-8-98 It is recommended that a ”
“Office Mem STANDARD FORM MS. 64 TO 2 MR . •ELMONT dum UNITED ECRET / DATE: GOVERNMENT March 9, 1954 N07 Tolson --------- Ladd--------- Nichols L Belmont —— • Clegg ------ Glavin_____ Harbo --------- FROM 2 V. P. 5 10/3/39 SPYELN/KFA Cast Rosen -------- T”
“future mail being directed to him be transmitted to % the Director = of CIA, "Attention: James Angleton, er Angleton stated that the above request was being made with the approval of Allen Director Dulles, the Director of CIA. He further indicated that he desired ,the abo”
“differences of opinion as to the 2] bona fides of a defector could be discussed and potentially : 22 reconciled. 23 Mr. Angleton testified and spoke at length in other ■ 24 forums with us about the fact that when — that at present there 25 really is no way that there’s ”
“Mr. Angleton. When you use the word U.S. while you 22 maykese it as contracting officers and all that, there Was% 23 very little reduced to writing. And it is a custom of 24 intelligence that intelligence supersedes writing. And / there have been very few directors to my ”
“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 these projects”
“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 before t”
“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 did. 24 Senator Mathias. We will follow that up. 25 TOP SECRET NW ”
“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 your aEtention — did you”
“in counter-intelligence? 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, D. C. 20003 19 Mr. Angleton. We are not dealing in overt. There may 20 : be some overt things put out that support document that was 1given to a double who would pass it to KGB. But if the man 22 is regarded t”
“Phone (Ares 2021 544 1 that there is no forum which can adjudicate issues in the • f 2 intelligence community, of a counter-intelligence nature, 3 I may have allegations, very firm, that relate to somebody in 4 high office. But there isn't anyone, ombudsman or somebody, to ”
““wrweais ‘e TOP SECRET F33 ■19; 2 Phone (A rea 2021 $44-6000 PROCEEDINGS - e c o ie s © W Senator Hart of Colorado. Gentlemen, let's go ahead and 0I be sworn and get under way if you don't mind. Do you swear the testimony you're about to give will be ON the ”
“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 information on your backgrounds, 5 beginning with Mr. Angleton. 6 Mr. Angle”
“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 directing the operation”
“cooperation directly 20 attributable to Mr. Hoover, to your knowledge? 21 410 First Street, S.E. Mr. Angleton. no. 22 Mr. diGenova. Was this problem ever brought to the 23 attention of the President of the United States at any time? 24 Mr. Angleton. No, but he raised ”
“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 Bureau leads in an effective manner. Much of the information which Angleton has furnished appears in the raw form, that”
“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 was determined that he objected to attributing info”
“1 / OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION 0 5010—106 AB Bemont U Tolson, GSA GEN, REG. NO. 27 A UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum CECDET JLURG 1 DeLoach Casper _ Callahan Conrad - 4 Felt ----- TO Mr. W. C. Sullivan are7-24-98 DATE- 3/17/65 AA I C. ty. ”
“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 within CIA that he was volunteering this information to the Bureau, he ”
“yer a *dewtiwh,9689ta% 48 TOP SECRET 107 Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 call him on the phone and say, I think you should know the following, and there would be a notification that Mr. Hoover notified, et cetera. He called me once when there wasn’t 10 enough time factor for ”
“deceptions? Mr. Angleton. It was a paper that was pulled together 21; 22 ll by the Joint Chiefs, ourselves, and the FBI. Mr. Maxwell. And it proposes what? 23 : Mr. Angleton. It outlines procedures for strategic 24 deceptions, political deception and other deception. 2”
“C3 co It is suggested that it would materially assist in 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 Supervi”
“■ BY e TOP SECRET • 22 ta 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”
“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 Mr. Johnson. Does this happen frequently? Is this a typical 5 procedure for a”
“on the CI to Staff that you wanted to tell the Director of the CIA Staff W D yourself? « NO Mr. Osborn, I very probably would have. I had very close W relationships with Jim Angleton professionally. M m HW 50955 DocId 32281990 Page 17 TAD CECDET”
“Phone (Area 2^23 $44-6000 TOP SECRET 28 1 the Bureau. © 2 ‘Would it help today if there was a separate Bureau under 3 the Attorney General for counterintelligence, separate from the 4 FBI? 5 Mr. Angleton. You are posing the same problem that the 6 RCMP in Canada had”
“is available from the Director of Security. I, personally, managed to avoid gaining any knowledge of what precise actions were taken, what information was gained, what was done with it, and when the operation was terminated. 3. As a result of a developing relationship with P”
“Street, S.E., Washington, 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 ”
“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 the leaks in the Bay of Pigs. 4 Senator Tower. Will you go back to the Szulc-”
“stayed after that point. Then unfortu na tely the Seymour Hirsh article of December 22nd came 1.5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 1 23 24 25 Photocopy fr om Gerald Ford Library T OP SECRET to our attention before it was actually published, and so I brought Mr. Angleton u p a nd said that I ”
“published, and so I brou gh t Mr. Angleton up and said that I was goin g to make two basic de ci si ons. I was going to move the Israeli account from his control and I was going to put some suc essor leadership into the Head of the Counterintelligence St aff . I said I wo uld off”
“Washington, D.C. 20003 19 were 16 years in this one case, part f that mechanism and 20 who read all the files. 21 Mr. Epstein. What happens to all that? 22 Mr. Angleton. Well, that's been used by directors in 23 briefings but there’s never yet been a forum where you can”
“As a result of a developing relationship with IDEN-122 theIDEN-123representative in Washington, and also as a result of certain information conveyed by IDEN-124 , James Angleton, with the approval of Dick Helms, agreed to mount a counterespionage operation against the IDEN-95 i”
“14-00000 - SEP. 28. 1998 3:35PM , H t NO.279 P. 16 ■ SECRET SENSITIVE NOFORN I U.S. Registered Mail/Return Receipt 65 Post Cards 25 Letters 24 1 /Swedish Custom’s [sic] Declaration" 1 / —The person who brought the letters to Kalaris, the supervisor of the summer emp”
“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 allied governments. That would be ”
“490 P SECRET 108 so 1 Senator Baker. What would you do, Mr. Angleton, to try to rehabilitate the Agency,in particular in counterintelli- gence capability, since you feel that it is deteriorating, what things in particular would you do? 4 _Mr. Angleton. My feeling is that ”
“if they stayed after that point. Then unfortuna tely the Sey mo ur H irs h article of December 22nd came 1.5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 1 23 24 25 Photocopy from Gerald Ford Library TOP SECRET to our attention before it was actually published, and so I brought Mr. Angleton up and said ”
“and no o position with the Agency, did you ver express your concern to 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 who”
“OP SECRET: -4. Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 it would be helpful to have a few background first.” 2 Senator Baker. If I may say so, so that Mr. Angleton 3 1 not be taken by surprise, there are one or two things that 4 I would like to discuss. The nature of that material woul”
“are 475 TOP SECRET 1061 f / ■.J. Phone (Arna 202) 54-4 that you have not then identified. We know what they passed or some of the stuff which was passed. to. Senator Mathias. ; Assuming a file was set up on that lunch two years ago -- — Mr. Angleton. The file woul”
“there was not delivered by the 18 CIA, or anyone to his knowledge any fissionable material such 4 1 0 F ir s t S tr e e t, S .C ., W a s h in g to n , D .C . 2 0 0 0 3 19 as plutonium or ther material." 20 Mr. Angleton. I don't follow that at all. 2J Mr. Aaron. Did you ”
“So you developed some kind of a relation- 22/ ship, perhaps a friendly 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 ”
“P Da 7 STOP SECRET Co 21 ■ Phone(Area202)544-6000 1 FBI has had no contact since 1965? 2 Mr. Angleton. That’s correct. 3 Mr. diGenova. Has the Agency had any contact with him 4 since 1965? 5 Mr. Angleton. Yes, we've had it, but we've had our 6 ups and downs. 4”
“$3 wile i *9 TOP SECRET 11 Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 1 General and so forth, rather than to go through the normal © 2 bureaucratic chain of command out of the CIA and ita various 5 components. 4 Mr. Angleton. With the added fact that we did not disclose 1% W3 1 ”
“e2Av3%e*. 1 CIA as to the bona fides of a defector and there's no way for 2 the government to come to a decision about it. And this really makes that point and leads to the further 4 ooint that we believe there ought to be some mechanism whereby 5 some decision can be r”
“loose if th ey sta yed af ter th at point. Then unfort unately the Seymour Hirsh article of December 22nd came to our attention before it was actually published, and so I brought Mr. Angleton up and said that I was going to make two basic decisions. I was going to move th e I sra”
“efore it was actually published, and so I brought Mr. Angleton up and said that I w as g oi ng t o m ake two basic decisions. I was going to move the Israeli account from his control and I was going to put some sucessor leadership into the Head of the Counterintelligence Staff. I”