“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 …”
“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”
““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 ”
“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”
“* 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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 was a pretty lengthy use of him. 5 And h”
“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 ”
“Senator Baker. What did you regard him as? 22 Mr. Angleton. We thought he was a dispatch agent who ! esepelly-Rorgapnitwbimg 23 was sent to mutilated the leads, of very high grade Soviets 24 whom we had acquired prior to that. 25 Senator Baker. To mutilate leads relating”
“E 27 E 1 first live,human being I saw that had actually allegedly/ 8 a heard from Hersh. And he thought they had been set up =- % % 2 and that was the biggest agony in the Agency.V 4 Senator Baker. And the person who set him up— 5 Mr. Angleton. Hersh told him, accordingt”
“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 ”
“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 ”
“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 ”
“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”
“Phone (Area 202) 5.44 I left there — and I think this is a very important point - to first, I will have to explain we went to the restaurant, he Cl invited us to the restaurant, he was Insistent on it. And we went there. And here in the restaurant the entire discussion ”
“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”
“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 Mr. Ang le ton. Yes sir. 25 TOP SECRET NW age”
“TOP SICRE 37 Mr. Angleton. They were consistent, but they weren't 25 stated in that fashion. They were stated in the fashion that 3 Dri Mann is a person who fits within the Philby, e@ cetera, 4 complex in a false story of this sort, which comes to the 5 British, who pull o”
“a S 20 Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 26 TOP SECRET 85 Mr. Angleton. He knew, because even before I went into 1 this I told him what I was going to do, and he agreed, and 2 so on. 3 And also I wanted a person, because there was a radio 4 going to be put into Havana, and l”
“Street, S.E.. Washington, O.C. 20003 19 here or 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, f”
“TOP SICRE N0 back of 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”
“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”
“understand them. 23 Mr. Schwarz. You were employed at the CIA for what 24 period of time? 25 Mr. Angleton. From the beginning until December, the TOP SECRET 1”
“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”
“■ 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”
“dispute in connection 20 with these Israeli matters underlay your dispute with Mr. 21 Colby, which under lay your leaving the Agency? 22 "Mr. Angleton. Yes. He offered me jobs or what not. 23 But these are matters of principle, as far as I am concerned. $ Mr. Miller. Mr”
“EC 46 Phone (Area 202) 544 of the Watergate, and we had all of these things. And so a 2 great deal of this 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 l”
“Phillips, page 17. OURMITTEE SENSITIVE Mr. Phillips acknowledged that the FBI would manipulate their files on employees of the CIA at the Agency's behest. He also said that he would not be surprised if other categories of files could be manipulated, including internal CIA f”
“Chief of the KGB in London, and a very high grade man. Then 20 he took over the Department 13 and reinvigorated it. 2) Mr. Schwarz. And what was his connection with Oswald? 22 Mr. Angleton. I am saying that he was head of Department 23 13, and was head f Department 13 at ”
“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”
“the fact 21 V of your or the CI staff's concerns about the Israeli problem which you alluded to was frowned upon within the Agency. 22 What form did that take? I'd be interested to know that. 23 Mr. Angleton. Well, it took this form, that a person 24 working with Scotty”
“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 ”
“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”
“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 U.S., et cetera. 5 Senator Baker. And did McCone accept your ”
“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”
““sawa 9: n TOP SECRET- cola ra th 16 Phone (Area202) see-socec being contacted perhaps by nine different intelligence services to Now, there is no one who has supported the question of his mala fides. In other words, everyone, to a man, has stated that he is bona ”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“T: a 4 TOP SECRET " 93 Phone (Ares 202) 544-6000 how do we deal with those kinds of cases, where someone allegedly, a confidence man, or whatnot, who wants to sell to you the stuff? The purpose then was to penetrate, or try to penetrate. And I wonder if there wasn't ”
“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 ”
“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-”