“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”
“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”
“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---”
“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”
“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”
“* 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”
“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 ”
““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 ”
“.C '22.0 W ) $4 1 Senator Mathias. Let me follow this Suez question a little more closely.-() 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 Mathi”
“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 ”
“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 ”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“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-”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“Js TOP SECRET 43 0009-rt (zoz rerv) suoud 1 By the same token, it induced people to bring their cases in 2 to us for analysis. They came to see us many times to see 3 the defectors, the stable of defectors that we had for 4 interrogation. 5 So that alone was a tre”
“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”
“powers were involved in covert action against the election 20 process in this country? 21 Mr. Angleton. Well, I think there's no question that 22 influence has been brought to bear. , 4 1 0 F irst S tr 23 Mr. Inderfurth. How? 24 Mr. Epstein. Meaning what? © 25 Mr. ”
“And they were very much involved. X 4 1 0 F irst S tre e t, S .E ., W ashington, D.C. 20003 Mr. Schwarz. Just one more background question and /X then we will turn to the principle subject. CM ^Following through on the subject of Israel your To departure in 1974, is th”
“/ TOP SECRET 091: % PAE,/ 36 X Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 So obviously he was talking to me as somebody affected from the Agency, et cetera.I mean that is my view 3 4 5 6 of why he was doing all this. Whereas my conc different than his. .Mr. Schwarz. 7 s We”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“■ 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”
“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 ”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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 ”
“Fast Street, &.E., Washington, O.C. 20003 19 conditions do not exist for the" Bureau or for ourselves. 20 'Mr. Miler. )r for the military services, to run a lot 21 of double agents. 22 Mr. Angleton. I mean, they do not have the superior 23 source of control over double ”
“E 26 R 1 does constitute denial. 8 2 & Mr. Angleton. His story was wrong. 3 Senator Baker. Let me ask you, Mr. Angleton, do I understand by that that you mean every material aiBece of 4 5 the story was wrong and incorrect?s 6 Mr. Angleton. I didn’t mean quite that. I”
“ves tzoz were) .SECRET, to know that you have got to know the other.% 2 Senator Baker. He was familiar with the most exotic source of intelligence gathering? tide Mr. Angleton. Precisely. 5 And that is why I can t understand I mean, if the papers are correct in what they ”
“SECRET A' € 1 54 Phone (Area 202) 544 1 Mr. Angleton. Very, very poor. - I have put in there, and I think it is very conservative, 5 “that it has put us back 20 years. But I think in the eyes of 4 every intelligence service in the Western World, where we 5 have had”
“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”
“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 ”
“1 TOP SECRET if % 3632 71 Phone (Area 202) $44-6000 1 d 1 them, and I think what he has spelled out, and I might add that 2 when I took him to many - countries we talked on higher levels 3 than we could talk in the United States. And I took him to 4 some countries tha”