Spytime
The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton

Spytime by William F. Buckley This book is basically about James Angleton an actual person and a spy.was the master-a legend in the time of spies. He was the founder of the U.S. counterintelligence after WWII, ended. Within that arena, he is “at home” underhanded or unscrupulous, as well as intellectu......more

James Jesus Angleton is one of those enigmas that could only have come out of the Cold War era. The long-time head of the CIA's counter-intelligence wing after serving with the agency's precursor organization during World War II, few figures could claim to have had as much of an effect on the secret......more

I'm a huge fan of James Jesus Angleton, and have used his famous mirror quote in my third book of the Shadow series (not yet published). For a book that reads more like a fly sitting on the wall listening into conversations and recording events during the sixties and seventies, this book riveted me......more

This book was an absolute disaster. It was my first time to read something by Buckley, though his son Christopher is one of my favorite novelists. James Jesus Angleton is the gift that keeps giving--and Buckley captured something about the man--but as a novel it was trying to do too much. And it rea......more

A bit confusing.......more