>Can always count on Ledeen:
>
>May 24, 2004, 8:53 a.m.
>The Agency Rides Again
>Angleton on Chalabi.
>
>Like everyone else, I've been reading the stories about my friend Ahmad
>Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress, and the accusations that he's an
>Iranian spy. I don't believe it, but before launching a tirade against
>the misnamed Central Intelligence Agency I thought I'd better check with
>the greatest unliving expert on intelligence, the late James Jesus
>Angleton. He was the longtime chief of CIA counterintelligence, and knew
>everything there was to know about spying, so I dusted off the ouija
>board and got him on the second try.
>
>JJA: I reckoned you'd decide it was time for another chat.
>
>ML: Right you were. It's about Chalabi. He's a friend of mine, and I
>would be really upset if he turned out to be an Iranian agent.
>
>http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200405240853.asp
This is beautiful. Angleton thought Gorbachev was a fraud, designed to trick us into disarmament. If Ledeen is turning to a dead paranoid for support, they're really in trouble.
Leeden is the fellow who said "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." Evidently he didn't figure that the CLCs can hit back.
Doug