[lbo-talk] Epstein on Po-210 smuggling

[John Adams]

On Dec 16, 2006, at 8:36 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:

> Angleton was a crazy CIA counterespionage specialist (who loved to 
> quote Eliot's line about the wilderness of mirrors). He trusted no 
> one, and thought everyone was a double or a triple agent. He was 
> purged from the CIA during the Carter years, and thought Gorbachev was 
> a big fraud who was trying to trick the US into surrender. Epstein 
> used to channel his stuff in the late 80s

He's the one Mailer wrote _Harlot's Ghost_about, isn't he? That was a 
wonderful book.