> 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.