[lbo-talk] Epstein on Po-210 smuggling

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Sat Dec 16 20:06:18 PST 2006


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.



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