From the New JFK Files, the Untold Story of Angleton and Oswald...

by Jefferson Morley at JFK Facts

Nine documents about the legendary counterintelligence chief James Angleton expose his ‘deeply deceptive’ actions concerning the patsy/assassin

The latest of the JFK assassination files, released by President Donald Trump last week, yielded 13 newly declassified documents about CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton. These long-secret records, along with others released with less fanfare in recent years, implicate the legendary spymaster more deeply in the intelligence failure represented by the murder of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

These unexpurgated FBI and CIA memoranda complicate the comforting narrative that the liberal president was killed by a “lone nut” who murdered for reasons known only to himself and denied committing the crime, supposedly because he was guilty of it.

The new JFK files tell a different story. They show that Lee Harvey Oswald, far from being an isolated sociopath, was a figure of abiding covert interest to one of the top men in the CIA for four years before Kennedy died in a hail of gunfire in Dallas.

That man was James Jesus Angleton.

Legend of a Spy

Over the decades, Angleton has come to represent an archetypal American spy, alternately brilliant, paranoid, foolish, and sinister. He was the hero of William F. Buckley’s entertaining yarn “Spytime.” In Norman Mailer’s more serious CIA novel “Harlot’s Ghost,” he was the title character, Hugh Tremont Montague.

In Robert De Niro’s big screen saga,…