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...story begins with James Jesus Angleton, the director of the CIA for about twenty years before he was forced out of his post...
...convinced was Angleton that there was a mole in the inner sanctum of the Agency that he effectively halted all espionage efforts in Russia, fearing that whatever information could be gleaned would find its way back to Moscow via the mole...
...with the dawn of new era in the CIA and with the self-conscious effort to leave the pathologies of Angleton behind, the CIA got lax with its own personnel...
...Angleton would rightly be appalled at how Ames aimlessly drifted past CIA monitoring. Though he took frequent trips abroad, including to that eternal city of spies, Vienna, and though he bought a $540,000 house on a $70,000 salary, Angleton's successors barely took notice...
...What Angleton would not be upset about is the very fact that the Russians had trolled for information. Even an assiduously suspicious CIA man like Angleton realized that spying is an international fact of life, an integral and inescapable part of the relationship of states...