True Crime: Spy Stories 3

By Kristen Laurence

This book portrays the greatest spies and the stories behind them. Clandestine HUMINT (human intelligence)operations were on the rise during and after 2nd world war. Few of the greatest espionage took place during those times. Some of them have been unclassified now but never been talked about. Many spies had fallen into the lust of Soviet Union and had betrayed United States. Few fell in love with the prettiest cover girls. This book has it all and more..

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kristen Laurence
• Release date: Jan 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311403070

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True Crime: Spy Stories 3

Kristen Laurence

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True Crime: Spy Stories 3

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James Jesus Angleton: CIA Spy Hunter

Family of Spies: The John Walker Jr. Spy Case

KLAUS FUCHS: ATOM BOMB SPY

The Jonathan Jay Pollard Spy Case

Valerie Plame

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James Jesus Angleton: CIA Spy Hunter

The morning of September 14, 1965, started like any other for Ingeborg Lygren. Fifty years old, plain, and never married, Lygren worked as a secretary at the Norwegian Intelligence Service in Oslo. She dressed for work and prepared breakfast for herself as she always did before setting out for the office. But on her way to work, she was stopped by the police and arrested. They took her to a local jail and put her in solitary confinement for three days without access to a telephone before she was formally charged with spying for a foreign nation. Numb with fear, Lygren was then transferred to Bredtvedt Women's Prison and held without bail.

Government officials questioned her relentlessly, delving into every aspect of her life. Guards watched her 24 hours a day, and the lights in her cell were never turned off. The authorities were particularly interested in the time she spent in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s. Lygren, who was fluent in Russian and Polish, had been recruited by the American Central Intelligence Agency to act as a mailman, delivering secret messages to CIA operatives working in the Soviet Union. As an ally of the United States, the Norwegian government cooperated with the plan and sent her to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow to replace the ambassador's secretary who had served in that position for the past nine years.

During her three years in Moscow, Lygren became acquainted with several Soviet citizens, including a young female art student, a male artist, and a handsome, 49-year-old driving instructor named Aleksey Filipov. She suspected that each of them actually worked for the KGB, the Soviet civilian CHECK intelligence agency, and that they had befriended her only to convince her to spy for them. Lygren dutifully reported these overtures to her CIA case officer, Richard Kovich, who cautioned her to beware of these three people. She admitted that she was an affair with Filipov, the driving instructor, and Kovich explained that Filipov was probably a CIA swan, a attractive man trained to seduce vulnerable foreign employees and compromise them. But Lygren told Kovich that he had no right to ask her to stop seeing Filipov and Kovich acknowledged her point, as author Tom Mangold writes in Cold Warrior. Lygren had been diligent worker for the CIA, and Kovich considered her an asset. She felt she could handle the situation, and he trusted her to continue with her assignment.

In August 1959, Lygren was transferred to another government job and returned to Oslo. Her involvement with the CIA was over... or so she thought. Unbeknownst to her, at CIA headquarters in Washington, the agency's Counterintelligence Staff was slowing building a case against Richard Kovich. A KBG defector working with the CIA had pinpointed him as a Soviet mole. Since Kovich had been Ingeborg Lygren's case agent, the chief of the Counterintelligence Staff came to believe that Lygren possessed essential information that would expose Kovich, and that it was necessary to break her in order to extract that information. Norwegian authorities did the dirty work for the Americans, but the puppet strings were being pulled from the offices of the Counterintelligence Staff across the Atlantic. Ingeborg Lygren was not an isolated case. She was just one of many suspected spies targeted by America's most powerful spy hunter, James Jesus Angleton.

James Jesus Angleton was born in Boise, Idaho, in 1917, grew up in Ohio, and moved to Italy with his family when he was 14. His father, a former cavalry officer who had served under General John G. Pershing in Mexico, sent his first-born son to Malvern, a prestigious British public school. In England, Angleton adopted the ways of a British upper-class schoolboy, which shaped his thinking and dictated his personal style throughout his life. He always played down the fact that his mother was Mexican and Roman Catholic, and that she had chosen his middle name (with the Spanish pronunciation) as an affirmation of her faith. Angleton seldom used his middle name.

In 1937, he returned to America and entered the freshman class at Yale. Tall, slender, and darkly handsome, he was often mistaken for a European, and his self-confidence and maturity impressed everyone who met him. He was not an outstanding student and received poor grades, but his passion was poetry. He served as editor of the Yale literary magazine, Furioso, which published the work of such renowned poets as Ezra Pound and e.e. cummings.

In college, Angleton began to suffer from insomnia, a problem that haunted him his entire life. Unable to rest, he would often play poker or dice until the sun rose and he could start another day.

After graduating from Yale, he was accepted into Harvard Law School but only spent a year there, just long enough to court Cicely D'Autremont, a 19-year-old coed from Vassar. They married in 1943, but with World War II raging in Europe, Angleton was drafted into the Army just weeks after the ceremony. Angleton's father and one of his Yale professors used their influence to get him a position with the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of the CIA, working in the cryptically named X-2, the OSS's counterintelligence unit. His training for the job concentrated on ways to keep secrets safe, as well as the craft of counterespionage, identifying and neutralizing double agents, individuals who swear their allegiance to the United States when in fact they are secretly working for the enemy.

A few days before Christmas 1943, Corporal James Angleton left for London, where he was assigned to X-2's Italian unit. At the time, Cicely was pregnant with their first child.

At the end of World War II, as the ruins of Nazi Germany were still smoldering, a new threat loomed on the horizon, one that threatened to be more devastating to world peace than Hitler's regime. The Soviet Union's post-war goal was to spread communism worldwide, and the country's leader, Joseph Stalin, stated plainly that capitalist countries and communist countries could not coexist peacefully.

To many, this sounded like the declaration of World War III, author Tom Mangold writes in Cold Warrior. Backed by the Soviet Union's considerable military might, Stalin's perceived intentions sent the first chill of the Cold War through Western Europe and the United States. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill graphically drew the battle line when in 1946 he said, an iron curtain had descended across the continent."

After the war, the old OSS became the Central Intelligence Agency, and one of it's primary goals was to thwart the communist threat and expose Soviet spies working in the United States. Unfortunately, the KGB and the GRU (military intelligence), the Soviet espionage agencies, were already a step ahead of the nascent CIA. Soviet spies had already penetrated the American scientific community and stolen critical atomic technology, which led to the Soviet Union stockpiling a frightening arsenal of atomic weapons. The United States and the Soviet Union, each armed with missiles more powerful than the bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, emerged as the reigning world superpowers, each with an absolute belief in their opposing ideologies.

To combat Soviet espionage, the CIA created the Counterintelligence Staff and chose James Angleton to run it. The Counterintelligence Staff, or CI, as it was known within the agency, became Angleton's fiefdom, a secretive powerbase that would influence world politics for decades to come. He would become the CIA's Delphic Oracle, as one former CIA operations officer called him. While other CIA departments sought to penetrate and subvert KGB and GRU initiatives, Angleton's job was to evaluate these counterintelligence operations and the information they yielded. The most critical task Angleton faced was deciding whether Soviet defectors were real or KGB plants.

To accomplish this task, Angleton began to amass mountains of documents that would eventually fill scores of locked safes that only he and his staff could access. Day after day, he would sift through piles of archived paperwork, searching for threads of evidence that could expose double agents and moles, traitors working within the government itself. He eventually earned a reputation as the agency's Grand Inquisitor, constantly searching for the smallest indications of betrayal.

But early in Angleton's career, a deeply implanted double agent slipped past his notice and operated right under his nose. The traitor was one of Angleton's closest friends.

In the 1930s, the KGB seduced several British students at Cambridge University into working for them. These young men would take years to mature as spies, but they would become invaluable to Moscow because to all the world, they were the best and the brightest of British upper-class society, the kind of fine young chaps James Angleton had aspired to become. The Cambridge Spy Ring, as they were later dubbed, included a man who became very close to Angleton, Kim Philby.

These KGB sleeper agents managed to land solid positions within MI6, Great Britain's national intelligence agency, and in 1949, Philby was sent to Washington to act as liaison between the MI6 and the CIA. He and Angleton became fast friends, lunching together at least once a week at Angleton's regular spot, Harvey's restaurant in downtown Washington, and telephoning three or four times a week. Angleton was known for his marathon martini lunches that stretched late into the afternoon, and according to Edward Jay Epstein, when Angleton and Philby drank together it became The Kim and Jim Show. Angleton often boasted that he could drink Philby under the table, but in reality Philby could hold his own and only pretended to be inebriated while he milked Angleton for all kinds of juicy information, including agency gossip, internal power struggles, and personnel evaluations. Their cozy comradeship lasted for two years until the spring of 1951, when it was revealed that two other members of the Cambridge Spy Ring had defected to Moscow. Philby, who had been close to these men since college, was immediately called back to London for questioning.

Angleton was stunned. He was the CIA's chief spy catcherhow could a KGB agent have duped him so thoroughly? He refused to believe that Philby was a Soviet spy.

But Angleton's colleagues in Washington and London believed otherwise, and they had evidence to back it up. Angleton countered with his own memo on the matter, but it was rambling and irrelevant to the issue of Philby's loyalty. Philby's detractors pointed to roster of failed operations