National Student Association
Nazi regime
in Ardeatine Caves massacre
in Austria
members of
war trials of
nerve gas
New Europe
like United States
Mussolini in
New Lies for Old, (Golitsyn)
New Orleans
CIA operations in
Oswald in
New York City, New York
Newark, New Jersey
Newman, Bill
Newman, John
The New Critics
The New York Times article
Angleton resignation after
Colby address about
contents of
publishing of
scandals after
Ninotchka
Nixon, Richard
on Cuba
Helms relationship with
in Huston plan
intelligence collection effort of
Kissinger relationship with
lawlessness of
mail surveillance under
meeting Meir
tapes of
after Watergate break in
North Korea
brainwashing in
invasion by
NORTHWOODS
Nosenko, Yuri
as Angleton target
continuing detention of
as defector
drug dosing of
Helms payment to
incarceration of
interrogation of
movie about
Murphy relationship with
Oswald linked to
in safe house
Warren Commission interrogation of
NSA. See National Security Agency
Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC)
Angleton knowledge of
cooperation of
development of
Hadden involvement with
uranium heist at
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
nuclear weapons
Ben-Gurion projects for
de Shalit involvement with
funding for
Israel development of
Lowenthal involvement in
NUMEC. See Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation
Oakwood Junior High
Ober, Richard
Special Operations Group of
obituary
“October crisis”
O’Donnell, Ken
Office of Policy Coordination (OPC)
development of
first mission of
OSO merger with
Office of Special Operations (OSO)
formation of
OPC merger with
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
arrival at
changes in
formation of
training for
Offie, Carmel
Angleton hiring of
arrest of
employment of
gay life of
Oldfield, Maurice
Olson, Frank
cover up of
death of
investigation of
“On the Cult of the Individual and Its Consequences,” (Khrushchev)
“One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro,” (Ferlinghetti)
O’Neal, Birch
OPC. See Office of Policy Coordination
Operation Balsam
Operation Sunrise
Borghese in
negotiations of
Pagnotta in
plan of
organized labor
OSO. See Office of Special Operations
OSS. See Office of Strategic Services
OSS: ARTIFICE
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Angleton case for
arrest of
Castro linked to
conclusions about
Cuban contacts of
as defector
Duran fling with
FBI interview of
FPCC connection to
imposter theory about
Johnson, Lyndon, file on
KGB watching
Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, (Epstein)
LINGUAL file on
in Mexico City
in Moscow
in New Orleans
Nosenko linked to
Roman involvement with
Special Investigations reports on
201 file on
Oswald, Marina
Pagnotta, Leo
Dollman, arrest of
Palazzo Castiglioni
Papich, Sam
parents
Paris Peace Awards
Patriot Act
Paul VI (pope)
Pauling
Pearson, Drew
Pearson, Norman Holmes
characteristics of
as spy master
in ULTRA
as X-2 trainer
Penkovsky, Oleg
Peres, Shimon
Persico, Joseph
Personae, (Pound)
Petacci, Clara
Petty, Clare Edward
Philby, Kim
Angleton relationship with
in Beirut
Burgess relationship with
as Communist
Elliott relationship with
in German spy capture
literary career of
McCargar investigation of
My Silent War
as spy
taking SIS station
Philby, St. John
Phillips, David
as division chief
in Langley meeting
Pickering, Tom
Pierson College
Pinchot, Ruth
Poland
Communists in
Germany invading
Popov, Pyotr
as contact
exposure of
Pound, Ezra
Angleton with
The Fifth Decade of Cantos
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by
indictment of
in Italy
letters with
political views of
recordings of
recovery of
text book of
psychological warfare
Rabin, Yitzhak
at Angleton celebration
meeting with
racism
Radio Rome
RAFAEL
Rankin, Lee
Rauff, Walter
Reagan, Ronald
Rearden, Steven L.
Red Scare
religion
Resio, Carlo
retroactive mortality
RFK. See Kennedy, Robert
Richards, I. A.
riots (1967)
Rive Gauche
Rivera, Geraldo
Robarge, David
Robeson, Paul
Rocca, Ray
Angleton meeting with
in Garrison Group
in investigation
as research chief
Rockefeller Commission
Angleton testimony to
Cheney strategy for
formation of
Rolling Stone
Roman, Jane Atherton
Rome, Italy. See also Italy
Angleton legend in
Harvey stationed in
room 318
roommate
Roosevelt, Franklin
Rosenbaum, Ron
Rosselli, Johnny
accusations of
arrival of
Harvey meeting with
Rotary Club
Roundtree, Dovey
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rusk, Dean
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, Dick
Salisbury, Harrison
San Crist
óbal
San Francisco, California
San Girolamo seminary
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Sasha (suspected mole)
continuing hunt for
Kisevalter opinion about
Schlesinger, Arthur
after missile crisis
RFK relationship with
Schlesinger, James
appointment of
as Secretary of Defense
in testimonies
Schneider, René
Schorr, Daniel
in CIA investigation
interviewing Angleton
public impact of
Schoumacher, David
Schwarz, Frederick Jr.
Scientific Intelligence
Scott, Janet
Scott, Winston
book plans of
death of
in JFK investigation
memoir of
secret files of
SDECE
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)
CIA relationship with
formation of
segregation
Seven Types of Ambiguity, (Empson)
Shapiro, Zalman
permission from
Shaw, Clay
Shiloah, Reuven
replacement of
in Washington
Sicherheitsdienst
SIG. See Special Investigations Group
Sikhism
Sinai Desert attack
Sirhan, Sirhan
SIS. See Secret Intelligence Service
Six-Day War
Slawson, David
Angleton conversation with
investigation of
Smith, Merriman
Smith, Walter Bedell
Soviet Russia Division, CIA
Soviet Union. See also KGB
American alliance with
Angleton later efforts in
in antiwar protests
arsenals in
Communists in
in Cuba
after JFK assassination
mail surveillance from
main enemies of
missiles in
troops in
VENONA program in
Spanish Civil War
Special Investigations Group (SIG)
Angleton secret files from
formation of
Oswald reports by
Spytime, (Buckley)
Statler Hotel
Sullivan, William
Sullivan & Cromwell law firm
“the Sullivan-Angleton Plan”
Svengali
Swenson, Hal
Syria
Szulc, Tad
Taylor, Myron
Technical Services Division (TSD)
Tenth Light Flotilla
Tet Offensive
Texas Schoolbook Depository
thermoelectric devices
Thomas, Charles
further reports of
initial reports of
suicide of
Thompson, Hunter S.
Tilton, John
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, (le Carré)
“Total Counterespionage”
Trailblazer Award
Trento, Joseph
Angleton lunch with
reporting conspiracy theory
Truitt, Anne
Truman, Harry
“truth drugs”
TSD. See Technical Services Division
Tu-95 Bear bombers
Tuchman, Barbara
201 file
Tydings, Millard
ULTRA
Angleton in
Pearson in
United Fruit Company
United States
B-47 bombers in
Cuban Revolution and
as Great Britain ally
in Israel war
after JFK assassination
new Europe like
in 1961
nonproliferation policy in
after Sinai attack
uranium
continued interest in
heist
in Israel
lost, in Apollo plant
in NUMEC/AEC
processing of
search for
U.S. Army’s School of Military Government
USS Liberty
attacks on
investigation of
Vatican
VENONA program
verbal ambiguity
Vietnam
CIA in
Johnson, L., escalation in
opposition to
report on
Wakefield, Dan
Walker, John Denley
War Department
Warren Commission
in Castro investigation
challenges to
defenders of
interrogating Nosenko
Italian press views of
in JFK assassination cover up
Watergate
“babies”
burglary
Nixon reaction to
public scandal of
Senate Committee
WAVE station
Weather Underground
Weizmann Institute of Science
Wenner, Eugen
White, George Hunter
experiments of
expertise of
in LSD experiments
personal drug experience of
Whittemore, Reed
Angleton friendship with
Whitten, John
Wiggins, Henry
Wilkerson, Cathy
Willens, Howard
Williams, Robert F.
Williams, William Carlos
Wilson, Harold
accusations of
“the Wilson Plot”
WiN. See Freedom and Independence Movement
Winks, Robin
Wisner, Frank
Wolff, Kurt
Women’s Strike for Peace
Wright, Peter
X-2 indoctrination training
Yale college
The Yale Literary Magazine
Yeats, William Butler
Yogi Bhajan
Zapruder, Abraham
ZR-RIFLE assassination program
ALSO BY JEFFERSON MORLEY
Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA
Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JEFFERSON MORLEY is a journalist and editor who has worked in Washington for more than thirty years, fifteen of which were spent as an editor and reporter at The Washington Post. The author of Our Man in Mexico, a biography of the CIA’s Mexico City station chief Winston Scott, Morley has written about intelligence, military, and political subjects for Salon, The Atlantic, and The Intercept, among others. He is the editor of JFK Facts, a blog. He lives in Washington, D.C. You can sign up for email updates here.
Thank you for buying this
St. Martin’s Press ebook.
To receive special offers, bonus content,
and info on new releases and other great reads,
sign up for our newsletters.
Or visit us online at
us.macmillan.com/newslettersignup
For email updates on the author, click here.
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Introduction
PART I
POETRY
Pound
Salesman
Wife
Secretary
Black Prince
Nazi
Monsignor
Reunion
“Homo Circles”
Philby
Mossad
LSD
PART II
POWER
Counterintelligence
Zionist
Fisherman
COI
NTELPRO
Mole
Oswald
JFK
Cuba
“Hit Him”
Empire
Golitsyn
Blackmail
Hamlet
PART III
IMPUNITY
Kim
Provocation
“Go Easy”
Mole Hunts
Oswald Again
Dallas
Noah’s Cloak
Loathing
Defector
Mary
Cicely
Bomb
War
CHAOS
Two Boxers
Heist
Kim Again
PART IV
LEGEND
Nixon
Golem
Ghoul
Widow
Helms
Colby
Smoking Gun
Desolate
Cheney
Warning
Inconceivable
Legacy
Legend
Jerusalem
Photographs
Acknowledgments
Bibliographic Note
Notes
Index
Also by Jefferson Morley
About the Author
Copyright
THE GHOST. Copyright © 2017 by Jefferson Morley. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.
www.stmartins.com
“One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from Starting from San Francisco, copyright © 1961 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Excerpts from unpublished letters by Ezra Pound” from New Directions Pub. acting as agent, copyright © 2017 by Mary de Rachewiltz and the Estate of Omar S. Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpts from “Gerontion” and “East Coker” from Collected Poems 1909–1962, Copyright 1936 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright © renewed 1964 by Thomas Stearns Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Cover design by Jonathan Bush
Cover photograph of James Angleton, former chief of counterintelligence, CIA, Arlington, Virginia, July 8, 1976 by Richard Avedon, © The Richard Avedon Foundation
The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
ISBN 978-1-250-08061-5 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-13910-8 (ebook)
eISBN 9781250139108
Our ebooks may be purchased in bulk for promotional, educational, or business use. Please contact the Macmillan Corporate and Premium Sales Department at 1-800- 221-7945, extension 5442, or by email at MacmillanSpecialMarkets@macmillan.com.
First Edition: October 2017