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Legacy of Ashes: The Secret History of the CIA | Tim Weiner | Ep. 167

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Angleton's Betrayal

Angleton was a very good American counterintelligence for years on end because he would never admit Filby had betrayed him. He died a lonely alcoholic dickhead in Moscow in the 70s. Betrayal was not revealed for many years later. Golutzen convinced him that every Soviet who came to the United States said, I want to work for you, was a double. That destroyed American counterintelligence.

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