Main testimony of a long hidden spy revealed at the National Archives

Long sought by historians, the 72-page transcription from the hearing was classified for nearly 50 years and remained hidden from the public.

Some of the topics covered are the political issues of Hot Button almost half a century after the hearing took place.

Committee members expressed concern that hostile foreign intelligence agencies were involved in secret spying that target US elections.

“There is no doubt that influence has been endured,” Angleton said, “propaganda, among other things,” presenting a major challenge to the nation’s intelligence reporting agency.

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Longtime Angleton aide Scotty Miller, who testified alongside her boss, admitted to the intrusion of American businesses by foreign spy agencies.

“We had a lot in the past,” he said.

When asked by the senator if the department chief and other officials remained in the dark about the operation, Angleton said at times only two or three people knew the plan and continued action.

“If that’s a big problem, it’s based on what you need to know,” Angleton told the committee.

He explains the prospect of double agents infiltrating the US government as a top priority and national security concern, suggesting that some officials were unable to recognize the nature of the threat.

“To penetrate this government or to penetrate in any agency has never been brought to a responsible level of knowing how it happened or what is wrong,” Angleton said.

He suggested that the CIA directors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were not collaborating, but he believed that they needed to cooperate in verifying and reviewing the quality of information undergoing conflict surgery with objective surveillance.

“We have to have higher authority to appeal when this type of decision is made, so that this type of decision is aired, and that is not done without anyone’s knowledge,” Angleton said.

“Everything that involves penetration has always been wiped out under the rug.”

Angleton and Miler said the lack of communication between agencies contributed to the intelligence report failure. They told the committee that the CIA needed information from the FBI but could not access it.

Angleton admitted that some military officials have similarly expressed dissatisfaction with the CIA. This is because the agency only chooses to share details of the operation “if necessary.”

“Military services have been complaining to me… because we weren’t approached to providing them with information about our possible assets and more,” he said.

Following agency reform, the two former agents suggested that leadership lacked sufficient knowledge of internal operations to successfully manage counter-intelligence efforts, and communication disruptions blocked meaningful collaboration.

“I recommend that you have something simple,” Angleton testified. “There was no forum where we could actually confront other people who had dissent.”

When the longtime spy chief told the committee’s senators, he began his Army career in 1943 before joining the predecessor of the CIA’s predecessor, the Strategic Bureau.

He worked in Italy and London before earning promotion to head of anti-intellectuality for an Italian agency, rising to Chief of Strategic Services until President Harry Truman ended the organization in late 1945.

After returning to Washington in late 1947, Angleton was appointed Chief of Anti-Intellect in 1954, and played a variety of roles in the newly established CIA until he held his position until 1974.

According to a 1993 report written by CIA Station Chief and historian Cleveland Clam, the draft was discovered in archives by the Epoch Times on March 27th – his aggressive style of eradicating double agents in Angleton, and his policy towards document classification, led to dust with other high-ranking officials.

His conflict with then-director William Colby led to his dismissal from the institutions he described in his book, Honorable Men: The CIA of My Life, published in 1978.

As a 20-year CIA lead to identifying Moles – the term describing foreign agents who pretended to be a loyal agency operative – suggests that Angleton himself is a double agent, some pointing to close cooperation with Mossad as evidence that he is a Soviet spy and others are a secret Israeli agent.

The previously uncategorized documents revealed are not proven under either situation. Also, Richard Helms, who served as director of Central Intelligence between 1966 and 1973, produced Angleton in his autobiography, and was published in 2003 as a “terrifying figure” with an “extraordinary grasp of the Soviet threat.”

Millions of other pages related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy were declassified by Congress in 1992 and ordered with a 25-year deadline for the passage of the law, but many documents have been compiled.

Angleton’s testimony was withheld completely until President Donald Trump signed three days after his second appointment, dictating declassification of all JFK collection documents.

After National Archives released roughly 63,000 documents on its website on March 18, numerous social media posts have raised doubts about the lack of testimony from the Angleton Church Committee and nearly 17,000 other files not included.

A White House spokesman told the Epoch Times on March 19 that the page is available at the National Archives but is available only for in-person research.

The relevant transcript of Angleton’s testimony to the House Selection Committee on the 1978 assassination currently includes 19 compilations.

A spokesman for the National Archives and the Bureau of Records told the Epoch Times that archivists are requesting previously compiled documents from their respective agencies.