Why We Are All Getting a Little Crazy

James Jesus Angleton embodied the inevitable trajectory of a person committed to counterintelligence.
Angleton was director of counterintelligence for the CIA from 1954 until 1974.
For twenty years, Angleton's job was to doubt everything. This enigmatic figure presented puzzles for people to solve in every conversation, stitched designer lies into every narrative, trusted no one.
The task of counterintelligence is to figure out what the other side is doing, how they are deceiving us, what double agents they have planted in our midst. CI is predicated on double deceiving and triple deceiving the other side into believing fictions nested within fictions, always leavened with some facts, just enough to seem real.
· Believing fictions nested within fictions [CommonDreams ]