People

James Jesus Angleton

OSS (London, Rome) then founding CIA officer; chief of CIA Counterintelligence 1954–1975. Built a long search for a Soviet mole on defector Anatoliy Golitsyn's claims. In this vault he appears mostly as a borrowed credential ('an Angleton protégé') inside unproven claims.

Ties

To	Role	Years	Verdict	Source
OSS	X-2 counterintelligence, London and Rome	1943–1946	Documented · occurred	en.wikipedia.org
CIA	founding officer; chief of the Counterintelligence Staff	1947–1975	Documented · occurred	en.wikipedia.org
Allen Dulles	Dulles promoted him to counterintelligence chief	1954	Documented · occurred	en.wikipedia.org
Michał Goleniewski	Goleniewski discredited under his counterintelligence regime after Golitsyn called other defectors KGB plants	1961–1964	Unproven	thehistoryreader.com
Richard Helms	Helms called him "the dominant counterintelligence figure in the non-communist world"	1966–1973	Documented · occurred	en.wikipedia.org

Tied from

From	Role	Years	Verdict	Source
Bosley says a CIA mentor (an Angleton protege) confirmed the lake woman was Etta Place	named		Structural
Bosley's uncle, a 44-year intelligence veteran mentored by Angleton, taught him necromancy and told a 1996 Antarctica 'machinery under the ice' story	named		Structural
Michał Goleniewski	discredited under Angleton's counterintelligence regime after Golitsyn called other defectors KGB plants	1961–1964	Unproven	thehistoryreader.com

Mentioned in

Michał Goleniewski

Documented

Item	Record	Tag
Ran CIA counterintelligence 1954–1975; forced out after the Dec 1974 revelations	Wikipedia; GlobalSecurity	CI chief
Became convinced, through Golitsyn, that a high-level Soviet mole was inside the CIA; long internal search	Wikipedia	mole hunt
Knew Kim Philby from wartime London liaison and later worked closely with him in Washington; was early suspicious of him	Wikipedia (Kim Philby)	Philby contact

Alleged (stated neutrally)

Item	Source	Tag
He and Philby were close friends with regular lunches	Popular accounts (e.g., Macintyre)	lunch friendship
The mole hunt was a destructive witch hunt rather than appropriate caution	Historians divided	witch hunt
Named (as 'the Angletons') among Order of Malta members	Harald Malmgren, 2025	Malta

How he appears elsewhere in the vault

Before this note, Angleton appeared only as a credential: Bosley's uncle "mentored by Angleton," Bosley's unnamed CIA mentor "an Angleton protégé," and Malmgren's Order of Malta list. Borrowing a famous counterintelligence name is itself a pattern worth watching: the name adds weight without adding a checkable source.