INTERVIEW SUBJECT, 1987:
JAMES ANGLETON, FORMER CHIEF OF COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (C.I.A.) I asked the dying man how it all went so wrong. With no emotion in his voice, but with his hand trembling, [CIA spymaster James] Angleton replied: “Fundamentally, the founding fathers of U.S. intelligence were liars…Outside of their duplicity, the only thing they had in common was a desire for absolute power. I did things that, in looking back on my life, I regret. You know, the CIA got tens of thousands of brave people killed… We played with lives as if we owned them… You were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell.” Angleton slowly sipped his tea and then said, “I will see them there soon enough.”
– Joseph Trento, The Secret History of the CIA
