02-04-2018, 05:48 PM
As for my two cents worth about Angleton and the assassination: the most noteworthy mention of a possible role of Angleton in the assassination can be found the the book "Self-Destruct" by Judge Robert Morris.
Writing in 1979, Morris was looking back and putting in perspective all the spy-type events from WWII to 1979. He correctly identified the fact that in 1979 and after, terrorism would become the new bogeyman which would replace anti-Communism as the justfication for US militarism.
Significantly, Morris lists off the AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL (ASC) as his pantheon of true patriots of the 1960's. In the list, two names stick out (1) Robert Anderson (Ike's Treasury Secretary) and (2) James Angleton. Angleton is unusual in that there weren't any other CIA people on Morris' list, (as I recall).
In my judgment, in the LBJ phone calls following the assassination, Robert Anderson sticks out as having a proprietary attitude regarding the events of the assassination. In other words, Anderson was talking to LBJ in a tone whereby he was trying to self-aggrandize. To me, he implied that he either knew all about the assassination or even had some very minor role which he was trying to blow up into something important. Of course, very soon after this, Anderson went down in disgrace due to extreme alcoholism and financial misdeeds. So he was a shaky, loose canon.
Thus, because Morris lists Anderson, Angelton and others, it seemed to me that he was covertly giving a nod to those people he knew had supported the assassination in some way. But he was listing only minor supporting characters. Judge Morris obviously couldn't credit major players like Guy Banister, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Charles and Earl Cabell, etc. etc.
I realize that this is a very, very weak connection of Angleton to the assassination, but it's the only connection whatever that I have come across relating to Angleton specifically regarding the assassination.
James Lateer
Writing in 1979, Morris was looking back and putting in perspective all the spy-type events from WWII to 1979. He correctly identified the fact that in 1979 and after, terrorism would become the new bogeyman which would replace anti-Communism as the justfication for US militarism.
Significantly, Morris lists off the AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL (ASC) as his pantheon of true patriots of the 1960's. In the list, two names stick out (1) Robert Anderson (Ike's Treasury Secretary) and (2) James Angleton. Angleton is unusual in that there weren't any other CIA people on Morris' list, (as I recall).
In my judgment, in the LBJ phone calls following the assassination, Robert Anderson sticks out as having a proprietary attitude regarding the events of the assassination. In other words, Anderson was talking to LBJ in a tone whereby he was trying to self-aggrandize. To me, he implied that he either knew all about the assassination or even had some very minor role which he was trying to blow up into something important. Of course, very soon after this, Anderson went down in disgrace due to extreme alcoholism and financial misdeeds. So he was a shaky, loose canon.
Thus, because Morris lists Anderson, Angelton and others, it seemed to me that he was covertly giving a nod to those people he knew had supported the assassination in some way. But he was listing only minor supporting characters. Judge Morris obviously couldn't credit major players like Guy Banister, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Charles and Earl Cabell, etc. etc.
I realize that this is a very, very weak connection of Angleton to the assassination, but it's the only connection whatever that I have come across relating to Angleton specifically regarding the assassination.
James Lateer