Opinion by David Ignatius: Sometimes the story is about the spies who aren’t there
's opinionsThis flurry of commentary from CIA retirees is unusual. Gossips spins nonstop within this inbred group, but usually former officers keep it zipped in public, with their version of the aristocratic credo “Never complain, never explain.” Not this time.
This story is interesting to me not for its particulars but for several larger points it raises about the spy business and life. I used to wonder why Angleton was talking to a kid reporter like me . But as the years passed, it became obvious: He wanted an audience, and I was eager to listen to his baroque theories about how the Soviets had contaminated the CIA. He urged me to chase one lead, a Russian emigre picture hanger in Alexandria, who assumed when I called on him that I was yet another FBI agent sent to track down Angleton’s unfounded claim that he was a false defector.
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