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espionage and he immediately set out to discover who the moles were that passed on America’s most guarded secret to Moscow.
     
         As with all covert actions, counterintelligence operated without specific mentioning in the National Security Act of 1947 which gave Angleton the excuse he needed to pursue information on the most guarded of all secrets.
     
     
    James Angleton as Deputy Director for Counterintelligence (DD/CI)
     
    Aside from the technology theft of atomic secrets, one of the most guarded secrets within the CIA was the scientific and technical information regarding new weapons developments and the planned use of a new generation of Thermal Nuclear Weapons and high altitude reconnaissance platforms to spy on countries hostile to United States strategic interests. One of the technical secrets of the United States was the study and transfer of advanced electronics gleaned from Air Force studies of unconventional aircraft and missile research carried on at several Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) facilities and proving grounds. The FBI and the CIA were aware of Soviet espionage rings operating in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The espionage ring’s main task was providing any and all technical and scientific information on advanced technologies which could provide an advantage to the Soviet Union in the event of another world war.
     
         By 1949, military intelligence authorities had classified the “flying saucer” phenomenon as “Top Secret” and Army’s Counter-intelligence Corps (CIC) had passed on information that the Soviets may have developed saucer-shaped aerial weapons capable of delivering atomic bombs or dissipating radioactive materials over NATO countries as a stop-gap measure to make up for the nonexistent nuclear weapons arsenal.
     
         In early 1947, the nonexistent nuclear arsenal in the United States was a closely guarded secret and no doubt this fact set in motion the nuclear arms race which terrified Angleton. OSO was probably aware of Soviet knowledge of a bomb gap existing within both superpowers and the flying saucer invasion of the United States which crossed Angleton’s desk. This put a scare into his psyche reflected as a credo he shared with other OSO staff members: “You who believe or half believe, I can say this now, that I do believe in the spirit of Christ and the life everlasting, and in this turbulent social system which struggles sometimes blindly to preserve the right to freedom and expression of spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ, I leave you.”
     
         After General Walter B. Smith was appointed as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), Angleton continued on as OSO Staff “A” (foreign intelligence operations) inside the CIA’s clandestine division. In 1951, he was given the all-important Israeli desk which he held tight control over for 20 years because it was a source of vital Soviet information in the Middle East as more and more UFO sighting reports made their way to CIA headquarters (5) (also see WBS memos in Chapter 3, Figures 2a & b). Raw, unevaluated reports were forwarded to counterintelligence when the locations were identified as Soviet bloc countries. During this period, Angleton made good liaisons with FBI contacts who were equally concerned with protecting vital atomic research facilities and no doubt Angleton read many domestic reports as they came across his desk in the “L” Building across from the Lincoln Memorial.
     
         When Smith was coaxed away from his power base as DCI, Allen Dulles, Angleton’s friend from the OSS days, became the new DCI. In late 1954, he promoted Angleton to the position of deputy director and Chief of Counterintelligence. Angleton had direct access to Dulles and all foreign UFO intelligence from the Intelligence Advisory Committee which had been established to look into national security implications involving the UFO phenomena (6). In order to cement Angleton’s