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By John R. Schindler 11/09/17 11:17am
Attempting to get to the bottom of a complex espionage case, untangling multiple strands of secret agentry, is the most challenging exercise in all intelligence work. It taxes the minds of the most gifted counterspies, particularly when the operation extends over years, even decades, and it involves a complex cast of players, some of them Russian.
A half-century ago, when our Intelligence Community was assessing if there were Kremlin moles inside our spy agencies (spoiler: there were), a nasty bureaucratic fight ensued that dragged on for years. The protagonist was James Angleton, the CIAs top counterspy for two decades, who coined the term wilderness of mirrors to describe the impenetrable mystery of certain espionage operations. In typical Angletonian flourish, he borrowed the phrase from a T. S. Eliot poem to capture the enduring mystery of never quite grasping up from down in a case, or knowing whos really running the showand looking at it too closely only leads to more confusion.
Ive previously written about Angletons wilderness of mirrors, since it remains a fascinating saga still, and I noted how tricky the counterspy game can be:
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sfwriter
(3,032 posts)Response to DonViejo (Original post)
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Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Saying there are fake tapes is simply trying to keep people from believing the ghastly truth when Mueller dumps the case on the country.
Trump can say, "its fake"!
Cripe, he can't even come up with a believable alibi anymore.
He's got nothing left.
We know who the big dumb fake is, Donald Trump.
WE ALL KNOW!!!
Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)emulatorloo
(44,274 posts)Not saying the article is incorrect, just keep that in mind.