Ep 2: Wilderness of Mirrors

The story of James Jesus Angleton, an obsessive reader of poetry who became the CIA’s chief of counterintelligence, and grew obsessed with the threat of Soviet moles infiltrating American institutions. Host Tim Weiner is joined by former CIA officers John Sipher and Rolf Mowatt-Larssen and former KGB officer-turned-journalist Alexander Vassiliev. In partnership with Cadence13, Jigsaw Productions and a production of Prologue Projects. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Ep 2: Wilderness of Mirrors is an episode from Whirlwind: America, Russia & Ukraine by Audacy Studios | Tim Weiner | Jigsaw Productions.

This episode is 58:04 long.

This episode was published on Sep 23, 2020.

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