James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 - May 12, 1987) was chief of the CIA's counterintelligence (CI) staff from 1954 to 1975.

It was known, according to Lane, that under Angleton's counterintelligence staff was a team of assassins under the command of a U.S. Army colonel named Boris Pash.

She joined the Rebellion and was part of General Cracken's counterintelligence staff.

After two years of leading the counterintelligence staff, Mr. Kalaris was named chief of the Soviet-East Europe Division, where he continued to try to clean up damage from the spy hunt.

With his departure, the agency cut the counterintelligence staff to 80 from 300, and turned away from some of the techniques he had pioneered.

The counterintelligence staff under Mr. Angleton could and did effectively end the careers of C.I.A. officers suspected of working for the Soviet Union.

Later, operational divisions had subordinate counterintelligence branches, as well as a smaller central counterintelligence staff.

But the book says that when the case was first reported to the F.B.I., the agency said its counterintelligence staff and security office were aware that Mr. Howard had considered committing espionage.

It has a counterintelligence staff for that reason - to uncover double-dealing spies and then use them to confuse the other side.

He became chief of the agency's counterintelligence staff in the early 1980's.