Raw interview vith Axel Straschnoy (Buenos Aires, 1978, lives and works in Helsinki) – about James Jesus Angleton, editor of the avant-garde poetry journal Furioso during his years at Yale. Furioso was part of the new critique movement which held fast to the idea that a poet can mean two contradictory things at the same time.
Between 1954 and 1975, as CIA Director of Counterintelligence, he translated this idea to the world of espionage, and stated that it is therefore impossible to say who an agent is actually working for. This did not deter him from grounding the CIA to a halt in a 20-year hunt for a mole that was never found.
We also talk about Juan Pujol, a Spaniard commissioned by the German intelligence service to build an agent network in Britain during WWII. Stuck for a year in Portugal he started a secret agent network with the help of travel guide and a dictionary. He eventually became part of the british secret service and extended his “network” as far as Ceylon and Canada. Pujol is the only person to have been con decorated by both sides for his work in the war.

More about James Jesus Angleton here: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol53no4/201ccunning-passages-contrived-corridors201d.html

In Danish: Dette indslag var en del af AFLYTTETs program uge 43 – du kan høre det hele her: http://arkiv.radio24syv.dk/video/10480980/aflyttet-uge-43-2014