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Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter is a 1992 book by Tom Mangold about James Jesus Angleton, who once served as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterintelligence Staff.
The book is based on attributed sources instead of anonymous and/or confidential sources, and its basis is interviews instead of documentary evidence.
The book was the basis for a May 1991 episode of Frontline titled The Spy Hunter.
Reception
Publishers Weekly stated "The book is an intriguing account of self-destructive paranoia in America's intelligence community."
Raymond L. Garthoff of the Brookings Institution stated that in regard to Angleton the book is the "best and most complete and accurate account so far as one can tell."
David Robarge of the CIA stated that the book is "the most factually detailed, thoroughly researched study of Angleton."