Of Moles and Molehunters   James Angleton, conspiracy theories
on,  Spy stories  Of Moles and Molehunters    Editor's Note: The
following background essay first appeared in a monograph
published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence in October
1993.  The year 1975 was a watershed in literature about the
CIA. Before that time, only a few outsiders, usually
professional journalists, had written books critical of the
Agency. Most of the others were neutral or even positive,
especially those written by former Agency officials like Allen
Dulles and Lyman Kirkpatrick. But in 1975 a disgruntled former
Agency employee, Philip Agee, published his highly critical
book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary. Books by other ex-employees
--J. B. Smith, John Stockwell, Victor Marchetti (with J. D.
Marks), and R. W. McGehee--followed in quick succession, each
exposing highly confidential material.  These authors usually
wrote about subjects of which they had special knowledge, and
the cumulative effect was to breach the walls