Epstein Secrets

espionage services. When I was interviewing James Jesus Angleton—the CIA’s legendary ex- counterintellige

am headed by Richard “Rick” Ledgett, who was then director of the NSA’s Threat Opera- tions Center at the NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. Ledgett was the logical choice to head the damage assessment inves- tigation because the center’s regional branch in Hawaii was under his command. Ledgett fl

n camera in his Hong Kong interview in June 2013 that NSA investi- gators would have “a heart attack” when they discovered the extent of the breach. Ledgett, the NSA official who had conducted the damage assess- ment, while not having a heart attack, confirmed that Snowden had taken a massive number of do

the imag- ery of crucifixion suggested that like Jesus Christ he was willing to sacrifice himself for th

by immediately nailing me to the cross rather than trying to protect me as a source.” His choice of the imag- ery of crucifixion suggested that like Jesus Christ he was willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of others. In keeping with their operational security arrangement, Snowden said that he would first

ell was transferring files held at Fort Meade to backup computers in Hawaii. He “was moving copies of that data there for them,” said Deputy Director Ledgett, “which was perfect cover for stealing the [NSA] data” through the fall and winter of 2012. The security mea- sures at the Hawaii base presented no o

services. I learned when I was interviewing James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s legendary ex-counterintellige

s by immediately nailing me to the cross rather than trying to protect me as a source.” His choice of the imagery of crucifixion suggested that, like Jesus Christ, he was willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of others. In keeping with their operational security regime, he said that he would first send her

position since the top- secret unit was responsible for discovering and countering the threats posed by Chinese, Russian and other adversary nations. Ledgett was also the logical choice to head the damage assessment investigation since the Center’s regional branch in Hawaii was from where highly-sensitive

res that sprung from the “paranoid mind” of James Jesus Angleton. When I then cited the signature line fr

se “bread crumbs” were missed by the NSA according to its statement. It is within the realm of possibility that the NSA Damage Assessment team under Ledgett falsified its finding to inflate the number of documents that Snowden stole. NSA executives also might have lied to Congress to the same end. But why

estic intelligence in the war on drugs; and James Jesus Angleton: Was He Right (Fast Track Press/EJE Publ

ld walk out the door,” Snowden interview, German NDR TV, January 26, 2014. http://www.tagesschau.de/snowden-interview- englisch100.pdf “According to Ledgett, the perpetrator...” Tabassum Zakaria and Warren Strobel, “After 'cataclysmic' Snowden affair, NSA faces winds of change,” Reuters December 13, 2013