After Scrutiny, C.I.A. Mandate Is Untouched - NYTimes.com

After Scrutiny, C.I.A. Mandate Is Untouched - NYTimes.com WASHINGTON — Over a lunch in Washington in 1976, James J. Angleton, for years the ruthless chief of counterintelligence at the C.I.A., likened the agency to a medieval city occupied by an invading army.