Literary criticism and counterintelligence

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Was Jesus James Angleton a paranoid reader?

"The New Critics famously attacked the 'intentional fallacy,' arguing 
that the meaning of a text could not be identified with its author's 
intentions. They also put a high value on paradox, indirection, and all 
the many ways in which a written artifact does not mean what it seems to 
mean.

In his rigorous questioning of Soviet defectors, Angleton was a New 
Critic par excellence."

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