Trivia
- The 2006 film The Good Shepherd is loosely based on Angleton's life and his role in the formation of the CIA.
- The Bob Howard-Laundry Series of Charles Stross features a senior Laundry agent whose nom de guerre is James Angleton after the CIA chief. (Stross, Charles. "Down on the Farm". http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=61. Retrieved 2009-12-27.)
- The phrase "wilderness of mirrors" appears in a 1994 song by the Canadian rock trio Rush. Lyricist/Drummer Neil Peart used the phrase in the song "Double Agent", and cites both Angleton and T. S. Eliot in the liner notes as sources of the phrase.
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