Cleveland C. Cram (December 21, 1917, Waterville,

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– January 9, 1999) was a station chief and historian for the

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(CIA). Cram studied at Saint John's University and

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and served as a naval officer in the

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during

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. He was recruited by the CIA in 1949, and began working in

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in 1953. As deputy station chief in

, he was responsible for the CIA's liaison with British intelligence services

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and

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, and he later moved on to become station chief in the

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and

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. After Cram's retirement in 1975, he was called back to do historical research on the record of Counterintelligence Chief

James J. Angleton James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 – May 11, 1987) was an American CIA officer who served as chief of CIA Counterintelligence, the counterintelligence department of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1975. According to Director of ...

. After six years of work he completed the twelve-volume ''"History of the Counterintelligence Staff 1954–1974"'' (1981), which remains classified. In 1993 he completed the monograph '
Of Moles and Molehunters: A Review of Counterintelligence Literature, 1977–92
'', which was declassified in 2003.

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