The CIA and Zionism: A Complex History
Why the spy agency’s infamous James Angleton midwifed modern Israel—and its bomb—into existence
SUDDENLY, “ZIONISM” IS A FIGHTING WORD. The term for the nationalist movement to build a Jewish state in Palestine has not often figured in American political debate over the half century since the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Patrick Moynihan, denounced a 1975 United Nations resolution asserting that “Zionism is a form of racism…
