This
is extraordinary. Anyone who has jousted with the FBI or CIA
knows how difficult it is to get "sources and methods" revealed.
In fact this is one of the big battles the ARRB had to fight with
the FBI. Yet in this document, both the method and the source are
open. Third, to my knowledge, Kilgallen never printed anything
specific from the document. Why? Assuming for a moment that the
document is real, probably because she could not confirm anything
in it. But interestingly, right after Kilgallen printed her vague
allusion, Winchell began his steady drumbeat of rumors until, as
Spoto notes, he essentially printed Capell's whole tale (p. 601).
From this, one could conclude that the Angleton memo could be
viewed in two ways. Either it was, as in Newman believes, a
"good" fake, or a false lead planted to begin an orchestrated
campaign. More specifically, Rothberg was either a witting or
unwitting conduit to the media for either Hoover or Angleton (or
both). The quick Winchell follow-up would argue for Hoover. The
Director would want someone else to lead the story before his man
Winchell pushed it to the limit. The "diary of secrets," so
reminiscent of Mary Meyer (discussed in Part One of thi