Mother Writes The Wiz
A peek inside the private lives of two American superspies
Crew of the USS Tom Clancy,
First of all, Happy Birthday to my brother Robert.
I love you bro!
You can check out his excellent bookstack, and wish him a happy birthday, here.
As many of you know, I’m spending the summer going through the papers of Frank Gardiner Wisner, the OG covert action guy for CIA.
You can read about that elsewhere on this substack
Cracking the Mighty Wurlitzer
Greetings Crew of the USS Tom Clancy, If you haven’t become a paid subscriber yet, you’ll want to now. Help support The Hunt for Tom Clancy as we bring you the weirdest true stories that have affected some aspect of your life. Today, I’m jazzed up to show a little bit of what I’ve found going through the papers of a long-dead superspy.
Today, however, I have something neat. I found a letter from James Angleton (Mother) to Frank Wisner, written on Groundhog’s Day, in the archives. Though it took a minute, I transcribed it so it is easier to read.
Here is the letter:
And here is what it says: