Editing James Jesus Angleton (section)

=== Suspicion of foreign leaders ===
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Angleton privately accused various foreign leaders of being Soviet spies. He twice informed the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] that he believed [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Lester B. Pearson|Lester Pearson]] and his successor [[Pierre Trudeau]] were agents of the Soviet Union. Angleton accused Swedish [[Prime Minister of Sweden|Prime Minister]] [[Olof Palme]], [[West Germany|West German]] [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|Chancellor]] [[Willy Brandt]], and British Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] of being assets for the Soviet Union.<ref name=":1" />

Australian journalist Brian Toohey claimed that Angleton considered Australian Prime Minister [[Gough Whitlam]] a "serious threat" to the US. Angleton was concerned after the Commonwealth police [[1973 Murphy raids|raided]] [[Australian Security Intelligence Organisation|ASIO]] headquarters in Melbourne in 1973 at the direction of [[Attorney general#Australia|Attorney General]] [[Lionel Murphy]]. In 1974, Angleton sought to instigate the removal of Whitlam from office by having CIA station chief in Canberra, John Walker, ask [[Peter Barbour]], then head of ASIO, to make a false declaration that Whitlam had lied about the raid in Parliament. Barbour refused to make the statement.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Snow |first1=Deborah |title=Tantalising secrets of Australia's intelligence world revealed |url=https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/tantalising-secrets-of-australia-s-intelligence-world-revealed-20190826-p52ku9.html |access-date=1 October 2019 |publisher=The Age |date=31 August 2019}}</ref>