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=== Aftermath === The late 1970s were generally a period of upheaval for the CIA. During [[George H. W. Bush]]'s tenure as Director, President Ford authorized the creation of [[Team B]], a project concluding that the Agency and the intelligence community had seriously underestimated Soviet strategic nuclear strength in [[Central Europe]]. Admiral [[Stansfield Turner]], on his appointment as DCI by President [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1977, used Angleton as an example of the excesses in the Agency that he hoped to curb. He referred to this during his service and in his memoirs.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim250050055 |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=The SHAFR Guide Online|doi=10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim250050055 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Because of their suspicions, Angleton and his staff ultimately impeded the career advancement of numerous CIA employees. Forty employees are said to have been investigated and fourteen were considered serious suspects by Angleton's staff. The CIA paid compensation to three under what Agency employees termed the "Mole Relief Act".<ref>[[Tom Mangold|Mangold, Tom]]. ''[[Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter]]''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. {{ISBN|0-671-66273-2}}. p. 246</ref> With Golitsyn, Angleton continued to seek out moles. They sought the assistance of [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]] (himself a former CIA asset) to write ''New Lies for Old'', which argued that the Soviet Union planned to fake a collapse to lull its enemies into a false sense of victory, but Buckley refused. In his 1994 book ''[[Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA|Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA]]'', author Mark Riebling claimed that of 194 predictions made in ''New Lies For Old'', 139 had been fulfilled by 1993, nine seemed "clearly wrong", and the other 46 were "not soon [[Falsifiability|falsifiable]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Riebling |first=Mark |title=Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA |date=October 18, 1994 |publisher=[[Knopf]] |isbn=978-0679414711 |edition=1st |language=EN}}</ref>
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