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== Personal life and death == Angleton met Cicely Harriet d'Autremont, a [[Vassar College|Vassar]] alumna from [[Tucson, Arizona]] and granddaughter of [[Chester Adgate Congdon]], in [[Cambridge]] in 1941.<ref name=":1" /> They married on 17 July 1943, shortly after he enlisted in the Army. Together, they had three children: * James C. Angleton;<ref name="washpostpoet"/> * Guru Sangat Kaur Khalsa (formerly Truffy Angleton);<ref>{{cite news |date=4 June 1979 |title=The Sikhs of Washington |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/04/archives/the-sikhs-of-washington-family-life-and-prosperity-in-the-us-for.html |access-date=2018-04-21}}</ref> and * Siri Hari Kaur Angleton-Khalsa (formerly Lucy d'Autremont Angleton)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reck |first=Peter Haldeman, Robert |date=April 2009 |title=Outside Time and Place {{!}} Architectural Digest |url=http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/edith-katz-article |access-date=2016-02-29 |website=Architectural Digest}}</ref> The Angletons lived in the Rock Spring neighborhood of [[Arlington, Virginia]] until Angleton's death.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Kim |author-link1=Kim Roberts (poet) |last2=Vera |first2=Dan |author-link2=Dan Vera |title=Cicely Angleton |url=http://dcwriters.poetrymutual.org/Pages/angletonc.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425143154/http://dcwriters.poetrymutual.org/Pages/angletonc.html |archive-date=April 25, 2012 |access-date=September 20, 2014 |publisher=DC Writers' Homes}}</ref><ref name="washpostpoet">{{cite news |date=September 25, 2011 |title=Cicely Angleton, poet and CIA official's spouse |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/cicely-angleton-poet-and-cia-officials-spouse/2011/09/24/gIQA5GHDvK_story.html |access-date=July 5, 2015}}</ref> The Angletons had an at times tumultuous marriage,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Burleigh |first=Nina |title=A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer |publisher=[[Penguin Random House]] |year=1999 |isbn=978-0553380514 |language=en}}</ref> but developed a varied social set in Washington, including professional acquaintances in intelligence, poets, painters and journalists.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} Angleton's wife and his daughters explored [[Sikhism]],<ref name="washpostpoet"/> and both of Angleton's daughters became followers of [[Harbhajan Singh Khalsa]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-03-31 |title=Look Inside an Earthy Paradise in New Mexico |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/edith-katz-article |access-date=2021-08-07 |website=Architectural Digest |language=en-US}}</ref> Angleton died from cancer in Washington, D.C., on 11 May 1987.<ref name="EncColdWar" />
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