Janet was Winston's second wife and my step-mother. When Win died Janet left Mexico and went to live in Rome. Photo above is from 1972 while visiting Venice with her loyal companion, Cholo. The day after Win died in 1971 she recieved an urgent house call from James Angleton, the Chief of Counter Intelligence for the CIA. Upon learning of Winston's death he booked the first flight out of Washington to Mexico City.
Janet disliked Angleton (seen above) intensly but knew she had to tolerate the man that had been her husband's colleague and boss for over thirty years. Angelton's emergency visit to her home was to collect the original draft of "the manuscript." Angelton heard that Win was writing an account of his life with the CIA and needed to secure the original and all copies. Janet told him she knew nothing about it. Angleton threatened her with the loss of her goverment pension if she didn't cooperate. Days later she found "the manuscript." It was titled "It Came To Little," a twenty-seven chapter autobiography of Win's life. She turned it over immediately.
I sued the CIA for it twenty two years later.
Within a week Agency personel showed up at the Rio Escondido house (photo above) demanding access to Win's study. They spent a day loading hundreds of files into boxes and transported them to the US embassy.
After twelve years of living in Mexico, Janet decided that she needed to move on and left for Rome six months later. She never married again living off the goverment pension for the rest of her life.
Angleton retired four years later. He was interviewed by a British TV network in 1976.
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