It was T.S. Eliot who coined the phrase "wilderness of mirrors" in his poem, "Gerontion." It was the saga of the CIA’s James Jesus Angleton’s betrayal by Soviet double-agent Kim Philby that made the phrase a byword in the shadowy world of intelligence.

Gene Schaerr, RCP

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