I read the wiki article on him, not sure what to think.
It is Wikipedia after all.
But I do get the sense that he was a loose cannon and shouldn’t have been in his position.
If it was the deep state it would have to go much further up the food chain. My opinion.
Read the article again.
This “loose cannon” survived decades of changing Presidents and CIA directors!
He was a “player”.
Btw here is an interesting article on the “loose cannon” Angleton: