You see, that's the new former KGB retirement plan. Not smart enough or ballsy enough to start your own mob or be hired by a government/corportation? Why come to America, write an "insider's" book and make a fortune of the rampant paranoia.
"Miles Seeley writes: "I do have a lot of stories about James Jesus Angleton, most of which I will not tell because I honor my oath when I entered the CIA. Since so much of it is public now, I will comment that when I came back from Amman, I was assigned the task of re-evaluating the Nosenko case and putting it, finally, to rest. I assembled a team and we went over everything. To us, it was clear that Nosenko had been a legitimate defector. This conclusion displeased many conspiracy theorists, and certainly Mr. Anglelton, but it ultimately prevailed, largely due to the support I got from some very senior CIA officials. Nosenko was released and, I heard later, adapted quite well to freedom and a private life. I am very glad.
My few direct meetings with Mr. Angleton were strange indeed, since he was a distinctly different man from anyone else I knew in the Agency. My role in those meetings was to listen to him and say little or nothing. Then I would go back and get to work. I managed to have destroyed the majority of the files that had been assembled on CIA employees who were suspected of being "moles," ie agents of the KGB. They were a shameful collection of innuendo, rumor, and falsehoods. The head of Security and the Deputy Director for Plans (DDP) backed me up on that, too, and DCI Richard Helms approved."
Of course, since Miles Seeley didn't spend the Cold War parroting the false prophesies of Golitsyn he too is a dupe, or part of the world-wide communist conspiracy.