ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how the Atlanticist state-private network which emerged from the Second World War was re-oriented towards confrontation with the Soviet Union in the Cold War through the CIA’s alliance with the non-communist left. It narrates the shifting balance of power between state and private actors within a network that became increasingly institutionalised in the 1950s. AFL-CIO activists around Jay Lovestone resisted bureaucratisation by gravitating towards James Angleton’s CIA Counter-intelligence Staff, in an alliance that would inform future neoconservative ideas about the relationship between covert action and counterintelligence as active intelligence disciplines.
