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Angleton, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 18130
Housing Units (2000): 7220
Land area (2000): 10.563504 sq. miles (27.359348 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.020984 sq. miles (0.054349 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10.584488 sq. miles (27.413697 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03264
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.166478 N, 95.428122 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 77515
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Angleton refers to:

Persons
  • Doris Angleton (1951–1997), American socialite and murder victim from Texas
  • James Jesus Angleton (1917–1987), American CIA official
  • Robert Angleton (b. 1948), American bookmaker from Texas; accused then exonerated of the murder of his wife
  • Roger Angleton (1942–1998), American murderer from Texas; killed Doris Angleton
Places
  • Angleton, Texas

Usage examples of "angleton".

If there was a method to the madness, only Angleton himself had the key to it.

But there were other, more elegant, scenarios that only a handful of Company officers, Angleton foremost among them, could fathom.

It was several minutes before Angleton could pry his fingers free and make his way to table 41.

Philby and Angleton, nocked to a Georgetown watering hole for lunch most Fridays.

APRON OVER AN OLD SHIRT AND washed-out chinos, James Jesus Angleton was sweeping the aisles of the greenhouse he had recently installed in the back yard of his suburban Arlington house, across the Potomac from the District of Columbia and the Pickle Factory on the Reflecting Pool.

If I succeed in crossings new Cattleya, I plan to call it the Cicely Angleton after my wife.

Torriti turned in a complete circle, as if he were winding himself up, then asked if Angleton was aware that Philby had signed out MI6 Source Books on the Soviet Union long before he became involved in Soviet counterespionage.

Pulling out his own notebook, wetting a thumb and leafing back the pages, he began to walk Angleton through his series of barium meals.

You knew from Angleton that the Americans had deciphered bits of text that identified Maclean as the Soviet agent HOMER.

Hay-Adams, across Lafayette Park from the White House, when Angleton sank onto the stool next to Philby at the low end of the bar.

Grimacing, Angleton made a silent vow: He would never trust another mortal the way he had trusted Philby.

Starik knew that Philby would learn from Angleton that the Americas were closing in on Maclean.

He was close to Angleton and had access to other top people in the CIA, and was still delivering a fair amount of secrets.

Starik had been studying Angleton since Philby had first reported his presence at Ryder Street during the war.

Starik had continued to observe him from afar when Angleton was in Italy after the war, and later when he returned to Washington to run the Counterintelligence arm of the CIA.