CISIG DEPuty CHIEF Newton SCott MILER

NEWTON SCOTT MILER
Miler was educated at Dartmouth in New Hampshire and joined the US Navy while earning a degree in economics. He would later be recruited by the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), a predecessor group to the Agency, in nineteen forty-six to conduct operations in China. Miler joined the CIA the next year and served in the role of case officer for agents within multiple Asian countries as the nineteen fifties progressed. By nineteen sixty-four Miler was the Station Chief of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and for two years he reported to James Angleton as a member of the Agency's Counterintelligence Staff. Angleton later recruited him for a mole hunt stalking traitors within the CIA and Miler was dubbed the Deputy Chief of Special Investigations under the Counterintelligence Division’s Special Investigations Group (CISIG).

Newton Miler Amid the NInteen Forties

While Miler began to systematically follow both possible and unfounded leads, he would be drawn with dozens of members of the CIA into dividing factions that supported and opposed the existence of a traitor. A web constructed from numerous allegations that defector Anatoly Golitsyn offered regarding Communist agents and false defectors soon covered the entire counterintelligence staff. The claim of moles in most of Western intelligence was supported by James Angleton and incorporated the Yuriy Nosenko defector case. Several unproven claims and false leads CISIG developed would render significant damage to dozens of official careers including Miler's. He was among the few people that James Angleton suggested might follow him leading the Counterintelligence Division but Miler's connection to the mole hunt dashed any such prospects. He retired in seeming protest during nineteen seventy-five with most of the counterintelligence staff leadership instead of facing dismissal. Miler stated in a later interview just because all those investigated were not spies did not mean one did not escape detection.