The newly declassified JFK file revealed that former CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton testified under oath in an executive session before the Church Committee in 1975 about deep intelligence ties between the United States and Israel.

The testimony, given in a top-secret executive session, was part of the Senate Select Committee's broader investigation into intelligence operations.

Though much of the session was focused on Cold War espionage and Soviet defections, one line of questioning zeroed in on allegations that U.S. intelligence may have assisted Israel's covert nuclear program.

Angleton, who served from the agency's founding until late 1974, confirmed a formal, albeit unwritten, intelligence-sharing agreement between the CIA and Israeli operatives beginning in 1951, one reportedly brokered between Angleton and Reuven Shiloah, Israel's first Mossad director, noting that the relationship operated on a fiduciary basis and avoided documentation.

Excerpts from the declassified JFK file reviewed by The Gateway Pundit (p.15):

Staff Director William Miller: And under whose authority was the agreement made?

Mr. Angleton: Under the authority of the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Prime Minister of Israel on the other side.

Mr. Miller: And this involved the exchange of resources of both countries?

Mr. Angleton: The term "resources" is not quite correct. Everything except their own people. It was giving up papers and signals, communications Intelligence, and all the other products of intelligence action.

Mr. Miller: So the Director of Central Intelligence was aware of the agreement. Was the President?

Angleton: The President was aware of it. And the Secretary of State was the brother of the Deputy Chief of the CIA, and eventually was very much involved.

Mr. Miller: Where is a record of this agreement kept, as an instrument of the U.S.?

Mr. Angleton: The internal papers would be in the Agency. The tetters, copies of the letters from Ben Gurion to the President or to the Secretary of State, I assume are still in the Agency.