Have you read this yet?

James Jesus Angleton, head of the C.I.A.'s counter-intelligence division during the Cold War, and founding editor of long-out-of-print Yale-based literary journal Furioso:

What he brought to spycraft was the intellectual model of the New Criticism, which, as one contributor to Furioso put it, was propelled by “the discovery that it is possible and proper for a poet to mean two differing or even opposing things at the same time."

( Gladwell, The New Yorker)