Indeed James Jesus was a fascinating scoundrel who left his mark on Italy. His father was honorary head of the Milan Chamber of Commerce under fascism and it is no doubt the Angletons harboured sympathy for Mussolini. James is specially remembered here for having saved the potential war criminal Valerio Borghese, head of the infamous Decima Mas, that plundered and terrorized Northern Italy during the Salo Republic to the point the Nazis couldn't stand him. Captured by the Allies, James Jesus cross-dressed with him and drove him to Rome where he found safe haven.

Valerio Borghese continued throughout the first decades of the Italian Republic to foster subversive fascist organizations and plot coup d'etats. He is allegedly responsible for the Mayday massacre of Portella della Ginestra in connivance with the Sicilian outlaw Salvatore Giuliano. Regarded by some as the first act of the Cold War, the massacre became a template for further terrorist actions throughout the first decades of the republic.

Curious that Valerio Borghese had plotted to blow up the Empire State Building in the early phases of the Second World War- a latter day Osama. James Jesus perhaps felt that by winning Borghese to the imminent conflict with the USSR, he could tampon the fascist terrorism in liberated territories. The fascist terrorist organizations went on to collaborate with US counter-intelligence in the supply of arms to Israeli insurgents. Borghese actually taught terrorist tactics to the then Israeli subversive movements and is alleged to have supplied logistics in the destruction of the King David Hotel.

Borghese's organizations have been considered behind a number of unsolved high profile murders in Italy.