Raleigh Spy Conference
Aug 8, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC)-
The sigh of relief didn’t last long watching the far Left radical scholars fade away from universities, think tanks, government agencies and the national mass media in recent months. Some are retiring, some have committed spontaneous human combustion like Ward Churchill at the University of Colorado, but mostly…”
May 19, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC)- Great Britain’s Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine, one of the leading espionage publications in the world, published a special report on the Raleigh Spy Conference this month, heralding the conference as “an unprecedented, bold effort to illustrate for a lay audience some of the best-hidden, most complex and least understood levels of counterespionage…”
May 22, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC)-
Eye Spy, Great Britain’s leading intelligence publication, praises the 5th Annual Raleigh Spy Conference in its current issue, calling it “an unprecedented, bold effort” to dispel CIA myths and inform a lay audience about the intelligence community...
March 5, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC) – Why would the KGB take pains to deny it had nothing to do with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, or that the Soviet spy agency had no contact with Lee Harvey Oswald when he lived in the USSR prior to the events in Dallas?
Full Conference Line-Up
January, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC) – “Wilderness of Mirrors” is the theme for the fifth annual Raleigh Spy Conference, an internationally acclaimed event that draws top experts in the field of intelligence to Raleigh each year. The 2008 conference will be held March 26-28 at the North Carolina Museum of History in downtown Raleigh.
The 5th Raleigh Spy Conference, March 26-28, 2008 at the NC Museum of History
CIA's Unsolved Mysteries: The Nosenko Defection, Double Agents and Angleton's Wilderness of
Mirrors features the top experts in counterintelligence to discuss unresolved issues from
the Cold War:
- Pete Bagley, the former chief of CIA's Soviet bloc counterintelligence division will defend his controversial new book on KGB defector Yuri Nosenko, with its mysterious connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and John F. Kennedy that kicked off 40 years of unresolved internal strife at CIA.
- David Robarge, Chief Historian for CIA and expert on infamous counterintelligence chief James Angleton, will discuss the controversy created by the former chief of counterintelligence for the Agency by his obsessive hunt for a Soviet mole.
- Brian Kelley, the wrong man in the Robert Hanssen spy case - and former counterintelligence officer for CIA, will use examples of defectors and double agents he uses as case models for courses he teaches to train espionage agents.
- Jerry Schecter, former correspondent for Time magazine in Moscow during the Cold War, and respected expert and author of books on Cold War espionage, was on hand to witness for the press the important cases of defectors and double agents in the heat of the Cold War.
- David Ignatius, former foreign editor - now columnist for the Washington Post – and author of espionage fiction, is respected in the "community" for his insights on the impact of defectors and double agents on the craft of espionage.
Click here to read more about 2008 Raleigh Spy Conference speakers.
Conference Costs:
General Public: $250.00
Seniors: $175.00
Teachers, Intelligence, Students, Military: $145.00
Early registration available: Contact Cyndi Harris at 919-831-0999 or
.