TENNENT H. ("PETE") BAGLEY
Pete Bagley was deputy chief of CIA's Soviet Bloc Division and headed its worldwide operations against the
Soviet intelligence services in the 1960s. He was personally involved in major Cold War counterespionage
affairs.
His most recent book Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games (Yale University Press, 2007) is a first-hand
account of perhaps the most controversial unresolved question of the Cold War.
Born in Annapolis, Maryland into a prominent naval family with roots in Raleigh, Mr. Bagley served three
years in the U. S. Marine Corps in World War II. After attending Princeton and the University of Southern
California, he earned a doctorate in political science from the University of Geneva's Graduate Institute
of International Studies in Switzerland.
From 1950 in the CIA, he served in Vienna for the last half of its 10-year occupation by Soviet and Western
forces, as well as in other overseas posts, with temporary missions in many parts of the globe.
For 10 years after retiring from CIA in the 1970s, Mr. Bagley was a consultant to American and Japanese
chemical and avionics firms establishing enterprises and contacts in Europe. More recently he has been
writing on Soviet intelligence and counterintelligence affairs. With the former KGB officer Peter Deriabin
he coauthored a book on the KGB's place in the Soviet system: KGB. Masters of the Soviet Union (New York:
Hippocrene, 1990). One respected Sovietologist called it "unquestionably the most authoritative, detailed
and insightful description and assessment of the Soviet secret police and related control organs available
to the Western reader." In Strategic Review, Summer 1990, it was called "the definitive study of the
KGB as an indispensable prop of the Soviet regime."
His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal Europe and in professional journals. For the Los
Angeles Times he and the former chief of East German intelligence Markus Wolf jointly reviewed the book
Battleground Berlin on the Cold War confrontation of CIA and KGB in Berlin. His article on the role of
the CIA spy Oleg Penkovsky in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis appeared, along with articles by Sergey
Khrushchev and others, in Die Kubakrise 1962, Otzenhausen, Germany.
Mr. Bagley has appeared on television panel shows in France, Germany and Russia, has participated in
conferences on the Cold War in Germany, Switzerland and Holland, and has been interviewed by the print
and broadcast media in Britain, Belgium, Germany, France and Russia.
KGB and CIA alike have publicly attacked the author's role in the Nosenko case of the 1960s. In a 1986
BBC-HBO TV docudrama, "Yuri Nosenko, KGB", Pete Bagley (under alias as "Steve Daley" at his own request)
was played by Tommy Lee Jones.
Mr. Bagley and his wife of more than 50 years live in Brussels.