News - 01-17-08
Controversy and Raleigh Connection:
FORMER CIA DEPUTY CHIEF & "SPY WARS" AUTHOR TO ADDRESS
FIFTH ANNUAL RALEIGH SPY CONFERENCE
January 17, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC) – Tennent "Pete" Bagley, former deputy chief of the Central Intelligence
Agency's Soviet Bloc Division - whose book Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games (Yale University
Press, 2007) prompted the CIA to abruptly cancel his talk scheduled at CIA headquarters in Langley, VA,
this summer and his subsequent public lecture at the International Spy Museum - will be a featured speaker
at the fifth annual Raleigh Spy Conference. The conference will be held at the NC Museum of History March
22-28.
According to conference founder and Raleigh Metro Magazine editor Bernie Reeves, Bagley's new book is a
first-hand account of "perhaps the most controversial unresolved question of the Cold War. It pours salt
in an old wound at the agency surrounding the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko, who defected
to the U.S in 1964 bearing information that the KGB had nothing to do with the John F. Kennedy assassination
and had no contact with assassin Lee Harvey Oswald who lived in the USSR for three years just before
the killing in Dallas on November 22, 1963."
According to Reeves, KGB and CIA alike have publicly attacked Bagley's role in the Nosenko case, which
inspired the 1986 BBC-HBO TV docudrama, "Yuri Nosenko, KGB." Bagley, under the alias "Steve Daley" at
his own request, was played by Tommy Lee Jones.
Bagley lives in Brussels but his connection to Raleigh also inspired Reeves to invite him to address
the conference. Bagley is the nephew of the first American killed in the 1898 Spanish-American War –
Worth Bagley – who commemorated by a statue on the grounds of the state Capitol Building. Bagley's first
cousin's mother was married to Raleigh News & Observer founder Josephus Daniels.
Bagley, who earned a doctorate in political science from the University of Geneva's Graduate Institute
of International Studies in Switzerland, headed the CIA's worldwide operations against the Soviet intelligence
services in the 1960s. He was personally involved in major Cold War counterespionage affairs.
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.
Since retiring from CIA in the 1970s, Bagley has written extensively 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). His
articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal Europe and in professional journals. Bagley was the
former chief of East German intelligence for the Los Angeles Times. 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.
Tickets to the three-day event are $250 for the general public, $175 for seniors, and $145 for teachers,
students and members of the military and intelligence community. Early registration is available by calling
Jennifer Hadra at 919-831-0999. For complete information on this year's event, including the full speakers
roster, go to
www.raleighspyconference.com.