News - 07-20-05
Spy Conference Talk
"Hollywood Communists, Radical Scholars, and Chinese Espionage: A preview of the 2005 Raleigh International
Spy Conference", is the subject of a talk to be delivered by Metro Magazine Editor and Publisher Bernie Reeves
Monday noon August 15 at the John Locke Foundation headquarters, 200 West Morgan Street in downtown Raleigh.
The cost is $6.00 per person and includes a take-out lunch. Afterwards Reeves will be the guest of Locke
foundation director John Hood on Carolina Journal Radio, heard on 21 stations across North Carolina. Go
to
www.johnlocke.org or call 919-828-3876 for more information on the talk and for a list of stations that carry
Carolina Journal radio.
"Intelligence matters", says conference founder Reeves. "This is our third year and the word is out around the world
that this is indeed a significant event".
"Each year", says Reeves, "the conference has attracted a who's who of scholars and espionage operatives covering
subjects from the KGB in the Cold War in 2003 and the intelligence dimension of the war on terrorism in 2004.
"This year, subjects range from a new book about a female Civil War Confederate spy, revelations about the McCarthy
hearings and who controlled the Communist Party USA, the latest data from the Venona decrypts, new information on
Rosenberg spy ring members who helped jump-start the Soviet high-tech sector, the growing importance of Chinese
espionage in the US and a complete look at the influence of the Left on the film colony in Hollywood."
The speaker roster includes: Keynote speaker Ronald Radosh, co-author with wife Allis Radosh of "Red Star Over
Hollywood: The Film colony's Long Romance With the Left"; Harvey Klehr, co-author of "In Denial: Historians,
Communism and Espionage" with John Earl Haynes, also a speaker the conference; retired FBI Agent-in charge IC
Smith, author of INSIDE: A Top G-Man Exposes Spies, Lies and Bungling the FBI"; Steve Usdin, author of the
forthcoming "Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley";
Nigel West, author of "Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War; and former Time magazine correspondent Ann
Blackman, author of the recent "Wild Rose, Civil War Spy."