News - 07-07-05
Press Contacts:
For Immediate Release
Kimry Blackwelder, 919-831-0999
July 7, 2005
Brooke Eidenmiller, 919-807-7917
Former Time Correspondent to Appear at Spy Conference
Ann Blackman, a former foreign correspondent for Time magazine,
will speak at the third annual Raleigh International Spy Conference,
set for Aug. 31-Sept. 2 at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. She
joins a panel of noted scholars and intelligence experts lined up for
the event, focusing on the theme Old Spies, New Threats.
Blackman worked for 15 years as a national correspondent for the Associated
Press, covering the Watergate hearings, presidential politics, the Iranian
hostage crisis and other major national events. She joined Time in 1985
as deputy chief of the Washington bureau and spent three years as a
correspondent in the magazines Moscow bureau, writing stories about the
dramatic changes taking place in Soviet history.
Blackman left Time in 2001 to concentrate on writing books. She is the
author of Wild Rose, Civil War Spy, a biography of Confederate agent Rose
ONeale Greenhow, and Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel
Albright. She also co-authored The Spy Next Door, about the double life of
FBI agent Robert P. Hanssen.
The Raleigh International Spy Conference is presented by Bernie Reeves, editor
and publisher of Raleighs Metro Magazine, and the N.C. Museum of History.
The conference fee is $250 per registrant. Reduced registration is $175 for
seniors (55 or over) and $145 for educators, students, and the intelligence
community. The fee includes all sessions, the keynote address, and admission to
the evening gala on Thursday, Sept. 1. Additional gala tickets are available to
conference attendees for $30.
For registration information, access
www.raleighspyconference.com, call
Brooke Eidenmiller at 919-807-7917 or e-mail
brooke.eidenmiller@ncmail.net.
Hotel information is available at
www.raleighspyconference.com.
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The N.C. Museum of Historys hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
The museum is part of the Division of State History Museums, Office of Archives and History, an agency of the N.C.
Department of Cultural Resources. The departments Web site is
www.ncdcr.gov.