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The North Carolina Museum of History is located at 5 East Edenton Street (between Salisbury and Wilmington Streets)
in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.
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2008 Schedule
Wednesday, March 26
6-7 p.m.
Registration and reception
7:10-8 p.m. — Famous Traitors
Brian Kelley, former counterintelligence officer for CIA, calls on first-hand knowledge
for an intriguing presentation that traces the infamous careers of two of the most notorious traitors in
US history, Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen – and a third shadowy figure, former State Department officer
Felix Bloch, presently living near Raleigh in Chapel Hill. Kelley was mistakenly accused of being the mole
who turned out to be Robert Hanssen, so expect never before disclosed revelations and several twists and
turns.
Thursday, March 27
9-10:15 a.m. — The Real James Angleton and the Wilderness of Mirrors
David Robarge, Chief Historian for CIA, discusses the environment at CIA created by the
legendary James Jesus Angleton, CIA's counterintelligence chief who turned the Agency inside out searching
for a Soviet mole he thought had burrowed into the highest levels of the US intelligence community.
10:30-11:45 a.m. — The Tragic Story of an American Double Agent
Brian Kelley, who spent 40 years working inside US counterintelligence, draws on recent information
to dramatize the true story of an American double agent targeted for more than a decade against the KGB. The saga,
which ended with the disappearance of the American operative, involved the CIA and FBI; the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police; touched on recruited Soviet sources codenamed Top Hat, Fedora and Kitty Hawk; and ultimately included Presidents
Ford and Carter along with Henry Kissinger. The deception and mystery of the case was unlocked during a debriefing
of a high level defector. The last player to have a role in this tragedy will come as a stunning surprise. Kelley
reveals the twists and turns of this remarkable story from start to finish for the first time in a public setting.
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30-2:45 p.m — Double Agents, Deception Programs and the Nosenko Case
Special Guest
Tennent "Pete" Bagley will be center stage for a Q&A session led by Brian Kelley
to divulge the story of KGB defector Yuri Nosenko in 1964, who brought news that the KGB had nothing to do with the
assassination of John F. Kennedy - and had no contact with Lee Harvey Oswald when he lived in the Soviet Union just
prior to the assassination. Bagley's new book,
Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries and Deadly Games, maintains that - despite
the CIA's eventual acceptance of Nosenko as a valid defector - he was actually a KGB plant sent to disrupt US
intelligence. Bagley, snubbed by some of his CIA colleagues over his book, will reveal his findings at the Raleigh
conference and discuss his experience in the wilderness of mirrors created by moles, double agents, false defectors
and deception operations.
3-4:15 p.m. — Cold War Beat: My Life Covering Spies and Double Agents
Former
Time Magazine Moscow bureau chief - and respected author of seminal books on the Cold War -
Jerrold Schecter
will address the political environment that produced the double agents, moles and deception operations that created
the wilderness of mirrors that signified the Cold War confrontation of spy agencies for the US and the Soviet Union.
4:30-5 p.m.
Book Signing by Authors
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Conference Gala
Friday, March 28
9-10:30 a.m.
Panel Discussion With Speakers
11:00 a.m. — Keynote Address
David Ignatius,
Washington Post columnist and former Moscow bureau chief - and author of
espionage fiction applauded by the intelligence community - will deliver the final address with an overview of the
era that created the wilderness of mirrors and the political and historical impact of Cold War espionage.
Additional information can be found on the website www.visitRaleigh.com.