British Intelligence Magazine Praises Raleigh Spy Conference

Raleigh, NC, May 24, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Eye Spy, Great Britain’s leading intelligence publication, praises the 5th Annual Raleigh Spy Conference in its current issue, calling it “an unprecedented, bold effort” to dispel CIA myths and inform a lay audience about the intelligence community.

The two-page spread, entitled “Myths of Cold War Spy Cases Shattered in Raleigh Conference,” offers a synopsis of the conference and notes that each speaker revealed “the best-hidden, most complex and least understood levels of counterespionage.” An editor’s note calls the conference “an annual and important event.”

The theme of the 2008 conference, “CIA’s Unsolved Mysteries: The Nosenko Defection and Angleton’s Wilderness of Mirrors,” attracted a noteworthy speaker line-up that included former CIA officer Tennent H. “Pete Bagley”, author of the recent book Spy Wars that contradicts CIA’s approved history of the Yuri Nosenko defection in 1964. The book, which revisits Nosenko’s information concerning Lee Harvey Oswald, has caused continuing controversy at CIA.

CIA chief historian David Robarge delivered newly declassified information about the infamous James Angleton’s reign as chief of counterintelligence for CIA; Former Time Magazine bureau chief Jerrold Schecter discussed the Penkoksky defection; and CIA counterintelligence veteran Brian Kelley, joined by Dan Mulvenna of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, covered six cases of defections and double agents, settling disagreements in the intelligence community lingering since the beginning of the Cold War.

The keynote address was delivered by Washington Post associate editor and foreign affairs and intelligence columnist David Ignatius. Ignatius offered a time-line with parallels comparing the failures and successes of the CIA to the publication of his five espionage novels. Ignatius exposed that a character in one of his books was based on the true story of the recruitment by CIA of Yasir Arafat’s number two man who was later killed by the Israelis.

According to conference founder Bernie Reeves, “History is being rewritten hourly as newly declassified data emerges to correct the record of past events. The Raleigh Spy Conference recognized this trend five years ago and set the standard for intelligence conferences. I am amazed at the quality of speakers who come to Raleigh.”

Reeves, editor and publisher of Raleigh Metro Magazine (www.metronc.com), founded the Conference in 2005. He first conceived of the Conference on the premise that “intelligence is the calculus of history” after the exposure of the Ultra Secret 35 years after the end of World War 11 when the British admitted they had deciphered the German code.

Adds Reeves: “After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the declassification of the Venona program in 1995 and the addition of dozens of new books a year on the Cold War, the Raleigh conference is committed to communicating to the public what actually transpired.”

For details on the Raleigh Spy Conference and recaps of all five events, visit www.raleighspyconference.com.

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