07/23/2011
The 7th Raleigh Spy Conference: Spies Among Us: The Secret World Of Espionage Illegals - August 24-26, Raleigh NC: a subject with a long history in the intelligence game that caused a media sensation last year with the arrest of ten Soviet citizens in the US living under false identities as “sleeper cells” to observe and spy for the SVR, the successor spy agency of the notorious KGB.
Michael Sulick, recently retired as director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, the person that runs the spy side of the Agency; Nigel West, the former British Member of Parliament and expert author on intelligence matters; Dan Mulvenna, former counterintelligence officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; and Brian Kelley, the former CIA counterintelligence officer and the “wrong man” in the Robert Hanssen case will present background information and case histories of famous espionage illegals who have played a major role during the Cold War and its aftermath.
An added attraction for the 7th Raleigh Spy Conference is the creation of the Writers Roundtable, featuring acclaimed intelligence author David Wise on his new book Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War With China; Douglas Waller, former Time magazine Washington bureau chief and currently defense analyst for Bloomberg Government, on his biography Wild Bill Donovan - the founder of the Office of Strategic Services during World War 11, the precursor to the CIA; and Kent Clizbe, former CIA operations officer who has written his first book, Willing Accomplices, that investigates the impact of Soviet ideological propaganda in the US.
Conference attendees will be offered special booklets created by The Historical Collections Division of the Office of Information Management Services of the Central Intelligence Agency containing recently declassified documents and updated narratives uncovering the truth behind recent Cold War events, including the Korean War, Air America, the Warsaw Pact and the papers of former CIA director Richard Helms.
The 7th Raleigh Spy Conference opens with a pre-registration reception Wednesday evening August 24 at an area restaurant, followed by four speaker sessions Thursday August 25 at the NC Museum of History and the Spy Gala at an area club that evening.
On Friday morning August 26, the Author’s Roundtable begins at 9:15 AM, followed by the keynote address by General Michael Hayden at 11:00 AM. All conference sessions are held at the NC Museum of History.
For detailed information and to register, go to www.raleighspyconference.com, or email Cyndi Harris at [email protected]. For telephone inquiries, call Raleigh Metro Magazine: 919-831-0999.
