Timely Gift Idea "Spied" at Metro Magazine
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He believes tickets to the 2008 conference, to be held March 26-28 at the North Carolina Museum of History in downtown Raleigh, would make a timely – not to mention unique – holiday gift.“The premise that history is in the midst of a major re-write based on the flow of new declassified material has made the Raleigh Spy Conference the best-known event of its type in the world,” said Reeves.Its "mysterious connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and John F. Kennedy kicked off 40 years of unresolved internal strife at the CIA,” according to Reeves.Other speakers will include: Dave Robarge, Chief Historian for CIA and an expert on the infamous counterintelligence chief James Angleton; Brian Kelley of the Robert Hanssen spy case and former counterintelligence officer for CIA; Jerry Schecter, former Time magazine correspondent in Moscow during the Cold War and an author of books on Cold War espionage; and David Ignatius, former foreign editor-turned-columnist for the Washington Post, and an author of espionage fiction.Its "mysterious connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and John F. Kennedy kicked off 40 years of unresolved internal strife at the CIA,” according to Reeves.Other speakers will include: Dave Robarge, Chief Historian for CIA and an expert on the infamous counterintelligence chief James Angleton; Brian Kelley of the Robert Hanssen spy case and former counterintelligence officer for CIA; Jerry Schecter, former Time magazine correspondent in Moscow during the Cold War and an author of books on Cold War espionage; and David Ignatius, former foreign editor-turned-columnist for the Washington Post, and an author of espionage fiction.Tickets to the three-day event are $250 for the general public, $175 for seniors, and $145 for teachers, students and members of the military and intelligence community.