Peter Earnest, retired CIA senior intelligence officer, and Oleg Kalugin, retired major general in the Soviet KGB, shared stories from the Cold War. After each had made remarks, they responded to questions submitted by members of the audience. Mr. Kratsas moderated.
Peter Earnest was a career CIA operations officer for thirty years, which included twenty years in Clandestine Service, before he retired in 1994. Oleg Kalugin was the KGB chief of counterintelligence.
The program "Inside the Cold War: Perspectives from the CIA and KGB" was held Thursday, January 21, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids in conjunction with the exhibit "America and the Cold War."
Keywords
History, Cold War, Foreign Affairs & Defense, International Security, Intelligence