LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Tennent H.Bagley
A former CIA chief of Soviet block counterintelligence.
He served twenty-two years in the CIA, handling spies and defectors in Clandestine Services.
Vladimir Bukovsky
A former Soviet Dissident and surviver of
Gulag. He was hired by President Boris Yeltsin to build a defense for the upcoming trial the Communist Party filed against
Yeltsin. Bukovsky agreed under one condition: he would get access to KGB archives. he spent one full year in archives scanning
thousands of classified documents into his laptop computer.
Petr
Cibulka
A former Czech dissident and political prisoner.
In 1992 he acquired and published data from the Secret Police files disclosing over 200,000 names of STB officers and collaborators
in Czechoslovakia.
Angelo Codevilla
A former U.S. Foreign Service Officer and a member of President-Elect Reagan's Transition Team within
the U.S. Department of State. he served as U.S. Senate Staff Member dealing with oversight of the intelligence services.
Frantisek Doskocil
Former
Czechoslovak Communist Party Central Committee member and CIA agent.
Joseph D.Douglass,
Jr., PhD
A national security affair consultant with 25 years
experience in defense policy, technology, an d intelligence. He served as the Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency during Reagan's administration. A recognized authority on U.S. and Soviet nuclear strategy, communist decision-making,
and Soviet strategic intelligence operations.
Edward Jay Epstein
Political analyst, Author.
Robert M.Gates
US Secretary of
Defense, former CIA Director.
Bill Gertz
Journalist, a defense and national security
reporter for The
Washington Times.
Oleg Gordievsky
The KGB Colonel and resident in London, a double agent working for British
MI6. Adviser to Mikhail h and Margaret Thatcher.
Vladimir Hucin
An anti-communist activist and political prisoner in
Czechoslovakia. After the
revolution in 1989 he was nominated by the Alliance of Political Prisoners to the newly formed BIS (Czech
intelligence service) and became the counter-intelligence officer specializing
in leftist extremism. When he threatened to expose hidden communist structures
and plans for the return to totalitarian methods, he was arrested in 2001 and
jailed for over a year. The trial took almost five years. In the fall of 2006
he was acquitted of all charges.
Jeff R.Nyquist
A Geo-political analyst and expert on America's
fatal illusion of a balance of power, diplomatic and Cold War history.
Ion Mihai Pacepa
Lt. General of
Romanian Intelligence, the highest ranking defector ever from the Eastern block. A former Chief of Romania Intelligence Service
and National security adviser to president Nicolas Ceausescu.
Jaromir Stetina
A former journalist specialized in war conflicts
in Europe. Since 2004 a member of the Czech
Senate.
Pavel Zacek
A Director of the Institute of Studies of Totalitarian Regimes and former Director of Interior Ministry Archives in
Prague.
Ludvik Zifcak
A former Czech Secret
Police (STB) officer. He was in charge of leading the students' demonstration in November 1989 that triggered the Velvet
Revolution and he played the "dead student" Martin Smid supposedly killed by the brutal riot police.