SOVIet RUSSIA Division CHIEF TENNeNT BAGLEY
TENNENT HARRINGTON BAGLEY
Bagley was born in Annapolis the son of a US Navy Vice-Admiral and directly related to multiple other US Navy admirals, served in World War II, and he earned a doctorate in political science from his international schooling. He joined the CIA in July of nineteen fifty and was a noted intellectual trained in four languages and extensively studied operational and clandestine methods to serve in the Foreign Intelligence Operations Section at CIA headquarters. Bagley's following marriage to an Austrian woman despite the warnings of supervising officials caused him to be moved from his post in Austria to the United States amid the nineteen fifties. His personnel file verifies that in nineteen sixty-one he used Department of State cover while employed in various Agency capacities. During nineteen sixty-five, Bagley served as the Chief of the Soviet Russia Division's Counterintelligence Group and later that year was promoted to Deputy Chief of the entire Soviet Russia Division.
T.H. Bagley Several Years After his Agency Retirement
Despite his assistance debriefing notable KGB defector Yuriy Nosenko, Bagley joined the CIA faction claiming Nosenko was a false provocateur in part due to the claims of defector Anatoliy Golitsyn. He served as a protégé of Agency Counterintelligence Chief James J. Angleton and participated in a multiple-year long hunt for internal traitors. By the end of these expansive series of "mole hunts" Bagley himself was targeted by the very charges he once made about other government employees. In nineteen sixty-seven, Agency officials sent Bagley to Belgium and he served as the Chief of Brussels Station until nineteen seventy-two when he faced involuntary retirement. Suspicious related investigators crippled portions of the Agency's Counterintelligence Division and Soviet Russia Division with misguided related inquiries, yet as Bagley supported until his later death this does not preclude the existence of the unknown Soviet double agent and it might instead reveal the CIA failed to catch them. He additionally sought during later years via reports, books, and interviews to substantiate prior critical ideas and circumstantial evidence regarding Nosenko's allegiances.
