CIA Plans Release of Soviet Naval Documents at National Press Club Headliners Newsmakers Event

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The CIA's Agency Data Office (ADO) and Information Management Services (IMS) is partnering with the National Museum of the U.S. Navy and the Naval Historical Foundation to hold a records release event at the National Press Club as part of the club's Headliners Newsmaker series. The event will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 6 at 10 a.m. in the Club's Zenger Room.

The newly released documents focus on the CIA's collection and analysis of the Soviet Navy and its military posture during the Cold War. A panel of CIA and Navy historians and officials will delve into this tense period of our nation's recent history and review the intelligence gathered over the course of three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s. 

The speakers will be:

• David Rosenberg, PhD, Institute for Defense Analyses and Retired U.S. Navy Captain
• Celia Mansfield, CIA Historical Programs Coordinator
• Norman Polmar, Naval and Intelligence Historian
• Rear Admiral Thomas Brooks, U.S. Navy (Retired), Former Director of Naval Intelligence
• George Fedoroff, Senior Intelligence Officer, U.S. Navy
• Eugene Sullivan, retired CIA senior officer

The National Press Club is located on the 13^th Floor of the National Press Building at 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.  This Headliners Newsmaker event is open to credentialed media and Press Club members free of charge, with advance registration required. Please click here to register.

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SOURCE National Press Club