He was the son of David W. Bagley and Marie Harrington Bagley.
He was married to Maria Charlotte Lonyay.
They were the parents of three children.
Tennent Harrington Bagley was born on November 11 1925, in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of an admiral in the United States Navy. After serving in the Marine Corps during Second World War he earned a degree in Political Science at the University of Southern California and later a doctorate at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
In 1950, he joined the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency and by the 1960s had been promoted to deputy chief of the Soviet bloc division. In 1967 he became CIA station chief in Brussels, holding the post until his retirement in 1972.
In 2007, he published Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games. Additional books were KGB: Masters of the Soviet Union (1990, with Peter Deriabin) and in 2013 Spymaster: Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief, based on the reminiscences of Sergey Kondrashev.
Survivors included his wife, Maria, one son and two daughters.
Source: The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, February 27, 2014.
He was the son of David W. Bagley and Marie Harrington Bagley.
He was married to Maria Charlotte Lonyay.
They were the parents of three children.
Tennent Harrington Bagley was born on November 11 1925, in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of an admiral in the United States Navy. After serving in the Marine Corps during Second World War he earned a degree in Political Science at the University of Southern California and later a doctorate at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
In 1950, he joined the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency and by the 1960s had been promoted to deputy chief of the Soviet bloc division. In 1967 he became CIA station chief in Brussels, holding the post until his retirement in 1972.
In 2007, he published Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games. Additional books were KGB: Masters of the Soviet Union (1990, with Peter Deriabin) and in 2013 Spymaster: Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief, based on the reminiscences of Sergey Kondrashev.
Survivors included his wife, Maria, one son and two daughters.
Source: The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, February 27, 2014.
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