Brian Kelley (CIA officer)

Brian Kelley (January 8, 1943 – September 19, 2011) was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence officer. He was investigated by the CIA and FBI as a suspected KGB mole during the 1990s, before FBI agent Robert Hanssen was identified as the actual mole and arrested in 2001. Having been suspended during the investigation, Kelley was reinstated by the CIA and later received the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal for his service.^[1]

Brian Kelley
Born	(1943-01-08)January 8, 1943 Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	September 19, 2011(2011-09-19) (aged 68) Vienna, Virginia
Occupation	CIA counterintelligence officer

Early life

Kelley was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. He earned degrees in political science from Saint Michael's College and East Asian studies from Florida State University.

Career

After graduating from college he joined the United States Air Force and worked in its Office of Special Investigations. After leaving the Air Force he joined the CIA.^[2]

After full reinstatement, Kelley educated personnel in various government agencies on professional counterintelligence. He retired from the CIA in 2007 and worked for the private contractor Abraxas Corporation^[3] and continued to teach counterintelligence.^{[citation needed]} He also taught counterintelligence at The Institute of World Politics.^[2]

Death

Kelley died on September 19, 2011, in his sleep at his home in Vienna, Virginia.^[2]

References

1. Fox, Margalit (September 22, 2011). "Brian J. Kelley, Onetime Spying Suspect, Dies at 68 (Published 2011)". The New York Times.
2. Fox, Margalit (September 21, 2011). "Brian J. Kelley, Onetime Spying Suspect, Dies at 68". The New York Times.
3. See the biography section of Kelley, B. J. (2007). Two traitors (Review of True Believer; Capturing Jonathan Pollard, by S. Carmichael & R. J. Olive). American Intelligence Journal, 25(1), 85–87.