Peter Earnest

Peter Earnest (January 1, 1934 – February 13, 2022) was an American intelligence officer. He was the first director of the International Spy Museum.[1][2]

Intelligence Career

Earnest worked at the Central Intelligence Agency for 36 years, largely in Europe and the Middle East. In the late 1970s he helped safeguard Arkady Shevchenko, a United Nations official who became the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect to the United States.[3]

He later worked in the Inspector General’s office and as the CIA’s Senate liaison, concluding his CIA career as the agency’s chief spokesperson.[4]

Books
  • with Maryann Karinch, Business Confidential: Lessons for Corporate Success From Inside the C.I.A. (AMACOM, 2010)
  • with Lynn M. Boughey, Harry Potter and the Art of Spying (Wise Ink Creative Publishing, 2014)

References
  1. Risen, Clay (February 19, 2022). "Peter Earnest, C.I.A. Veteran Who Ran a Spy Museum, Dies at 88". The New York Times.
  2. Smith, Harrison (15 February 2022). "Peter Earnest, CIA veteran who helped launch International Spy Museum, dies at 88". Washington Post. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  3. "Peter Earnest, CIA veteran who helped launch International Spy Museum, dies at 88". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
  4. Houghton, Vince (2022-05-17). ""Peter Earnest Memorial: Spook, CIA Spokesman, Spy Museum Director". The Cyberwire. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
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