Person of Interest - Christina Bagley Rocca

Christine Bagley Rocca

It's always nice to see a family business stay intact even after the founders have all passed. As many family owned businesses understand, there is hardly any guarantees the sons and daughters of the original founders will work as hard as their parents did to keep a company running.

Luckily for the CIA, Christina Bagley Rocca has been a good steward that her father Tennet H. "Pete" Bagley started with her father in law Ray Rocca.

...from Wikipedia ("B." is for Bagley, not that Wikipedia could be expected to not censure the reference.)

President George W. Bush then named Rocca as the United States Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and Ambassador Rocca held this post from August 2006 until January 2009. There, she represented the U.S. during nuclear disarmament talks and negotiations related to the Biological Weapons Convention and the peaceful use of space.

Upon leaving government service in 2009, Rocca joined the consulting firm Visión Américas.

Previous Jobs:

• United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs from 2001 to 2006
• Central Intelligence Agency as a staff operations officer - 1982 to 1997

Pedigree:

Pete Bagley

Christine Bagley Rocca's father was famed Cold War spy, Tennet H. ‘Pete’ Bagley. Pete “was the CIA handler of Yuri Nosenko, a KGB officer who defected to the United States with information about accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.” 

Pete himself came from a prestigious family. His father was and Admiral and his two brothers were also Admirals. His mother's uncle was Admiral William D. Leahy who was Franklin Roosevelt's Chief of Staff and the first "de facto" Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during WWII (the position would officially be created later.)

James Jesus Angleton - 'The Ghost'

Any number of arguments have been made that Pete Bagley was a straight shooter and was not part of the subsequent cover-up of the JFK Assassination or, alternatively, many have argued that he did assist in the cover up until he died in 2014 at the age of 88. Pete worked under Chief of CIA Counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton (“the Ghost”.) He was a colleague of…

Ray Rocca

…Ray Rocca, the father in law of Christina Bagley Rocca.

Ray Rocca was Deputy Chief of the CIA Counterintelligence Division. Rocca, along with Angleton are generally considered suspects at the CIA who played an important part in the assassination. If not involved in the actual plot, as CIA liaison to the Warren Commission, Rocca was likely part of the subsequent cover-up. He was also in charge of the CIA plot to undermine Jim Garrison Investigation into Clay Shaw.

Ray Rocca - CIA plot to undermine Jim Garrison Investigation into Clay Shaw.

Quixotic Joust expands on the connections and relatives of Pete Bagley.

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There are a number of Bagley's that have resided on Gibson Island. Pete's two brothers and father were Admirals and know the Western Shore of Maryland well, from their time in Annapolis. We are still trying to figure which parts of the Bagley clan reside of Gibson and we will update this post when we find out.

Gibson Island, Maryland