Ray McGovern

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Raymond McGovern (born August 25, 1939 in New York ) is a former member of the US foreign intelligence service CIA .

McGovern was with the CIA for 27 years. His duties included working on dossiers such as the National Intelligence Estimate and the President's Daily Brief ; towards the end of his career he was responsible for morning reporting in the White House . In 1990 he retired.

Life

Ray McGovern was born and raised in the Bronx , New York . He graduated with honors from Fordham University and subsequently served in the U.S. Army from 1962 to 1964.

McGovern has been married to Rita Kennedy for 50 years. Together they have five children and eight grandchildren.

Career

As a young officer he was responsible for analyzing Soviet politics in Vietnam .

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From 1981 to 1985 he was one of the officers in charge of intelligence who reported daily to President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George HW Bush . Subsequently, he was one of the senior analysts responsible for preparing the CIA's daily report to the US President. On his retirement he was awarded the Intelligence Commendation Medal by President Bush . He returned this medal in March 2006 in protest against the involvement of CIA employees in torture in Iraq .

After retirement

In 2002 he publicly criticized President Bush's use of the intelligence services in the run-up to the war in Iraq . In 2003 he co-founded the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) with other former CIA employees . This organization is dedicated to the analysis and criticism of intelligence activities, especially in relation to the war in Iraq.

McGovern also speaks on behalf of the anti-war group Not in Our Name . According to the group's press releases, McGovern is bringing symbolic war crimes charges against the White House on behalf of a "people's tribunal."

With regard to the reasons for the Iraq war , he assumes that the US has only power-political interests. In a 2006 television interview with Tucker Carlson on the US broadcaster MSNBC , he formulated his view as follows: “I've been using the acronym OIL: O for oil, I for Israel and L for logistics for two years. Logistics stands for the permanent - today we say 'permanent' - military bases that the USA would like to keep in Iraq. "

In a lecture to students in 2004, he claimed that the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 were preventable.

From his experience, including in the 2003 Iraq war, McGovern believes that the media shows little interest in reporting critical of the war because it pursues self-interest "that the 'mainstream media' is largely controlled by those who benefit from the war". McGovern doubts the official investigation into the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Regarding the events in Ukraine in February 2014 , he takes the view that the regime change was an overthrow orchestrated by the West.

“So, bottom line: it was a coup sponsored by the West. There is little doubt about it. And how it was organized on the ground, we know from the report by the Estonian Foreign Minister for Catherine Ashton , who is something of an EU foreign minister. He said to her: "Did you know that, according to the testimony of doctors in Kiev hospitals, the same bullets from the same guns from the same snipers hit not only the police but also the demonstrators?" Well who were the snipers? They were agents provocateurs. "

- Raymond McGovern : Original sound (translated by Doris Pumphrey)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ray's Bio. Archived from the original on October 6, 2012 ; accessed on March 24, 2019 (English).
  2. ^ Ray McGovern, "The best intelligence? CIA" Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Nov. 22, 2002); Ray McGovern, How Intelligence Now Serves the Defense Department, Boston Globe (September 29, 2002)
  3. ↑ MSNBC : Transcript: The Situation "I've been using the acronym OIL for many — for two years now: O for oil; I for Israel; and L for logistics, logistics being the permanent — now we say“ enduring ”—military bases that the US wants to keep in Iraq. " , dated May 4, 2006, accessed on September 23, 2015
  4. ^ Former CIA agent says Bush to blame for 9/11
  5. ↑ Interview from June 11, 2016
  6. ↑ "Ex-intelligence agents doubt Russian invasion", September 4, 2014, Markus C. Schulte von Drach, Süddeutsche Zeitung
  7. ↑ Ukraine conflict: "The coup in Kiev was at the beginning"
personal data
SURNAME McGovern, Ray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McGovern, Raymond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American CIA officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City