Ray McGovern
(1939-)

American Retired CIA Analyst, Political Activist
Co-Founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

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birthplace:
Bronx, New York

QUOTES

"Allegations keep cropping up in the press that CIA alumni are undermining the Bush/Cheney administration. In at least one sense, I suppose, this is true. For when an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery."

When the emperor has no clothes you have to have the presence of mind, and courage, to stand up and say 'the emperor has no clothes'

Many former colleagues and successors are facing a dilemma all too familiar to intelligence veterans - the difficult choices that must be faced when the demands of good conscience butt up against deeply ingrained attitudes concerning secrecy, misguided notions of what is true patriotism, and understandable reluctance to put careers - and mortgages - on the line ... We appeal to those still working inside the Intelligence Community to consider turning state's evidence.

 

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