Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern       (Whistleblower, Activist)
Founder of	Sam Adams Award
Member of	National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Raymond McGovern is a former CIA veteran who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, their Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff etc.

Ray McGovern is a former CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990 and Robert Gates' branch chief in the early 1970s. McGovern now serves on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

Russian hacking

"The NSA holds the key to Russian hacking allegations"

"The NSA holds the key to Russian hacking allegations," says ex-CIA analyst Raymond McGovern:

“The heavies in the Washington Establishment (including Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, and CIA chief John Brennan) have strong incentive to keep Trump out. They have pulled out all the stops, using the corporate media to “show” that Hillary Clinton would have won absent a heavy Russian thumb on the scale. The media have seldom been more effective implementing President George W. Bush’s dictum to “catapult the propaganda.” Amidst all this, Ray and his VIPS colleagues have done everything they could to expose what is going on.”

9/11

About 9/11, Ray McGovern stated "I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke."

In 2011 he said that even though the 9/11 attacks occurred more than a decade prior, the US Congress was continuing to exploit them to pass "evermore Draconian laws", rolling back civil liberties and he noted that the US senate had signed off on the military's policy of indefinite detention without trial.

 

Documents by Ray McGovern

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures	statement	7 December 2010	Wikileaks	A statement of support for Wikileaks. "The big question is not whether Americans can 'handle the truth.' We believe they can..."
Document:Propaganda, Intelligence and MH-17	article	17 August 2015	Malaysia Airlines Flight 17	Propaganda is the life-blood of life-destroying wars, and the U.S. government has reached new heights (or depths) in this art of perception management. A case in point is the media manipulation around last year’s Malaysia Airlines shoot-down over Ukraine, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
Document:US Intel officials say Syria NOT responsible for chemical attack	memo	6 September 2013	Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
Document:Ukraine: One ‘Regime Change’ Too Many?	article	1 March 2014	Victoria Nuland US/Sponsored Regime-change efforts since 1945 Ukraine Riots 2013-14	A veteran CIA analyst's take on the US-NATO regime change push in the Ukraine

 

A Quote by Ray McGovern

Page	Quote	Date
Jack Teixeira	“The provenance of the leaks is problematical. I see everyone focusing in on this Airman First Class for God's sake. In my view, there is no way that he could have had access to some of those internal CIA documents, much less EXDIS, NODIS cables <a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> from the State Department. That all comes to, it's kind of a pyramid, under the Joint Chiefs of Staff and under the Director of National Intelligence. It's someone in my view at that level, that has either authorized, or slipped out, or actually made this kind of leak. This is not unprecedented, exactly, exactly the same thing came when there was real fear of a widened war up to and including the border with China during Vietnam.”	24 April 2023

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Annual Conferences on Israel's Influence	2014		Washington DC The National Press Club	Annual conferences on the Israeli influence on American politics
International Festival of Whistleblowing Dissent and Accountability	8 May 2021	8 May 2021	Internet	Whistleblowing event held in 2021.

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