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Old Apr 15, 2004, 06:47 pm   #3 (permalink) (top)
PatrickHenry
9/11: Inside Job
 
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Don't get outraged, get cynical.

McGehee came out strongly after a distinguished CIA career:
Ralph McGehee, a CIA officer in the Far East Division, details a career in the CIA that spanned from 1953 to 1977 and included operations in the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. In Taiwan he served as the CIA liaison officer for KMT intelligence services. While in Thailand he worked with Thai counterinsurgency forces to help stem the Communist threat, and during the Vietnam War he served in Saigon supervising case officers. He became depressed by CIA activities in Vietnam, and returned to Thailand as deputy chief of the anti-Communist Party operations branch. An internal political fight with Theodore Shackley resulted in his reassignment out of the Far East Division. He retired four years later and was awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. Ironically, the citation read aloud at the ceremony described his courageous service in Malaysia, a country he had never been in. from: http://www.namebase.org/sources/BT.html

He says the Company can't be reformed but must be disbanded.

From his book, Deadly Deceits:
'The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the president's foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting 'intelligence' justifying those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear weapon capability, to support presidential policy. Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target audience of its lies.' Ralph W. McGehee


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