Ray McGovern - Intelligence Activism

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🗓️ 13 September 2014

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

Ray McGovern is quite frankly one bad motherfucker.

He was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990 beginning under President John F. Kennedy and lasting until the Presidency of George H. W. Bush. From 1981 to 1985 he prepared and presented the President's Daily Brief one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s most senior national security advisers including then Vice President George H. W. Bush.

In 2003 Ray came out of retirement and founded the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) which analyses and criticises the use of intelligence. He famously confronted Donald Rumsfeld publicly about lying about W.M.D. and nearly got him to recant his statements. Ray also protested a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by turning his back onkly to be physically removed, double handcuffed and seriously battered and bruised. He did this at the spry age of 71.

Please join me in welcoming Ray McGovern to London Real. I consider him a piece of living history and was honoured to be able to speak to him about issues ranging from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Cold War to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange to the Ukrainian Separatists, Gaza, ISIS and more.

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0:00.0	This week on London Real, we have the former CIA officer turned political activist Ray McGovern.
0:07.6	There's one change that dwarfs all the others in importance and that change is that we no longer have in any real sense a free media.
0:15.0	We've been training the Vietnamese up,
0:17.0	we've been training the Afghans up,
0:19.0	we've been training the Iraqis up,
0:21.0	you can't train people up to kill their brothers.
0:24.0	So 71 year old man was violently ejected from Clinton's own event and arrested for turning his back on the Secretary of State.
0:31.0	There's nothing worse. manufacturing evidence or intelligence to deliberately
0:36.8	deceive our elected representatives out of their constitutional prerogative.
0:41.5	Zippo, zero, nada,
0:44.6	me chival, nothing has ever come out of torture that was helpful.
0:49.7	London Real presents Ray McGovern, Intelligence Activism.
0:57.0	Well, the fourth of state is dead. I mean, the major media, that's dead.
1:02.0	We are squeezing the last bit of summer out here at London reel with a bit of sunshine.
1:10.0	We got weather in the 20s and we're going to ride this wave as long as it lasts,
1:16.2	because it never does.
1:17.8	This week on London Real, we have Ray McGovern, who is a former CIA officer turned political activist and to put it
1:27.3	plain and simple Ray is a bad motherfucker he spent 27 years in the CIA from 19, I believe it was 63 to 1990,
1:39.0	including the years from 81 to 85 where he gave the president's daily brief
1:45.1	which is that morning meeting where he goes over to the White House and
1:48.7	meets with top-level officials in the White House and gives them the briefing on the
1:53.3	intelligence that the CIA has. This has been called by former press secretary the
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