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The Ripple Effect Podcast

The Ripple Effect Podcast # 88 (Ray McGovern)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Society & Culture, 6, Philosophy, Bryan, Carlin, Callen, Dave, Bill

4.6603 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Episode 88 with Ray McGovern, ex-CIA officer now turned activist. Ray worked for the CIA from 1963-1990 and also was responsible for preparing the Presidents daily briefings which consists of gathering highly classified information & intel and briefing the President every morning.
We talk about the cold war, the history of the CIA, drug trafficking, Iran-Contras, middle east, Russia & much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We must regard again

0:02.0

The acquisition of unborned in a room

0:05.0

Whether sought or unsurbed by the military

0:10.0

The President In my line of work for the truth of you're going to

0:22.6

keep repeating

0:27.6

things over and over again

0:29.6

for the truth to sink in

0:33.6

they've got to catapult the propaganda What's up. What's up, everybody, another episode, Ripple Effect podcast.

0:54.4

I'm your host, Ricky Brandis.

0:55.8

Today we have Ray McGovern.

0:57.3

He worked for the CIA from 1963 to 1990, so 27 years in the CIA.

1:03.5

He also was a part of preparing the president's daily briefings.

1:07.6

So what that means is that six days a week, I think it was six days a week with most

1:12.1

presidents. I know the times change from president to president. It's all preference on how

1:16.7

early they want to get up in a morning, but he would basically gather intel from the CIA.

1:23.1

And so this is highly classified stuff and then go through it with the president so he dealt with

1:28.3

some really classified information and then he ended up retiring and becoming activists so he's a

1:34.7

really interesting guy he's had a couple viral videos with a confrontation he had with

1:40.6

Hillary Clinton where she just continues talking and smiling and on with her

1:45.5

speech while Ray is getting beaten up and taken out of the facility where she's talking

1:53.7

because he stood up and turned his back towards her and she doesn't miss a beat. So it's kind of,

1:59.8

it's kind of weird, but it shows you how she

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