Ray McGovern

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Ray McGovern
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Ray McGovern is a pro-Russia, former CIA analyst who founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

Bio

From the World Beyond War's #NoWar2023 Speakers website:[1]

Ray McGovern came to Washington from his native Bronx in the early Sixties as an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which he briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s five most senior national security advisers from 1981 to 1985. In January 2003, Ray co-created Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose how intelligence was being falsified to “justify” war on Iraq. As an act of conscience, on March 2, 2006 Ray returned the Intelligence Commendation Medallion given him at retirement for “especially meritorious service,” explaining, “I do not want to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.” Ray has appeared on The Newshour, C-Span’s Washington Journal, CNN, BBC, a number of domestic Russian TV channels, Aljazeera, RT, PressTV, CCTV and many other TV & radio programs and documentaries.
Ray’s B.A. and M.A. degrees – both from Fordham University – are in Russian history, language, and literature, with minors in theology, philosophy, and classics. He has taught Russian as an adjunct at the University of Virginia. Ray also holds a Certificate in Theological Studies from Georgetown University and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. A Catholic, Ray has been worshipping for many years with the ecumenical Church of the Saviour. He leads the “Speaking Truth to Power” section of Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. A former co-director of the Servant Leadership School (1998-2004), he has been teaching there for more than 20 years. His current course is: “On the Morality of Whistleblowing.” Ray is fluent in Russian, German, and Spanish. He and his wife have been married 55 years; they have five children and nine grandchildren.

Dialogue Works Guest

Ray McGovern has been a featured guest on Dialogue Works with Nima R. Alkhorshid.[2]

Judging Freedom

Andrew Napolitano You Tube Screenshot dated March 29, 2024

Andrew Napolitano's show "Judging Freedom"[3] has featured (most are regulars) Dennis Kucinich, Tony Shaffer, Kyle Anzalone, Aaron Mate, Phil Giraldi, Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern, Alastair Crooke, Gerald Celente, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Matthew Hoh, Douglas Macgregor, Anya Parampil, Larry C. Johnson, Patrick Lancaster, Alastair Crooke, John Mearsheimer, Karen Kwaitkowski, Jeffrey Sachs, Phil Giraldi, Kevin DeMeritt, Matthew Lohmeier, Craig Murray, Max Blumenthal, Bill O'Reilly, Ron Paul, Ron Unz, Mike Benz, Scott Horton, Michael Rectenwald, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Matthew VanDyke, Lionel, Jacob Hornberger, Jack DeVine, and others.

UN International Day of Peace 2023

Ray McGovern, described as " a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer turned political activist" featured at the "Peace Action WI Teach-In" held September 21, 2023 at the Zao Church in Milwaukee, WI.[4],[5]

Mr. McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President's Daily Brief. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, returning it in 2006 to protest the CIA's involvement in torture. McGovern's post-retirement work includes commenting for Consortium News, RT, and Sputnik News, among other outlets, on intelligence and foreign policy issues. In 2003 he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). Prof Jeffery Sachs and Ray McGovern presented at the U.N. Security Council Feb. 21, 2023, on the Nord Stream 2 destruction.
Right now, there is a heightened risk of nuclear war with Russia over NATO expansion and the war in Ukraine, and with China because of continuing military build-up by Japan, South Korea and the US in the Pacific region. Ray will speak on the important issues concerning the war in Ukraine and the many dangers it imposes.

Ukraine: 'Commitment to Sending No More Weapons'

Time for Ceasefire in Ukraine?

A discussion dated Sept 26, 2023 titled "Time for Ceasefire in Ukraine?" features Medea Benjamin, Helena Cobban, Ray McGovern, and David Swanson.[6],[7]

"In an endless war with already a half million casualties, is it more helpful to continue it -- risking nuclear apocalypse and guaranteeing impediments to addressing climate collapse -- or to demand a ceasefire, peace negotiations, and a commitment to sending no more weapons?
A public discussion featuring Medea Benjamin, Helena Cobban, Ray McGovern, and David Swanson.
Just World Educational, World BEYOND War

Endorsers

Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, RootsAction.org, The Peace and Social Concerns Committee of Charlottesville Friends Meeting.

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Members of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity was founded by Ray McGovern and have included William Binney, Thomas A. Drake, Patrick Eddington, Philip Giraldi, Larry C. Johnson, David MacMichael, Jesselyn Radack, and Scott Ritter.

911 "Truther"

Ray McGovern of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity was one of 100 "prominent Americans" who signed an October 26 2004 statement circulated by 911Truth.org calling on the U.S. Government to investigate 9/11 as a possible "inside job".[8]

...we have assembled 100 notable Americans and 40 family members of those who died to sign this 9/11 Statement, which calls for immediate public attention to unanswered questions that suggest that people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.

Open Letter to Obama on Iran

In 2008 Ray McGovern, CIA analyst (ret.), Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Washington, DC signed an online petition “A Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran”.

Bradley Manning Support Network Advisory Board

As of December 2011, the Bradley Manning Support Network, Advisory Board consisted of;[9]

"New Cold War"

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New York City: What’s driving the new ‘Cold War’? Will It escalate? Can we stop it?

Teach-In: Saturday, May 10 2014 Riverside Church, Tower Room.

  • NATO expansion and encirclement of Russia & China
  • Why the U.S. wants a confrontation over Ukraine
  • ‘Asia Pivot,’ AFRICOM & the ‘War on Terror’
  • How Washington uses NGOs, fascist movements, mercenaries & drones to promote its agenda
  • Why our real enemy is Wall Street – not Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Korea …

Speakers:

Rally Against Israeli Violence in Gaza

August 2, 2014 Rally Against Israeli Violence in Gaza, organised by ANSWER Lafayette Park. Speakers included; Osamah Abuirshaid National Coordinator American Muslims for Palestine, Salim Adofo Vice Chair National Black United Front, Lydia Catina Amaya Community Organizer Damayan Migrant Workers Associatio, Mohsin Ansari Chair ICNA Relief USA, Nihad Awad Co-Founder and Exec. Dir. Council on American Islamic Relations, Brian Becker National Director Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), Mahdi Bray National Director AMERICAN MUSLIM ALLIANCE POLITICAL ACTION, Karina Garcia Organizer Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), Carol Gay President New Jersey Industrial Union Council, Abbas Falasteen Hamideh Member Cleveland, Tarak Kauff Board Member Veterans for Peace, Alli McCracken National Coordinator CodePink: Women for Peace, Ray McGovern Analyst (Former) Central Intelligence Agency, Carl Messineo, Co-Founder Partnership for Civil Justice, Akbar Muhammad Representative, Nation of Islam, Lucy Murphy Singer, Mike Prysner Veteran Iraq War, Eugene Puryear Member Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), Tareq Radi Founder George Mason University->Students Against Israeli Apartheid, Khalilah Sabra Executive Director MAS Immigrant Justice Center, Cornel West Professor Emeritus Princeton University->Center for African American Studies, Ann Wright Activist, Fadi Zanayed Attorney Palestinian American Council.[10]

Left Forum 2015

ISIS and Islamic Extremism - A “Failure” of US Policy? -or- Precisely What The Hidden Hand of US Power Wants? Sponsored by: Voxnews Participants:

References

  1. ↑ #NoWar2023 Speakers (Accessed Sept 19, 2023)
  2. ↑ Dialogue Works Video List (accessed December 4, 2024)
  3. ↑ Andrew Napolitano Personal Website (accessed March 29, 2024)
  4. ↑ Arcived Zoom Meeting Invite (Accessed Sept 19, 2023)
  5. ↑ UN International Day of Peace 2023 Peace Action WI Teach-In (Accessed Sept 19, 2023)
  6. ↑ Peace Action Announcements (Accessed Sept 19, 2023)
  7. ↑ Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine? (Accessed Sept 19, 2023)
  8. ↑ 911 Truth statement
  9. ↑ Bradley Manning Support Network, accessed January 4, 2012
  10. ↑ CSPAN AUGUST 2, 2014 Rally Against Israeli Violence in Gaza
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