My 25 Years in the CIA
by Ralph W. McGe­hee
1999, Ocean Press
ISBN: 1–876175-19–2

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The super-patriot who came in from the cold. Deadly Deceits is a new edi­tion of the clas­sic account of the deeds and decep­tions of the CIA by one of the Agency’s most prized recruits. Ralph McGe­hee spent 25 years in the CIA, from 1952–1977. He entered a super-patriot at the height of the Cold War; he left dis­il­lu­sioned and shat­tered by what he had seen and learned, espe­cially in Viet­nam where he saw a tragic and sense­less war develop.

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 McGehee]

Ralph W. McGe­hee was an honor stu­dent, an All-Star foot­ball player and became one of the most highly dec­o­rated offi­cers of the CIA, receiv­ing one of the Agency’s high­est awards, the Career Intel­li­gence Medal. His assign­ments in the CIA included 14 years over­seas in Japan, the Philip­pines, Tai­wan, Thai­land and Viet­nam. Fol­low­ing his retire­ment in 1977, Ralph McGe­hee began to con­duct a review of CIA prac­tices to bet­ter under­stand the rea­sons for the CIA’s flawed intel­li­gence capability.

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