CIA VET RIPS AGENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201150050-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: April 22, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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22 April 1955
CAA vet
rips agency
B3' Peter Annie
Of The State Journal
A 25-year veteran of the Central
Intelligence Agency spoke against
the CIA and its covert the actions to
about 50 people Sunday at Pres
House, 731 State St.
Ralph McGehee's appearance was
sponsored by the women's Interna-
tional League for Peace and Free-
dom and was the first event of Peace
Week which started Sunda' and will
continue through next Sunday.
McGehee said, ,The CIA has
never been a central intelligence
agency. its intelligence in all cases is
skewed to support whatever the ad-
ministration wants."
'Misinformation'
"Misinformation -is a major re-
Today's Peace Week events in-
clude a program from 7 to 9 p.m.
called "What would a peaceful soci-
ety look like and how can we get
there?" at the University of Wiscon-
sin-Madison Memorial Union.
And
at 7:30 p.m., at the
Pres
House,
"The Indian human
rights
struggle
and non-violent
social
change:
A shared progressive agen-
da."
Finally complained
He said that when he became "so
furious and so fed up that I had to let
out my anger" he complained to his
superior - who put him on probation
- and he was given an office job back
in the United States.
"I left the agency in 197 ; after find-
ing it futile to protest from within."
McGehee charged the CIA has
been involved in a number of Latin
American countries.
Nicaragua: He said, "You have to
understand what's going on now in
the CIA. It's killing people in Nicara-
gua."
El Salvador: He said that CIA per-
i sonnel compile lists of Communist
Party members in El Salvador, simi-
lar to the work he was doing in Thai-
sponsibility of the CIA and the Amer- land He said these lists eventually
ican public is the major focus for this get into the hands of El Salvador's
misinformation" right-wing death squads. -
He cited a number of experiences The elections in El Salvador-of
he had while working with the CIA Jose Napoleon Duarte were Salvador-of "manipu-
where the intelligence information he laced by the CIA" he said. "If there is
gathered was changed or distorted. one thing that the CIA can do, it is rig
On a CIA assignment in Thailand an election"
during the Vietnam War years, he Grenada: He said that weapons
said, his job was to document the the L.S. troops found stockpiled in
number of Communists in a articu Grenada after the invasion were
tar region of Thailand. He said he - planted there by the CIA ,"to justify
eventually turned in a report listing our intervention."
about 2.000 members of the Commu- McGehee, who is the author of a
nist Party of Thailand in the region book titled "Deadly Deceits". which
He said the CIA then began to he said contains documentation of his
claim that there were only 2.500 Com- claims about the CIA, told the audi-
monists in the entire country, even
though he had shown that there were ence e is frequently the subject of in -
at he is
at least 2.000 in just one of its prov- timidation tactics by the CIA-
"My phone has been tapped. My
inces. hotel rooms are routinely entered.
McGehee said the CIA purpose- They're doing all sorts of things and
fully underestimated members number - they're doing it not-so-sophisticatedl}'
Communist Part}' mm Thai- and I think for the sole purpose of in
land and particularly in Vietnam dur- U datlon."
ing the war because the U.S. troops He said that once he was talking
were supposed a be from protecting the on the telephone and a person moni-
South Vietnamese a Communist toring the phone call began yelling at
minority and, "If we had admitted him
..that we were fighting against more "I have been the subject of seven
than 50 percent of the population we different sting operations to get me to
would be in trouble." , do something illegal."
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