Ralph McGehee, the CIA, and Deadly Deceits

By Wade Frazier

Revised July 2014

Introduction

Statement for Ralph’s Protection

My 2014 Synopsis of Deadly Deceits

Introduction

In 1990, I began my education in the alternative media and other areas, and one of the first books that I obtained was Deadly Deceits, which is Ralph W. McGehee’s memoir.  Ralph had a 25-year career working for the CIA, both at Langley and internationally.  In 1996, I published my first website, and asked Ralph if I could publish a summary of Deadly Deceits.  Ralph not only consented, but he published my summary across the Internet and told me that it was the best summary of his work that he had seen, and we became friends.

Ralph publicly criticized the CIA, and only a handful of former CIA employees ever have.  Ralph is interviewed on Bill Moyers’s Secret Government video.  Ralph maintained his CIABASE archives on the Internet for years, which exposed the CIA’s activities by using public domain sources.  In running his CIABASE, Ralph was doing what anybody could.  He nevertheless endured endless harassment from the CIA as they tried to silence him.  Ralph had more than my respect; he had my awe.  After riding in the saddle for years with Dennis Lee, I discovered how rare people like Dennis and Ralph were.  People of conscience, living it at those levels, are one in many thousands.

After escalating harassment by the CIA and friends, leading to bodily injury to Ralph, his CIABASE web site went down in the spring of 2000 and will never reappear.  I last updated this essay in 1999, and this 2014 revision may be my last.
Statement for Ralph’s Protection
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