If you’re going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein you have to go to Baghdad. Once you have got Baghdad, it’s not clear what you do with it. It’s not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that is currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists? How much credibility is that government going to have if it’s set up by the United States military when it is there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the people that sign on for that government, and what happens to it once we leave?

— Sec. of Defense Dick Cheney, 1991, explaining why
the US would not invade Baghdad

Monday, September 16, 2002

McGehee, Ralph: Deadly Deceits

One Boner image: A work of merit, but either due to reasons of style or content, does not quite measure up. Rest assured, this will still get the mainstream public’s panties in a twit, but is still mild stuff, compartively speaking.

McGehee, Ralph (1982) Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA. New York: Sheridan Square, 231 pp.
deadly deceits

According to NameBase:

Ralph McGehee, a CIA officer in the Far East Division, details a career in the CIA that spanned from 1953 to 1977 and included operations in the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. In Taiwan he served as the CIA liaison officer for KMT intelligence services. While in Thailand he worked with Thai counterinsurgency forces to help stem the Communist threat, and during the Vietnam War he served in Saigon supervising case officers. He became depressed by CIA activities in Vietnam, and returned to Thailand as deputy chief of the anti-Communist Party operations branch. An internal political fight with Theodore Shackley resulted in his reassignment out of the Far East Division. He retired four years later and was awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. Ironically, the citation read aloud at the ceremony described his courageous service in Malaysia, a country he had never been in.

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