Description:
He is the former CIA analyst who personally briefed Reagan's inner circle every morning, then spent the next three decades accusing the agency of lying the United States into wars.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Joining the CIA in 1963
00:04:21 Ukraine peace talks and the Minsk agreements
00:06:43 NATO expansion after the Berlin Wall
00:11:29 Bill Burns' warning about Ukraine joining NATO
00:13:00 Victoria Nuland's $5 billion and the Maidan uprising
00:19:51 Putin's missile warning and Biden's pledge
00:26:54 China's backing for Russia before the invasion
00:29:32 The Istanbul peace talks and Boris Johnson
00:35:03 The balance of power: Russia, China and the US
00:39:06 Ray's view of NATO without US support
00:42:51 Russiagate and the DNC email leak
00:49:53 Bill Binney and the challenge to the DNC hack account
00:56:49 Shawn Henry's testimony on DNC data exfiltration
01:00:58 Seth Rich's death and Ray's leak theory
01:07:37 The Columbia Journalism Review's Russiagate investigation
01:10:23 Ray's subpoena from Seth Rich's brother
01:13:03 Comey, Brennan and Trump's prosecutions
01:15:30 Oliver Stone's Putin interview and nuclear restraint
01:18:30 Ray's Moscow trip with Oliver Stone
01:25:45 Germany, Russophobia and Russia's threat perceptions
01:29:06 JFK's peace speech and assassination theories
01:35:40 Jane Roman, Oswald's file and JFK records
01:38:00 Fred Janney and Mary's Mosaic
01:40:29 Trump's orders and the federal bureaucracy
01:47:35 France's unrest and Europe's Ukraine spending
01:49:58 Iran, Israel and US national security
01:53:46 Ray's proposed Iran peace deal
01:55:53 Iraq's WMD claims and politicized intelligence
01:59:13 Tom Fingar and the 2007 Iran nuclear estimate
02:02:34 Nuclear weapons vs. uranium enrichment
02:06:58 Netanyahu's election and nuclear escalation fears
02:12:11 Arms sales, contractors and political influence
02:18:03 James Angleton and CIA reporting on Israel
02:19:34 Can analysts challenge the intelligence bureaucracy?
02:24:46 Intelligence failures and Iran war planning
02:28:04 The Houthis and Saudi Arabia
02:30:02 The USS Liberty attack and its survivors
02:33:57 Meeting USS Liberty survivor Bryce Lockwood
02:36:05 The USS Liberty SOS and recalled rescue planes
02:41:36 Ray's theories on why Israel attacked the Liberty
02:44:48 The 1967 war and occupied territories
02:49:16 Ray's account of intercepted Israeli communications
02:54:50 Ray's work and Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity