McGehee, Ralph. Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA. New York: Sheridan
Square, 1982. 231 pages.
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.
Since writing this book McGehee has spoken on many college campuses and
has been heard many times on radio. In 1984 he began compiling CIABASE, an
annotated microcomputer database on CIA operations that contains over 30,000
records and sells for $199. McGehee lives in Herndon, Virginia.
-- Wendell Minnick
ISBN 0-940380-02-1
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