Ralph McGehee, spy
Ralph Walter McGehee –who served for 25 years in American intelligence, being a case officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – died on May 2, 2020 from Covid-19.
From 1953 to 1972, his assignments were in East Asia and Southeast Asia, where he held administrative posts. Since leaving intelligence work in 1977, he publicly expressed views highly critical of the CIA.
McGehee was born in 1928 at Moline, Illinois. His father, originally from Kentwood, Louisiana, where his family had lived for three generations, was of Scotch-Irish descent, and had moved to Illinois when a teenager. His mother was from neighboring Osyka, Mississippi. Along with his older sister, they then had moved from Moline to Chicago about 1930. While a student at Tilden ...