Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, I would associate myself completely with Professor Jeffrey Sachs’s comments just now. I do not have a prepared text. I was asked to do this less than a day ago. No one suggested what I might say and of course, no one even asked me what I would say. So these are my personal remarks based on my experience for 27 years as an intelligence analyst and as an observer. And I notice that I am also called a political activist. Well, this is my way of paying back for the education I got as an intelligence analyst in the US intelligence community.
Now, I would say that on my way here in two airports this morning I noticed a bunch of children, little children and school-age children. And it made me think back to my days as a school-age child. I was one of those who hid under my desk because of the threat of the Russian atom bomb – as though that would protect me! Fast forward to when I became a professional analyst and Chief of the Soviet foreign policy branch at CIA. I was able to tell the president and Henry Kissinger that the Russians were really interested in putting a cap on the arms race. Suffice it to say, I was instrumental in the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed in May of 1972. And I was there in Moscow for the signing.
Thirty years of strategic stability. 30. Count them, three decades. When Mr. Bush Jr decided he would leave the ABM Treaty without any real explanation and then Mr. Trump left
— source raymcgovern.com | Ray McGovern | Apr 9, 2023