{"id":1058,"date":"2007-12-26T03:46:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T01:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-archive\/1058"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:04:49","slug":"steering-group-of-veteran-intelligence-professionals-for-sanity-vips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity VIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linked with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/wp-archive\/988\">Fact-Based Intelligence Prevails on Nukes and Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veteran_Intelligence_Professionals_for_Sanity\">Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity<\/a> VIPS (for VIPs, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Very_Important_Person_%28person%29\">Very Important Persons<\/a>) is a group of current and former officials of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Intelligence_Community\">United States Intelligence Community<\/a>, including some from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Central_Intelligence_Agency\">Central Intelligence Agency<\/a> CIA, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._State_Department\">U.S. State Department&rsquo;s Intelligence Bureau<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Defense_Intelligence_Agency\">Defense Intelligence Agency<\/a> DIA.<\/p>\n<p>This group issued a letter before the 2003 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2003_invasion_of_Iraq\">invasion of Iraq<\/a>  warning that there would potentially be numerous U.S. casualties if Iraq used chemical weapons during any \u00ab\u00a0offensive aimed at getting rid of Saddam Hussein.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>This letter (on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/vips02082003.html\">counterpunch<\/a>, February 8, 2003) noted the various Gulf War-related illnesses which many returning soldiers contracted due to the presence of chemical and biological agents in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desert_Storm\">Desert Storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group was formed in January 2003 as a \u00ab\u00a0coast-to-coast enterprise\u00a0\u00bb to protest the use of faulty intelligence \u00ab\u00a0upon which the US\/UK invasion of Iraq was based\u00a0\u00bb &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veteran_Intelligence_Professionals_for_Sanity\">full text)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_McGovern\">Raymond (Ray) McGovern<\/a> (born 1939) is a retired CIA officer turned political activist. McGovern was a Federal employee under seven U.S. presidents over 27 years, presenting the morning intelligence briefings at the White House for many of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linked with Fact-Based Intelligence Prevails on Nukes and Iran. Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity VIPS (for VIPs, Very Important Persons) is a group of current and former officials of the United States Intelligence Community, including some from the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, the U.S. State Department&rsquo;s Intelligence Bureau, and the Defense Intelligence Agency DIA. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1058\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity VIPS&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15343,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/15343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}