Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern on SignalGate and JFK Files

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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0:55.0	secure. Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Helper. I'm Mary Mate. Hey, everybody. Thanks so
1:05.8	much for being here. Our website, as always, is Useful Idiotscast.com. Go there to support the show and get
1:13.1	bonus content and do it now and you'll be taking part in a celebration because we're now entering
1:17.2	our fifth year on Substack. And thank you to everyone who supported us there. You're what
1:23.0	keeps the show going. We really appreciate it. And I appreciate the fact that now being on substack
1:27.6	means you're no longer a grifter. I recall those old days when those of us who joined substack
1:32.8	early on, we're just called grifters because we were daring to get the support of our audience
1:38.1	directly rather than, I don't know, some big corporation or NGO or a billionaire.
1:48.3	But since now, everybody's on substack, it's no longer being called being a grifter.
1:49.7	So I'm grateful for that too.
1:54.0	And thanks to everyone who grifted along with us and supporting his independent.
1:55.1	We appreciate it. And we have a great guest for you today.
1:57.8	The legendary Ray McGovern, former intelligence analyst for the CIA. His beat is Russia,
2:05.6	and he happens to be, by the way, fluent in Russian, German, and Spanish. And Ray is the co-founder
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