US presidents ignore intelligence reports on Iran, says ex-CIA analyst

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern has claimed that the assassination of John F. Kennedy was linked to the president’s opposition to Israel’s nuclear program. McGovern stated that a key figure of the era, James Angleton, spied for Israel to conceal the program and that US intelligence reports confirming “Iran is not developing nuclear weapons” have been ignored by the president.

Speaking at an online panel organized by the Schiller Institute, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern asserted that the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy was directly connected to his opposition to Israel’s nuclear weapons program. McGovern, who served in the CIA from 1963 to 1990 and chaired the National Intelligence Estimates in the 1980s, described the CIA’s Counterintelligence Chief at the time, James Jesus Angleton, as a spy who covered up Israel’s nuclear activities.

During his speech at the Schiller Institute’s panel, titled True Citizens of Every Nation Demand Peace, McGovern noted that since 2007, the US intelligence community’s reports concluding “Iran is not working on a nuclear weapon” have been deliberately disregarded by the current administration. He emphasized that this situation calls into question the very reason for the CIA’s existence.

The Kennedy assassination and the ‘Potemkin Village’ conspiracy

McGovern recalled that Kennedy was vehemently opposed to Israel’s nuclear program and was determined to stop it. He identified James Jesus Angleton as the individual who controlled all matters related to Israel within the CIA at that time. “His name was James Jesus Angleton. There is concrete evidence of his involvement in the Kennedy assassination,” McGovern said.

McGovern alleged that Angleton assisted in creating a fake “Potemkin village” at Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility to mislead US inspectors. “When the inspectors returned, they said, ‘This place looks quite clean.’ That’s because Angleton and his Israeli comrades had built this Potemkin village,” he explained.

Intelligence community has held the same view since 2007

McGovern stressed that the US intelligence community has reported with “high confidence” every year since 2007 that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons. He pointed out that this view is not limited to analysts; former CIA Director William Burns also confirmed this fact just before leaving his post.

McGovern quoted Burns as saying, “I want to reiterate that Iran is not working on a nuclear weapon. Furthermore, our intelligence-gathering capabilities are so comprehensive that if they were to start working on a nuclear weapon, the West would know about it almost instantly.”

‘The President doesn’t listen to intelligence’

Despite these concrete reports, McGovern stated that the president does not listen to the intelligence. He recalled Donald Trump’s dismissive words regarding his own intelligence chiefs: “I don’t care what they say.”

McGovern urged the public to show Trump over the next two critical weeks that “supporting the Zionist genocide is unacceptable,” calling on people to “do whatever is necessary to ensure Trump doesn’t get caught in this mousetrap.”

‘The CIA’sexistence should be questioned’

McGovern also expressed his own hesitations about the continued existence of the CIA. He said he had resisted calls to dismantle the agency because its analysts, at the very least, stood firm in telling the truth about Iran.

However, he noted that the president’s dismissal of even this single correct stance raises serious doubts about the agency’s future. McGovern concluded, “How will honest analysts feel when the president says, ‘I don’t care what they say’? Perhaps there is no hope left for the CIA.”