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Ralph Walter McGehee (born 1928) served for 25 years in American intelligence, being a former case officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Since leaving intelligence work in 1977, he has publicly expressed a highly critical view of the CIA.〔See text below for sources.〕 ==Early life, family== McGehee was born in 1928 at Moline, Illinois.〔Thomson Gale (April 26, 2006). McGehee, Ralph W(alter) (1928-). ''Contemporary Authors''〕 His father, originally from the Kentwood, Louisiana (three generations there, of Scotch-Irish), 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. Ralph McGehee, at a "lower middle class" high school in south Chicago, was All State in football, and class president. Although a Baptist, he attended the University of Notre Dame where he was an All-American tackle on the football team. For the four seasons 1946 to 1949, they never lost a game, and won three national championships.〔1949 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. Over 4 years: 36 wins, no losses, 2 ties.〕 McGehee obtained a B.S. in Business Administration, ''cum laude''. In 1950 he had married. His future wife, Norma, he had met at a Presbyterian Church in south Chicago while home on vacation from Notre Dame. Eventually, they parented four children, two girls followed by two boys. Often but not always, his wife and children would move their family home to accompany him, while on foreign assignments with the CIA. After graduation, he tried professional football with the Green Bay Packers. Then he coached the offensive line in the football program at the University of Dayton for a year. Returning to Chicago, he took a job as a management trainee at Montgomery Ward. In January 1952, McGehee was recruited by the CIA. Decades later, he would described himself, and his political outlook then, as "gung ho" America, a young cold warrior.〔McGehee (1983), pp. 1-2 (school, football, coaching), 17-19 (marriage, starts family).〕〔Youtube.com: "''The Secret Government,'' Bill Moyers (1987) - Ralph McGehee, and other former CIA officers/agents". McGehee on his "gung ho" outlook when young, 28:45-29:13.〕 Understanding it was an important government job with foreign travel, first McGehee was interviewed at the courthouse. The recruiters declined to name the federal agency that might be his new employer. He traveled to Washington, D.C., where he joined a pool of over a 100 candidates, men and women. Several weeks of extensive testing and lectures followed. Having survived this shake out, he began a month-long orientation, which featured cold war rhetoric and films. With 50 men he entered a "basic operations" course on espionage, to fit them for the CIA's Directorate for Plans. Then with 30 others he attended a six-week paramilitary course at the CIA's Camp Peary (the "farm") near Williamsburg, Virginia. Many there were former college football players. The curriculum included parachute jumping, demolition, weapons, and a "hellish obstacle course".〔McGehee (1983), pp. 2-16 (CIA: tests, orientation, training).〕 Thereafter he was posted to his initial CIA job. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ralph McGehee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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