Ralph W. McGehee in 1983. “Deadly Deceits,” his memoir of 25 years with the C.I.A., chronicled operations in Southeast Asia and his realization that U.S. efforts in Vietnam were doomed.

WASHINGTON — Ralph W. McGehee, who joined the CIA out of college as a gung-ho Cold Warrior, became disillusioned during the Vietnam War, and emerged as a prominent critic of the agency after ...

Ralph McGehee was strong as an ox, even in his 90s, even from a wheelchair. Maybe he could go on a ventilator, beat the long-shot odds and live to be 100, like he always said he would.

A former agent of the Central Intelligence Agency accused the U.S. government Sunday of distorting the situation in Central America to generate public support for President Reagan’s appeal fo… ...