Editing Ray Cline (section)

==Controversial Views and Associations==
	◦	Cline was associated with right-wing groups, including the National Intelligence Studies Center and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. He gave interviews to the John Birch Society’s Review of the News and maintained ties with Lyndon LaRouche’s followers in the 1980s.

	◦	In testimony before the House Select Committee on Intelligence, Cline controversially argued that “the First Amendment is only an amendment,” defending the CIA’s use of covert tactics like black propaganda and funding journalists.

	◦	Cline also worked in the risk analysis business, advising companies like General Dynamics and Hewlett-Packard on political environments in countries such as South Africa and Turkey. He supported arms sales to Turkey’s military regime and described South Africa’s government as a potential “engine for growth.”