CIA officer who sexually assaulted dozens of women given 30-year sentence
Al Jazeera
Veteran officer with the US spy agency found guilty of sexually assaulting dozens of women while stationed around the world.
A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
Brian Jeffrey Raymond, with a greying beard and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, sat dejectedly as he heard his punishment on Wednesday for one of the most egregious misconduct cases in the CIA’s history.
It was chronicled in his own library of more than 500 images that showed him in some cases straddling and groping his nude, unconscious victims.
“It’s safe to say he’s a sexual predator,” United States Senior Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said in imposing the full sentence prosecutors had requested. “You are going to have a period of time to think about this.”
Prosecutors said the 48-year-old Raymond’s assaults date to 2006 and tracked his career with the intelligence agency in Mexico, Peru and other countries, all following a similar pattern.
