A disgraced CIA officer who drugged and sexually abused “countless women in multiple countries” for 14 years and was found with more than 500 disturbing images and videos of his victims has been sentenced to three decades behind bars.
Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 48, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty in November 2023 to four of 25 charges, including sexual abuse, abuse of sexual contact, coercion and seduction, and transportation of obscene material , the police said. Ministry of Justice.
He also admitted to “drugging 28 women without their knowledge or consent and subsequently creating obscene material, and to drugging two other women,” with some images showing the “predator” exposing his naked, unconscious groped and straddled victims.
“It is safe to say he is a sexual predator,” Senior U.S. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said during his sentencing. “You get a period of time to think about this.”
Kollar-Kotelly denounced Raymond for “his criminal actions” and that he had “betrayed his government and his country.”
A native of San Diego, Raymond served for more than 20 years in the CIA after interning in the White House and Congress.
According to court documents, Raymond was on assignment for the CIA in Mexico, Peru and “elsewhere” between 2006 and 2020. The nature of his work was not disclosed during the investigation, which would include a full list of the countries where he carried out attacks. women.
He targeted women dating apps or through casual encounters – while he has known some of his victims as ‘platonic friends’ for almost twenty years.
During this period, the convicted sexual predator “would lure unsuspecting women to his government-rented residences and drug them,” U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves said during his sentencing.
“After drugging these women, he undressed them, sexually assaulted them and photographed them,” Graves added.
About a dozen of Raymond’s victims, identified in court only by numbers, recounted the horrific damage the ex-CIA officer inflicted on their lives during the sentencing.
Some women revealed that they only learned they had been sexually assaulted after the FBI showed them the photos of them unconscious and being assaulted, the DOJ said.
“My body looks like a corpse on his bed,” one victim told the court. “Now I have nightmares where I see myself dead.”
Another of his victims said she had suffered a recurring trance that caused her to run red lights while driving, while others revealed they had suffered nervous breakdowns because Raymond took advantage of it.
“I hope he will be haunted by the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life,” one of his victims said as he stared down the sexual predator in the courtroom.
Another of Raymond’s victims said he seemed like the “perfect gentleman” when she met him in Mexico in 2020.
She remembered kissing Raymond, but shortly afterwards she blacked out – only later discovering that he had recorded 35 videos and close-up photos of her breasts and genitals.
Raymond’s disturbing crimes first came to light in May 2020, after Mexico City police responded to calls about a naked woman screaming for help from the balcony of a CIA officer’s apartment.
The ex-CIA officer, who speaks Spanish and Mandarin, told officers the incident with the woman was consensual, but he returned to the US the next day as the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown began to take hold to take.
During this time, however, investigators were on his trail and obtained a warrant to search his phones.
Raymond then “attempted to delete the explicit photos and videos showing the victims after learning about the criminal investigation,” but investigators were able to recover the more than 500 images and videos of his crimes, according to court documents.
Investigators also found an incriminating online search history for phrases like “Ambien and alcohol and passing out” and “vodka and Valium” while searching his devices.
He was arrested in San Diego in October 2020 and has been held without bail in a DC jail for the past four years.
During his sentencing hearing Wednesday, the former government official apologized to his victims and said he “took full responsibility for my unconscionable actions.”
“It betrayed everything I stand for and I know no apology will ever be enough,” Raymond told the court. “There are no words to describe how sorry I am. That’s not who I am, but that’s what I became.”
As part of his sentence, Raymond has been ordered to pay $10,000 to each of his 28 identified victims and will be required to register as a sex offender.
The CIA has publicly condemned the heinous crimes of its former employee.
“There is absolutely no excuse for Mr. Raymond’s despicable, abhorrent conduct,” the agency said Wednesday. “As this case demonstrates, we are committed to working with law enforcement.”
with post wires
