<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style=""><div style=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><p>*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ***</p><p>As the U. S. teeters on the edge of Cold War II with Russia in a turf war over the Ukraine, and as the U.S. defense industry looks forward to another cold war bonanza, "All About Money" returns to KZYX on Friday, July 25, at 9 a.m., to examine the roots of Ukraine instability. Retired CIA analyst, Ray McGovern, is our guest.</p><p>We'll also ask McGovern about the Malaysian airliner that was recently shot down, killing all 298 aboard. Separatists and Ukraine's government have both denied involvement. Russia also denies any involvement. </p><p>Our show with McGovern follows our last show on July 11, with State Department whistleblowers Matthew Hoh and Peter Van Buren.</p><p><br>RAY MCGOVERN</p><p>McGovern is a retired CIA officer turned political activist. McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s he chaired National Intelligence Estimates. McGovern prepared the President's Daily Brief, routinely presenting the morning intelligence briefings at the White House in one-on-one briefings with the vice president, the secretaries of State and Defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the assistant to the president for national security. McGovern received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, returning it in 2006 in protest at the CIA's involvement in torture. </p><p>McGovern's post-retirement work includes commentating on intelligence issues. In 2003, he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.</p><p>McGovern regularly writes for Consortium News and just wrote the piece "When the US Welched on Its NATO Promise" in which he said, "The Ukraine crisis owes its roots to a deal America made and broke with the recently deceased Soviet foreign minister." </p><p>He continued, "Lack of clarity as to who fired the missile is likely to persist for weeks, at least. Meanwhile, the shootdown provides raw meat for those who will use it to blacken Russia, just as the downing of KAL007 in 1983 allowed the Reagan administration to hype charges that the Soviet Union 'deliberately' downed a passenger aircraft. The evidence indicated that the Soviets thought they were downing an American spy plane, but U.S. propaganda, including the altering of electronic evidence, left no room for a 'mistaken identity' explanation."</p><p>McGovern concluded, "More generally, Russian President Vladimir Putin is probably correct in saying the tragedy would not have happened if Ukrainian President Poroshenko had agreed to prolong the fragile cease-fire, as the leaders of Germany, France, and Russia pleaded with him to do during a two-hour conference call on June 30th."</p></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>