Former CIA agent who drugged and sexually abused dozens of women in several countries is sentenced to 30 years in prison

A veteran CIA agent who abused his position to drug and sexually assault more than two dozen women during his worldwide missions was sentenced to 30 years in a federal prison on Wednesday.

The verdict against Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 48, of La Mesa, California, came after an emotional hearing. During the hearing, his victims described how they were deceived by a man who appeared to them to be kind, educated and a member of an institution “designed to protect the world from evil.”

“It's safe to say he's a sex offender,” Chief U.S. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said before imposing the full sentence prosecutors had sought. “They'll have some time to think about that.”

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In addition to his prison sentence, Raymond was ordered to pay $260,000 in restitution to his victims. Fox News Digital has contacted the CIA.

In a statement, U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves said Raymond's sentence ensures that he “will be branded as a sex offender for life and will spend a significant portion of the remainder of his life behind bars.”

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The attacks dated back to 2006 and occurred in Mexico, Peru and other countries, prosecutors said, and all followed the same pattern.

Raymond lured women he met through Tinder and other dating apps to his government-rented apartment in Mexico City, among other places, and drugged them while serving them wine and snacks. Once they were unconscious, he posed with their naked bodies before photographing and attacking them. He sometimes pried open their eyelids and put his fingers in their mouths, prosecutors said.

To cover his tracks, Raymond attempted to delete the women's photos and videos after learning he was under investigation.

About a dozen of Raymond's victims, identified in court only by numbers, told how he changed their lives. Some said they only learned what happened to them when the FBI showed them the photos of them being attacked while unconscious.

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“My body looks like a corpse on his bed,” one victim said of the photos. “Now I have these nightmares where I see myself dead.”

Raymond owned a library of over 500 photographs, some of which showed him straddling and groping his naked, unconscious victims.

“I hope the consequences of his actions will haunt him for the rest of his life,” one of the women said in court.

In a statement, the former spy told the judge that he had spent countless hours reflecting on his “downward spiral.”

“It betrayed everything I stand for and I know no apology will ever be enough,” he said. “There are no words to describe how sorry I am. That's not who I am, and yet that's who I became.”

Prosecutors have not released a full list of countries where the attacks took place, but have described Raymond as a serial offender.

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Defense attorneys asked the judge for leniency, pointing to Raymond's “quasi-military” work with the CIA in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks, which also became a breeding ground for emotional callousness and “objectification of other people” that allowed him to prey on women for years, his lawyers said, adding that his work led him down a “dark path.”

He eventually pleaded guilty to 25 charges, including sexual abuse, coercion and transportation of obscene material.

“While he worked tirelessly in his government job, he ignored his own need for help and over time began to isolate himself, detach himself from human feelings and become emotionally numb,” defense attorney Howard Katzoff wrote in a court document.

Raymond's conviction came amid another public relations disaster for the intelligence agency.

An officer cadet is set to go on trial next month on charges of attacking a woman wearing a headscarf in the stairwell of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. That case encouraged about two dozen women to come forward to authorities and Congress with accounts of sexual assault, unwanted touching and alleged CIA efforts to silence them.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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