May 8, 2025 MEMORANDUM FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Arms Control: Toward Lasting Peace The following Memorandum is presented as a brief review, based on experience, aiming to encourage well-informed discourse between the...

MEMORANDUM FOR: DNI Tulsi Gabbard FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity SUBJECT: Ready and Equipped to Help NOTE: The first in VIPS’ series of memoranda for President Joe Biden (listed below) made reference to a memo we had sent President-elect Biden on...

MEMORANDUM TO: The Candidates for U.S. Vice President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity SUBJECT: Clarity on Ukraine At Tuesday’s debate, we strongly suggest you avoid repeating familiar “facts” that do not bear close scrutiny. Chief among these is...

This originally appeared on Consortium News. France could be leading the American people down a path toward a nuclear conflict decidedly not in the interests of the American people – or of humanity itself, VIPS warns President Joe Biden. U.S. President Joe Biden...

ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Throwing Good Money After Bad: Decisions in an Intelligence Vacuum Dear President Biden: We noted in our January 26, 2023 Memorandum to you that National...

September 5, 2022MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: Ukraine Decision TimeREF: Nukes Cannot be Un-Invented, VIPSMr. President:Before Defense Secretary Austin flies off to Ramstein for the meeting Thursday of the...

ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: Military Clash With China Over Pelosi Visit?REFERENCE: VIPS Memo to You, May 1, 2022Mr. President,We, the undersigned, collectively, have hundreds of years of service to the...

MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: Nuclear Weapons Cannot Be Un-invented, Thus …PRECEDENCE: IMMEDIATEREF: Our Memo of 12/20/20, "Don’t Be Suckered on Russia"May 1, 2022Mr. President: Mainstream...

MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: Media Working On Mousetrap For SummitSummary: With your meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Geneva just three days away, mainstream media are barely reporting – and at times...

MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: Avoiding War in UkraineDear President Biden,We last communicated with you on December 20, 2020, when you were President-elect.At that time, we alerted you to the dangers...