Brian Jeffrey Raymond photographed his victims and kept detailed notes about the abuse he committed, a Washington DC court heard
A former CIA agent has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting more than two dozen women while working for the agency in South America. Authorities found hundreds of images on his computer of the disgraced spy groping and abusing his unconscious victims.
Brian Jeffrey Raymond was sentenced in a Washington DC court on Wednesday, nearly a year after pleading guilty to one count each of sexual abuse, abusive sexual contact, coercion and enticement, and transportation of obscene material.
As part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Raymond admitted to raping four other women, sexually assaulting six and taking obscene photographs of 28 female victims.
Raymond’s crimes began in 2006 and spanned nearly two decades. Prosecutors told the court last year that the veteran agent used dating apps to meet his victims while stationed in Mexico, Peru and other countries. He would meet these victims at his government-rented apartment, serve them spiked drinks and sexually assault them after they lost consciousness.
The FBI, Justice Department and State Department began investigating Raymond in 2020, after Mexico City police responded to a naked woman screaming for help from the balcony of Raymond’s residence, according to court documents. The woman told agents that Raymond had drugged and raped her, and Raymond later admitted to sexually abusing her.
Investigators later found more than 500 images of naked, unconscious women on Raymond's computer. In some of the images, Raymond could be seen groping the women, forcing their eyelids open and shoving his fingers into their mouths.
Prosecutors told the court how Raymond kept detailed records of his victims, “noting their age, ethnicity and sometimes whether their breasts were real.”
“When this predator was a government employee, he lured unsuspecting women into his government-rented home and drugged them.” U.S. Attorney Graves said in a statement Wednesday. “After drugging these women, he stripped them, sexually abused them, and photographed them. Today’s sentence ensures that the defendant will be duly branded as a sex offender for life and will spend much of the rest of his life behind bars.”
Addressing Raymond during Wednesday's sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly called the former spy a “sexual predator”, and told him that it was “We’re going to have a period of time to think about this.” In addition to the prison sentence, Raymond was ordered to pay $260,000 in damages and remain on probation for the rest of his life.
