This article appears in the February 20, 2026 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
Jan. 29—Graham E. Fuller (1936-2026) passed away on Jan. 29 after fighting serious health problems affecting his heart. He was 89. Graham’s two daughters were with him over his last weeks at his home in Canada.
Fuller had been a frequent speaker in the weekly meetings of the International Peace Coalition (IPC), initiated in 2022 by the founder of the Schiller Institute, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, often appearing with his longtime friend and associate Ray McGovern. Fuller and McGovern were both high-level officials at the CIA, with Fuller having been a specialist on Islamic countries and Islamic culture. He was a leading scholar on issues regarding Turkey (his books include The New Turkish Republic, 2007; and Turkey and the Arab Spring, 2014). He also authored several novels which investigate social issues and life in Islamic states. He earned both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from Harvard University, learning Russian, Turkish, and several other languages along the way. Another book he authored is a primer on learning languages, How to Learn a Foreign Language (1987).
During his career, Fuller served in the U.S. State Department and in the CIA in posts in Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, North Yemen, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong. He was CIA Station Chief in Kabul, Afghanistan, until 1978. He was appointed CIA National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia in 1982, responsible for long-term forecasting. Perhaps his best-known book was his 2002 The Future of Political Islam, written after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack in the United States. Fuller also served as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation for twelve years.
After his retirement, Fuller joined with Ray McGovern and others in the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS, founded in 2003), speaking out regularly in public letters to various sitting Presidents against the lies which were used to launch each of the “regime change” wars of the past decades.
Fuller was also an avid reader of EIR. He wrote a message of endorsement, strongly encouraging people to subscribe to EIR’s Daily Alert. His message reads:
The EIR Alert is a unique and valuable resource for anyone concerned with issues of potential global transformation, including up to date reporting on the critical government actions that often block peaceful evolution. This importantly includes analysis of significant new developments in the emerging Global South. It routinely contains in-depth analysis with a fine geopolitical eye of a sort rarely found in most other media—and certainly not in The New York Times. An important resource for those wishing to look further down the geopolitical road with an evolutionary eye.
Fuller also recruited several of his associates from his days in the intelligence community, from the United States and the UK, to get involved with the Schiller Institute and the IPC.
We in the Schiller Institute who have worked with Graham Fuller and benefitted from his insights on world affairs, and his dedication to breaking through the lies in the commercial press, getting the truth out to populations worldwide, offer his family and friends our condolences. We will miss him, and will continue our mission with his memory and his valuable contribution to the future of civilization in our hearts.
You can visit Graham’s blog site here to learn more about his life and find a complete list of his published works.
