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Michael Ledeen

January 20, 2023

Michael Arthur Ledeen (/ləˈdiːn/;[1] born August 1, 1941) is an American historian,[2] and neoconservative[3] foreign policy analyst. He is a former consultant to the United States National Security Council, the United States Department of State, and the United States Department of Defense. He held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute where he was a scholar for twenty years and now holds the similarly named chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He was very close to Antonio Martino.[4]

Michael Ledeen
Born
Michael Arthur Ledeen

(1941-08-01) August 1, 1941 (age 81)
Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Occupation(s)Historian and Foreign Policy Analyst

Academic career

Ledeen holds a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he studied under the historian George Mosse. His doctoral dissertation eventually became Universal Fascism: The Theory and Practice of the Fascist International, 1928–1936, first published in 1972. The book explored Italian leader Benito Mussolini's efforts to create a Fascist international in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Ledeen taught at Washington University in St. Louis but left after being denied tenure. Some faculty indicated that questions about the "quality of his scholarship" and about whether or not Ledeen had "used the work of somebody else without proper credit" were issues, although some also noted that "the 'quasi-irregularity' at issue didn't warrant the negative vote on tenure."[5]

Ledeen subsequently moved to Rome, where he was hired as the Rome correspondent for The New Republic and was named a visiting professor at the University of Rome for two years until 1977. In Rome, Ledeen worked with Italian historian Renzo De Felice, who greatly influenced Ledeen, drawing a distinction between "fascism-regime" and "fascism-movement."[6] Ledeen's political views developed to stress "the urgency of combating centralized state power and the centrality of human freedom"[7] Ledeen continued his studies in Italian Fascism with a study of the takeover of Fiume by Italian irredentist forces under Gabriele d'Annunzio, who Ledeen argued was the prototype for Mussolini.

Billygate

In the 1980 lead up to the US presidential election, Ledeen, along with Arnaud de Borchgrave, wrote a series of articles published in The New Republic[8] and elsewhere about Jimmy Carter's brother, Billy Carter's contacts with the Muammar al-Gaddafi regime in Libya. Ledeen testified before a Senate subcommittee that he believed that Billy Carter had met with and been paid off by Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

Five years later, in 1985, a Wall Street Journal investigation suggested that the series of Billygate articles written by Ledeen were part of a larger disinformation campaign intended to influence the outcome of that year's presidential election.[9] According to the reporting, Francesco Pazienza, an officer of the Italian intelligence agency SISMI, alleged that Ledeen was paid $120,000 for his work on Billygate and other projects.[10] Pazienza and Ledeen were very active in disinformation efforts.[11] At SISMI, Pazienza stated, Ledeen warranted a coded identification: Z-3. Pazienza was later tried and convicted in absentia for using "extortion and fraud to obtain embarrassing facts about Billy Carter".[12][a]

The Bulgarian connection

Ledeen worked for the Italian military intelligence agency SISMI in 1980 providing "risk assessment",[5] and consulting on extradition matters between Italy and the United States.[14] It was during his time in Italy which Ledeen came out in his belief in the "Bulgarian connection" conspiracy theory concerning Grey Wolves member Mehmet Ali Ağca's 1981 attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II. The theory has since been attacked by various authors and journalists, including Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs, who initially believed the story as well. The theory was adopted in 2005 by the Italian Mitrokhin Commission. According to Craig Unger, "With Ronald Reagan newly installed in the White House, the so-called Bulgarian Connection made perfect Cold War propaganda. Michael Ledeen was one of its most vocal proponents, promoting it on TV and in newspapers all over the world."[14]

Work in the United States

In the early 1980s, Ledeen appeared before the newly established Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, alongside former CIA director William Colby, author Claire Sterling and former Newsweek editor Arnaud de Borchgrave. Both Ledeen and de Borchgrave worked for the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University at the time.[15] All four testified that they believed the Soviet Union had provided for material support, training and inspiration for various terrorist groupings.[16]

Ledeen was involved in the Iran–Contra affair as a consultant of National Security Advisor Robert C. McFarlane. Ledeen vouched for Iranian intermediary Manucher Ghorbanifar. According to Adnan Khashoggi in 1985, Ghorbanifar was the head of Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi's European intelligence and Ledeen was aware of this.[17] In addition, he met with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, officials of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and the CIA to arrange meetings with high-ranking Iranian officials, whereby Iranians supported by the US would be given weapons by Israel, and would proceed to negotiate with Hizbollah for the release of hostages in Lebanon.[18] Ledeen's own version of the events is published in his book, Perilous Statecraft.[19]

Yellowcake forgery allegations

Main article: Niger uranium forgeries

During the summer of 2001, Alain Chouet and others with France's DGSE investigate an alleged deal known later as Nigergate in which Iraq was trying to obtain yellowcake from a country in Africa and, by May and June 2002, they investigate any connection with Niger but find that the rumors are entirely false.[20] Furthermore, in July 2002, the Italian SISMI and the United States CIA are informed by the French DGSE that Rocco Martino, a former Italian intelligence agent, is trying to pass fake documents about Iraq obtaining yellowcake from Niger.[20] However, the SISMI report that a lady, who is controlled by SISMI's Antonio Nucera, in the Niger embassy at Rome presents the fake documents in July 2002.[20] Later, in March 2003, George Tenet incorrectly states that Iraq, who has large quantities of yellowcake, is obtaining yellowcake from Niger.[20]

According to a September 2004 article by Joshua Micah Marshall, Laura Rozen, and Paul Glastris in Washington Monthly: "The first meeting occurred in Rome in December, 2001. It included Franklin, Rhode, and another American, the neoconservative writer and operative Michael Ledeen, who organized the meeting. (According to UPI, Ledeen was then working for Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith as a consultant.) Also in attendance was Ghorbanifar and a number of other Iranians."[21]

Colleagues Andrew McCarthy and Mark R. Levin have defended Ledeen, writing: "Up until now, the fiction recklessly spewed by disgruntled intelligence-community retirees and their media enablers—some of whom have conceded that the claim is based on zero evidence—has been that Michael had something to do with the forged Italian documents that, according to the Left's narrative, were the basis for President Bush's "lie" in the 2003 State of the Union Address that Saddam Hussein had obtained yellowcake uranium (for nuclear-weapons construction) in Africa."[22]

Iraq War advocacy

During the 1990s, Ledeen was active in supporting the ousting of Saddam Hussein from Iraq. He was known as one of The Vulcans who also included John Bolton, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and David Wurmser who signed an "An Open Letter to the President" to lobby Bill Clinton to remove Hussein from office.[23]

Regarding the "pre-emptive" invasion of Iraq, in 2002 Ledeen criticized the views of former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, writing:[24]

Scowcroft has managed to get one thing half right, even though he misdescribes it. He fears that if we attack Iraq "I think we could have an explosion in the Middle East. It could turn the whole region into a caldron and destroy the War on Terror." One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please. If ever there were a region that richly deserved being cauldronized, it is the Middle East today. If we wage the war effectively, we will bring down the terror regimes in Iraq, Iran, and Syria, and either bring down the Saudi monarchy or force it to abandon its global assembly line to indoctrinate young terrorists. That's our mission in the war against terror.

— Michael Ledeen

Ledeen's statements prior to the start of the Iraq war such as "desperately needed and long overdue war against Saddam Hussein" and "dire need to invade Iraq" caused Glenn Greenwald to label his later statement that he "opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place" to be an "outright lie".[25] However, Ledeen maintains these statements are consistent since: "I opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place and I advocated—as I still do—support for political revolution in Iran as the logical and necessary first step in the war against the terror masters."[26]

Views on Iran

Ledeen is a long-time foe of the Islamic regime of Iran. He believed that invading the country and regime change in Iran should have been the first priority in the "war on terror" in 2003 rather than Iraq. He believes that "everything traces back to Tehran" and that Iran manipulates both sides of the Shi'ite-Sunni conflict, leading reviewer Peter Beinart to note that his "effort to lay virtually every attack by Muslims against Americans at Tehran's feet takes him into rather bizarre territory."[27] The New York Times describes Ledeen's views as "everything traces back to Tehran".[27] Ledeen's phrase, "faster, please" has become a signature meme in Ledeen's writings (it is currently the title of his blog on the Pajamas Media website) and is often referenced by neoconservative writers advocating a more forceful and broader "war on terror." In 1979, Ledeen was one of the first Western writers to argue that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was a "clerical fascist", and that while it was legitimate to criticize the Shah's regime, if Khomeini seized power in Iran the Iranian people would suffer an even greater loss of freedom and women would be deprived of political and social rights. He presently believes that "No one in the West has yet supported Iranian democratic organizations" and that "aggressive support for those Iranians who wish to be free" would most likely work in ending the clerical government.[28]

According to Justin Raimondo, Ledeen "holds up Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright as patsies for Khomeini—who supposedly believed that the Ayatollah overthrew Shah Reza Pahlavi because the Iranian government was 'excessively repressive and intolerant.' While it would not do to come right out and deny the savagery of the Shah's legendary SAVAK secret police, Ledeen informs us that, under the monarch's beneficent rule, 'Iran had become too modern, too tolerant—especially of women and of other religious faiths—and too self-indulgent. The shah had Westernized Iran'—except, perhaps, in his prisons, where the ancient methods of torture were routinely employed on dissidents of all sorts."[29]

Ledeen is currently against both an invasion of Iran or air-strikes within the country.[28][30] He has argued that the latter may eventually become necessary if negotiations with the Iranian government fail, but it would only be the least bad option of many options and it would lead to many negative unforeseen consequences.[30] The New York Times has called Ledeen's skepticism towards military action against Iran surprising given his opposition to the regime.[27]

In July 2016 Ledeen co-authored with Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, at the time Donald Trump's national-security adviser, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies. Flynn and Ledeen constructed a narrative in which the world is at war with a "great evil" and Iran is the central player on the enemy side.[31]

Controversial theories

Ledeen also believed that Iran is the main backer of the insurgency in Iraq and even supported the al-Qaida network formerly led by al-Zarqawi despite its declaration of jihad against Shi'ite Muslims.[32] He claimed that German and Italian court documents showed Zarqawi created a European terrorist network while based in Tehran.[32]

Ledeen was a board member of the "Coalition for Democracy in Iran" (CDI), founded by Morris Amitay, a former executive director of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Ledeen had also been part of the board of the U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon. According to The Washington Post, quoted by Asia Times, he was the only full-time international affairs analyst regularly consulted by Karl Rove, George W. Bush's closest advisor.[33]

Following the February 2003 speech by French Minister for Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin at the United Nations General Assembly against the intervention in Iraq, Ledeen outlined, in a column entitled "A Theory," a possibility that France and Germany, both NATO allies of the United States, "struck a deal with radical Islam and with radical Arabs" to use "extremism and terrorism as the weapon of choice" to weaken the United States. He stated, "It sounds fanciful, to be sure," but that, "If this is correct, we will have to pursue the war against terror far beyond the boundaries of the Middle East, into the heart of Western Europe. And there, as in the Middle East, our greatest weapons are political: the demonstrated desire for freedom of the peoples of the countries that oppose us."[34][35]

Jonah Goldberg, Ledeen's colleague at National Review, coined the term "Ledeen Doctrine" in a 2002 column. This tongue-in-cheek "doctrine" is usually summarized as "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business," which Goldberg remembered Ledeen saying in an early 1990s speech.[36]

Ledeen has also advocated that U.S. leaders take a stronger rhetorical stance in wars on Islamic regimes and militant groups. For instance he has recommended in public talks that U.S. leaders question or challenge defeated Islamic militaries or forces regarding the apparent failure of Allah to assure their victory.[37]

Personal life

Ledeen was born in Los Angeles, California.

Ledeen is an accomplished contract bridge player. He has won one American Contract Bridge League national-level tournament, the 2009 Senior Swiss Teams, on a team-of-four with Karen Allison, Lea Dupont and Benito Garozzo.[38] He has also partnered Jimmy Cayne, who was the oldest CEO on Wall Street when he oversaw the collapse of Bear Stearns firm in 2007 and 2008. Consulted by a New York Times journalist early in the episode, Ledeen suggested that his book on the leadership lessons of Machiavelli had influenced Cayne, and observed that "Jimmy saw himself in Machiavelli ... you have to get rid of failure and you have to punish lack of virtue ruthlessly and all the time."[39]

His first wife was Jenny Ledeen of St. Louis, Mo. Ledeen has three children: Simone, Gabriel, and Daniel. Simone has worked both in Iraq and Afghanistan for the Department of Defense; Gabriel is currently a lieutenant in the United States Marines Corps serving his second tour in Iraq; Daniel too is currently a lieutenant in the USMC.[40]

He is married to his second wife, Barbara, who was a longtime staffer for Senator Chuck Grassley on the Senate Judiciary Committee until early 2021, when she retired from the Senate.[41]

Missing Clinton emails

Barbara Ledeen sparked controversy in 2015 when she tried to launch her own investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, while a staffer for Senator Chuck Grassley on the Senate Judiciary Committee which was looking into Trump's Russia issue.[42] According to FBI notes, she requested the assistance of both a defense contractor and Newt Gingrich who asked Judicial Watch for financial assistance for her efforts.[42] Judicial Watch requested another contractor to access the "deep web and dark web".[42] Matt Tate, a former British intelligence official, was approached by Peter W. Smith, an aid close to Gingrich and who was also working with Michael Flynn who is a confidant of Barbara Ledeen's husband, who Tate said Smith was obtaining Clinton's emails independently of Barbara Ledeen's efforts which Grassley had told her to stop.[42][43][44][b]

Project Veritas

To support Project Veritas in 2017 and 2018 and while she was a staff member on the Chuck Grassley led Senate Judiciary Committee, Barbara Ledeen was tasked to help discredit H.R. McMaster because he had stated that President Trump had the intelligence of a "kindergartner" and was an "idiot."[51] She posted numerous comments on Facebook supporting Project Veritas including "We owe a lot to Erik Prince" because of his efforts to support Project Veritas and many disparaging posts about McMaster.[41] Her involvement in the campaign to discredit McMaster led to Barbara Ledeen being named as a member of the Groundswell group; she admitted passing on information to Project Veritas but said "I am not part of a plot."[41][52]

Bibliography

  • Universal Fascism; the Theory and Practice of the Fascist International, 1928–1936, New York, H. Fertig, 1972
  • co-written with Renzo De Felice: Fascism: An Informal Introduction To Its Theory And Practice, New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Books, 1976 ISBN 0-87855-190-5.
  • "Renzo De Felice and the Controversy over Italian Fascism", pages 269–283 from Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 11, 1976.
  • The First Duce: D'Annunzio at Fiume, Baltimore; London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977 ISBN 0-8018-1860-5.
  • Italy In Crisis, Beverly Hills [Calif.]: Sage publications, 1977 ISBN 0-8039-0792-3.
  • co-written with George Mosse: Intervista sul Nazismo, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 1977
  • co-written with William Lewis: Debacle, The American Failure in Iran, Vintage Books; 1st Vintage Books ed edition (1982) ISBN 0-394-75182-5
  • Grave New World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1985 ISBN 0-19-503491-0.
  • West European Communism and American Foreign Policy, New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Books, 1987 ISBN 0-88738-140-5.
  • Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair, New York: Scribner, 1988 ISBN 0-684-18994-1.
  • Superpower Dilemmas: the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. at Century's End, New Brunswick, U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1992 ISBN 0-88738-891-4.
  • Freedom Betrayed: How America Led a Global Democratic Revolution, Won the Cold War, and Walked Away, Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1996 ISBN 0-8447-3992-8.
  • Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are As Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago, New York: Truman Talley Books/St. Martin's Press, 1999 ISBN 0-312-20471-X.
  • The War against The Terror Masters: Why It Happened, Where We Are Now, How We'll Win, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002 ISBN 0-312-30644-X.
  • The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots' Quest for Destruction. Truman Talley Books, 2007. ISBN 0-312-37655-3. ISBN 978-0-312-37655-0.
  • Obama's Betrayal of Israel, New York: Encounter Broadsides, 2010 ISBN 978-1594034626
  • The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies co-written with Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016 ISBN 978-1-25010-622-3.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ According to both Boris Yuzhin and Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB conducted a large disinformation campaign in support of Republicans and Ronald Reagan to discredit Democrats and Jimmy Carter during the 1980 elections.[13]
  2. ^ On September 10, 2019, at Venice, Italy during the 58th Venice Biennale which was directed by the Hayward Gallery in London's curator Ralph Rugoff, Hillary Clinton visited the Kenneth Goldsmith work "Hillary: The Hillary Clinton Emails," a work on display in a balcony jutting out over a supermarket at the Despar Teatro Italia.[45] During her appearance, she said that the attention given to her emails was one of the "strangest" and most "absurd" events in U.S. political history, adding, "Anyone can go in and look at them. There is nothing there. There is nothing that should have been so controversial."[45] During the 2019 Venice Biennale which was glamorous with a joie de vivre and contained art of historical importance, the emails were exhibited from May 9, 2019, until November 24, 2019, during which Goldsmith promoted them as "the most important political documents of our times."[45][46] Even though Attorney General Loretta Lynch had closed the Hillary Clinton email investigation case during summer of 2016 without criminal charges, during his campaign on October 28, 2016, Trump commented about Clinton's emails as "This is bigger than Watergate. This is bigger than Watergate. In my opinion. This is bigger than Watergate."[45][47][48][49] After Trump's statement, James Comey publicly stated that he had the FBI open another investigation into Clinton just days before the November 8, 2016, elections which Clinton felt buried her hopes of becoming President.[50]

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External links

  • at International Analyst Network
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • A film clip "The Open Mind – An Insiders Account of the Iran-Contra Affair (1988)" is available at the Internet Archive
  • Michael Arthur Ledeen at Library of Congress Authorities, with 23 catalog records

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michael, ledeen, michael, arthur, ledeen, born, august, 1941, american, historian, neoconservative, foreign, policy, analyst, former, consultant, united, states, national, security, council, united, states, department, state, united, states, department, defens. Michael Arthur Ledeen l e ˈ d iː n 1 born August 1 1941 is an American historian 2 and neoconservative 3 foreign policy analyst He is a former consultant to the United States National Security Council the United States Department of State and the United States Department of Defense He held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute where he was a scholar for twenty years and now holds the similarly named chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies He was very close to Antonio Martino 4 Michael LedeenBornMichael Arthur Ledeen 1941 08 01 August 1 1941 age 81 Los Angeles CaliforniaNationalityAmericanAlma materUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonOccupation s Historian and Foreign Policy Analyst Contents 1 Academic career 2 Billygate 3 The Bulgarian connection 4 Work in the United States 5 Yellowcake forgery allegations 6 Iraq War advocacy 7 Views on Iran 8 Controversial theories 9 Personal life 9 1 Missing Clinton emails 9 2 Project Veritas 10 Bibliography 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 14 External linksAcademic career EditLedeen holds a Ph D in History and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin Madison where he studied under the historian George Mosse His doctoral dissertation eventually became Universal Fascism The Theory and Practice of the Fascist International 1928 1936 first published in 1972 The book explored Italian leader Benito Mussolini s efforts to create a Fascist international in the late 1920s and early 1930s Ledeen taught at Washington University in St Louis but left after being denied tenure Some faculty indicated that questions about the quality of his scholarship and about whether or not Ledeen had used the work of somebody else without proper credit were issues although some also noted that the quasi irregularity at issue didn t warrant the negative vote on tenure 5 Ledeen subsequently moved to Rome where he was hired as the Rome correspondent for The New Republic and was named a visiting professor at the University of Rome for two years until 1977 In Rome Ledeen worked with Italian historian Renzo De Felice who greatly influenced Ledeen drawing a distinction between fascism regime and fascism movement 6 Ledeen s political views developed to stress the urgency of combating centralized state power and the centrality of human freedom 7 Ledeen continued his studies in Italian Fascism with a study of the takeover of Fiume by Italian irredentist forces under Gabriele d Annunzio who Ledeen argued was the prototype for Mussolini Billygate EditIn the 1980 lead up to the US presidential election Ledeen along with Arnaud de Borchgrave wrote a series of articles published in The New Republic 8 and elsewhere about Jimmy Carter s brother Billy Carter s contacts with the Muammar al Gaddafi regime in Libya Ledeen testified before a Senate subcommittee that he believed that Billy Carter had met with and been paid off by Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Five years later in 1985 a Wall Street Journal investigation suggested that the series of Billygate articles written by Ledeen were part of a larger disinformation campaign intended to influence the outcome of that year s presidential election 9 According to the reporting Francesco Pazienza an officer of the Italian intelligence agency SISMI alleged that Ledeen was paid 120 000 for his work on Billygate and other projects 10 Pazienza and Ledeen were very active in disinformation efforts 11 At SISMI Pazienza stated Ledeen warranted a coded identification Z 3 Pazienza was later tried and convicted in absentia for using extortion and fraud to obtain embarrassing facts about Billy Carter 12 a The Bulgarian connection EditLedeen worked for the Italian military intelligence agency SISMI in 1980 providing risk assessment 5 and consulting on extradition matters between Italy and the United States 14 It was during his time in Italy which Ledeen came out in his belief in the Bulgarian connection conspiracy theory concerning Grey Wolves member Mehmet Ali Agca s 1981 attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II The theory has since been attacked by various authors and journalists including Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs who initially believed the story as well The theory was adopted in 2005 by the Italian Mitrokhin Commission According to Craig Unger With Ronald Reagan newly installed in the White House the so called Bulgarian Connection made perfect Cold War propaganda Michael Ledeen was one of its most vocal proponents promoting it on TV and in newspapers all over the world 14 Work in the United States EditIn the early 1980s Ledeen appeared before the newly established Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism alongside former CIA director William Colby author Claire Sterling and former Newsweek editor Arnaud de Borchgrave Both Ledeen and de Borchgrave worked for the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University at the time 15 All four testified that they believed the Soviet Union had provided for material support training and inspiration for various terrorist groupings 16 Ledeen was involved in the Iran Contra affair as a consultant of National Security Advisor Robert C McFarlane Ledeen vouched for Iranian intermediary Manucher Ghorbanifar According to Adnan Khashoggi in 1985 Ghorbanifar was the head of Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi s European intelligence and Ledeen was aware of this 17 In addition he met with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres officials of the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the CIA to arrange meetings with high ranking Iranian officials whereby Iranians supported by the US would be given weapons by Israel and would proceed to negotiate with Hizbollah for the release of hostages in Lebanon 18 Ledeen s own version of the events is published in his book Perilous Statecraft 19 Yellowcake forgery allegations EditMain article Niger uranium forgeries During the summer of 2001 Alain Chouet and others with France s DGSE investigate an alleged deal known later as Nigergate in which Iraq was trying to obtain yellowcake from a country in Africa and by May and June 2002 they investigate any connection with Niger but find that the rumors are entirely false 20 Furthermore in July 2002 the Italian SISMI and the United States CIA are informed by the French DGSE that Rocco Martino a former Italian intelligence agent is trying to pass fake documents about Iraq obtaining yellowcake from Niger 20 However the SISMI report that a lady who is controlled by SISMI s Antonio Nucera in the Niger embassy at Rome presents the fake documents in July 2002 20 Later in March 2003 George Tenet incorrectly states that Iraq who has large quantities of yellowcake is obtaining yellowcake from Niger 20 According to a September 2004 article by Joshua Micah Marshall Laura Rozen and Paul Glastris in Washington Monthly The first meeting occurred in Rome in December 2001 It included Franklin Rhode and another American the neoconservative writer and operative Michael Ledeen who organized the meeting According to UPI Ledeen was then working for Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith as a consultant Also in attendance was Ghorbanifar and a number of other Iranians 21 Colleagues Andrew McCarthy and Mark R Levin have defended Ledeen writing Up until now the fiction recklessly spewed by disgruntled intelligence community retirees and their media enablers some of whom have conceded that the claim is based on zero evidence has been that Michael had something to do with the forged Italian documents that according to the Left s narrative were the basis for President Bush s lie in the 2003 State of the Union Address that Saddam Hussein had obtained yellowcake uranium for nuclear weapons construction in Africa 22 Iraq War advocacy EditDuring the 1990s Ledeen was active in supporting the ousting of Saddam Hussein from Iraq He was known as one of The Vulcans who also included John Bolton Douglas Feith Richard Perle Paul Wolfowitz Donald Rumsfeld and David Wurmser who signed an An Open Letter to the President to lobby Bill Clinton to remove Hussein from office 23 Regarding the pre emptive invasion of Iraq in 2002 Ledeen criticized the views of former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft writing 24 Scowcroft has managed to get one thing half right even though he misdescribes it He fears that if we attack Iraq I think we could have an explosion in the Middle East It could turn the whole region into a caldron and destroy the War on Terror One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron and faster please If ever there were a region that richly deserved being cauldronized it is the Middle East today If we wage the war effectively we will bring down the terror regimes in Iraq Iran and Syria and either bring down the Saudi monarchy or force it to abandon its global assembly line to indoctrinate young terrorists That s our mission in the war against terror Michael Ledeen Ledeen s statements prior to the start of the Iraq war such as desperately needed and long overdue war against Saddam Hussein and dire need to invade Iraq caused Glenn Greenwald to label his later statement that he opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place to be an outright lie 25 However Ledeen maintains these statements are consistent since I opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place and I advocated as I still do support for political revolution in Iran as the logical and necessary first step in the war against the terror masters 26 Views on Iran EditLedeen is a long time foe of the Islamic regime of Iran He believed that invading the country and regime change in Iran should have been the first priority in the war on terror in 2003 rather than Iraq He believes that everything traces back to Tehran and that Iran manipulates both sides of the Shi ite Sunni conflict leading reviewer Peter Beinart to note that his effort to lay virtually every attack by Muslims against Americans at Tehran s feet takes him into rather bizarre territory 27 The New York Times describes Ledeen s views as everything traces back to Tehran 27 Ledeen s phrase faster please has become a signature meme in Ledeen s writings it is currently the title of his blog on the Pajamas Media website and is often referenced by neoconservative writers advocating a more forceful and broader war on terror In 1979 Ledeen was one of the first Western writers to argue that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was a clerical fascist and that while it was legitimate to criticize the Shah s regime if Khomeini seized power in Iran the Iranian people would suffer an even greater loss of freedom and women would be deprived of political and social rights He presently believes that No one in the West has yet supported Iranian democratic organizations and that aggressive support for those Iranians who wish to be free would most likely work in ending the clerical government 28 According to Justin Raimondo Ledeen holds up Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright as patsies for Khomeini who supposedly believed that the Ayatollah overthrew Shah Reza Pahlavi because the Iranian government was excessively repressive and intolerant While it would not do to come right out and deny the savagery of the Shah s legendary SAVAK secret police Ledeen informs us that under the monarch s beneficent rule Iran had become too modern too tolerant especially of women and of other religious faiths and too self indulgent The shah had Westernized Iran except perhaps in his prisons where the ancient methods of torture were routinely employed on dissidents of all sorts 29 Ledeen is currently against both an invasion of Iran or air strikes within the country 28 30 He has argued that the latter may eventually become necessary if negotiations with the Iranian government fail but it would only be the least bad option of many options and it would lead to many negative unforeseen consequences 30 The New York Times has called Ledeen s skepticism towards military action against Iran surprising given his opposition to the regime 27 In July 2016 Ledeen co authored with Lt General Michael T Flynn at the time Donald Trump s national security adviser The Field of Fight How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies Flynn and Ledeen constructed a narrative in which the world is at war with a great evil and Iran is the central player on the enemy side 31 Controversial theories EditLedeen also believed that Iran is the main backer of the insurgency in Iraq and even supported the al Qaida network formerly led by al Zarqawi despite its declaration of jihad against Shi ite Muslims 32 He claimed that German and Italian court documents showed Zarqawi created a European terrorist network while based in Tehran 32 Ledeen was a board member of the Coalition for Democracy in Iran CDI founded by Morris Amitay a former executive director of American Israel Public Affairs Committee AIPAC Ledeen had also been part of the board of the U S Committee for a Free Lebanon According to The Washington Post quoted by Asia Times he was the only full time international affairs analyst regularly consulted by Karl Rove George W Bush s closest advisor 33 Following the February 2003 speech by French Minister for Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin at the United Nations General Assembly against the intervention in Iraq Ledeen outlined in a column entitled A Theory a possibility that France and Germany both NATO allies of the United States struck a deal with radical Islam and with radical Arabs to use extremism and terrorism as the weapon of choice to weaken the United States He stated It sounds fanciful to be sure but that If this is correct we will have to pursue the war against terror far beyond the boundaries of the Middle East into the heart of Western Europe And there as in the Middle East our greatest weapons are political the demonstrated desire for freedom of the peoples of the countries that oppose us 34 35 Jonah Goldberg Ledeen s colleague at National Review coined the term Ledeen Doctrine in a 2002 column This tongue in cheek doctrine is usually summarized as Every ten years or so the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall just to show the world we mean business which Goldberg remembered Ledeen saying in an early 1990s speech 36 Ledeen has also advocated that U S leaders take a stronger rhetorical stance in wars on Islamic regimes and militant groups For instance he has recommended in public talks that U S leaders question or challenge defeated Islamic militaries or forces regarding the apparent failure of Allah to assure their victory 37 Personal life EditLedeen was born in Los Angeles California Ledeen is an accomplished contract bridge player He has won one American Contract Bridge League national level tournament the 2009 Senior Swiss Teams on a team of four with Karen Allison Lea Dupont and Benito Garozzo 38 He has also partnered Jimmy Cayne who was the oldest CEO on Wall Street when he oversaw the collapse of Bear Stearns firm in 2007 and 2008 Consulted by a New York Times journalist early in the episode Ledeen suggested that his book on the leadership lessons of Machiavelli had influenced Cayne and observed that Jimmy saw himself in Machiavelli you have to get rid of failure and you have to punish lack of virtue ruthlessly and all the time 39 His first wife was Jenny Ledeen of St Louis Mo Ledeen has three children Simone Gabriel and Daniel Simone has worked both in Iraq and Afghanistan for the Department of Defense Gabriel is currently a lieutenant in the United States Marines Corps serving his second tour in Iraq Daniel too is currently a lieutenant in the USMC 40 He is married to his second wife Barbara who was a longtime staffer for Senator Chuck Grassley on the Senate Judiciary Committee until early 2021 when she retired from the Senate 41 Missing Clinton emails Edit Barbara Ledeen sparked controversy in 2015 when she tried to launch her own investigation into Hillary Clinton s emails while a staffer for Senator Chuck Grassley on the Senate Judiciary Committee which was looking into Trump s Russia issue 42 According to FBI notes she requested the assistance of both a defense contractor and Newt Gingrich who asked Judicial Watch for financial assistance for her efforts 42 Judicial Watch requested another contractor to access the deep web and dark web 42 Matt Tate a former British intelligence official was approached by Peter W Smith an aid close to Gingrich and who was also working with Michael Flynn who is a confidant of Barbara Ledeen s husband who Tate said Smith was obtaining Clinton s emails independently of Barbara Ledeen s efforts which Grassley had told her to stop 42 43 44 b Project Veritas Edit To support Project Veritas in 2017 and 2018 and while she was a staff member on the Chuck Grassley led Senate Judiciary Committee Barbara Ledeen was tasked to help discredit H R McMaster because he had stated that President Trump had the intelligence of a kindergartner and was an idiot 51 She posted numerous comments on Facebook supporting Project Veritas including We owe a lot to Erik Prince because of his efforts to support Project Veritas and many disparaging posts about McMaster 41 Her involvement in the campaign to discredit McMaster led to Barbara Ledeen being named as a member of the Groundswell group she admitted passing on information to Project Veritas but said I am not part of a plot 41 52 Bibliography EditUniversal Fascism the Theory and Practice of the Fascist International 1928 1936 New York H Fertig 1972 co written with Renzo De Felice Fascism An Informal Introduction To Its Theory And Practice New Brunswick N J Transaction Books 1976 ISBN 0 87855 190 5 Renzo De Felice and the Controversy over Italian Fascism pages 269 283 from Journal of Contemporary History Volume 11 1976 The First Duce D Annunzio at Fiume Baltimore London Johns Hopkins University Press 1977 ISBN 0 8018 1860 5 Italy In Crisis Beverly Hills Calif Sage publications 1977 ISBN 0 8039 0792 3 co written with George Mosse Intervista sul Nazismo Rome Bari Laterza 1977 co written with William Lewis Debacle The American Failure in Iran Vintage Books 1st Vintage Books ed edition 1982 ISBN 0 394 75182 5 Grave New World New York Oxford University Press 1985 ISBN 0 19 503491 0 West European Communism and American Foreign Policy New Brunswick N J U S A Transaction Books 1987 ISBN 0 88738 140 5 Perilous Statecraft An Insider s Account of the Iran Contra Affair New York Scribner 1988 ISBN 0 684 18994 1 Superpower Dilemmas the U S and the U S S R at Century s End New Brunswick U S A Transaction Publishers 1992 ISBN 0 88738 891 4 Freedom Betrayed How America Led a Global Democratic Revolution Won the Cold War and Walked Away Washington D C AEI Press 1996 ISBN 0 8447 3992 8 Machiavelli on Modern Leadership Why Machiavelli s Iron Rules Are As Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago New York Truman Talley Books St Martin s Press 1999 ISBN 0 312 20471 X The War against The Terror Masters Why It Happened Where We Are Now How We ll Win New York St Martin s Press 2002 ISBN 0 312 30644 X The Iranian Time Bomb The Mullah Zealots Quest for Destruction Truman Talley Books 2007 ISBN 0 312 37655 3 ISBN 978 0 312 37655 0 Obama s Betrayal of Israel New York Encounter Broadsides 2010 ISBN 978 1594034626 The Field of Fight How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies co written with Lt General Michael T Flynn New York St Martin s Press 2016 ISBN 978 1 25010 622 3 See also EditTimeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections July 2016 election day Notes Edit According to both Boris Yuzhin and Oleg Gordievsky the KGB conducted a large disinformation campaign in support of Republicans and Ronald Reagan to discredit Democrats and Jimmy Carter during the 1980 elections 13 On September 10 2019 at Venice Italy during the 58th Venice Biennale which was directed by the Hayward Gallery in London s curator Ralph Rugoff Hillary Clinton visited the Kenneth Goldsmith work Hillary The Hillary Clinton Emails a work on display in a balcony jutting out over a supermarket at the Despar Teatro Italia 45 During her appearance she said that the attention given to her emails was one of the strangest and most absurd events in U S political history adding Anyone can go in and look at them There is nothing there There is nothing that should have been so controversial 45 During the 2019 Venice Biennale which was glamorous with a joie de vivre and contained art of historical importance the emails were exhibited from May 9 2019 until November 24 2019 during which Goldsmith promoted them as the most important political documents of our times 45 46 Even though Attorney General Loretta Lynch had closed the Hillary Clinton email investigation case during summer of 2016 without criminal charges during his campaign on October 28 2016 Trump commented about Clinton s emails as This is bigger than Watergate This is bigger than Watergate In my opinion This is bigger than Watergate 45 47 48 49 After Trump s statement James Comey publicly stated that he had the FBI open another investigation into Clinton just days before the November 8 2016 elections which Clinton felt buried her hopes of becoming President 50 References Edit Michael Ledeen How We Can Win Baum David 2011 Race Antisemitism and the Renaissance in Racist Italy In Zinguer Llana ed Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance Sources and Encounters BRILL p 236 ISBN 978 9004212558 A Danchev Ed The Irak war and Democratic politics Routledge 2004 p 38 Unger Craig July 2006 The War They Wanted The Lies They Needed The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger As much of Washington knew and the world soon learned the charge was false Worse it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful black propaganda campaign with links to the White House page 7 Vanity Fair Archived from the original on March 6 2008 Retrieved September 2 2021 a b Ledeen Seems To Relish Iran Insider s Role Charles R Babcock The Washington Post Washington D C February 2 1987 p A1 Flirting with Fascism Archived 2009 01 05 at the Wayback Machine John Laughland The American Conservative 30 June 2003 A Theory Michael Ledeen National Review Online March 10 2003 Michael Ledeen Arnaud de Borchgrave 1980 11 01 Qaddafi Arafat and Billy Carter The New Republic pp 19 21 Kwitny Jonathan August 8 1985 Tale of Intrigue Why an Italian Spy Got Closely Involved In the Billygate Affair The Wall Street Journal Gabanelli Milena January 30 2009 Il personaggio Dopo 13 anni di carcere parla Francesco Pazienza L uomo dei misteri d Italia rivela lingotti per aiutare Walesa Io Gelli e la strage di Bologna Ecco le verita della super spia The character After 13 years in prison Francesco Pazienza speaks The man of the mysteries of Italy reveals ingots to help Walesa Me Gelli and the Bologna massacre Here are the truths of the super spy la Repubblica in Italian Archived from the original on March 9 2021 Retrieved September 8 2021 ALTO TRADIMENTO GLI INTRIGHI DEL SEGRETO SERVIZI HIGH TREASON THE INTRIGUES OF THE SECRET SERVICES L Espresso in Italian November 5 1984 Archived from the original on 2005 04 29 Retrieved September 9 2021 Unger Craig July 2006 The War They Wanted the Lies They Needed Vanity Fair Retrieved 5 August 2013 A 1985 investigation by Jonathan Kwitny in The Wall Street Journal reported that the New Republic article was part of a larger disinformation scam run by Ledeen and SISMI to tilt the election and that Billy Carter wasn t the only one allegedly getting money from a foreign government According to Pazienza Kwitny reported Michael Ledeen had received at least 120 000 from SISMI in 1980 or 1981 for his work on Billygate and other projects Ledeen even had a coded identity Z 3 and had money sent to him in a Bermuda bank account Pazienza said Ledeen told the Journal that a consulting firm he owned I S I worked for SISMI and may have received the money He said he did not recall whether he had a coded identity Pazienza was subsequently convicted in absentia on multiple charges including having used extortion and fraud to obtain embarrassing facts about Billy Carter Ledeen was never charged with any crime but he was cited in Pazienza s indictment which read With the illicit support of the SISMI and in collaboration with the well known American Italianist Michael Ledeen Pazienza succeeded in extorting also using fraudulent means information on the Libyan business of Billy Carter the brother of the then President of the United States Fenyvesi Charles Pope Victoria Strobel Warren P Caryl Christian October 10 1999 Cold warriors untold tales U S News amp World Report Archived from the original on May 24 2011 Retrieved September 2 2021 a b The War They Wanted The Lies They Needed Craig Unger Vanity Fair July 2006 U S Senate Hearing before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism Terrorism Origins Direction and Support 97th Congress 1st session April 24 1981 Mohr C 1981 04 25 Hearing on terror opens with warning on Soviet The New York Times Retrieved 2008 12 17 Brumley Brian February 1 1987 Senate Report Calls Iranian Middleman in Arms Sales A Suspect Character Associated Press Archived from the original on March 5 2016 Retrieved September 2 2021 Walsh LE 1993 08 04 Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran Contra Matters volume I Investigations and Prosecution Washington D C Ledeen Michael Arthur 1988 Perilous statecraft an insider s account of the Iran Contra affair New York Scribner ISBN 0 684 18994 1 a b c d Bonini Carlo in Italian D Avanzo Giuseppe in Italian December 1 2005 Alain Chouet ex numero 2 dei servizi segreti transalpini racconta il ruolo di Parigi nell affare del falso traffico di uranio Nigergate lo 007 francese che smonta la tesi del Sismi Alain Chouet former number 2 of the transalpine secret services talks about the role of Paris in the affair of the false uranium trafficking Nigergate the French 007 that dismantles the thesis of the SISMI la Repubblica in Italian Archived from the original on December 3 2005 Retrieved September 2 2021 Joshua Micah Marshall Laura Rozen amp Paul Glastris September 2004 Iran Contra II Washington Monthly Archived from the original on 2004 08 30 Andrew McCarthy and Mark R Levin 28 July 2006 Rolling Smear National Review Online Archived from the original on 19 August 2006 Unger Craig July 2006 The War They Wanted The Lies They Needed The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger As much of Washington knew and the world soon learned the charge was false Worse it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful black propaganda campaign with links to the White House 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Retrieved 2014 05 20 In Iraq the Job Opportunity of a Lifetime Ariana Eunjung Cha The Washington Post May 23 2004 a b c Goldman Adam Mazzetti Mark 13 May 2021 Activists and Ex Spy Said to Have Plotted to Discredit Trump Enemies in Government The New York Times a b c d Stephanie Kirchgaessner 13 October 2017 Flynn ally sought help from dark web in covert Clinton email investigation TheGuardian com Retrieved 19 December 2017 The War Economy 18 March 2019 Spygate Part 14 Peter W Smith Medium Retrieved 23 June 2021 Tait Matt 30 June 2017 The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians Lawfare Retrieved 23 June 2021 a b c d Hillary Clinton reads her emails at Venice art show Star Advertiser Honolulu September 12 2019 Archived from the original on September 13 2019 Retrieved September 21 2021 via New York Times Morris Jane May 1 2019 Why is the Venice Biennale still so important Historical importance glamour big spenders it continues to be an art festival like no other The Art Newspaper Archived from the original on May 1 2019 Retrieved September 21 2021 Schreckinger Ben October 28 2016 Trump hails new Clinton FBI review as bigger than Watergate The GOP nominee cheers the decision to look at new information in probe of the Democrat Politico Retrieved September 21 2021 Lee Michelle Ye Hee October 30 2016 Trump s bizarre claim that the Clinton email controversy is bigger than Watergate The Washington Post Archived from the original on October 30 2016 Retrieved September 21 2021 Koh Elizabeth October 28 2016 Trump calls Clinton email investigation bigger than Watergate Miami Herald Archived from the original on October 29 2016 Retrieved September 21 2021 Apuzzo Matt Goldman Adam Fandos Nicholas May 16 2018 Code Name Crossfire Hurricane The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation The New York Times Archived from the original on May 2 2019 Retrieved September 21 2021 Activists and ex spy said to have plotted to discredit Trump enemies in government The New York Times May 13 2021 Archived from the original on May 13 2021 Retrieved September 21 2021 via Star Advertiser Harriet Alexander 14 May 2021 British spy recruited by Erik Prince ran honeypot ops with female spies to discredit Trump enemies Archived from the original on 2021 05 14 Bonini Carlo in Italian D Avanzo Giuseppe in Italian April 11 2007 Collusion International Espionage and the War on Terror Melville House ISBN 9781933633275 External links EditProfile at International Analyst Network Appearances on C SPAN A film clip The Open Mind An Insiders Account of the Iran Contra Affair 1988 is available at the Internet Archive Michael Arthur Ledeen at Library of Congress Authorities with 23 catalog records Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Michael Ledeen amp oldid 1133988568, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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