Michael Ledeen - Revision history

Melissa Jones: /* Espionage Charges */ typo

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Espionage Charges: typo

Jasmin Ramsey: /* Affiliations */

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Affiliations

Jasmin Ramsey: /* Affiliations */

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Affiliations

Jasmin Ramsey at 22:28, 27 September 2010

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Jasmin Ramsey: /* Affiliations */

2010-09-27T22:25:38Z

Affiliations

Jasmin Ramsey at 22:25, 27 September 2010

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Jasmin Ramsey at 20:07, 23 August 2010

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Jasmin Ramsey at 00:43, 21 July 2010

2010-07-21T00:43:23Z

Idrees: /* Espionage Charges */

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Espionage Charges

Idrees: /* Background */

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Background

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 A few years later, after Reagan was elected, Ledeen had become prominent enough to earn a spot as a consultant to the National Security Council alongside Feith.' There Leedeen was invovled in the Iran-Contra scandal where he served as 'the administration's intermediary with Israel in the illegal-arms deal'. 'In 1985, he met with [[Manucher Ghorbanifar]], a one-time Iranian carpet salesman who was widely believed to be an Israeli agent. The CIA considered Ghorbanifar a dangerous con man and had issued a "burn notice" recommending that no U.S. agency have any dealings with him. Unfazed, Ledeen called Ghorbanifar "one of the most honest, educated, honorable men I have ever known." The two men brokered the arms exchange—a transaction that would result in the indictment of fourteen senior officials in the Reagan administration.'{{ref|bam}}
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-In the early 1980s, after Ledeen lost his job as a consultant with the State Department, he approached Noel Koch, the assistant secretary of defence fr International Security Affairs, and asked to be hired as a 'terrorism consultant'. According to Bamford:
+In the early 1980s, after Ledeen lost his job as a consultant with the State Department, he approached [[Noel Koch]], the assistant secretary of defence fr International Security Affairs, and asked to be hired as a 'terrorism consultant'. According to Bamford:
-:In 1988, in an extraordinary yet almost unknown letter to the House Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice Department and the FBI, Koch virtually accused Ledeen of being a spy and said the CIA listed him as an 'agent of influence of a foreign government,' that governmetn reportedly being Israel. Asking the committee to investigate Ledeen, Koch said his former consultant 'lied about efforts to acquire by ruse classified information for which he had no legitimate claim, and, while he lived in Italy [as a correspondent for The New Republic magazine], was carried by the CIA chief of station in Rome as an agent of influence of a foreign government [Israel], according to current ranking officials of the CIA who was associated with the activities of the Rome stateion in that period.'<ref>James Bamford, A Pretext for War (2004): 415</ref>
+:In 1988, in an extraordinary yet almost unknown letter to the House Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice Department and the FBI, Koch virtually accused Ledeen of being a spy and said the CIA listed him as an 'agent of influence of a foreign government,' that government reportedly being Israel. Asking the committee to investigate Ledeen, Koch said his former consultant 'lied about efforts to acquire by ruse classified information for which he had no legitimate claim, and, while he lived in Italy [as a correspondent for The ''New Republic'' magazine], was carried by the CIA chief of station in Rome as an agent of influence of a foreign government [Israel], according to current ranking officials of the CIA who was associated with the activities of the Rome stateion in that period.'<ref>James Bamford, A Pretext for War (2004): 415</ref>
 ==Faulty Intelligence==

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 *[[Center for Security Policy]] - Contributor to CSP front group [[Family Security Matters]]
 *[[Foundation for Defense of Democracies]] - Featured Expert<ref>FDD, [http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=178857&Itemid=363 "Featured Experts"], FDD Website, accessed on 27 October 2010</ref>
 ==Connections==

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 *[[International Analyst Network]]
 *[[Center for Security Policy]] - Contributor to CSP front group [[Family Security Matters]]
 ==Connections==

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 In the early 1980s, after Ledeen lost his job as a consultant with the State Department, he approached Noel Koch, the assistant secretary of defence fr International Security Affairs, and asked to be hired as a 'terrorism consultant'. According to Bamford:
 :In 1988, in an extraordinary yet almost unknown letter to the House Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice Department and the FBI, Koch virtually accused Ledeen of being a spy and said the CIA listed him as an 'agent of influence of a foreign government,' that governmetn reportedly being Israel. Asking the committee to investigate Ledeen, Koch said his former consultant 'lied about efforts to acquire by ruse classified information for which he had no legitimate claim, and, while he lived in Italy [as a correspondent for The New Republic magazine], was carried by the CIA chief of station in Rome as an agent of influence of a foreign government [Israel], according to current ranking officials of the CIA who was associated with the activities of the Rome stateion in that period.'<ref>James Bamford, A Pretext for War (2004): 415</ref>
 ==2001 Rome meetings==

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 *[[International Analyst Network]]
 *[[Center for Security Policy]] - Contributor to CSP front group [[Family Security Matters]]
 ==Connections==

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	:“… if there is no machinery in existence to ensure, for example, that military and political factors will be balanced in decisions made, they will invent such machinery and use it, as with the National Security Council. Moreover, in a formally democratic polity, the aims and the powers of the various elements of this elite are further supported by an aspect of the permanent war economy: the assumption that the security of the nation supposedly rests upon great secrecy of plan and intent. Many higher events that would reveal the working of the power elite can be withheld from public knowledge under the guise of secrecy. With the wide secrecy covering their operations and decisions, the power elite can make their intentions, operations, and further consolidation. Any secrecy that is imposed upon those in positions to observe high decision-makers clearly works for and not against the operations of the power elite.”<ref>Mills, C. Wright (1957) The Power Elite, New York: Harper. </ref>		:“… if there is no machinery in existence to ensure, for example, that military and political factors will be balanced in decisions made, they will invent such machinery and use it, as with the National Security Council. Moreover, in a formally democratic polity, the aims and the powers of the various elements of this elite are further supported by an aspect of the permanent war economy: the assumption that the security of the nation supposedly rests upon great secrecy of plan and intent. Many higher events that would reveal the working of the power elite can be withheld from public knowledge under the guise of secrecy. With the wide secrecy covering their operations and decisions, the power elite can make their intentions, operations, and further consolidation. Any secrecy that is imposed upon those in positions to observe high decision-makers clearly works for and not against the operations of the power elite.”<ref>Mills, C. Wright (1957) The Power Elite, New York: Harper. </ref>
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	'''Michael Ledeen''' has been described by the ''Jerusalem Post'' as "Washington's neoconservative guru". He was part of the neocon 'cabal' that manufactured the defective intelligence in the lead up to the war against Iraq, and has since been active in making the case for the bombing of Iran.		'''Michael Ledeen''' has been described by the ''Jerusalem Post'' as "Washington's neoconservative guru". He was part of the neocon 'cabal' that manufactured the defective intelligence in the lead up to the war against Iraq, and has since been active in making the case for the bombing of Iran.

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		+	:“… if there is no machinery in existence to ensure, for example, that military and political factors will be balanced in decisions made, they will invent such machinery and use it, as with the National Security Council. Moreover, in a formally democratic polity, the aims and the powers of the various elements of this elite are further supported by an aspect of the permanent war economy: the assumption that the security of the nation supposedly rests upon great secrecy of plan and intent. Many higher events that would reveal the working of the power elite can be withheld from public knowledge under the guise of secrecy. With the wide secrecy covering their operations and decisions, the power elite can make their intentions, operations, and further consolidation. Any secrecy that is imposed upon those in positions to observe high decision-makers clearly works for and not against the operations of the power elite.”<ref>Mills, C. Wright (1957) The Power Elite, New York: Harper. </ref>
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	'''Michael Ledeen''' has been described by the ''Jerusalem Post'' as "Washington's neoconservative guru". He was part of the neocon 'cabal' that manufactured the defective intelligence in the lead up to the war against Iraq, and has since been active in making the case for the bombing of Iran.		'''Michael Ledeen''' has been described by the ''Jerusalem Post'' as "Washington's neoconservative guru". He was part of the neocon 'cabal' that manufactured the defective intelligence in the lead up to the war against Iraq, and has since been active in making the case for the bombing of Iran.

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 *[[CSIS]]
 *[[International Analyst Network]]
 ==Connections==
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 [[Category:Terrorologist|Ledeen, Michael]]
-[[Category:Neocons|Ledeen, Michael]][[Category:spooks|Ledeen, Michael]][[Category:Italian Intelligence|Ledeen, Michael]][[Category:Iran-Contra|Ledeen, Michael]]
+[[Category:Neocons|Ledeen, Michael]][[Category:spooks|Ledeen, Michael]][[Category:Italian Intelligence|Ledeen, Michael]][[Category:Iran-Contra|Ledeen, Michael]][[Category:Neocons]]