Philip Giraldi

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Philip Giraldi
Philip Giraldi

Philip Giraldi (* 1946 ) is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and an officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency , who now appears primarily as a columnist and television commentator. He also heads the Council for the National Interest, an organization that advocates more cautious politics in the Middle East.

education

His Bachelor of Arts degree , he graduated from the University of Chicago , the MA and his Ph.D . from the University of London in European History .

Professional career

Giraldi worked for the CIA for 18 years in Turkey, Italy, Germany and Spain, whose languages ​​he speaks. From 1989 to 1992 he was Chief of Base in Barcelona .

Giraldi has had many Fortune 500 clients since 1992 , including the President of San Marco International. Giraldi published article in the journal The American Conservative , in The Huffington Post and Antiwar com . He also guest-writes for Hearst Corporation . He has appeared frequently in interviews with Good Morning America and 60 Minutes , as well as MSNBC , Fox News Channel , National Public Radio , Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , British Broadcasting Corporation , al-Jazeera , al-Arabiya , Iran Daily, Russia Today , Veterans Today, Press TV and other programs.

He advised Ron Paul on his presidential campaign.

Positions and controversies

In 2004 Giraldi wrote with Vincent Cannistraro that Turkish sources contained references to concerns that Israel could encourage Kurds to establish an independent state.

In August 2005, claiming Giraldi, Dick Cheney had STRATCOM commissioned a plan for responding to a similar attack on the United States as 9.11 auszuarbeite, including an attack on Iran with conventional and nuclear weapons, irrespective of the question whether the Iran was actually involved in the attack on the United States.

In 2005 Giraldi reported that the yellowcake documents were forgeries made by former CIA officers. The "Habbush letter", allegedly written by Saddam Hussein's head of intelligence, is also a forgery.

In 2009 Giraldi wrote that he knew from unnamed news sources that a document published by The Times describing an alleged Iranian plan to experiment with a "neutron initiator" for nuclear weapons was a fake he suspected was launched by Israel. He went on to claim that Rupert Murdoch's press releases regularly published false news from the Israeli and sometimes the British government. He backed up the validity of the document with further disclosures by the Times.

In August 2010, Giraldi wrote that unnamed counterintelligence sources had told him that Mossad agents were posing as US agents and were visiting Arabs and Muslims in New York and New Jersey to allegedly gain information about Iran that Israeli agents did not would receive. The Israeli embassy, ​​the US Department of Justice and Giraldi himself declined to comment on an article on the allegations in Aramica , a newspaper of the Arab community in New York.

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Giraldi is a founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). In September 2015, Giraldi and 27 other members of the VIPS governing body wrote a letter to the President. In it, they criticized a recently published book that found the United States Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the use of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency to be incorrect.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Philip Giraldi, Executive Director.  Retrieved January 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Who we are. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .
  3. ^ Philip Giraldi in Notable Names Database
  4. ^ Philip Giraldi | The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 1, 2017 (American English).
  5. ↑ How a Former CIA Officer Reads the Trump Dossier. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Rachel Millard: Mossad at the Door? , New America Media reprint of Aramica report, Sept. 26, 2010.
  7. ^ Ron Paul for President Press release: Ron Paul Campaign Announces Addition of New Policy Advisors , February 1, 2008
  8. ^ Seymour M. Hersh: Plan B: As June 30th approaches, Israel looks to the Kurds . In: The New Yorker , June 28, 2004.
  9. ^ Philip Giraldi: Deep Background . In: The American Conservative , August 1, 2005. 
  10. ↑ Tom Engelhardt: Thelma and Louise Imperialism , CBS News, from the article in The Nation : Reckless Bush Putting US On Edge Over Iran, February 17, 2007.
  11. ^ A b Gareth Porter: US Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged . In: Inter Press Service , December 28, 2009
  12. ^ Terry M. Neal: Questions Remain About the Arguments for War. In: Washington Post , November 3, 2005
  13. ^ Catherine Philp: Secret document exposes Iran's nuclear trigger . In: The Times , December 14, 2009.
  14. ↑ Gareth Porter: More doubts over Iran's' nuclear trigger. In: Asia Times , Jan. 7, 2010.
  15. ^ Philip Giraldi : The Mossad in America. In: The American Conservative , August 23, 2010.
  16. ↑ 28 Veterans of US Intelligence Fight Back Against CIA Claims That the Bush Torture Program Was Useful and Necessary | Andy Worthington. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Giraldi, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American CIA agent, columnist, and television commentator
DATE OF BIRTH 1946