Michael Ledeen person
also: Michael Leden, L-E-D-E-E-N, Leiden, Lieden, Ledeen, Liden
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Claims (9)
Gulf and Caribbean Foundation hired
Michael Ledeen book_quoted
“The Gulf and Caribbean Foundation hired Michael Ledeen to write a booklet on the situation in Latin America. Michael Ledeen has come up several times in our conversations as well. They were focused on Nicaragua. Ledeen was a part-time advis…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 26:06
Michael Ledeen member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“The Gulf and Caribbean Foundation hired Michael Ledeen to write a booklet on the situation in Latin America. Michael Ledeen has come up several times in our conversations as well. They were focused on Nicaragua. Ledeen was a part-time advis…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 26:06
Michael Ledeen member_of
Le Cercle host_asserted
“L-E-D-E-E-N, one of the main propagandists of the idea that KGB was behind international terrorism, let's see, reported on quote-unquote Soviet involvement.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 43:17
Les Wexner employed
Michael Ledeen host_asserted
“And then what I just found fascinating was Les Wexner gets asked another question, and he goes off on a tangent. But I see all along his back, I see he has a muted mic. Just go ahead. Just finish your thought, and then we'll go back to him.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 59:35
Michael Ledeen worked_for
Carter Administration host_asserted
“Michael Levy was, you know, Wexner's lawyer there. Previously, he had worked for the Clinton administration. He had also worked for ExxonMobil. But, you know, he leans over and there's a hot mic minute where Levy says that, you know, if you…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 1:00:04
Michael Ledeen worked_for
ExxonMobil host_asserted
“Michael Levy was, you know, Wexner's lawyer there. Previously, he had worked for the Clinton administration. He had also worked for ExxonMobil. But, you know, he leans over and there's a hot mic minute where Levy says that, you know, if you…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 1:00:04
Michael Ledeen member_of
National Security Council documented
“of Israel by the neocons was shared by Ted Shackley. One of Shackley's friends and business associates was a guy by the name of Michael Leden, L-E-D-E-E-N. He was the State Department terrorism expert and consultant to the Reagan National S…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 44:58
Michael Ledeen recruited
Manucher Ghorbanifar host_asserted
“Iranian middleman Menacher Gorbanifar, who we've come across multiple times because he's the weapons dealer partner with Aden Khashoggi. Even after Gorbanifar failed a polygraph test that the CIA gave him, Leiden persuaded Casey to trust hi…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 45:27
Michael Ledeen orchestrated
Arms for Hostages Scheme host_asserted
“for Israeli arms merchants and Gabonafar, which is huge because we were doing a lot of business with Israeli as our arms dealer. It was Lieden who would use Shackley and his influence with Bush to orchestrate what would become known as the …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 46:25
Mentions (13)
▶ 26:06
The Gulf and Caribbean Foundation hired Michael Ledeen to write a booklet on the situation in Latin America. Michael Ledeen has come up several times in our conversations as well. They were focused on Nicaragua. Ledeen was a part-time advis…
▶ 44:58
of Israel by the neocons was shared by Ted Shackley. One of Shackley's friends and business associates was a guy by the name of Michael Leden, L-E-D-E-E-N. He was the State Department terrorism expert and consultant to the Reagan National S…
▶ 45:27
Iranian middleman Menacher Gorbanifar, who we've come across multiple times because he's the weapons dealer partner with Aden Khashoggi. Even after Gorbanifar failed a polygraph test that the CIA gave him, Leiden persuaded Casey to trust hi…
▶ 45:55
who once was described to CIA Intelligence Chief Charles Allen as great fun. Because, you know, that's a quality you want in your spies. Lawrence Walsh, the Iran-Contra special prosecutor, wrote in his book, Firewall, quote, Leiden was more…
▶ 46:25
for Israeli arms merchants and Gabonafar, which is huge because we were doing a lot of business with Israeli as our arms dealer. It was Lieden who would use Shackley and his influence with Bush to orchestrate what would become known as the …
▶ 50:20
who worked at the State Department. Michael Leden later said in May of 1985 that he asked for and received a copy of the memorandum and gave it to Oliver North without, he claimed, ever reading it himself. B.S. The result, despite the CIA's…
▶ 59:35
And then what I just found fascinating was Les Wexner gets asked another question, and he goes off on a tangent. But I see all along his back, I see he has a muted mic. Just go ahead. Just finish your thought, and then we'll go back to him.…
▶ 1:00:04
Michael Levy was, you know, Wexner's lawyer there. Previously, he had worked for the Clinton administration. He had also worked for ExxonMobil. But, you know, he leans over and there's a hot mic minute where Levy says that, you know, if you…
▶ 1:01:32
And how he ultimately wound up hiring a household manager who had, I think his words were previously run, the U.S. Embassy in Rome. He just sort of offers this gratuitously. And you could see, like, you know, at the very end of it, you know…
▶ 42:48
and said that it was the KGB that was directing said terrorism at the West, when in fact it was the CIA and their counterparts doing it themselves to their own domestic audiences. In the 1980s, international terrorism became a regular topic…
▶ 43:17
L-E-D-E-E-N, one of the main propagandists of the idea that KGB was behind international terrorism, let's see, reported on quote-unquote Soviet involvement.…
▶ 14:58
an advisor to Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and Nimradi, an Israeli businessman. He proposed that the Israeli secretly sell him tow missiles for Iran. In return, he would arrange the release of William Buckley. About then, Michael Leden, L-E…
▶ 15:24
was now on the National Security Council as a consultant, was trying to persuade Robert McFarlane, the National Security Advisor, to consider a joint U.S.-Israeli initiative regarding Iran. Liden's effort coincided with an evaluation being …