Philip Giraldi

Philip Giraldi       (spook, terrorism expert)
Born	c. 1946
Alma mater	University of Chicago, University of London
Member of	American Herald Tribune, Council for the National Interest, The Unz Review, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
CIA/DIA spook and “terrorism expert”

Philip Giraldi is a former employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and CIA, turned columnist for Antiwar.com. He is currently executive director of the Council for the National Interest which works for "Middle East policies that serve the American national interest".

Career

Giraldi was born around 1946. Phil Giraldi was employed by the CIA for eighteen years, including three years in Turkey. He was a regular contributor to The American Conservative for 14 years, a position from which he was fired for publishing an article titled 'America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars' at the The Unz Review.

Beckett Brown International

Giraldi is a former employee of Beckett Brown International, a private security firm that operated between 1995 and 2001.

According to Giraldi, there was not a lot of work for him and Cannistraro. "We would go to a company like Enron and see if they had any issues if they were looking to acquire a company," he recalled. "See if the [company to be acquired] is connected to the Russia mob. That's what we were selling. We were not very successful." Giraldi left the firm in 1999. By then, he had become aware of the firm's more unconventional activities: "Scooping garbage, trying to get penetrations of companies and environmental groups. I didn't know a lot of the details." But, he says, he knew BBI was "working on Greenpeace."

Opinions

Attacking Iran

In August 2005, Giraldi wrote that US Vice President Dick Cheney had instructed STRATCOM to prepare "a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States... [including] a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons ... not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of "terrorism" directed against the United States." The reason cited for the attack to use mini-nukes (tactical nukes) is that the targets are hardened or are deep underground and would not be destroyed by non-nuclear warheads.

Fake Yellowcake

In 2005 Giraldi also wrote that the Italian Niger/yellowcake documents claiming an Iraqi interest in purchasing uranium from Niger were forgeries created by former CIA officers and Michael Ledeen. (See Niger uranium forgeries.) Giraldi also wrote that officials in the Office of Special Plans working for Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith had forged the "Habbush letter" allegedly written by Saddam Hussein's intelligence director regarding shipping the uranium.

Operation Gladio/B

Full article: Operation Gladio/B

Phil Giraldi commented in 2008 that "Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government has its way, they never will. The former FBI translator turned whistleblower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington’s highest levels — sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist suspects, illegal arms transfers, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, espionage. She may be a first-rate fabulist, but Edmonds’ account is full of dates, places, and names. And if she is to be believed, a treasonous plot to embed moles in American military and nuclear installations and pass sensitive intelligence to Israeli, Pakistani, and Turkish sources was facilitated by figures in the upper echelons of the State and Defense Departments. Her charges could be easily confirmed or dismissed if classified government documents were made available to investigators." No such documents have been released.

US Police

Full article: US/Police

Phil Giraldi has criticised the militarization of the US police.

 

Documents by Philip Giraldi

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Destroying Syria	Article	23 January 2018	Syria Bashar al Assad Donald Trump	Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi says the United States has zero evidence on the Syrian conflict. Someone should remind the President that similar scenarios did not turn out very well in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
Document:Israel Goes to Court for the Crime of Genocide	Article	12 January 2024	Israel US International Court of Justice Israel/Nuclear Weapons Occupied Palestinian Territory Genocide Convention	The plan by America’s “best friend” and “closest ally” to nuke the world even has a name: the “Samson Option,” recalling how the Biblical strongman Samson brought down the temple where the Philistines were mocking him, killing thousands of them.
Document:Israel's International Conspiracy	Article	9 February 2016	Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre Conservative Friends of Israel AIPAC George H. W. Bush Margot Wallström Shomrim Israel/Lobby BDS	Wherever one goes – Western Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States – there is a well-organised and funded lobby ready, willing and able to go to war to protect Israel.
Document:Israel’s Information Ops	article	20 August 2014	Hasbara BDS	An overview of complex, worldwide Israeli 'Information Operations' conducted in support of its murderous military
Document:US Intel officials say Syria NOT responsible for chemical attack	memo	6 September 2013	Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
File:Horror in Beirut by Philip Giraldi.pdf	article	11 August 2020	Lebanon Beirut Beirut blast	Was it an accident or a warning?

 

A Quote by Philip Giraldi

Page	Quote	Date
Operation Gladio/B	“Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government has its way, they never will. The former FBI translator turned whistleblower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington’s highest levels—sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist suspects, illegal arms transfers, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, espionage. She may be a first-rate fabulist, but Edmonds’ account is full of dates, places, and names. And if she is to be believed, a treasonous plot to embed moles in American military and nuclear installations and pass sensitive intelligence to Israeli, Pakistani, and Turkish sources was facilitated by figures in the upper echelons of the State and Defense Departments. Her charges could be easily confirmed or dismissed if classified government documents were made available to investigators.”	2008

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	Location(s)	Description
Annual Conferences on Israel's Influence	2014	The National Press Club Washington DC	Annual conferences on the Israeli influence on American politics

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