19 Facts About Philip Giraldi

Philip Giraldi was born on c 1946 and is an American columnist, commentator and security consultant.

Philip Giraldi is the Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a role he has held since 2010.

Philip Giraldi was previously employed as an intelligence officer for the CIA, before transitioning to private consulting.

Philip Giraldi holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, and a MA and a Ph.

Philip Giraldi served in numerous European and Middle Eastern theaters, including an appointment as the deputy base chief for the field office in Istanbul in the late 1980s.

Philip Giraldi was a foreign policy adviser to Ron Paul during the 2008 presidential primaries.

Philip Giraldi is the national security editor for The Unz Review, a webzine described by the ADL as "a forum for writers who demonize Israel" and by the Washington Post as "a website that says it provides a forum for 'alternative perspectives,' which happens to include anti-Semitic diatribes".

Philip Giraldi has written columns on terrorism, intelligence, and security issues for the American Herald Tribune, The American Conservative, The Huffington Post, and Antiwar.

In 2013, Philip Giraldi wrote an article for the website outlining a theory that the Syrian gas attacks in Damascus were staged by Middle Eastern actors outside of Syria in an attempt to frame the Assad regime in order to incite increased opposition to the Syrian war efforts.

Noah Pollak wrote in Commentary magazine in August 2008: "In Philip Giraldi's world, scratching the surface of almost any event exposes the sinister machinations of international Jewry".

Philip Giraldi was accused in 2019 by Max Boot in The Washington Post of using the term "neocon" as a cover word for Jews.

In 2004, in a privately circulated newsletter co-written with Vincent Cannistraro, a retired CIA counter-terrorism chief, Philip Giraldi said Turkish sources had reported that Turkey was concerned by Israel's alleged encouragement of Kurdish ambitions to create an independent state and that Israeli intelligence operations in the area included anti-Syrian and anti-Iranian activity by Kurds.

In 2009, the London Times reported on an Iranian plan to experiment on a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, Gareth Porter reported for Inter Press Service that Philip Giraldi said that unnamed intelligence sources had told him that the document was in fact a fabrication, which Philip Giraldi speculated was created by Israel.

Philip Giraldi claimed that Rupert Murdoch publications regularly disseminate false intelligence from the Israeli and sometimes the British governments.

Philip Giraldi alleged it was done as a "false flag" operation to help agents gain information about Iran, which they believed would not be forthcoming to Israeli agents.

The Israeli embassy, the United States Department of Justice, and Philip Giraldi all declined to comment for an article on the allegations in the biweekly New York Arab-community newspaper Aramica.

Philip Giraldi wrote: "Jewish groups and deep pocket individual donors not only control the politicians, they own and run the media and entertainment industries" and that.

Philip Giraldi has been accused of Holocaust denial, as well as antisemitism.

Philip Giraldi said in the same month in an article for the Strategic Culture Foundation that "If one even considers it possible that the United States had a hand in creating the coronavirus at what remains of its once extensive biological weapons research center in Ft Detrick Maryland, it is very likely that Israel was a partner in the project".