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Fred Fleitz

Fred Fleitz

Senior Vice President — Center for Security Policy

Fred Fleitz is a Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs with the Center for Security Policy, a former CIA analyst, news commentator, and public speaker. He served for 25 years in national security posts with the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the House Intelligence Committee staff. Fleitz is the author of four books. He has appeared on many U.S. and international TV and radio programs and his op-eds articles have appeared in many different publications. Fred’s work for the Center has focused on terrorism, radical Islam, the Middle East, the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, and intelligence reform. Fred has been a leading voice in print and media interviews against the nuclear deal with Iran and helped expose secret side deals between Iran and the IAEA that allowed Iran to inspect itself for evidence of its past nuclear weapons-related activities. Fred has extensive national security experience with the executive and legislative branches of government. He served for 19 years as a CIA analyst focusing on a wide variety of issues, including WMD proliferation. Fred served for four years as Chief of Staff to John Bolton when he was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control. In this job, Fred was a U.S. delegate to several major international arms control conferences, including the International Atomic Energy Board of Governors, the UN General Assembly First Committee and the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference. In his five years with the House Intelligence Committee staff, Fred was a senior aide to Chairman Peter Hoekstra and the committee’s expert on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs.

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The Coming North Korea Nuclear Nightmare

In this important Center for Security Policy study, former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz provides a timely analysis of the growing threat posed by North Kor...

Featured on: Thursday, March 22, 2018

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