Perle, Richard Norman

Name: Richard Norman Perle

Born: September 6, 1941 in New York City

Profession: Politician, businessman

GW Bush Administration Position:

• Chairman of the Defense Policy Board at the Pentagon

War crime charge(s):

• Crime against peace – planning and carrying out a war of aggression.
• Chief architect of the Iraq war.
• Nicknamed the “Prince of Darkness”.¹
• Told Italian newspaper that Mohammad Atta consulted Saddam Hussein before 9-11.²

Primary Association:

• Managing Partner, Trireme Partners LP, Delaware³
• Resident Fellow (Defense; Europe; Intelligence; Middle East; National security; Russian region), American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
  1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036
  

Secondary Associations:

• Board of Advisors, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
  1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 515
  Washington, DC 20036
• Board of Trustees,  US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce
  1212 Potomac Street N.W.
  Washington, D.C. 20007

  Phone: 202 333-8702

More Information:

• 3-3-11 Shadow Elite: Libya and the Consummate Shadow Lobbyist – Neocon Richard Perle
• 7-11-14 ‘Prince of Darkness’ Disowns Iraq’s Tragedy

Note:

Nov 2001: “He has weapons of mass destruction. The lesser risk is in pre-emption. We’ve got to stop wishing away the problem.”

April 2005: “There is reason to believe that we were sucked into an ill-conceived initial attack aimed at Saddam himself by double agents planted by the regime⁴.”

¹_{http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/28/iraqbriefing.iraq}

²_{http://www.news24.com/News24/Archive/0,,2-1659_1254270,00.html}

³_{(a limited partnership venture capital company that invests in technology, goods, and services related to homeland security and defense)}

⁴_{Washington Post, Same Committee, Same Combatants, Different Tune, By Dana Milbank, Thursday, April 7, 2005; Page A10 – http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32440-2005Apr6?language=printer}