# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ledeen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:20:57.191Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ledeen"
name: "Michael Ledeen"
slug: "michael-ledeen"
description: "Michael Arthur Ledeen was an American scholar and neoconservative foreign policy analyst. He was a consultant to the United States National Security Council, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Department of Defense. He held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute where he was a scholar for 20 years, and also held the similarly named chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He was very close to Italian politician Antonio Martino. Ledeen was also noted to have done work for Italian intelligence agency SISMI, having received over $100,000 in payment to offshore bank accounts for services including but not limited to training Italian intelligence operatives. Ledeen denied these allegations but admitted that he did do work for SISMI and was paid for it."
tagline: "American historian and foreign policy analyst"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Arthur_Ledeen.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-08-01"
deathDate: "2025-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.23
  momentum:             0.7147375079063885
  historical:           6.594317333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ледин, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "مايكل ليدين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايكل ليدين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ledeen"
    title: "Michael Ledeen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%84%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "مایکل لدین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ledeen"
    title: "Michael Ledeen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ledeen"
    title: "Michael Ledeen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1406638"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump