Michael Flynn
U.S. Army general and former U.S. National Security Advisor · United States · On the map · Born 1958 · age 67
Michael Thomas Flynn is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the 24th U.S. national security advisor for the first 22 days of the first Trump administration. He resigned in light of reports that he had lied regarding conversations with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.
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Flynn at Middletown High School, 1977
General Stanley McChrystal and Flynn in Afghanistan, 2010
Flynn speaks during the change of directorship for the Defense Intelligence Agency on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C.
Flynn with Martin Dempsey and Ashton Carter, 11 June 2013![Flynn's former business associate Bijan Rafiekian was charged with illegally acting as an unregistered agent of Turkey. In 2019, a federal judge threw out the guilty verdicts against Rafiekian, citing insufficient evidence to sustain his conviction on either count.[83]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Bijan_R._Kian.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
Flynn's former business associate Bijan Rafiekian was charged with illegally acting as an unregistered agent of Turkey. In 2019, a federal judge threw out the guilty verdicts against Rafiekian, citing insufficient evidence to sustain his conviction on either count.[83]![In December 2015, Flynn attended RT's 10th anniversary gala.[97][98] Flynn is sitting next to Vladimir Putin during the dinner. Jill Stein (in the foreground)[99] and Mikhail Gorbachev (in background) also attended.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Vladimir_Putin%2C_Russia_Today_television_channel_%282015-12-10%29_04.jpg/1280px-Vladimir_Putin%2C_Russia_Today_television_channel_%282015-12-10%29_04.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
In December 2015, Flynn attended RT's 10th anniversary gala.[97][98] Flynn is sitting next to Vladimir Putin during the dinner. Jill Stein (in the foreground)[99] and Mikhail Gorbachev (in background) also attended.
Flynn at a campaign rally, October 2016In their own words 2
, The U.S. media is doing a bang-up job of reporting the Erdoğan government’s crackdown on dissidents, but it’s not putting it into perspective.
My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the special counsel’s office reflect a decision I made in the best interests of my family and of our country.
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Flynn's military career included a key role in shaping U.S. counterterrorism strategy and dismantling insurgent networks in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, and he was given numerous combat arms, conventional, and special operations senior intelligence assignments. He became the 18th director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in July 2012 until his forced retirement from the military in August 2014. During his tenure he gave a lecture on leadership at the Moscow headquarters of the Russian military intelligence directorate GRU, the first American official to be admitted entry to the headquarters.
