Financier John Phelan Tapped to be Next Navy Secretary
[John] Phelan is the founder of private equity firm Rugger Management LLC and previously served as the chairman and chief investment officer of the firm that oversaw the fortune of Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell. He is also on the board of the Spirit of America [front group] non-profit, a non-partisan group with a mission to support American troops abroad that has also supported troops in Ukraine.
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Hake’s Spirit Of America group has been accused by a blogger of being a front for CIA PsyOps in the Middle East.
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) plays a pivotal role in the Spirit of America scenario, with two of the three members affiliated with it
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A registered charity, Spirit of America exemplifies the regime change industry.
By 2010, the organization had evolved from resourcing mission essential items to military personnel in overseas into an organization with an institutional memory, a network of local partners, and a strategic vision on how to best assist American forces conducting civil-military operations. Mr. Hake worked to formalize the ties between commanders in Afghanistan and his organization as a “Commander Support Program” (CSP) with support from senior Marine officers “who had developed a good working relationship with the group in Iraq”. This resulted in scrutiny from Pentagon lawyers, who argued that sending goods to commanders violated ethics rules. This resulted in scrutiny from Pentagon lawyers, who argued that sending goods to commanders violated ethics rules. With help from John Bellinger, Jeh Johnson, General Joe Dunford and General Jim Mattis, the rules were changed to allow the CSP to operate.
JP 3-57, Civil-Military Operations, 9 July 2018
MILITARY INFORMATION SUPPORT OPERATIONS (MISO) – ANNEX E TO APPENDIX A, CIVIL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT – APPENDIX C
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