Frederick H. Fleitz

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Frederick H. Fleitz, Jr. (born 1962) is an American intelligence official and civil servant. A career Central Intelligence Agency officer who worked in the CIA's WINPAC unit, he was loaned to the State Department where he served as chief of staff to Undersecretaries of State for Arms Control John Bolton (2001-2005) and Robert Joseph (2005-2006). As of 2006, Fleitz moved to the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Fleitz spent much of his career working on multilateral diplomacy. He has been a delegate to many international arms control and UN conferences. He wrote several well-received unclassified research aids on UN peacekeeping for the CIA during the 1990s. In 2002, he published "Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s: Causes, Solutions, and US Interests" (Praeger) This book received several good reviews and went into a second printing. It also received endorsements from former UN Ambassadors Jeane Kirkpatrick and Charles Lichenstein.

Fleitz's name hit the press in the spring of 2005 during the battle in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to confirm Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. One issue that figured prominently in the Senate staff interviews were allegations about Bolton's treatment of other State Department officials. One official interviewed by Foreign Relations Commmittee staff claimed that Fleitz had called and said Bolton wanted an analyst fired who had disagreed with him (Bolton denied this). The dispute focused particularly on a disagreement over assertions Bolton wanted to make in a speech about efforts by Cuba to produce biological weapons. In his own testimony, Fleitz said the analyst had forwarded Bolton's speech for the CIA to review, but attached his own dissenting commentary and then denied doing so. This led to a confrontation and an apology from the analyst's supervisors.

[edit] Bibliography

Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s: Causes Solutions and U.S. Interests (Greenwood/Praeger, 2002).
United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, 1992 (Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence, 1992).
Worldwide Peacekeeping Operations, 1993 (Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence, 1992).

[edit] References

Jehl, Douglas. "Released E-Mail Exchanges Reveal More Bolton Battles". New York Times, April 24, 2005, p. A18.
Linzer, Dafna. "Bolton Often Blocked Information, Officials Say". Washington Post, April 18, 2005, p. A4.
Linzer, Dafna. "Two Detail Bolton's Efforts to Punish Dissent". Washington Post, April 29, 2005, p. A2.
Lowry, Rich. "The Bolton Dirtfest". National Review Online, April 22, 2005.