Michael Flynn

U.S. Army general and former U.S. National Security Advisor (born 1958)

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Born: 20 December 1947
Died: 30 September 2023
Works: 46

Top works

Galaxy's Edge Magazine
Eifelheim
Mission
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1989
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1998

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Acting · Middletown, Rhode Island, USA

Michael Thomas Flynn is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was the 24th U.S. national security advisor for the first 22 days of the Trump administration. Flynn is a proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory, and since 2020 has since become a prominent leader in the Christian nationalist movement, organizing and recruiting for what he characterizes as a spiritual and political war.

Known for

The Matt Gaetz Show — Self2025
Flynn — Self2024
The War on Truth — Self2024
Fight Like Hell — Self (archive footage)2024
God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism — Self (archive footage)2024

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Michael Thomas Flynn (born 24 December 1958) 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. 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.

After leaving the military, in October 2014 he established Flynn Intel Group, which provided intelligence services for businesses and governments, including in Turkey. In December 2015, Flynn was paid $45,000 to deliver a Moscow speech at the ten-year anniversary celebration of RT, a state-controlled Russian international television network, where he sat next to Russian president Vladimir Putin at his banquet table.