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He is married to Leslie Joan Barr. He owns a vacation home in Les Baux (Provence, France) and is there neighbor to [[Brian Lapping]] and previously to [[Jeane Kirkpatrick]].
A biographical note stated that Perle had served as Resident Fellow of the [[American Enterprise Institute]] for Public Policy Research since 1987 "where he had directed its commission on Future Defenses". <ref>[http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=PerleR] </ref>
Perle was a member of the [[Defense Policy Board]] between 1987 and 2004 and was Chairman of it between 2001-2003. He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy in the Reagan Administrations between 1981 and 1987. Before that he had served on the US Senate Staff (1960-1980).
He did his Honours Examinations at the London School of Economics between 1962 and 63, gained a Bachelor of Arts in International Politics at the University of Southern California in 1964 and completed a M.A Politics at Princeton University in 1967. <ref>[http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=PerleR] </ref>
He has been a director of a number of companies including [[Conrad Black]]'s Hollinger <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20031010012039/http://www.hollinger.com/mgmt/perle.htm] </ref> and [[Tapestry Pharmaceuticals]]. <ref>[http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=PerleR]</ref>
==Perle's Role in Hollinger==
Perle had close business ties with [[Conrad Black]], former chairman of [[Hollinger International Inc.]], which at one time owned more than 400 daily and weekly newspapers in Canada, the United States, Britain, Israel and Australia. Hollinger papers included London's ''Daily Telegraph'', the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' and the ''Jerusalem Post''. Black, a Canadian, joined fellow media kingpin [[Rupert Murdoch]] in defending British Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]]'s decision to stick with Bush's war aims, despite overwhelming domestic opposition.
Perle was a Director of Hollinger from June 1994. A biogrpahical note on the company's website at the time stated that Perle was Co-Chairman of [[Hollinger Digital Inc.]], the media management and investment arm of [[Hollinger International Inc.|Hollinger]] <ref>[http://www.internetnews.com/fina-news/article.php/33991]</ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/19981202173630/%68ttp://www.hollingerdigital.com/index.html]. It also mentioned that Perle was "a Director of [[Jerusalem Post]]", another subsidiary of the company, and that he had served as a director of [[GeoBiotics]]. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20031010012039/http://www.hollinger.com/mgmt/perle.htm]</ref>
Perle and Black are now (2004) estranged and have accused each other of wrongdoing in the looting of Hollinger assets. The Breeden Report, which cataloged the accusations against Black by the now-independent Hollinger directors, singled out Perle, among all of the corporate directors, for criticism: "As a faithless fiduciary, Perle should be required to disgorge all compensation received from the company". [http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/36305.html]. In October 2004, Hollinger amended its lawsuit against Black to include Perle as a defendant, asking for $22.9 million, including the $5.4 million of his compensation. <ref>[http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9071-1342080,00.html]</ref>.
Despite his familiarity with the media, Perle found a piece by veteran investigative reporter [[Seymour Hersh]] a little hard to take. Hersh's ''New Yorker report'', "A Hawk's Business," targets Perle's hush-hush meeting with Saudi industrialist [[Saleh al-Zuhair]], a meeting arranged with the help of [[Iran/Contra scandal|Iran/contra]] figure [[Adnan Khashoggi]]. Hersh explored the possibility of a conflict of interest for Perle, one of whose businesses is [[Trireme Partners LP]], a venture capital firm that invests in technology, goods, and services related to homeland security and defense. Trireme also created [[International Advisors Inc.]], a lobbying firm whose main client is [[Turkey]]. [[Henry Kissinger]] is a Trireme adviser, and Perle is a managing partner. [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030317fa_fact] Kissinger, who was forced to resign as head of the independent commission to investigate the 9/11 attacks, has been using his influence to try to keep the Saudis calm during the buildup to war. The subject of the al-Zuhair meeting is in dispute, but Perle is fighting off the impression that he was trying to use his Pentagon influence to profit from a war that he is doing all he can to implement. Hersh criticized Perle's relationship with Trireme as an ethical conflict of interest, to which Perle responded by calling Hersh "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist." <ref>[http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/09/le.00.html]</ref>
Bush has recently taken to accepting Perle's view that the [[United Nations]] is pretty much irrelevant when it comes to Iraq. <ref>[http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/11.24A.perle.attack.htm]</ref>
Perle is also associated with the [[Foundation for the Defense of Democracies]], which backs Bush's Iraq war push. Others with the foundation are columnist [[Charles Krauthammer]],the ''[[Weekly Standard]]'' editor [[Bill Kristol]], and Georgia senator [[Zell Miller]]. Perle, who produced the 1992 PBS documentary, "The Gulf Crisis, the Road to War," has long experience in the ways of Washington.
*[[US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce]]
*[[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]]
*Advisory Board, [[American Center for Democracy]]– Advisory Board*[[Monitor Group]] – paid advisor and lobbyist<ref>Laura Rozen, [http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0211/Among_Libyas_lobbyists.html?showall Among Libya's lobbyists], Politico, 21 February 2011.</ref>
==Quotes==
*Media Matters, "[http://mediamatters.org/items/200704230004 PBS gave Perle hour to repeat debunked claims about Iraqi WMDs and links to Al Qaeda]", ''Media Matters'', April 23, 2007.
*[http://thinkprogress.org/the-architects-where-are-they-now/ "The Architects of War: Where Are They Now?"] ''Think Progress'', July 2007.
==References==
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