![]() In this exclusive excerpt from his memoir Dangerous Company: The Misadventures of a Foreign Agent, Patten takes us to Ukraine in the years preceding Russia’s invasion and gives us unique insights into the country’s political class in a time of tumult and change. ![]() He was stabbed a second time in November 2020 while leaving Washington, surviving a seemingly random and brutal attack in broad daylight on a busy street. In 1996, Patten was stabbed in Washington, D.C., while defending his grandmother, Susan Mary Alsop, a Georgetown doyenne. foreign intelligence officer and a British politician who resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty over Neville Chamberlain’s Munich Agreement with Hitler. His establishment roots stretch deep: On both his maternal and paternal sides, Patten is a direct descendant of John Jay, an author of the Federalist Papers and America’s first Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He also worked for multiple sides in the country of Georgia – both for and against former president Mikheil Saakashvili, and in Ukraine. In Northern Iraq, he worked for a major Kurdish faction and later the Arab Sunnis in the immediate run-up to ISIS’ 2014 massive land grab and declaration of an Islamic state. From 2008-9, he served as senior advisor to the undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs.Īfter the second Bush administration, Patten became a private consultant working for clients in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Africa. Patten had also worked for the London-based Cambridge Analytica, the data-mining political operation made infamous during the 2016 election, prompting commentators like MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to question whether he was the missing link in some foreign plot to put Trump in the White House.įor much of his career, before all the controversy and legal battles, Patten says he promoted democracy abroad – for the International Republican Institute (IRI) in Russia and Iraq, and for Freedom House where he oversaw Eurasia programs. An international political operative, Patten had worked on the same team in Ukraine as Paul Manafort, later one of Donald Trump’s campaign chairmen. ![]() presidential election when Patten pled guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent for a Ukrainian politician. ![]() Sam Patten became briefly notorious during special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 U.S. ![]()
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