Middle East Marshall Plan
TIMELINE
General Michael Flynn’s Efforts to Lift Sanctions and Promote a Joint Project with Russia to Build Nuclear Reactors in the Middle East
Before the Election
• From April 2015 to June 2016, Flynn served as an “advisor” for ACU Strategic Partners, which was promoting a plan to work with Russia to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East, according to his latest financial disclosure form.1 ACU claimed that “Total Regional Security” for its project would be provided by Rosoboron, a Russian company currently under U.S. sanctions. It also listed Atomstroy—a Russian nuclear power facility construction company—as one of the companies that would construct the nuclear power plants.2
• On June 10, 2015, Flynn testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa that he “just came from a trip—fairly extensive trip to the Middle East” where “one of the big issues that came up” was nuclear power in the Middle East.3
• Flynn signed a Truth in Testimony form claiming that he was testifying on behalf of the Flynn Intel Group, but he did not report that he was an advisor to ACU at the time.4 He also failed to report this trip on his security clearance renewal application in January 2016 and concealed it from background check investigators who interviewed him as part of that process.5
• Later in June 2015—after his congressional testimony—Flynn took another, separate trip to Egypt and Israel to meet with high-level government officials regarding the nuclear
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/Timeline%20of%20Events%20with%20Flynn.pdf