Richard P. Mitchell

Richard Paul Mitchell (1925–1983)[1] was a history professor at the University of Michigan and a foreign intelligence officer.[2][3][Note 1] He is the author of 27 works in 90 publications in 4 languages,[4] and the award-winning book The Society of the Muslim Brothers.[5][6]

References

California Digital Library. Register of the Richard Paul Mitchell collection
Wilford, Hugh. America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. 2013. Retrieved on August, 17, 2022. "As with the Syrian putsch, some circumstantial evidence seems to corroborate Miles' claims. In January 1952, an interdepartmental committee established by Dean Acheson to study the problems of the Arab world and chaired by Kim Roosevelt had recommended that the US government ‘encourage the emergence of competent leaders’ in the Middle East, by covert means if necessary, ‘even when they are not in power.’ Other documents show that prior to the July Revolution there was contact between the Free Officers and officials at the American embassy in Cairo, in particular the US-trained air force intelligence chief, Wing-Commander 'Ali Sabri, and Lieutenant Colonel David Evans III, the American assistant air attaché, who performed a role not unlike Steve Meade 's in the run-up to Husni Za'im's coup in Syria. Russian records show that contemporary Soviet intelligence officials suspected a hidden American hand in the revolution. And Kim Roosevelt's own Arabs, Oil, and History makes some eerily pertinent observations about the shakiness of Farouk's hold on power and Egypt's unreadiness for democracy. Finally, Miles' Rupert invites tentative identification as Richard Paul Mitchell, a young Syrian American graduate student who had come to Cairo in 1951 on a Fulbright scholarship to research the Muslim Brotherhood. According to the later recollection of William Lakeland, a junior political officer at the US embassy at the time, Mitchell 'proved very useful in Cairo, because he could pass for a local...and report on what was going on in the town.'"
Frampton, Martyn. The Muslim Brotherhood and the West: A History of Enmity and Engagement. Page 218. 2018. Retrieved on July, 17, 2022. "In January 1979, Al Dawa published what was said to be a CIA report, allegedly authored by the academic Richard P. Mitchell, which urged the Egyptian government to repress Islamic organizations, including the Brotherhood."
"The Society of the Muslim Brothers". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
Institution login (2009-01-29). "Richard P. Mitchell, The Society of the Muslim Brothers (London, Oxford University Press, 1969). Pp. 349. £3·15. | International Journal of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core". Cambridge.org. doi:10.1017/S0020743800024569. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
"The Society of the Muslim Brothers - Richard P. Mitchell, John O. Voll - Oxford University Press". Global.oup.com. 1993-11-18. Retrieved 2022-07-17.

Explanatory notes

According to Lawrence Martin-Bittman in his book The KGB and Soviet Disinformation, the letter was part of a Soviet disinformation campaign (note the "Richard B. Mitchell" typo)

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[1] California Digital Library. Register of the Richard Paul Mitchell collection

[2] Wilford, Hugh. America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. 2013. Retrieved on August, 17, 2022. "As with the Syrian putsch, some circumstantial evidence seems to corroborate Miles' claims. In January 1952, an interdepartmental committee established by Dean Acheson to study the problems of the Arab world and chaired by Kim Roosevelt had recommended that the US government ‘encourage the emergence of competent leaders’ in the Middle East, by covert means if necessary, ‘even when they are not in power.’ Other documents show that prior to the July Revolution there was contact between the Free Officers and officials at the American embassy in Cairo, in particular the US-trained air force intelligence chief, Wing-Commander 'Ali Sabri, and Lieutenant Colonel David Evans III, the American assistant air attaché, who performed a role not unlike Steve Meade 's in the run-up to Husni Za'im's coup in Syria. Russian records show that contemporary Soviet intelligence officials suspected a hidden American hand in the revolution. And Kim Roosevelt's own Arabs, Oil, and History makes some eerily pertinent observations about the shakiness of Farouk's hold on power and Egypt's unreadiness for democracy. Finally, Miles' Rupert invites tentative identification as Richard Paul Mitchell, a young Syrian American graduate student who had come to Cairo in 1951 on a Fulbright scholarship to research the Muslim Brotherhood. According to the later recollection of William Lakeland, a junior political officer at the US embassy at the time, Mitchell 'proved very useful in Cairo, because he could pass for a local...and report on what was going on in the town.'"

[3] Frampton, Martyn. The Muslim Brotherhood and the West: A History of Enmity and Engagement. Page 218. 2018. Retrieved on July, 17, 2022. "In January 1979, Al Dawa published what was said to be a CIA report, allegedly authored by the academic Richard P. Mitchell, which urged the Egyptian government to repress Islamic organizations, including the Brotherhood."

[5] "The Society of the Muslim Brothers". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2022-07-17.

[6] Institution login (2009-01-29). "Richard P. Mitchell, The Society of the Muslim Brothers (London, Oxford University Press, 1969). Pp. 349. £3·15. | International Journal of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core". Cambridge.org. doi:10.1017/S0020743800024569. Retrieved 2022-07-17.

[7] "The Society of the Muslim Brothers - Richard P. Mitchell, John O. Voll - Oxford University Press". Global.oup.com. 1993-11-18. Retrieved 2022-07-17.

[Note01-4] According to Lawrence Martin-Bittman in his book The KGB and Soviet Disinformation, the letter was part of a Soviet disinformation campaign (note the "Richard B. Mitchell" typo)