Michael Springmann

J. Michael Springmann (b. 1945) was the head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in the Reagan and former Bush administrations, from September 1987 through March 1989. Since 1999 he has worked as an immigration, general practice, family, DUI, and DWI attorney and counselor at law, and is licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The Law Office of J. Michael Springmann is based in Washington, D.C.

Education Springmann holds a B.F.S. (Bachelor of Foreign Service) degree from Georgetown University (1967), and a JD from the American University Washington College of Law (1998).

Claims regarding unqualified visa applicants and firing While stationed in Saudi Arabia, Springmann was "ordered by high level State Dept officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants". Springmann states that these applicants were terrorist recruits of Osama bin Laden, who were being sent to the United States in order to obtain training from the CIA. Springmann issued complaints to "higher authorities at several agencies," but they have gone unanswered, and his experiences were not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report. The State Department has stated that the consular officer (Jay Phillip Freres, who served as U.S. Consul General in Jeddah from 1986 to 1989) had final authority in issuing the visas, not Springmann.

From cited CBC Interview:

Following Springmann's complaints, he was fired by the State Department.

Writings Springmann is also the author of Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?: Merkel's Migrant Bomb (2017), in which he argues that "US foreign policy created the crisis. Destabilizing nations through invasion and espionage furthers US goals in the Middle East, he argues, creating migrant waves guided northward and westward to destabilize the European Union in general and Germany in particular. Germany’s own refugee program, designed to exploit migrants as cheap labor, made US intelligence efforts all the easier." (Quoted from summary at the book's entry at Worldcat).