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Duane Clarridge .. who? .. Duane Ramsdell "Dewey" Clarridge, (born 1932) was an operations officer for the United States Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supervisor for more than 30 years, who became known in the mid-1980s for his role in the
Contra end of the Iran-Contra Affair. He is the reputed planner of the clandestine mining of Nicaragua's harbors
during the Nicaraguan Revolution. Clarridge was the founding director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center.

CIA Career

Clarridge was born into a "staunchly Republican family" in Nashua, New Hampshire on April 16, 1932. His father was
Duane Herbert Clarridge and his mother was Alice Scott Ramsdale. Duane Herbert Clarridge worked as a dentist. [..]

Insert: Imagine yourself a country who desired to get off your oil fix one who had a good and honest leader as eg Mossadegh (whose mother allegedly gave him sound advice) .. http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/biography/ .. or even today .. this man is on the other side ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgCyDsvi84

Post-CIA career

Clarridge currently runs a "private spying operation . . . from poolside at his home near San Diego. According to the New York Times, "he has fielded operatives in the mountains of Pakistan and the desert badlands of Afghanistan." Specifically, he "has sought to discredit Ahmed Wali Karzai, the Kandahar power broker who has long been on the C.I.A. payroll, and planned to set spies on his half brother, the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, in hopes of collecting beard trimmings or other DNA samples that might prove Mr. Clarridge’s suspicions that the Afghan leader was a heroin addict." In addition to these efforts, Clarridge's "dispatches — an amalgam of fact, rumor, analysis and uncorroborated reports — have been sent to military officials who, until last spring at least, found some credible enough to be used in planning strikes against militants in Afghanistan. They are also fed to conservative commentators, including Oliver L. North, a compatriot from the Iran-contra days and now a Fox News analyst, and Brad Thor, an author of military thrillers and a frequent guest of Glenn Beck.

Colleagues say that Clarridge now views the CIA "largely with contempt." He has "likened his operation, called the Eclipse Group, to the Office of Strategic Services, the C.I.A.’s World War II precursor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Clarridge