Eclipse Group was a private intelligence agency run by former CIA officer Duane "Dewy" Clarridge, who was also the founding director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center.[1] Until May 2010, Eclipse Group received funding from the US Government; it then relied on private donors.[2] As of 2011, its operations include obtaining information related to the politics of Afghanistan and the AfPak region.[2]
Clarridge operated the Eclipse Group "from poolside at his home near San Diego.[2] According to The New York Times, the Eclipse Group "fielded operatives in the mountains of Pakistan and the desert badlands of Afghanistan."[2] Clarridge and the Eclipse Group "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."[2] In November 2011, the Eclipse Group partnered with Blue Mountain in Libya[3] before parting the following spring over unknown problems with contracts in Tripoli.[4]
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 [2010] 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."[2]
^Dickey, Christopher. Securing the city: inside America's best counterterror force : the NYPD. Simon & Schuster, 2009. p.25
^ abMAZZETTI, MARK (January 22, 2011). "Former Spy With Agenda Operates a Private C.I.A." nytimes.com.
^"Security firms hustle in lawless Libya". UPI. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
^"For Benghazi diplomatic security, U.S. relied on small British firm". Reuters. 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
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