Spying for Profit

[The Straight Story]

Spying for Profit

Michael Furlong The war in Afghanistan, and military operations in neighboring Pakistan, have provided ample business opportunities for ex-CIA and Special Forces operatives to collect intelligence on behalf of the U.S. government—even though it’s illegal for Washington to authorize such work.

A good example of spies-for-hire is Duane “Dewey” Clarridge, who as a CIA agent helped the Reagan administration carry out the ill-fated Iran-Contra scheme before going into business for himself. Claridge was indicted for lying to Congress, but was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush.

As part of his contract with the Department of Defense, Clarridge funneled information from Afghanistan—“an amalgam of fact, rumor, analysis and uncorroborated reports,” wrote The New York Times—some of which he fed to conservative television personalities, such as his old Iran-Contra partner Fox News’ Oliver North.

But Clarridge’s work for the Pentagon may be over, now that the official who hired him and other private spies, Michael D. Furlong, is in hot water for contracting out intelligence gathering that’s supposed to be done only by the government. To circumvent the ban, Furlong called their activities the gathering of “atmospheric information” rather than “intelligence.”

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Spying_for_Profit_110125

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1. Dewey Clarridge, Ted Shackley, Ed Wilson, Osama bin Laden, Erik Prince - Bushco Murder 4 Hire, Inc

These are the Bush CIA Old Boy Death Squad and Terrorist Outsourcing Network. Need to destabilize an oil-rich region of the Former Soviet Union - these are the guys to call to train and arm Jihadist suicide bombers. Did that operation go bad and blow back with massive American casualties? It's now time to knock off many of the operatives in the same network (while sparing most of the top Saudi financiers.) Just lift the phone, and the job's done! Plausible deniability, guaranteed!!

Spying is the least of it. Thirty years of outsourcing America's terrorism and assassinations for profit. Reach for the gold standard in global terrorism.