Patrick Eddington is an American author, policy analyst in national security and civil liberties at the Cato Institute, served as a CIA military imagery analyst (National Photographic Interpretation Center) from 1988-1996.
During his tenure at the CIA, his analytical assignments included monitoring the breakup of the former Soviet Union; providing military assessments to policy makers on Iraqi and Iranian conventional forces and coordinating the CIA's military targeting support to NATO during Operation Deliberate Force in Bosnia in 1995.
Eddington resigned in 1996 after working on a book (Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-up of Gulf War Syndrome) were he presented the claim that there is substantial evidence that American soldiers were exposed to chemical agents during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 gulf war syndrome.
His CIA memoir, Long Strange Journey, was published in 2011. In a 2011 interview with the Washington Post, Eddington accused the CIA of still withholding 1.5 million documents relevant to the Desert Storm malady known as gulf war syndrome.
Eddington's opinion pieces have appeared in a number of publications, including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Army Times, among others. Eddington is a frequent commentator on national security issues for the Fox News Channel, MSNBC, SKY News, CNN, and other domestic and international television networks
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Books
- Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-up of Gulf War Syndrome, August 1997, Insignia Publishing Company
- Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir, 2011
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References
External links
- Eddington home page
- Personal blog of Patrick Eddington
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