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Patrick G. Eddington

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Patrick G. Eddington was a military imagery analyst at the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center for almost nine years. He received numerous accolades for his analytical work, including letters of commendation from the Joint Special Operations Command, the Joint Warfare Analysis Center and the CIA's Office of Military Affairs. During his tenure at CIA, Eddington worked a wide range of intelligence issues. His analytical assignments included monitoring the break-up 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 received his undergraduate ...more

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Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq by Alan Friedman

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Have you ever seen that now infamous picture from the early 1980's of Donald Rumsfeld shaking Saddam Hussein's hand during a visit to Baghdad? As Alan Friedman so deftly shows, that meeting was just the beginning of an ill-fated embrace of the Iraqi dictator that would ultimately Read more of this blog post »

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	Visions of Liberty by Aaron Ross Powell (editor), Paul Matzko (Editor), David Boaz (Contributor) 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-Up of Gulf War Syndrome 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Triumph of Fear: Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley to Eisenhower really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Triumph of Fear: Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley to Eisenhower 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Triumph of Fear: Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley to Eisenhower by Patrick G. Eddington (Goodreads Author), Bob Johnson (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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