Patrick Eddington is an American author, policy analyst in national security and civil liberties at the

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, who served previously as a

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military imagery analyst (

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) from 1988 to 1996.

Career

CIA

During his tenure at the CIA, his analytical assignments included monitoring the breakup of the former

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; providing military assessments to policy makers on

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i and

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ian conventional forces and coordinating the CIA's military targeting support to

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during

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in 1995. Eddington resigned in 1996 after working on the book ''Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-up of Gulf War Syndrome'', in which he presented the claim of substantial evidence that American soldiers were exposed to chemical agents during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Lobbyist

Eddington has worked as a lobbyist, in Washington.

Congressional aide

In an op-ed published in ''

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'', in November 2015, Eddington wrote that he worked for Rush Holt, a

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for ten years, starting in 2004.

Cato Institute

Eddington's 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 is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute. As of 2020, Eddington serves on the board of

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Writings

Eddington's opinion pieces have appeared in numerous of publications, including the ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and the ''

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''. Eddington is a frequent commentator on national security issues for the

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, and other domestic and international television networks. * *

References

External links

Eddington home page
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eddington, Patrick G. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People of the Central Intelligence Agency Gulf War syndrome American whistleblowers Place of birth missing (living people)