15 Facts About Duane Clarridge

Duane Ramsdell "Dewey" Clarridge was an American senior operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency and supervisor for more than 30 years.

Duane Clarridge pleaded not guilty to seven counts of perjury and making false statements relating to 1985 shipment to Iran.

Duane Clarridge was born into a "staunchly Republican family" in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Duane Clarridge's father was Duane Herbert Clarridge, and his mother was Alice Scott Ramsdale.

Duane Herbert Clarridge worked as a dentist and he remained a staunch conservative the rest of his life.

Duane Ramsdell Clarridge went to the private college preparatory Peddie School for high school, and then went to Brown University.

Duane Clarridge transferred to Rome before becoming chief of the Latin America division in 1981.

Duane Clarridge was instrumental in organizing and recruiting Contra forces to overthrow Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government.

Duane Clarridge used aliases such as "Dewey Maroni" during these operations.

Duane Clarridge admitted to the House Intelligence Committee staff in a secret briefing in 1984 that the Contras were routinely murdering "civilians and Sandinista officials in the provinces as; well as heads of cooperatives, nurses, doctors and judges".

Duane Clarridge has said that he had no involvement in the later illegal diversion of funds to the Contras.

Duane Clarridge was indicted in November 1991 on seven counts of perjury and false statements.

In November 2015, Trip Gabriel of The New York Times reported that Duane Clarridge was a top adviser to the Ben Carson presidential campaign on terrorism and national security.

Duane Clarridge is a person who has come in on a couple of our sessions to offer his opinions about what was going on.

Duane Clarridge died at the age of 83, a week short of his 84th birthday in Leesburg, Virginia, on April 9,2016, from complications of esophageal cancer.