question: What American senior operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran the Eclipse Group?
answer: Duane "Dewy" Clarridge
context: Title: Arturo Munoz (intelligence)
  Passage: Arturo G. Muñoz is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior intelligence officer with three decades of analytical skills and operational experience, both in the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) and in the Directorate of Operations (DO).  He managed highly classified covert-operations and HUMINT collections for the CIA National Clandestine Service in various high-ranking positions.  Muñoz is highly regarded at the CIA as a Intelligence Officer and a Psychological Operations expert with countless successful programs; to include innovative Covert Action campaigns with verifiable impacts in Latin America, Southwest Asia, the Balkans, the Middle-East, and North-Africa.  Muñoz is a well known pundit on national security, international affairs, espionage and U.S. foreign policy.
  Title: William J. Donovan
  Passage: William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat.  Donovan is best remembered as the wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II.  He is also known as the "Father of American Intelligence" and the "Father of Central Intelligence".  "The Central Intelligence Agency regards Donovan as its founding father," according to journalist Evan Thomas in a 2011 "Vanity Fair" profile.  The lobby of CIA headquarters, in Langley, Virginia, now features a statue of Donovan.  Thomas observed that Donovan's "exploits are utterly improbable but by now well documented in declassified wartime records that portray a brave, noble, headlong, gleeful, sometimes outrageous pursuit of action and skulduggery."
  Title: Intelligence Authorization Act
  Passage: The Intelligence Authorization Act was implemented in order to codify covert, clandestine operations and defines requirements for reporting such operations to the Congress.  The American Constitution states, in Article 1, Section 9, that “a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”  The act was passed along with the Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980, which allowed Congress and members of the agency to be included in important decisions and operations carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency.  The Intelligence Authorization Act was also an attempt to limit the authority and secrecy within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding foreign and domestic affairs, though its applications extends to each of the intelligence agencies, not just to the CIA.
  Title: Eclipse Group
  Passage: Eclipse Group was a private intelligence agency run by former CIA officer Duane "Dewy" Clarridge, who was also the founding director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center.  Until May 2010, Eclipse Group received funding from the US Government; it then relied on private donors.  As of 2011, its operations include obtaining information related to the politics of Afghanistan and the AfPak region.
  Title: Susan M. Gordon
  Passage: Susan M. Gordon is an American government official who currently serves as Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence.  Prior to assuming her current role, she was the Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), having assumed the position on January 1, 2015.  Before joining the NGA, she served as director of the CIA's Information Operations Center and senior cyber adviser to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.  Gordon worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for over 25 years.
  Title: Duane Clarridge
  Passage: Duane Ramsdell "Dewey" Clarridge (April 16, 1932 – April 9, 2016) was an American senior operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supervisor for more than 30 years.  Clarridge was the chief of the Latin American division from 1981 to 1987 and a key figure in the Iran-Contra Affair.
  Title: Stephen Slick
  Passage: Stephen B. Slick is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations officer and United States National Security Council official.  He currently leads the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a Clinical Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.  During a 28-year career in the CIA’s Clandestine Service, he completed five overseas tours, including two as chief of station (COS) and senior intelligence community representative.  In the administration of President George W. Bush, Mr. Slick played a central role developing the White House’s response to the recommendations of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (Kean-Hamilton) and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) (Silberman-Robb) commissions.  He also played key roles in developing the provisions of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 and amendments to Executive Order 12333, issued by President Bush in 2008.
citations: Eclipse Group Duane Clarridge