VANITY FAIR exclusive: Blackwater’s Erik Prince to step down, reveals
CIA role

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Blackwater's Erik Prince to step down, reveals CIA role'Power struggle'
inside Blackwater over Prince's successor

Blackwater's Erik Prince was recruited as a CIA agent in the years after
the 9/11 attacks, says an exclusive report at Vanity Fair that also
reveals the billionaire ex-Navy SEAL plans to step down from Blackwater
to teach high school.

For the past six years, Prince "appears to have led an astonishing
double life," writes Adam Ciralsky. "Publicly, he has served as
Blackwater’s CEO and chairman. Privately, and secretly, he has been
doing the CIA’s bidding, helping to craft, fund, and execute operations
ranging from inserting personnel into 'denied areas'—places US
intelligence has trouble penetrating—to assembling hit teams targeting
al-Qaeda members and their allies."

Ciralsky reports that Prince became a CIA "asset," or spy, who became a
"Mr. Fix-It" in the war on terror.

"Prince wasn’t merely a contractor; he was, insiders say, a full-blown
asset," Ciralsky reports. "Three sources with direct knowledge of the
relationship say that the CIA’s National Resources Division recruited
Prince in 2004 to join a secret network of American citizens with
special skills or unusual access to targets of interest. As assets go,
Prince would have been quite a catch. He had more cash, transport,
matériel, and personnel at his disposal than almost anyone Langley would
have run in its 62-year history."

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Teach school? Well, I hope it isn't in a public school. Decent kids
don't need to be taught by a lying thug who led a gang of murderous thugs.