How stuff works "The CIA", Phillip Agee's "Inside the Company', etc gives a basic understanding of the kind of fronts a career spy would have. Not saying he is but could be. Usually recruit college graduates or officers given a prior military experience is required but I can't say if I heard of long-term postings. I'm thinking as he rose up the ranks but either way inside the DoD, I mean Washington it gets to a point where it doesn't matter I imagine. You can tell be looking at the entire life careers and right about 1990 I start sensing some trouble.
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Clark returned to Fort Irwin and commanded the National Training Center (NTC) from October 1989 to 1991. The Gulf War occurred during Clark's command, and many National Guard divisional round-out brigades trained under his command. Multiple generals commanding American forces in Iraq and Kuwait said Clark's training helped bring about results in the field and that he had successfully begun training a new generation of the military that had moved past Vietnam-era strategy. He was awarded another Legion of Merit for his "personal efforts" that were "instrumental in maintaining" the NTC, according to the citation. He served in a planning post after this, as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Concepts, Doctrine, and Developments at Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) at Fort Monroe, Virginia. While there, he helped the commanding general of TRADOC prepare the army for war and develop new post-Cold War strategies. Clark pushed for technological advancement in the army to establish a digital network for military command, which he called the "digitization of the battlefield."[40] He was promoted to Major General in October 1992 at the end of this command.[30][41]
(my interests here are the rise of exploited labor, transitions to civilian contractors (many are CIA fronts), and the sort of cold war expanding NATO planning.)
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United States Southern Command
Army regulations set a so-called "ticking clock" upon the promotion to a three-star general, essentially requiring that Clark be promoted to another post within 2 years from his initial promotion or retire.[46] This deadline ended in 1996 and Clark said he was not optimistic about receiving such a promotion because rumors at the time suggested General Dennis Reimer did not want to recommend him for promotion although "no specific reason was given".[47] According to Clark's book, General Robert Scales said that it was likely Clark's reputation of intelligence within the military was responsible for feelings of resentment against him from other generals. Clark was named to the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) post despite these rumors. Congress approved his promotion to full general in June 1996, and General John M. Shalikashvili signed the order. Clark said he was not the original nominee, but the first officer chosen "hadn't been accepted for some reason."
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Operation Allied Force experienced another problem when NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade on May 7, 1999. The operation had been organized against numerous Serbian targets, including "Target 493, the Federal Procurement and Supply Directorate Headquarters", although the intended target building was actually 300 meters away from the targeted area. The embassy was located at this mistaken target, and three Chinese journalists were killed. Clark's intelligence officer called Clark taking full responsibility and offering to resign, but Clark declined, saying it was not the officer's fault. Secretary Cohen and CIA Director George Tenet took responsibility the next day. Tenet would later explain in testimony before the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on July 22, 1999, that the targeting system used street addresses, which gave inaccurate positions for air bombings. He also said that the various databases of off-limit targets did not have the up-to-date address for the relatively new embassy location.[67][68][69]'
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It goes on to say he took some offers to be on the board of defense related firms (so did Ashcroft -- he's with Blackwater now).
Though this statement kinda rules him out but they keep things so compartmentalized like when Eisenhower planned the invasion of Normandy -- massive operation that just a few knew the whole details but able to plan, organize, train, launch, etc.
In Clark's book, Winning Modern Wars, published in 2003, he describes his conversation with a military officer in the Pentagon shortly after 9/11 regarding a plan to attack seven Middle Eastern countries in five years: "As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran." [
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Clark#Civilian_career
Just considered the possibility, considering his long military career I say probably isn't or if he is not sure why he would reveal that -- it is so obvious what their goals and the Saudi confirms a lot of that and it clearly is the goal or Iran is the endgame there. Don't know a lot about Lebanon but Sudan not sure of what resources either they have to commercially exploit other than petroleum. Currently the country that isn't "South Sudan" is ruled by a Wahhabi dictatorship much like Saudi Arabia who is also a member of the "Saudi coalition".
I'm pretty doubtful he is a spy but then something like this: Clark serves on the Advisory Boards of the Global Panel Foundation and the National Security Network. He also chairman of Rodman & Renshaw, a New York investment bank,[134] and Growth Energy.[6]
At this point, there is little coming out of the DoD that I would consider unexpected, the only I don't expect is Cheney, the Bremer's, anybody on the "team" to spill their guts out. Confess. Declassify it all. What Clark suggests is something I wouldn't support from any country, at the end of the day I back the people. If a government is enacting policies that support the people than I back that policy but I think he has his countries mixed up. US avoided war with Germany for as long as possible. Japan launched that attack than pressured Hitler due to a prior arrangement he'd back them if they were in a war with the US but if they got too close to that island US would have definitely entered but don't recall pro-Nazis being locked up, in fact they had an audience, fans, etc.
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