The former US Navy SEAL who gained notoriety as head of disgraced private security firm Blackwater said he felt betrayed after being outed as part of a CIA covert assassination program.
Erik Prince told the US magazine Vanity Fair in an interview published Wednesday that he felt someone "threw him under the bus" in revealing his link to the program, which supposedly targeted top Al-Qaeda leaders.
"I put myself and my company at the CIA's disposal for some very risky missions," said Prince, who eschewed a role in his family's billion-dollar auto-parts firm to join the military.
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