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Global Pursuit (formerly Clarke International) has been conducting investigation around the globe since the 1980s. Mir. Clarke has been doing international intelligence work since the 1970's. Over 20,000 cases to date, with a tremendous success rate.

The company was known for its ability to penetrate any group or organization it needed to, as long as they have the time and finances to do so. This means 'planting someone within almost any group of people criminal or not. Mr. Clarke, the founder of both companies started his Private Investigator career in Hawaii as an undercover agent at Chrysler Motor Corporation. Only the President of Chrysler and his secretary knew who Logan was in his undercover assignment.

The kind of 'actionable intelligence one can gather undercover is phenomenal. It allows you to literally control your case from the inside out. Mr. Clarke also did a tremendous number of investigations for the international law firm GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCTIER. when he had Clarke International. There are very few, if any types of cases that Mr. Clarke and his Team have not come across in his storied career. You can rest assured that whatever your case is, the Task Force of Global Pursuit Investigations has the knowledge and experience to help you solve that problem or case.

Miracles of Life

"It’s been a year this week since you made the biggest miracle of my life take place. We’re in Tennessee right now visiting my mother and as I write this letter I can hear my sons playing down the hall while my mom, wife, and niece are baking in the kitchen. Yes, I’m in tears. I can’t possibly write a letter that would say everything I want to say or put the emotion behind the words. You gave me hope while so many told me to give up and you brought my boys home."

- The James Family

Logan Clarke

Co-Founder, Global Pursuit Investigations. Former President of Clarke International Investigations

Logan Clarke has spent over 40 years in Government and Private Investigations and is considered one of the top investigators in the world today. He has been profiled in a BBC documentary, 5 books, Newsweek Magazine, the cover of American Way magazine, Crime Watch Daily, Dateline and dozens of other publications and TV shows around the globe.

Mr. Clarke and his team have investigated over 20,000 cases from MURDER to the “Mann Act”… they have rescued over 350 kidnap and runaway victims from around the world, many of whom were forced into HUMAN TRAFFICKING, not only in Asia, Africa, The Middle East and Europe, but right here in the United States… in towns that are as “American as apple pie.”

Mr. Clarke is a pioneer in fighting Elder Abuse and Parental Kidnapping, where the laws are treated as ‘grey’ at best and law enforcement rarely steps in. His 2014 case for the family of legendary DJ Casey Kasem has been covered in the press across the world. Mr. Clarke has been used as an expert consultant on such shows as; 60 minutes, 48 hrs, 20/20, KABC Radio and many others.

His rescue from deep inland Mexico of the James boys, kidnapped from Austin, Texas was covered by KXAN (NBC) news in Austin for 6 months and the story was awarded the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

Khartoum, Sudan was one of the most challenging child rescue/extractions of Logan’s career. Locating and returning a four-year old German girl to her mother in Germany.

As an undercover agent, Logan has infiltrated organized crime groups, motorcycle gangs, Fortune 500 companies and even gotten himself ‘hired’ to kill his own client. He now trains and directs major undercover operations around the world for numerous agencies. Clarke has been hired by the governments of The Philippines, USA, UAE, Sweden, and Germany.

Mr. Clarke is a former Governor of the California Assoc. of Licensed Investigators, (the largest such association in the world). He is also a member of the World Assoc. of Detectives and the co-founder of the INTERNATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING TASK FORCE. He was awarded the INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATOR OF THE YEAR in Dublin Ireland in 1997.

According to a four-year international study by the BBC and Grafton Books, which produced four one-hour documentaries and a hardcover book called ‘Watching the Detectives” … ‘Logan Clarke is one of the top five Investigators in the world working today”.

Newsweek Magazine has reported on cases of Mr. Clarke and stated in an article featuring him, that ‘If Humphrey Bogart were alive today…he would be playing Logan Clarke.”

Mr. Clarke’s life story has been turned into a feature film, written by Oscar nominated writers of THE FIGHTER starring Mark Wahlberg & Christian Bale, PATRIOTS DAY (Mark Wahlberg), THE OUTPOST, and just released 2024, Jerry Bruckheimer’s THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANY WARFARE Directed by Guy Ritchie. Numerous other documentaries have been made about MR. Clarke.

Mr. Clarke also has volumes of experience as a Technical Advisor for films and television such as the TV series SIMON & SIMON, which he advised for three years. Clarke was under contract to several studios in the 1980’s.

Meeting Celebrities and Clients

Logan Clarke, Allen Cardoza and Martin Kove

Logan Clarke and Michael Paré

TMZ interview with Logan Clarke

Pierce Brosnan and Logan Clarke

Danny Glover and Logan Clarke

Matt Cinquanta, Tom Sizemore and Logan Clarke

Manny Pacquiao and Logan Clarke

Logan Clarke and Allen Cardoza

Logan Clarke and Manny Pacquiao – Director of Philippines IHTTF

Michael Paré, Logan Clarke (EP), and on set of ’24 Hrs’

Logan Clarke, Martin Kove and Allen Cardoza

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History of the Organization

In 1986, Logan Clarke and Dona Davis-Clarke founded Clarke International Investigations, which quickly became a well-respected detective firm based in Hollywood, CA. Logan Clarke was trained by legendary private detectives Hal Lipset, in San Francisco, and Walter “Big Z” Zwonitzer in Southern California. Clarke International became part of a new breed of Californian-based private investigators who didn’t fit the conventional stereotype — who spent as much time retrieving abducted children and adults from overseas, whilst working to defend victims of crime, as well as taking traditional cases. The agency has been hired by the governments of the United States, Sweden, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and the Philippines, as well as several Fortune 500 companies.

In 1989, Clarke International formed the global Crisis Intervention Team, the C.I.T. Task Force, made up of some of the most experienced and respected investigators from around the world, including forensic engineers, pathologists, lawyers, medical advisors, former U.S. military Special Operations personnel and former agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency. The team has worked together in some of the most remote and dangerous parts of the planet. Mr. Clarke and his team have investigated more than 10,000 cases and have rescued more than 300 kidnap and runaway victims.

Another agency specialty early on became the reverse sting, in which detectives track down con artists who have defrauded victims of, in some cases, millions of dollars. With the client’s privacy kept intact, the crooks are lured into often elaborate stings to recover the money. Logan Clarke’s previous career as an actor, appearing — usually as a bad guy — in thirteen movies, as well as television series ranging from the original Hawaii Five-O to Hill Street Blues, was invaluable in these stings and in other undercover work, as it is now in his work as a consultant to the entertainment industry.

Logan Clarke is a former governor of the California Association of Licensed Investigators, the world’s largest association of its kind, and is the U.S. West Coast governor of the World Investigators Network. He is also a member of the World Association of Detectives and was one of the founders of the International Human Trafficking Task Force.

When Clarke International became Global Pursuit Investigations, Logan was joined by a highly experienced Private Investigator and specialist in Adolescent Services, dealing with runaways and troubled youth and transporting them to various programs around the world.

Today, the agency, based in Huntington Beach, continues its work in the international sphere and throughout the United States, working on both modest cases and more complicated investigations. Areas of long experience include asset identification, domestic and abroad, retrieval of wrongfully abducted persons, difficult skip tracing and locating missing persons, background checks, criminal and civil lawsuit defense, wrongful death and homicide investigations, business fraud investigations, and surveillance and undercover work to discover theft, embezzlement or domestic deceptions.