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Private Military Contractors - Data Dump - Ed Jewett - 05-09-2011 The Top Secret Network of Government and its Contractors http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/network/#/overall/most-activity/ Private Military Contractors - Data Dump - Ed Jewett - 20-09-2011 Blackwater/Xe's BAE connectionPosted on September 15, 2011 by Tim ShorrockBlackwater, the notorious mercenary company now known as "Xe," has a new Chief Operating Officer (COO) Charles (Chuck) Thomas, formerly of the British-owned defense and intelligence contractor BAE Systems Inc. According to today's press release from Blackwater owner USTC Holdings LLC, Thomas joined Xe on September 6, 2011, retired as a Major General in the U.S. Army, where he held the position of Chief of Staff, Headquarters, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command from 1998 to 2001; Commanding General, U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School and Ft. Huachuca from 1994 to 1998; Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence, U.S. Army Europe from 1993 to 1994; Vice Director of Intelligence for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1991 to 1993 and Director of the Joint Intelligence Center, U.S. Central Command in the first Gulf War; and many other leadership positions throughout his military career. He is based at the company's new headquarters office in Arlington, Va. Now that's a pretty deep intelligence background perfect for a company that is involved in some of the CIA's most covert operations in Pakistan and elsewhere. It might take a while for reporters to figure out what this appointment means in the long run. So in the meanwhile let's take a look at some Twitter postings today from an informed source on all things covert to explain a little about Thomas' past and how his past jobs will enhance Blackwater'srole in the U.S. wars in the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere on the planet (the author of these tweets asked to remain anonymous and I will respect that request).Thomas at Xe is very bad. For a multitude of reasons. Chief among them, his vast knowledge base in compartmentalization…For starters, Thomas was STO on the Joint Staff under Cheney and Powell. What does that mean? STO, or special technical operations officers, manage and "oversee" heh Special Access Programs, of the legal & extra-legal variety…The dude ran pretty much every military intelligence element at every echelon…He ran the Army's intel schoolhouse at Huachuca…Then, he assumes command of TRADOC and the predecessor to what is now Human Terrain System (Note: see my Daily Beast article on HTS here)…In summation: Chuck Thomas brings to BW/Xe vast experience in blended operations, special collection and a solid grounding in STO. It's also important to understand the role of BAE itself in U.S. intelligence. I wrote quite a bit about the company's contracts with the CIA and other agencies in my book Spies for Hire, and here's an excerpt that was first published in CorpWatch in 2007. Note especially BAE's extensive work for the CIA, with which Blackwater/Xe is closely identified:BAE's services to U.S. intelligence including the CIA and the National Counter-Terrorism Center are provided through a special unit called the Global Analysis Business Unit. It is located in McLean, Virginia, a stone's throw from the CIA. The unit is headed by John Gannon, a 25-year veteran of the CIA who reached the agency's highest analytical ranks as deputy director of intelligence and chairman of the National Intelligence Council. Today, as a private sector contractor for the intelligence community, Gannon manages a staff of more than 800 analysts with security clearances. (Note: since this was written, Gannon has moved up in BAE to [URL="http://www.baesystems.com/WorldwideLocations/UnitedStates/AboutBAESystemsUnitedStates/Leadership/JohnGannon/index.htm"]president of the company's Intelligence and Security division). [/URL] A brochure for the Global Analysis unit distributed at GEOINT 2007 a conference sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and its contractors explains BAE's role and, in the process, underscores the degree of outsourcing in U.S. intelligence. "The demand for experienced, skilled, and cleared analysts and for the best systems to manage them has never been greater across the Intelligence and Defense Communities, in the field and among federal, state, and local agencies responsible for national and homeland security," BAE says. The mission of the Global Analysis unit, it says, "is to provide policymakers, warfighters, and law enforcement officials with analysts to help them understand the complex intelligence threats they face, and work force management programs to improve the skills and expertise of analysts." At the bottom of the brochure is a series of photographs illustrating BAE's broad reach: a group of analysts monitoring a bank of computers; three employees studying a map of Europe, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa; the outlines of two related social networks that have been mapped out to show how their members are linked; a bearded man, apparently from the Middle East and presumably a terrorist; the fiery image of a car bomb after it exploded in Iraq; and four white radar domes (known as radomes) of the type used by the NSA to monitor global communications from dozens of bases and facilities around the world. The brochure may look and sound like typical corporate public relations. But amid BAE's spy talk were two phrases strategically placed by the company to alert intelligence officials that BAE has an active presence inside the U.S.. The tip-off words were "federal, state and local agencies," "law enforcement officials" and "homeland security." By including them, BAE was broadcasting that it is not simply a contractor for agencies involved in foreign intelligence, but has an active presence as a supplier to domestic security agencies, a category that includes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FBI as well as local and state police forces stretching from Maine to Hawaii. So there you have it. Thomas brings all his intelligence experience, both in government and at BAE, into Blackwater/Xe. The revolving door turns one more time. And the business of war goes on. When will we ever learn?Update: Blackwater hires disgraced AIG "Compliance Czar" Suzanne Folsom as first chief regulatory/compliance officer and deputy general counsel. Posted in Corporations, Intelligence | Leave a comment Private Military Contractors - Data Dump - Ed Jewett - 25-10-2011 [TABLE="width: 815"] [TR] [TD]
[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] WAYNE MADSEN REPORT - Wayne Madsen Report Private Military Contractors - Data Dump - Magda Hassan - 26-10-2011 Loving all this openness and trasparency... :flypig:hutup: Private Military Contractors - Data Dump - Ed Jewett - 10-01-2012 Source: http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/monsanto-now-owns-blackwater-xe/ Monsanto Now Owns Blackwater (Xe) A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater's Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres of civilians. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Department of State "security services," that practices state terrorism by giving the government the opportunity to deny it. Many military and former CIA officers work for Blackwater or related companies created to divert attention from their bad reputation and make more profit selling their nefarious services-ranging from information and intelligence to infiltration, political lobbying and paramilitary training for other governments, banks and multinational corporations. According to Scahill, business with multinationals, like Monsanto, Chevron, and financial giants such as Barclays and Deutsche Bank, are channeled through two companies owned by Erik Prince, owner of Blackwater: Total Intelligence Solutions and Terrorism Research Center. These officers and directors share Blackwater. One of them, Cofer Black, known for his brutality as one of the directors of the CIA, was the one who made contact with Monsanto in 2008 as director of Total Intelligence, entering into the contract with the company to spy on and infiltrate organizations of animal rights activists, anti-GM and other dirty activities of the biotech giant. Contacted by Scahill, the Monsanto executive Kevin Wilson declined to comment, but later confirmed to The Nationthat they had hired Total Intelligence in 2008 and 2009, according to Monsanto only to keep track of "public disclosure" of its opponents. He also said that Total Intelligence was a "totally separate entity from Blackwater." However, Scahill has copies of emails from Cofer Black after the meeting with Wilson for Monsanto, where he explains to other former CIA agents, using their Blackwater e-mails, that the discussion with Wilson was that Total Intelligence had become "Monsanto's intelligence arm," spying on activists and other actions, including "our people to legally integrate these groups." Total Intelligence Monsanto paid $ 127,000 in 2008 and $ 105,000 in 2009. No wonder that a company engaged in the "science of death" as Monsanto, which has been dedicated from the outset to produce toxic poisons spilling from Agent Orange to PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), pesticides, hormones and genetically modified seeds, is associated with another company of thugs. Almost simultaneously with the publication of this article inThe Nation, the Via Campesina reported the purchase of 500,000 shares of Monsanto, for more than $23 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which with this action completed the outing of the mask of "philanthropy." Another association that is not surprising. It is a marriage between the two most brutal monopolies in the history of industrialism: Bill Gates controls more than 90 percent of the market share of proprietary computing and Monsanto about 90 percent of the global transgenic seed market and most global commercial seed. There does not exist in any other industrial sector monopolies so vast, whose very existence is a negation of the vaunted principle of "market competition" of capitalism. Both Gates and Monsanto are very aggressive in defending their ill-gotten monopolies. Although Bill Gates might try to say that the Foundation is not linked to his business, all it proves is the opposite: most of their donations end up favoring the commercial investments of the tycoon, not really "donating" anything, but instead of paying taxes to the state coffers, he invests his profits in where it is favorable to him economically, including propaganda from their supposed good intentions. On the contrary, their "donations" finance projects as destructive as geoengineering or replacement of natural community medicines for high-tech patented medicines in the poorest areas of the world. What a coincidence, former Secretary of Health Julio Frenk and Ernesto Zedillo are advisers of the Foundation. Like Monsanto, Gates is also engaged in trying to destroy rural farming worldwide, mainly through the "Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa" (AGRA). It works as a Trojan horse to deprive poor African farmers of their traditional seeds, replacing them with the seeds of their companies first, finally by genetically modified (GM). To this end, the Foundation hired Robert Horsch in 2006, the director of Monsanto. Now Gates, airing major profits, went straight to the source. Blackwater, Monsanto and Gates are three sides of the same figure: the war machine on the planet and most people who inhabit it, are peasants, indigenous communities, people who want to share information and knowledge or any other who does not want to be in the aegis of profit and the destructiveness of capitalism. * The author is a researcher at ETC Group Source: Pravda Private Military Contractors - Data Dump - Jan Klimkowski - 10-01-2012 Quote:A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater's Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. From the company that created The Terminator seed, a naked imperial power play against Mother Nature, I can only assume that we should now anticipate GMMs. Genetically Modified Mercenaries. A Fascist wet dream, if ever I heard one. :flames::flames::unclesam: Private Military Contractors - Data Dump - Ed Jewett - 11-01-2012 CACI Awarded $22 Million Task Order to Support U.S. Special Operations Command Tech Needs1101 2012[Isn't it strange that the American construction and high-tech firms that have been chosen to build or operate SOCOM's prototype experimental electronic network, like CACI, SAIC and KBR--Consolidated Analysis Centers, Inc., Science Applications International Corporation and Kellogg, Brown and Root--have all been charged in the past with improprieties and have been skirting the edge of bankruptcy, until these Pentagon blessings came their way? (SEE:Manufacturing Justification for the NATO Takeover of Central Asia Smashing Greater Central Asia Part One).]CACI Awarded $22 Million Task Order to Support U.S. Special Operations Command with Wide Array of Training TechnologiesNew Work Will Provide Special Operations Forces with Advanced Modeling and Simulation Technology to Enhance Mission Capability and Reduce CostARLINGTON, Va., Jan 10, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) CACI International Inc CACI +1.35%announced today that it has been awarded a $22 million task order under the Global Battlestaff and Program Support (GBPS) prime contract to support the U.S. Special Operations Forces Planning, Rehearsal and Execution Preparation (SOFPREP) effort. This five-year (one base period with four option periods) award will provide modeling and simulation data for a variety of Special Operations Forces (SOF) rotary and fixed-wing aircraft and other specialized vehicles. CACI's approach to this work will enhance the U.S. Special Operations Command's (USSOCOM) capability to conduct critical training more efficiently and to more thoroughly prepare our forces for operational missions. SOFPREP produces and maintains 3D scene visualization databases and enhanced geospatial data (maps, imagery, and terrain) for SOF simulators in USSOCOM with personnel and facilities located at Hurlburt Field, FL and Fort Campbell, KY. With the new contract, CACI will provide databases in a variety of formats for SOF simulators, and establish and manage a data center to store and archive information. The data in this extensive repository can be accessed throughout the entire USSOCOM community. Several factors were key to this strategically important win. The CACI team applied its extensive experience in the modeling and simulation and geospatial intelligence arenas to expand and improve SOFPREP capabilities. And, it offered technological enhancements that will enable SOFPREP to better support Special Operations forces. Dan Allen, CACI President of U.S. Operations, said, "We're particularly proud of this win because the effort involved contributions from across CACI and our partner companies, emphasizing the broad range of our collective skill sets and capabilities. Our solution blends operational understanding, proven technical experience, and in-depth understanding of SOFPREP programs to ensure full mission capability with no interruptions in mission coverage." According to Paul Cofoni, CACI President and Chief Executive Officer, "This award is important to us, as it significantly enhances our wide-ranging portfolio of solutions in the modeling and simulation world. Of equal consequence to all of us at CACI is that this new work with the Special Operations community will directly help our forces prepare for missions, execute them efficiently, and come home safely." 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CACI Contract SOURCE: CACI International Inc http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/caci-awarded-22-million-task-order-to-support-u-s-special-operations-command-tech-needs/ Private Military Contractors - Data Dump - Ed Jewett - 12-01-2012 Thursday, January 12, 2012Setting the Record Straight: Did Monsanto Really Buy Blackwater (Xe)?[TABLE="class: tr-caption-container"] [TR] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: tr-caption"]Source[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post There has been a great deal of publicity over the potential purchase of Blackwater (now known as Academi, and Xe before that) by mega corporation Monsanto. While the two seem to be a great match, as they both fail to consider the morality and consequence of their actions, it seems that Monsanto is only involved with Blackwater in infiltrating activist groups who are opposed to the biotech giant an operation quite sinister enough. The truth of the matter is that Academi (Blackwater) was purchased by private investors, and the heavily sourced article written by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation actually says nothing about Monsanto buying Blackwater. What the articles does say, however, is that Monsanto and Blackwater are indeed working together to target anti-Monsanto activists and organizations. Known as far back as 2010, Blackwater's client list included Monsanto, Chevron, Walt Disney and many more. According to documents obtained by Scahill, it was also revealed that Monsanto was willing to pay upwards of $500,000 in order for Blackwater to join anti-Monsanto activist groups and infiltrate the ranks. Furthermore, a number of Internet-based tactics could be utilized as incognito PR for Monsanto, who undoubtedly knew opposition would mount against their GMO crops as more individuals became aware of the dangers. Amazingly, the document stated that Monsanto was 'concerned about animal rights activists' and that they discussed how Blackwater could 'have our person(s) actually join [activist] group(s) legally.' Of course this occurred back in 2008, and Monsanto admitted in e-mails that the relationship lasted until around 2010 near the time the information came to light. Raw Story reports:In an… e-mail to The Nation, Wilson confirmed he met Black in Zurich and that Monsanto hired Total Intelligence in 2008 and worked with the company until early 2010. Even though Monsanto may not have purchased Blackwater, their relationship with them remains quite clear. Both organizations are noted for their crimes against humanity, and they really do have a twisted synergy of sorts, so it is quite easy to see how the topic became viral.While they may not be owned by the same individuals, one thing is clear: the relationship between these two companies is enough cause for alarm. Explore More:
Private Military Contractors - Data Dump - Magda Hassan - 15-07-2012 Googlish translation from German into English about Spanish speaking Colombian and Chilean mercenaries employed by the US in Libya, Syria and the United Arab Emirates. Quote: Private Military Contractors - Data Dump - Magda Hassan - 29-07-2012 [video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6BxCa0BalM&feature=plcp&context=C3ae240fU DOEgsToPDskLIbsDybvGcv8Tt2Y63MtK7[/video] As the Iraqi government threatens to expel all foreign mercenaries following the Blackwater shootout, the role of private military contractors is once again in the spotlight. There's no denying that the rise of the private military contractor is transforming the way we wage war. They earn four times more than regular soldiers, act with impunity and - in Iraq - outnumber all non-US soldiers combined. 'Private Armies' follows the training and deployment of these men. From skidding around a racing track, practising escaping from kidnappers, to dodging bullets in Baghdad, it's an eye-opening look at life as a private soldier. |