Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans"

[David Guyatt]

The notice says that these services are now provided in places like Iraq or Afghanistan. " The training includes modules on weapons, melee combat, armored vehicles, sabotage equipment and night vision. The instructors, together, have experience in the special forces of Hungary and the French Legion.

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Various websites realize that I-RMS is a company formed to protect the premises of a multinational oil exploitation in Iraq now and has the support of intelligence and espionage.

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"Our site is being updated at this time. Please return soon, "is the message that is read in its official website. It is known that their owners are Terry Downes and James Farrell, a former Army Irish Guards, a unit that coordinates with forces of other powers.

(my bolding). irish Guards. Active in Afghanistan and Iraq. Phew, this is starting to increasingly sound like an MI6 arms length operation...

The British Army's Guard's regiments are traditional recruiting grounds for spooks. The following is from a quick (by no means exhaustive) round of Googling:

http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/search/...agger-ltd/

Kroll Associates, arguably the world's best-known firm of corporate investigators, currently does not employ former spies. Jules Kroll founded the company in New York in 1972, and opened a London office in the former headquarters of MI6 in 1986. Patrick Grayson, an ex-Irish Guards officer who was in military intelligence, was appointed managing director and later deputy chairman. In recent years, key personnel have defected, a number of them after a failed management buy-out. Some believed Kroll had grown too large, or attracted too much attention for its publicity-shy clients. Grayson left and joined Michael Oatley, another former spy and ex-Kroll man, in setting up Ciex in 1994, a 'boutique' intelligence firm. The name is pronounced 'CX', the code name given to secret intelligence reports sent by MI5 and MI6 to Whitehall.

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The beow extract is from a story about the trial of Simon Mann and his involvement in a Mark Thatcher coup in Equatorial Africa:

http://bristle.wordpress.com/category/%C.../le-freek/

The attorney general also claimed the main conspirators included Calil, Mark Thatcher, the British businessmen Greg Wales and David Tremain and Nigel Morgan, a former intelligence officer with the Irish Guards now living in South Africa. Calil had put in $2m (£1m).

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Except it all went pear-shaped: South African, Zimbabwean and EG intelligence all knew about the plan, and it’s suspected so did MI6. Mann’s main pack of dogs of war were captured in Harare, whilst a forward group, including South African Nick du Toit, formerly of 32 Battalion, was arrested in EG capital Malabo.

Ex-SAS soldier Simon Mann has extensive previous in the field of ‘private military operations’, having been involved in the setting up of companies such as South African mercenary company Executive Outcomes and the British-registered Sandline International (most famous for its gun-toting asset stripping in places like Sierra Leone and Bougainville).

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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Maundy_Gregory

The rest of what we know about the background of Maundy Gregory comes from himself and the papers and CVs he wrote later in life and their veracity is questionable. According to Gregory, Vernon Kell, head of MI5, recruited him in 1909 as a spy, possibly due to his connections in London nightlife. His main task was to compile dossiers of foreign spies living in London. Later Sidney Reilly would have recruited him for the recently formed MI6. He later used these claims to state that he collected money for the fight against Bolshevism. Officially he was just a private in the Irish Guards. It was possibly at this time that Gregory became known to Basil Thomson, the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard's CID. This relationship would last for several years.

(my bolding)