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[Ed Jewett]

Wackenhut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wackenhut

Their work and web site for Oak Ridge, TN:
http://www.wackenhut-oakridge.com/


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Some excerpts: :

Wackenhut has been tied to the US goverment since inception. The early board members included Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Gen. Mark Clark and Ralph E. Davis, a leader of the John Birch Society. Other members include former FBI director Clarence Kelley, former Defense secretary and CIA deputy director Frank Carlucci, former Defense Intelligence Agency director Gen. Joseph Carroll, former Secret Service director James J. Rowley, former Marine commandant P.X. Kelley, former CIA deputy director Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, and previous to becoming CIA director, William J. Casey as outside legal counsel. [5]

In the same above mentioned SPY Magazine article, 18 year terrorism expert and CIA analyst, William Corbett, stated "For years, Wackenhut has been involved with the CIA and other intelligence organizations, including the Drug Enforcement Agency. Wackenhut would allow the CIA to occupy positions within the company [in order to carry out] clandistine operations." He went on to say Wackenhut provided the intelligence agencies with information and was paid in return "in a quid pro quo arrangement". This would explain in part the huge number of contracts awarded to Wackenhut in delicate areas of the national security, such as embassies and nuclear plants, and the $150 million increase in work under the Reagan Administration.
Wackenhut was also involved in illegal US operations in Central America in the 1980s. By exploiting the Cabazon Indian reservation as a sovereign nation, they intended to produce and export explosives to the Contras, evading Congressional law to the contrary.[7][8]
The director of international operations at the time, Ernesto Bermudez, admitted to having 1,500 men in El Salvador doing "[t]hings you wouldn't want your mother to know about."
According to Edward Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan in The Terrorism Industry (ISBN 0679725598), "Wackenhut quickly got involved with right-wing terrorists who were themselves linked to state security agents" in Belgium. They left in the early 1980s after some of their guards were accused of luring immigrant children into basements and beating them.
Strike breakers

Wackenhut is known for providing muscle and force against organized labor and protesters. They provided strike breakers at the Pittston mine in Kentucky. Their armed guards have beaten protesters at nuclear sites for the Department of Energy. [9]
Among nuclear weapons lab employees, Wackenhut was better known for “wacking” radiation whistleblowers like Karen Silkwood and attempting to run Dr. Rosalie Bertell off the road. [10]
Wackenhut is a joint venture partner along with MPRI, Kellogg Brown and Root and AGS in the civilian police training company Civilian Police International, LLC which is under a State Department contract for $1.6 billion to work with the Civilian Police and Rule of Law office in coordination with the United Nations training emerging police forces around the world. [18]

Wackenhut, through contracts with the Department of Energy provides security services for the following sites:

• Arkansas Nuclear One
  
• Braidwood Nuclear Power Station
  
• Byron Nuclear Power Station
  
• Callaway Plant
  
• Clinton Power Station
  
• Dresden Nuclear Power Station
  
• Ginna Nuclear Power Plant
  
• Grand Gulf Nuclear Station
  
• Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant
  
• LaSalle County Nuclear Power Station
  
• Limerick Generating Station
  
• Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant
  
• Oyster Creek
  
• Palisades Nuclear Plant
  
• Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station
  
• Pilgrim Nuclear Station
  
• River Bend Nuclear Station
  
• Point Beach Nuclear Plant
  
• Prairie Island Nuclear Plant
  
• Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station
  
• Salem/Hope Creek Generating Station
  
• Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant
  
• South Texas
  
• St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant
  
• Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit 1
  
• Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant
  
• V.C. Summer Nuclear Station
  
• Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station
  
• Waterford
  
• Zion Nuclear Power Station
  

Wackenhut has since lost contracts with many of these stations after guards at various nuclear sites were found asleep. Some were recorded by an insider who later sent the video to CBS news resulting in several firings and Exelon to form Exelon Nuclear Security to relieve Wackenhut from their contracts.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wackenhut


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And see my own previous collection; the following link comes from a "search" here at DPF using the word "Wackenhut" which subsequently should show up in red every time it occurs:


http://www.deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/...=Wackenhut