In previous years, the House Intelligence Committee has investigated Blackwater over secret contracts with the Central Intelligence Agency. Now, the shoe is on the other foot. As Staff Director, the highest position on a committee for a staff member, Shockey will oversee the agencies that do business with his former employer … The role reversal, for lobbyists to take brief stints in Congress after an election, has become a normalized. In a previous investigation for The Nation, we found that some corporate firms offer employment contracts with special bonuses for their staff to return to government jobs, ensuring the paycut the receive for passing through the revolving door to become public servants doesn’t have to alter their K Street lifestyle.
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Simon Mann (Executive Outcomes)
Published on Jul 5, 2014
Ex SAS officer and Private military contractor Simon Mann interviewed by Sophie Shevardnadze
“…my friend, who was the owner and chief executive of Heritage Oil and Gas, said come’on Simon its time you made some real money…so my new career was as an oil man”
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Executive Outcomes: Mercenary Corporation OSINT Guide
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/merc.htm
When researching EO, it must be understood that Eeben Barlow, its founder, was associated with the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) which had expertise in setting up front-companies to circumvent sanctions against apartheid era South Africa. With the demise of apartheid, individuals such as Barlow redirected these and other skills for private enterprise purposes. As a result, EO is connected to a weblike structure of multinational holding entities, mining and oil companies, and security and air transportation groups which have purposefully been created to mask its operations, those of its allied firms, and the various individuals involved. This network engages in what could be termed a post-Cold war form of”predatory capitalism” by specializing in the extraction of mineral and oil resources from troubled and failed-states.
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Private Military Companies
http://iissonline.net/10-frightening-facts-about-private-military-companies/
Private military companies are essentially armies that are controlled by no one but their shareholders and whoever pays them the most. They’re not about to go anywhere, either—on the contrary, as capitalism marches on, there are more and more of these private armies running around the globe.
Executive Outcomes – defunct private military contractor
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Executive_Outcomes
A private military contractor which offered “Security management” and “full-service risk management consulting”. It operated during the 1990s and boasted 500 military advisers and over 3000 military personnel, largely drawn from the South African Civil Cooperation Bureau.
In 1988, Eeben Barlow, a former special forces Lt-Col and commander of South Africa’s Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) Europe Branch, was tasked by the apartheid regime’s superspy Major Craig Williamson to carry out the Lockerbie bombing on 21 December 1988 by targeting UN Assistant Secretary-General and Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, the most prominent of Pan Am Flight 103’s 270 victims.
The US and Britain were quick to blame Libya for the sabotage of Pan Am 103, but French President Mitterrand – who had refused permission in 1986 for British-based USAF F-111 aircraft to overfly France in a bombing raid on Tripoli and Benghazi – was not convinced.[1]
By mid-September 1989, the shadowy CCB had morphed into the sinister Executive Outcomes (EO) which became the prototype for the sort of private military company (PMC) that would play such a big part in the conflicts at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the 21st centuries.[2]
Note: The public narrative concerning the Lockerbie bombing differs from those in the military and intelligence services.
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