Wackenhut denies its employees are CIA agents plotting to overthrow Venezu

[Judi Lynn]

Published Saturday, October 25, 2003

Wackenhut denies its employees are CIA agents plotting to overthrow Venezuela's Chavez

The Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela
A Florida company accused of working with dissidents to overthrow the Venezuelan government rejected on Saturday videotape evidence allegedly linking them to subversive activities.

The Venezuelan unit of Florida-based security company Wackenhut denied that the video - presented Wednesday by legislators allied with President Hugo Chavez - showed CIA agents advising Venezuelans in June on how to destabilize the country later this year.

"The video was in reality filmed in the installations of Wackenhut Venezolana, C.A in September 2002 during an ordinary meeting of company officials, relating to security services offered to a client," the company said in an ad placed in El Nacional newspaper.

A spokeswoman for the Palm Beach Gardens-based company did not immediately return a phone call Saturday.

Ruling party lawmaker Nicolas Maduro claimed the three men in the video were U.S. secret agents training dissident military officers and municipal police in espionage and "terrorist" tactics.

The U.S. Embassy said the video showed an event held by a private security company, not CIA agents. It added that the U.S. government did not participate in the event. (snip/...)

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031025/APN/310250734

Did a quick google and found this decent entry from an old Democratic Underground thread listed in google:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=779&forum=DCForumID12&archive=yes

(Links between Jeb Bush and Wackenhut)


Link to the google search on Wackenhut Bush C.I.A. about 2,090 entries:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Wackenhut+Bush+C.I.A.&btnG=Google+Search

[9215]

1. I'll be damned!

I suggested this possibility a few days ago on another Venezuela topic. If Wackenhut is exposed this could get real exciting. The US Congress may have an easier time investigating them than trying to get the CIA to open up. At least it will give the Bushies another hemmorroid trying to cover it up, hee, hee.

Wackenhut was active in the 80's with Inslaw and the Indio Indian Reservation in CA and fuel air explosive scandal, etc. that remained a cover-up.

Nice work JudiLyn.


The book "Octopus" by Jim Keith gets into this. Keith was investigating Danny Casolaro's death and, (((coincidently))), died under mysterious circumstances in the process. He broke his leg in a skiing accident and died in the hospital from what I remember.

Suggestion: Take pre-cautions, network, etc. if you want to get to deep into this stuff.

[UpInArms]

14. the death of Casolaro

details here: http://www.american-buddha.com/dead.right.htm

[9215]

20. Casolaro's death is very suspicious

Approximately six of his contacts in pursuing the "Octopus" died as well, some murdered, some suicided. He called Nichols "the dark man".

Conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick wrote a few columns on this saying it stunk to high heaven.

What is even more weird is that Attorney Paul Wilcher who was going to expose the October Surprise wrote a letter to Att. General Janet Reno saying he had a tape that would prove his case. He was found dead in his apartment 3 weeks later and his body was also embalmed before the family was consulted.

[InkAddict]

27. It's Halloween and time to tell a scary story

http://www.american-buddha.com/dead.right.htm
<snip>
The Octopus, in Casolaro's view encompassed the alleged theft of a sophisticated computer software program by Justice Department officials; an effort by a former CIA operative to use a California Indian reservation as a front for supplying weapons to the Nicaraguan contras; the shady connections between the Wackenhut Corporation and the CIA; the burgeoning BCCI scandal; and the October Surprise.

Pop the popcorn, here we go.....

PROMIS was fiddled with for many months in Lake County, Ohio, under the elected service of County Auditor Kathleen Cotter(D) by staff member John Whipple. Campaign contributions were solicited at work from county employees on behalf of her 1986 campaign. (How naughty) A C-note was considered to be the adequate, if minimal, contribution in this community under party boss, Mr. Mastroangelo (deceased). Alas, it was not enough for the incumbent to remain in office.

My source reports that the County Commissioners obtained trial use(?) of the PROMIS software, but at the time it was unclear to the source whether the software had been purchased or leased to the County or indeed by/from whom. According to a staff member, PROMIS and the county computer interface were a "bubble off" and required much modification for effective use. The terms of the deal itself, it seems, were hidden from view beneath a legal "blue cover" on what appeared to be some portion of the arrangement/contract documnt to which the source had access for only a short time.

The source tells me that he was asked to apply pressure, go to Columbus, Ohio Civil Service Commission, to attack yet another staff member's continued employment under civil service (what for?). Indeed, it is possible that the source was most likely appointed only for this purpose by a "scheme" connived between the commissioners and/or with the auditor and a local Willoughby Deputy Registrar.

Mr. Gordon Lavar, who also served as the rep of a local employment recruiter, felt free to tamper with the applicant's resume to obtain the desired end, only informing the source after the fact of the "appointment," which the source came to learn was outside the reach of civil service complaints/rules or the ORC. (Gee, wonder to whom the fee was actually paid? or where the amount of the fee actually ended up?")

At the time, a Canadian, Jim Carne (pseudonym?), was Director of Lake County IT. He had a brother working in another state, Texas(?), and Mr. C was being afforded unsupervised late-night access to the county computer system for "development" purposes. (It's interesting that somewhere along in this drama, it is alleged that the Royal Canadian Mounties purchased said PROMIS, and M. Risconiscuito indicated that the Israeli's got copies too - Early PNAC/BFEE at work????)

As an assistant supervisor, before the source could "go to Columbus" he wanted to sort out the staff member's (Bob T.) misdeeds up close and personal, but the source was injured in a head-on car accident(?) on Veteran's Day following the election that totalled his vehicle (the other driver cited), and needed to take time off w/doctor's excuse (about one week).

The source was subsequently pinked through "closed-session" commissioner meetings to discuss "personnel." The source was forbidden from attending the meeting and forbidden to send a legal representative to these "secret" meetings. (DUE PROCESS! - None available under ORC or Civil Service outside the State Commission). FOIA had not yet been enacted, and the source contacted several attorneys who laughed a lot and sent him packing. Finally, one employment attorney suggested that only a Federal suit could be brought for a large retainder. (No employment, no money, no suit--and that was many years ago).

Indeed a lawyer, now Probate Judge Klammer, was contacted by the source on the personal recommendation from a "friend" as being someone with ties to the commissioners,(now mostly deceased). After an election in which Ms. Cotter was succeeded by Mr. Zupancic, the source was assured that a "re-hire" was "possible" but was also told to "not leave town." Alarmed by this second infringement on the right to freely travel (another Bill of Rights issue), the source promptly headed out-of-state with the family to warmer climes away from the constant stress of yet another period "on the bench." The unspent portion of the source's salary amazingly enough was the same amount of "new" county funds available to fund the spanking new Sexual Abuse Center. The source attended the new auditor's swearing-in/reception in the spring of the New Year, and was summarily told there would be no reinstatement.

The source also tells me that a neighbor, employed in the past, as the narc and investigator for the county prosecutor, John Savage(?), (one of the assistant pros's then was Rep. LaTourette), was a security supervisor at a certain facility that circumscribed itself in a 10-mile zone of danger. The spouse's relatives from Indiana also had long-time security ties. This energy facility has sole secure access to a portion of coastline Lake Erie and from there to the St. Lawrence Seaway, to Canada, and beyond, and it purports to assure the highest security measures available. That individual had the balls to turn in his own grandma, if necessary, and was known to make "demo" bombs in the family rec room for instructional purposes. He'd also been sent to Quantico VA for long periods of "training" in hypnotism (what's that all about?-someone else can put those dots together!) Also nearby, a small airport, Casement, affords quick access to the rural countryside. Located near the county seat, it is utilized mainly by "small planes" and had minimal security at the time. (It's interesting to note that the Iran-Contra testimonies identified pilots who did "running" from small Midwest airports.)

The source also reports that a small blurb in a Trader Times-like newsletter gave an address for a certain Lake Resources Inc. (Probably not tooooo....unusual in Lake County, huh?) The source, by this time freaked out, does not remember the address, but does remember checking it out. A medium sized pole barn, long gone, well set back off a lonely county road. (Now what does one suppose was stored in that?)

Eventually, the source re-located for a contract at a well-known BIG government contractor, et. al. and since then, to be corporately relocated, downsized, merged, outsourced. Over the Carter/Bush/Reagun/Clinton/Bush years, the source, now well over 40 and a Viet Nam era vet with loads of experience and Y2K atta-boys, has trickled down and will soon be homeless, innocently or not, touched by the Octopus!

Since Halloween is near, it's only appropriate to say it's even more scary though hopefully only serendipitous and a triumph of greater love. The source's son-in-law is a not-so-distant, wrong-side-of-the-family, relative of ex El Presidente Aleman of, you guessed it, Nicaragua! Has Justice prevailed?

The source says the "fat lady hasn't yet sung" and too many are now beyond the pale.

Of course, all of what it is just crazy Tin Foil tinkering away, one might say "gaslighted" (is that a crime?), into someone's "Beautiful Mind."

[goforit]

24. This outstanding information because now we know where the

Bad CIA Boys reside.....

Good ole Wakenhut!!!!

Follow this list and you all can corral the wagons!!!!

[9215]

2. "Whackemhut", These are some bad boys

They are involved in alot of very nasty things:


Wackenhut: http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2003/01/26515.php

The Wackenhut Security Corporation of Miami, Florida, has long been suspected of being a CIA front. The right-wing politics of George Wackenhut, who had ties to Belgian fascists and South American death squads, are well known. But few people realize that Wackenhut, a small company with "only a few" employees, gets some choice assignments, including guarding nuclear reactors, nuclear weapons facilities, the Alaskan Oil pipeline, and several American embassies; or that its board of directors contains several luminaries from the FBI, CIA, and Army Intelligence, including Bobby Ray Inman. Wackenhut has led a covert crusade against whistleblowers at many nuclear power plants, using wiretaps to eavesdrop on them and various 'subtle' techniques to convince them not to talk; it also spied on Chuck Hamel, a critic of the Aleyska Oil Consortium's drilling policies, by setting up a fake environmental-law firm which sought to "pump" him for his sources. Wackenhut may have even used some operatives to try and help topple President Perez of Venezuela through a (failed) military coup, largely for money (rather than politics) it was given by Blanca Ibanez, the mistress of Jaime Luinschi, the former president.

Also, a Wackenhut employee named Ernesto Bermudez was using 1500 'employees' in El Salvador for things he admitted "you wouldn't want your mother to know about" to a reporter from Spy magazine. Candian PM Pierre Trudeau refused to allow Wackenhut to purchase a weapons-propellant plant in Quebec, and it was refused a permit to open a security facility in France because President Francois Mitterand said "we had just gotten rid of the CIA." Wackenhut maintained files on over 4 million suspected 'subversives' of all types, including civil rights activists and antiwar protesters, well into the 1960s, making it the largest private holder of such information. In 1975, after a Congressional investigation into domestic intelligence operations and connections to private firms, Wackenhut turned its files over to the Anti-Communist Church League of America based in Wheaton, Illinois, which is now defunct. Florida Governor Claude Kirk claims to have worked closely with Wackenhut to "fight organized crime," although insiders maintain they were doing anything but fighting the Mob.

But there are direct links between Wackenhut and the 'Octopus'. It appears that Michael Riconsciuto, a convicted drug dealer, claims to have met with George Wackenhut, John Amarell (of Wackenhut's Executive Board), and Dr. John Philip Nichols (a CIA operative conducting shady activities on the Cabazon Indian Reservation in the California desert) in Las Vegas in the early 80s to discuss the theft of Inslaw's PROMIS software; he says Wackenhut asked him "how his software work was coming along." (Supposedly, Nichols was using the Cabazon reservation as his own private munitions proving ground, testing things ranging from super-lethal Fuel-Air Explosives and chemical-biological weapons to Electromagnetic Pulse generators.) Ammarell confirms the meeting, but claims it was merely about the sale of a boat! Retired general Richard Secord arranged for the Wackenhut Corp. to work with Iraqi arms dealer Ihsan Barbouti; Wackenhut operative David Ramirez claims that he and Barbouti rode in a truck carrying chemical-weapons technology from Texas to Chicago, and then rode on a plane to Iraq. Ramirez indicates that he thinks Wackenhut may have been part of a "food stamp" scheme to get agricultural credits for Iraq which were in turn used to purchase nuclear-weapons technology, making Wackenhut part of the Iraqgate affair as well.

[dArKeR]

3. Thanks for the post!

[9215]

23. My pleasure

Years ago I was digging into the Casolaro death. Two people: Freddy Alvarez (a Native American)and Michael Riconosciuto were involved with the Cabazon Indian Reservation activities. The former was murdered after an attempt to nail him with trumped up drug charges failed. His murder was gruesome. Mike Ricon claims to have doctored the Promis Software, which is another story, but he also was slapped with trumped up drug charges and is still in jail. People who worked on his case to expose the BS also died. Hitting someone with trumped up drug charges is a standard MO for getting rid of the unwanted in the intelligence community.

That is why I believe Vreeland's drug, credit card fraud charges could be bogus as well. We haven't heard the last on Vreeland.

[Judi Lynn]

13. This is horrendous

Looks like a ton of material to assimilate. I've heard of these guys for years, also in connection to the Bushes.

Thanks for a good long look. These people are monsters. What a shame they have been invited to implement their hidden agenda without our permission.

[Say_What]

29. Bush, Wackenhut, and the privatization of prisons

<clips>

Prisons, profits and Governor George W Bush

by Tim Wheeler
Editor, People's Weekly World

Longhorn cows. Oil. They've made a few Texans rich and famous. But under
Governor George W Bush another industry is pumping out cash like an East
Texas gusher — private prisons!

George and Richard Wackenhut, owners of Wackenhut Corporation, operate 13
prisons in the Lone Star State. They are so enthusiastic about fellow
Republican George "Dubya" Bush and his race for the presidency that they
have contributed considerable sums to his election campaigns.

Bush's ties to the prison-industrial complex raise troubling questions
about his posturing as a "compassionate conservative". It sheds light on
his "lock-em-up-and-throw-away-the-key" policy on the incarceration of drug
users — even though Bush does not deny reports that he snorted cocaine in
his youth.

http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve3/1025pris.html

---

Interesting to note that the land of *freedom and democracy* is the worlds leading jailer.

[Say_What]

31. Wackenhut Corrections to change its name

From an article last week:

<clips>

More than 15 years after George Wackenhut steered his venerable security firm into the business of managing prisons, the spin-off is shedding his name, under a plan announced Tuesday.

Wackenhut Corrections Corp., the Palm Beach Gardens prison-management company, formally controlled by 49-year-old Wackenhut Corp., will ask its shareholders next month to change its name to The Geo Group Inc.

A series of corporate transactions and divestitures led to the proposed name change.

Most importantly, last year the parent company, founded in Miami in 1954, was acquired by Group 4 Falck A/S, of Denmark.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/7070258.htm

[MetaTrope]

33. Wackenhut acquired by Group 4 Falck A/S, of Denmark

A curious turn of events...it would be interesting to know who lies behind Group 4 Falck. Incidentally, Group 4 handles security matters on the West Bank for Israel.

[Judi Lynn]

34. Really!

Thanks for the info. This is very strange.

[Say_What]

35. From the Group 4 Flack link

<clips>

...As Group 4 officially takes over in Australia, its operations elsewhere give a sense of things to come. It operated Europe’s largest immigration detention centre at Yarl’s Wood in Bedfordshire, England which was closed after being virtually destroyed by fire in February 2002. Firefighters complained that Group 4 had grossly inadequate safety measures and had impeded them from reaching the scene of the blaze.

Fire Brigades Union General Secretary, Andy Gilchrist criticised Group 4 for treating asylum seekers as “second class citizens” by putting “private profit before the lives of asylum seekers. Group 4 flatly refused to put a sprinkler system into these premises to cut their costs”. With last year’s takeover it is now the largest detention contractor in the UK.

In her book “Open Borders: The case against immigration controls” (Pluto, London, 2000), Teresa Hayter documents the poor conditions, inadequate medical facilities, punitive and racist treatment and lack of accountability that characterised the regime at Group 4’s Campsfield House near Oxford. So much for principles. More detentions and more cost-cutting mean bigger profits for companies like Group 4.

Many of those detained under Australia’s mandatory detention policy are from the Middle East. So let us not forget how, late last year, British and Danish journalists exposed the activities of Hashmira, a leading Israeli security firm in which Group 4 had bought a 50 percent share.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0302/S00186.htm

[Judi Lynn]

37. I took an off-ramp in a search for Group4 and Bush

Yet it bears repeating:


"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
- Governor George W. Bush

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
- Governor George W. Bush

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
- Governor George W. Bush

"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
- George W. Bush

http://groups.msn.com/catsweirdgroup4weirdpeople/funnygeorgebushquotes.msnw

[Judi Lynn]

38. They are infesting Europe

(snip) Falck merger

Group 4 become officially known as Group 4 Falck in June 2000 after it merged with another security company, Denmark's Falck.


The fire has brought more publicity for Group 4

The merged company has been catapulted into the headlines again with a fire at its Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre in the UK.

Group 4 Falck was running the centre, which only opened last November, under contract to the Home Office.

The 900-bed facility is the largest in Europe and housed many refugees who had their applications to stay in the UK turned down.
(snip/...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1822528.stm

[Say_What]

36. Wackenhut: Who’s Who of former CIA, FBI, US Secret Service and military

Wonder if those kidnapped *security agents* in Colombia that the US is now offering 5 million USD for are from Wackenhut.

From your link:

...By 2001 this contract was providing the corporation with eleven percent of its total global revenues. In an SBS interview, reported in The Australian on November 25, 2000, George Wackenhut, former FBI agent and head of Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, said: "Australian operations are very important to us. They're really starting to punish people the way they should have done all along. The do-gooders say no, punishment is not the answer, but I can't think of a better one."

Wackenhut’s directors and senior management have long resembled a Who’s Who of former CIA, FBI, US Secret Service and military high-ups. In the security business, as with other corporate players, there is a revolving door of personnel between industry and government, close political contacts, enormous political lobbying power, secrecy, and unaccountability.

[Turley]

39. Re: it would be interesting to know who lies behind Group 4 Falck.

You, me, everyone with a retirement plan. Group 4 is a listed stock and has wide institutional ownership, i.e., Fidelity, Invesco, Scudder, Vanguard, and even the Texas State Teachers Retirement Fund!

[Say_What]

40. Group 4 Falck employees in Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia

as well as other places.

519 in Venezuela; 3,099 in Colombia; and 250 in Bolivia

Click the country of interest at the following link:

http://www.group4falck.com/object.php?obj=42000c&GSID=852895#

[w4rma]

4. Here are two great in depth investigative articles on Whackenhut

Inside the Shadow CIA
by John Connolly
http://www.americanpolitics.com/sc1992209connolly1.html

Gilded Cage: Wackenhut's Free Market in Human Misery
by Gregory Palast
http://www.serendipity.li/more/palast01.htm

[Judi Lynn]

12. A quote from the first one you have shared:

Philip Agee, the left-wing former CIA agent who wrote an exposé of the agency in 1975, told us, "I don't have the slightest doubt that the CIA and Wackenhut overlap."

http://www.americanpolitics.com/sc1992209connolly4.html

You'd think he'd know!

Thanks for providing these links.

[Zhade]

5. This company handles security at my work.

What fun.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

9. Walmart...

... on Louise Avenue in Sioux Falls has been using Wackenhut security for the past 6 months or so. They sit there in different parts of the parking lot in their little Geo type 4x4 with yellow beacons flashing. I thought it peculiar, because Sioux Falls has always had it's own local merchant patrols scooting about town late at night.

[Neecy]

19. if I'm not mistaken....

Wackenhut also had the contract to provide checkpoint security at Boston's Logan Airport on 9/11.

[slaveplanet]

6. Wackenhut is not CIA

They're just a reincarnation of the Pinkertons for Jeb and chimpy.

Bushco mercs.

[NashVegas]

16. Speaking of Pinkertons

However capable Wackenhut's detectives may have been at their work, George Wackenhut had two personal attributes that were instrumental in the company's growth. First, he got along exceptionally well with important politicians. He was a close ally of Florida governor Claude Kirk, who hired him to combat organized crime in the state; and was also friends with Senator George Smathers, an intimate of John F. Kennedy's. It was Smathers who provided Wackenhut with his big break when the senator's law firm helped the company find a loophole in the Pinkerton law, the 1893 federal statute that had made it a crime for an employee of a private detective agency to do work for the government. Smathers's firm set up a wholly owned subsidiary of Wackenhut that provided only guards, not detectives. Shortly thereafter, Wackenhut received multimillion-dollar contracts from the government to guard Cape Canaveral and the Nevada nuclear-bomb test site, the first of many extremely lucrative federal contracts that have sustained the company to this day.

http://www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/wack_1.html

From a Spy Magazine article from 1992 (Oh, how I badly miss Spy under Jamie Malanowski)

and wow! look who was on the Wackenboard as of the time that was written:

former Defense secretary and former CIA deputy director Frank Carlucci

[9215]

21. Good info!

Keep this coming. I want to know more about the legality of Whackemhut. They can only be "guards" and not "detectives"....hmmmmmm.

[jonoboy]

7. this disgraceful outfit

has been running the prisons in Australia were asylum seekers including children have been locked up for years.

They are rip-off merchants and are under investigation for abuse of inmates.

[rooboy]

8. They certainly are a bunch of maggots. n/t

[0007]

10. What an eye operer first thing

on a cold windy Sunday morning. Jays'us this is unbelievable. Been reading some of the links on google.

1. Any connection with the Carlyle boys or Halliburton?

2. Are they doing security work in Iraq?

[Judi Lynn]

11. Tons of Wackenhut-CIA links

This is an easy grab, only one among 3,430 for Wackenhut + C.I.A.:

(snip) (from The Courier Mail (Brisbane) 24.7.99)

PRIVATE JAIL FIRM LINKED TO CIA By MARSHALL WILSON

A MASSIVE United States company accused of doctoring computer software to allow the CIA to spy on foreign governments is running key Australian jails and detention centres, including Brisbane's high-security Arthur Gorrie prison.

The company, Wackenhut, also has been linked to joint ventures to produce chemical and biological weapons, machine guns and devastating fuel-air explosives.

It recruits many of the top people for its 70,000 global workforce from intelligence agencies such as the FBI and CIA, the US military and law enforcement agencies.

Company founder George Wackenhut has denied it is an arm of the CIA but the group has faced repeated accusations of allowing its worldwide structure to be a front for spying. (snip)

In 1991 and 1992, Wackenhut was named at two US Congressional inquiries. Allegations included tampering with a computer software program for CIA spying operations and mounting an aggressive surveillance campaign on an oil industry whistleblower in Alaska.

The group created in 1954 by Mr Wackenhut, a former FBI agent, and now operating in 50 countries, has faced claims it allows its corporate identity to shield covert CIA operations. (snip/...)

http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/things5.htm

[goforit]

25. Well, Wakenhut may be right, they don't have CIA employed there....

but they certainly have Bush Sr. Militia!!!

[UpInArms]

15. jackpot on links here

http://www.american-buddha.com/wackenhut.htm

and an excerpt from Connolly's Spy article at

http://www.american-buddha.com/shadow.cia.htm

Similarly, efforts to get the State Department to explain whether embassy contracts were awarded arbitrarily or through competitive bidding were fruitless; essentially, the State Department said, "Some of both. " Wackenhut's competitors - who, understandably, asked not to be quoted by name - have their own version. "All those contracts," said one security-firm executive, "are just another way to pay Wackenhut for their clandestine help. And what is the nature of that help? "It is known throughout the industry," said retired FBI special agent William Hinshaw, "that if you want a dirty job done, call Wackenhut." We met George Wackenhut in his swanky, muy macho offices in Coral Gables. The rooms are paneled in a dark, rich rosewood, accented with gray-blue stone. The main office is dominated by Wackenhut's 12-foot-long desk and a pair of chairs shaped like elephants - "Republican chairs," he calls them - complete with real tusks, which, the old man says with some amusement, tend to stick his visitors.{/i]

[InkAddict]

28. Tusks probably poached!

[jonoboy]

17. I just remembered

that Wackenhut were somehow involved in the most disgraceful episode in Australian wharf history when in 1996 Coward Howard colluded with a huge private container company to fire every wharf worker and replace them with scabs recruited and trained in Dubai.
I'm sure they provided the logistics, security and training services in Dubai and when the whole thing fell apart the scabs got no pay.

there up to their necks in everything and they are part of this cabal thats been plotting the right wing take-over in the US for years.

[9215]

22. Got a link?

Any links to Dubai would be interesting, since OBL was, purportedly, at the Army Hospital there.

You never know what might turn up.

[tlcandie]

18. Wackenhut/Bush google

http://www.subliminal.org/mugbook/spooks/wackenhut.html



<snip>
GEORGE WACKENHUT,
an ex-FBI man, formed his namesake security company in Florida in 1954. Closely tied to the Mob, radical Cubans, and right wing nuts including WACL. Since the company's inception, its board has been packed with "former" CIA, FBI, and military agents. The company guards the US' most sensitive facilities, and runs vast domintel ops. Was a key player in the Inslaw/Octopus affair, and reportedly smuggled arms to Iraq during the BUSH Administration. Wackenhut Corrections Corp. is now the no. 2 private prison contractor. Mr. Wackenhut once called George Bush "pink".
<snip>

EDIT: Wackenhut Corp, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, contributed $20,000 to the 2001 Bush inauguration.
http://www.everyvotematters.com/boycott/www.html

[loudnclear]

26. I hope the Venezuelans stand up for their country and not let it become

another Iraq and victim of American impearilism.

[jonoboy]

30. more Wackenhut allegations today

there is a story breaking today in Australia.
An asylum seeker from Iraq is filing a claim for damages on behalf of her 5 year old daughter against Australian Correctional Institutions,a Wackenhut subsidiary that manages detention centres.

The little girl has been psychologically damaged from abuse and from witnessing suicide attempts by other inmates.

link is coming.

The dentention centres contain whole familes of mostly Iraqi & Afghani families, sometimes for years on end, who have fled their countrys, despite Coward Howard claiming they are not genuine, and now claiming he assisted in the bombing of those countries because they were not safe for the general public.

To be fair to many Wackenhut employees, most allegations about what has occured at the dentention centres were the media is bared from entering, has been exposed when warders, nurses etc resigned because they could not longer hack the management style.

[TheBlob]

32. Wackenhut has also provided security for none other than......

Area 51 in Nevada.

Serious A#1 Assholes to boot.

For years I've heard numerous stories about (and seen video of) these guys using threats, intimidation, even running people off the road for just being NEAR that 'line in the sand'.

[cosmicdot]

41. Wackenhut Board of Dirctors

Venezuela, to make a statement, should revoke whatever this is:

Mr. Wackenhut was a recipient in 1990 of the Labor Order of Merit, First Class, from the government of Venuzuela

the Board is always a good place to look for "clues"

"General" JULIUS W. BECTON, JR.

General Becton's most recent position was Chief Executive
Officer/Superintendent of the Washington, D.C. Public School System.
He is also a former President of Prairie View A&M University. He
entered the Army as a Private in 1944 and rose to the rank of
Lieutenant General. While in the Army, he commanded the lst Cavalry
Division and the VII Corps, and was the Deputy Commanding General of
the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. He is a veteran of three
wars, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam. After departing the
service in 1983, he served as Director of the Office of U.S. Foreign
Disaster Assistance, and from 1985 to 1989 was the Director, Federal
Emergency Management Agency. He was later Chief Operating Officer for
American Coastal Industries, Inc. He is on the Board of Directors of
General Dynamics Corporation. He is a Member of the American Battle
Monuments Commission. He is trustee of the George C. Marshall
Foundation and the Florida A&M University Board as well as several
civic public service organizations. He received numerous U.S. Army
service and valor awards, including the Distinguished Service Medal;
and the Distinguished Service Award for his service as Director,
Federal Emergency Management Agency. He has a BS from Prairie View
A&M University, an MA in Economics from the University of Maryland,
and has been awarded honorary Doctor of Law degrees by four
universities.

ALAN B. BERNSTEIN
Mr. Bernstein has been Chief Operating Officer since March, 2000 and
has been Executive Vice President of the Corporation since 1991, and
is also President of the Corporation's Global Security Group. Mr.
Bernstein has been with the Corporation since 1976, except for a
period in 1982 when he was a partner in a family-owned security alarm
business in New York State. He was appointed President, Wackenhut
Systems Corporation in 1983, and subsequently was named Vice
President, Corporate Business Development in 1984; Vice President,
Domestic Operations in 1985; and was Senior Vice President, Domestic
Operations from 1986-91. He also serves on the Boards of several
subsidiaries of the Corporation. He is a member of the American
Society for Industrial Security. He has a B.S.E.E. degree from the
University of Rochester, and an M.B.A. degree from Cornell
University.

CARROLL A. CAMPBELL, JR.
Governor Campbell served two terms as the Governor of South Carolina,
and four terms representing South Carolina's fourth district in the
U.S. House of Representatives (1979-86). He also served in the South
Carolina House of Representatives (1970-74) and was elected to the
South Carolina Senate in 1976. While serving as Governor, he was also
Chairman of the National Governors Association (1993-94) and co-chair
of the National Governors Association Task Force on Education. He is
recognized as a leader in promoting initiatives for excellence in
education at the state and national levels, and has served as
chairman of the National Education Goals Panel and co-chair of the
National Council on Education Standards and Testing. Governor
Campbell is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of
the American Council of Life Insurance. His business career began
at age 19, when he co-founded a business which eventually developed a
chain of 13 restaurants. He remains active today in several small
business enterprises and serves on the Board of Directors for the
Fluor Corporation, AVX Corporation, Norfolk Southern Corporation, and the Boy Scouts of America. He is EX OFFICIO board chairman for the Huntington Society, an arts foundation. He has an M.A. degree from American University, is a member of three national honor societies, and holds nine honorary doctorate degrees.

BENJAMIN R. CIVILETTI
Mr. Civiletti has been Chairman of the law firm Venable, Baetjer and
Howard and was Managing Partner of the firm from 1987 to 1993. From
1979 to 1980, Mr. Civiletti served as the Attorney General of the
United States. Mr. Civiletti is former Chairman of the Board of
Greater Baltimore Medical Center and the Founding Chairman of the
Maryland Legal Services Corporation; a Director of Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, and a Director of MBNA Corporation and MBNA
International. Mr. Civiletti has served as a Director of Wackenhut
Corrections Corporation since April 1994. Mr. Civiletti is a
Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the American Law Institute,
and the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Civiletti was Chairman
of the Maryland Governor's Commission on Welfare Policy in 1993, and
a member of the Maryland Governor's Task Force on Alternatives to
Incarceration in 1991.

ANNE NEWMAN FOREMAN
Mrs. Foreman served as Under Secretary of the United States Air Force
from September 1989 until January 1993. Prior to her tenure as Under
Secretary, she was General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force
and a member of the Department's Intelligence Oversight Board. Mrs.
Foreman served in the White House as Associate Director of
Presidential Personnel for National Security (1985-1987) and
practiced law with the Washington office of the Houston-based law
firm of Bracewell and Patterson, and with the British solicitors
Boodle Hatfield, Co., in London, England (1979-1985). Mrs. Foreman is
a former member of the career Foreign Service, having served in
Beirut, Lebanon; Tunis, Tunisia, and the U.S. Mission to the United
Nations in New York. She was a U.S. Delegate to the 3lst Session of
the U.N. General Assembly and to the 62nd Session of the U.N.
Economic and Social Council. Mrs. Foreman received a B.A. degree,
Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Southern California and a
M.A. (History) from the same institution. She also holds a J.D. from
American University and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate
of Laws from Troy State University. Mrs. Foreman is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, has been a member of numerous Presidential delegations,
and was twice awarded the Air Force Medal for Distinguished Civilian
Service. Mrs. Foreman is a member of the Board of Directors of Ultra
Electronics Defense, Inc. of Advanced Programming Concepts, Inc., and
of Trust Securities, Inc. She also serves as Chairman of The National
Gypsum Company Settlement Trust and as Director and Treasurer of the
Asbestos Claims Management Corporation.

EDWARD L. HENNESSY, JR.
Mr. Hennessy served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
Officer of AlliedSignal Inc. from 1979 to 1991. He was previously Executive Vice President and member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of United Technologies Corporation, Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance for Heublein, Inc. and Controller with IT&T Corporation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Avanir Pharmaceuticals Corp. He is Trustee of Stevens Institute of Technology, a Director of The Coast Guard Academy Inc., founding President of the Tri-County Scholarship Fund and Vice-Chairman of the March of Dimes. He was a member of The President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, The (New Jersey) Governor's Management Improvement Plan, Inc., and the Tender Offer Advisory Committee of the Securities & Exchange Commission. He also is a member of The Conference Board, Inc. and the Economic Club of New York. He has numerous honorary degrees and is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, where he is a former Trustee and Chairman of the University's Board.

"General" PAUL X. KELLEY
General Kelley is a Partner with J.F. Lehman, Inc., a New York private investment firm. He served as Vice Chairman, Cassidy & Associates, Inc., a government relations firm from 1989 to 1998. Prior to that, he was Commandant of the Marine Corps and Member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1983 until his retirement in 1987. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of London Life Reinsurance Company, a reinsurance company; Park Place Entertainment Corporation, a gaming company; Saul Centers, Inc., a real estate investment trust; Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc., a firearms company; and UST, Inc., a smokeless tobacco, cigar and wine company. He is the recipient of numerous awards for valor and distinguished service during thirty-seven years of active military service. General Kelley has a B.S. in Economics from Villanova University and is a Distinguished Graduate of the Air War College. He is the recipient of five honorary doctorate
degrees from major universities.

NANCY CLARK REYNOLDS
Ms. Reynolds is Senior Consultant of The Wexler Group, a governmental relations and public affairs consulting firm in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Board of the National Park Foundation and a past President of the Business and Government Relations Council. Ms. Reynolds is also currently Chairman of Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado. She was formerly a Director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, G.D. Searle & Co., Sears, Roebuck & Co., Allstate Insurance Company and Viacom International. From 1977-82, she was a Vice President of the Bendix Corporation. She received her B.A. degree in English from Goucher College and an Honorary Degree of Law from Gonzaga University.

JOHN F. RUFFLE
Mr. Ruffle is a retired Vice Chairman and Director of J.P. Morgan &
Co., Inc. and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York. He joined
J.P. Morgan in 1970 as Controller and was named CFO in 1980, and
elected Vice Chairman in 1985. Earlier, he was Assistant Treasurer
and Director of Accounting for International Paper Company. Mr.
Ruffle also serves as a Director of Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
American Shared Hospital Services and Trident Corporation, and
Wackenhut Corrections Corporation. He is a Trustee of the Johns
Hopkins University and of JPM Series Trust II (mutual funds). He is a
past President of the Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting
Foundation and a past Chairman of the Financial Executives Institute,
and in 1991 received the Financial Executive Institute's National
Award for Distinguished Service. Mr. Ruffle is a graduate of the
Johns Hopkins University and earned an M.B.A. in Finance from Rutgers
University. He is also a CPA.

"General" THOMAS P. STAFFORD
General Stafford is a Consultant for the firm of General Technical Services, Inc., which he joined in 1984. He is also Vice Chairman and co-founder of Stafford, Burke and Hecker, Inc., a Washington-based consulting firm. After serving as an astronaut for a number of years, he retired in 1979 from the Air Force as Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition and served as Vice Chairman of Gibraltar Exploration Limited until 1984. Gen. Stafford is also Chairman of the Board of Omega Watch Corporation of America and is a Director of N.L. Industries, Inc.; Cycomm International, Inc.; Timet, Inc.; and Tremont Corporation. General Stafford served as a Director of the Corporation from 1991 to 1996.

GEORGE R. WACKENHUT
Mr. Wackenhut is Chairman of the Board and was Chief Executive
Officer of the Corporation until February 17, 2000. He was President
of the Corporation from the time it was founded until April 26, 1986.
He formerly was a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Ivestigation (FBI). Mr. Wackenhut is Chairman the Board of Directors of Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, a member of the Board of Trustees of Correctional Properties Trust, a former member of the Board of Directors of SSJ Medical Development, Inc., Miami, Florida, and is on the Dean's Advisory Board of the University of Miami School of Business. He is on the National Council of Trustees, Freedoms
Foundation at Valley Forge, the President's Advisory Council for the
Small Business Administration, Region IV, and a member of the
National Board of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. He is a past
participant in the Florida Governor's War on Crime and a past member
of the Law Enforcement Council, National Council on Crime and
Delinquency, and the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Army Military
Police School. He is also a member of the American Society for
Industrial Security. Mr. Wackenhut was a recipient in 1990 of the Labor Order of Merit, First Class, from the government of Venuzuela; and, in 1999 was awarded the distinguished Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations. He has been designated a "distinguished alumnus" by West Chester University, the University of Hawaii, and Johns Hopkins University. He was inducted into the West Chester University Hall of Fame; the Athlete's Hall of Fame in his home county, Delaware County, PA; and the "Wall of Fame", consisting of prominent graduates of Upper Darby (PA) High School. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Hawaii and his M.Ed. degree from Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Wackenhut is married to Ruth J. Wackenhut, the Secretary of the Corporation. His son, Richard R. Wackenhut, is Vice Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation.

RICHARD R. WACKENHUT
Mr. Wackenhut has been the Chairman of the Board since August 1999,
and President and Chief Executive Officer since February 17, 2000. He
was President and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation from
April, 1986 to February 2000. He was formerly Senior Vice President,
Operations from 1983-1986. He was Manager of Physical Security from
1973-74. He also served as Manager, Development at the Corporation's
Headquarters from 1974-76; Area Manager, Columbia, SC from 1976-77;
District Manager, Columbia, SC from 1977-79; Director, Physical
Security Division at Corporate Headquarters 1979-80; Vice President,
Operations from 1981-82; and Senior Vice President, Domestic
Operations from 1982-83. Mr. Wackenhut is a member of the Board of
Directors of Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, a Director of
Wackenhut UK, Limited; Wackenhut Dominicana, S.A.; Wackenhut
Resources, Inc.; the Board of Trustees of Correctional Properties
Trust; and a Director of several domestic subsidiaries of the
Corporation. He is former Vice Chairman of Associated Industries of
Florida. He is also a member of the American Society for Industrial
Security, a former member of The Citadel Advisory Council, a member
of the International Security Management Association, and the
International Association of Chiefs of Police. He received his B.A.
degree from The Citadel in 1969, and completed the Advanced Management
Program of the Harvard University School of Business Administration
in 1987. Mr. Wackenhut is the son of George R. Wackenhut, a Director,
and Ruth J. Wackenhut, Secretary of the Corporation.

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