Aegis Defense Services organization
also: Aegis Iraq, Aegis, Aegis Defense Services, LLC, Aegis LLC, Aegis Defense LLC, Aegis Defense Services Limited, Aegis Defense, Aegis Group, Aegis II, Aegis American
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Claims (65)
Tim Spicer headed
Aegis Defense Services documented
“G4S, and Triple Canopy. Among the signers representing the many companies that day was Aegis Spicer, a predictable occurrence considering that Aegis had been actively involved in the Swiss initiative for several years. Spicer signed on beha…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 25:48
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology subcontracted_to
Aegis Defense Services documented
“in Afghanistan. New Mexico Tech, specifically the Playa Center, had become a subcontractor to Aegis Defense Services, LLC, their branch in Washington. Under Aegis' State Department Worldwide Protective Services contract, as a subcontractor,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 8 @ 4:09
Aegis Defense Services member_of
International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers documented
“G4S, and Triple Canopy. Among the signers representing the many companies that day was Aegis Spicer, a predictable occurrence considering that Aegis had been actively involved in the Swiss initiative for several years. Spicer signed on beha…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 25:48
Tim Spicer headed
Aegis Defense Services documented
“The resume of the CEO, none other than Tim Spicer, was long, deeply linking the firm to the industry's origins of mercenary. In Britain, Spicer was as well known as his firm was little known. In fact, Spicer and his friend Simon Mann were, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 49:42
Aegis Defense Services carried_out_attack
Kadhim Al-Khanemi documented
“firm won a prestigious security contract for the Olympic Delivery Authority for the 2012 Olympics in London. Eisenberg wrote, one wonders if the Olympic Delivery Authority was aware that it was Aegis security contractors who shot and perman…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 6 @ 48:01
Controlled Risk Group supplied_arms_to
Aegis Defense Services documented
“was one that understood what was at stake here and loaned Aegis its armored vehicles, loaned with a big payment. Anyone in the business that had any hint of sophistication knew we had to be in this together if we were all going to succeed. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 5:34
Aegis Defense Services covered_up
Shooting of Khadhem Alkhani book_quoted
“The story of that shooting never surfaced in America that summer and would not be known for several years. Thanks to the CIA. The incident was filed away as a shot in the line of duty case resulting in an honorable discharge. In the officia…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 11:18
Rod Stoner exposed
Aegis Defense Services book_quoted
“and had posted the video suddenly surfaced and was interviewed on a British news show. His name was Rod Stoner, and he was a former British soldier and former Aegis employee. He said that he started the website in 2005 after quitting Aegis.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 18:43
Aegis Defense Services recruited
Robert McFarlane documented
“also known for its intelligence work, and it was adding new members to its board and its advisory council, like Robert McFarlane, the Reagan chief advisor on the National Security Council that was responsible for Iran-Contra. More recently,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 28:55
Aegis Defense Services recruited
Nicholas Soames documented
“Energy Security Forum, as well as the director on the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which was basically a CIA front. Another influential figure new to Aegis' board of director was the grandson of Winston Churchill, the Honorabl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 29:27
Aegis Defense Services recruited
Rubicon International Services documented
“Aegis was becoming the best example among private military contractors of the trajectory from covert and infamous, excuse me, to acceptable and indispensable. Between 2004 and 2007, as industry began to consolidate, Aegis expanded and diver…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 28:26
Henry Waxman exposed
Aegis Defense Services documented
“Waxman, as a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, had initiated a study in 2006 that showed the cost of federal contracts growing twice as fast as discretionary federal spending. The study noted that 118 contrac…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 25:12
Marcy Kaptur exposed
Aegis Defense Services documented
“and $48 million, almost twice as much. The upcoming contract, initial contract, was scheduled to be $475 million. Knowing that Aegis could end up with at least a billion dollars of American tax dollars, Kaptur initiated her own probe to lea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 26:06
Aegis Defense Services funded
Global Policy Group documented
“to winning additional U.S. contracts. With the Matrix renewal coming up, lobbying and networking was essential components to Aegis image building in Washington. Helping with that was a group called Global Policy Group, which in 2007 was und…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 31:27
Christy Clemons headed
Aegis Defense Services documented
“CEO Christy Clemons had run public relations for none other than Paul Bremer. She had also been a Bush appointee at the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Patrol. Ages had also became an official advisor to Lloyds of Londo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 31:58
Aegis Defense Services funded
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs documented
“3.348 million pounds from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protect Italians aid workers in southern Iraq. But that was nothing compared to Project Matrix renewal. In January 2007, after the Joint Contracting Command Iraq-Afghanist…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 32:29
Aegis Defense Services competed_for
Project Matrix documented
“For the $475 million contract, Blackwater, Enris, Armored Group, DynCorp, Control Risk Group, and Aegis entered the competition. On April 1st, the Army announced the competition had narrowed to Armored Group and Aegis. But then while the tw…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 32:55
Brian Scott filed_lawsuit_against
Aegis Defense Services documented
“For the $475 million contract, Blackwater, Enris, Armored Group, DynCorp, Control Risk Group, and Aegis entered the competition. On April 1st, the Army announced the competition had narrowed to Armored Group and Aegis. But then while the tw…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 32:55
Aegis Defense Services awarded_contract
Project Matrix documented
“who had served 13 years of active duty in the U.S. Army, had filed at least a dozen protests against the use of private military companies, all were dismissed, as this one would be too. By mid-September, Aegis was awarded the contract, this…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 34:16
Lloyd's of London funded
Aegis Defense Services host_asserted
“And AIG never changed its colors from its original roots. So there's all kinds of insurance things that play out through the Gladio as far as culpability in it and enabling it, not to mention Lloyd's of London, who we know funded Aegis. And…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Charlie Kirk Shooting and PRE 9_11 conversation @ 1:37:22
Hamid Karzai removed_from_power
Aegis Defense Services documented
“consulates in Afghanistan. Aegis, as journalist Charles Glass wrote in Harper Magazine in 2012, was the elite private force in Afghanistan. This would be for years to come, despite Afghan President Karzai's order to expel all private milita…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 56:34
Charles Glass exposed
Aegis Defense Services book_quoted
“consulates in Afghanistan. Aegis, as journalist Charles Glass wrote in Harper Magazine in 2012, was the elite private force in Afghanistan. This would be for years to come, despite Afghan President Karzai's order to expel all private milita…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 56:34
U.S. State Department funded
Aegis Defense Services documented
“embassy security protection and thus Aegis could stay. Even the British Foreign Office, which had nearly declared war on Spicer in 1990, wanted Aegis to guard some of its embassies. We've built a brand. We've built a reputation. We've dispe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 57:02
Aegis Defense Services funded
Iran documented
“As you guys all know, that's been here. I go to dinner with my family on Wednesday. So we're going to try to get through most of chapter four. We may not get all of it. All right. Thanks to the contract signed with the Pentagon and with the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 1:04
United States funded
Aegis Defense Services documented
“Custer battles were guarding the Baghdad airport, and Aranus was protecting oil installations in southern Iraq. The winner, though, would be a small British company that had provided security for Disney Cruise Line, you know, maritime secur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 49:10
United States funded
Aegis Defense Services documented
“There were six bidders, three in America, DynCorp, Custer Battles, and Triple Canopy, and three from UK, Armor Group, Aranis, and Aegis Defense Services. Of those six, three were already in Iraq. DynCorp, the longstanding client of the U.S.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 48:41
Tim Spicer founded
Aegis Defense Services documented
“have implications for the Tony Blair prime minister. Spicer left Sandline in 1999. The next few years were austere after a series of lackluster security firms. Spicer founded Aegis, A-E-G-I-S, Defense Services in 2002, which just so happene…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 49:43
Aegis Defense Services funded
Coalition Provisional Authority documented
“$293 million security contract for what was called the Coalition Provisional Authorities Program Management Office, which was going to coordinate and oversee activity movements on private military companies enlisted to work in Iraq. In othe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 51:14
Hillary Clinton funded
Aegis Defense Services book_quoted
“which received an immense boost from the U.S. State Department. In late October 11, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a memo asking diplomats to promote the use of privately contracted armed security on merchant vessels to deter …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 12:05
Aegis Defense Services funded
Pentagon documented
“The 2004 contract with the DOD under which the Cadem's shooter had been employed was a London-based Aegis. The Aegis American subsidiary had not opened until 2006. Besides, it was not the legal entity under the contract with the DOD when th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 40:49
USAID funded
Aegis Defense Services documented
“of the private military company in Baghdad in 2007 while she was in a car riding home from church. The defendants were a company based in North Carolina under contract to USAID and a private military company based in Dubai hired by USAID co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 39:27
Aegis Defense Services carried_out_attack
Iran documented
“Custer battles were guarding the Baghdad airport, and Aranus was protecting oil installations in southern Iraq. The winner, though, would be a small British company that had provided security for Disney Cruise Line, you know, maritime secur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 49:10
Aegis Defense Services funded
Iran documented
“to manage the mayhem. And because Aegis had the cost plus project matrix contract, that would be up for renewal in 2007. And that renewal would add an additional $500 million. They were not going to lose it. And as I had mentioned in our…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 3:00
Aegis Defense Services funded
Iran documented
“including $292 million to AGES for Iraq reconstruction services. AGES was of particular interest to Representative Kaptur because of the upcoming contract renewal. The first contract AGES had signed had totaled $293 million. Added to that a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 25:37
Aegis Defense Services funded
Iran documented
“part of that $10 billion contract, contracted to train private security contractors to replace troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. By now, Aegis was one of the biggest stars in the galaxy. With its U.S. contract in Iraq twice renewed, having ga…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 43:01
Olympic Delivery Authority funded
Aegis Defense Services documented
“firm won a prestigious security contract for the Olympic Delivery Authority for the 2012 Olympics in London. Eisenberg wrote, one wonders if the Olympic Delivery Authority was aware that it was Aegis security contractors who shot and perman…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 6 @ 48:01
Tim Spicer member_of
Aegis Defense Services documented
“as well as to better serve and protect its clients while enabling their mission. Unquote. Spicer's presence at such an event and his involvement in the cause to regulate, self-regulate that is, should not have surprised anyone. In his 1999 …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 26:42
Tim Spicer member_of
Aegis Defense Services documented
“While in the U.S., there were private militaries sometimes legally unaccountable to anyone. For Aegis and for Spicer, an ironic situation surfaced in August of 2010 when Aegis established a new non-operating holding company in Basel, Switze…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 38:11
Aegis Defense Services funded
Ford Foundation host_asserted
“especially considering this was a business renowned for secrecy. Aegis even opened a charity, because of course they did. That's how they money launder and pay people off. The Aegis Foundation to help dispel the image of a money-making merc…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 48:26
Aegis Defense Services member_of
Robert Reynolds documented
“its strategies and developments as a thriving enterprise. In 2010, the components of its success were becoming apparent. For example, more board members with political connections. That year, Aegis LLC added two former senior CIA officials …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 47:24
Aegis Defense Services funded
Afghanistan documented
“including one from the DOD, to oversee private security companies in Afghanistan, basically setting up another command post in Afghanistan. It monitored their activities and investigating any escalation of force incidents. That's, again, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 43:59
Aegis Defense Services funded
Nigeria documented
“The firm was also finding work in Africa, turning its attention to oil and thus following the lead of other private military security companies, such as Control Risk Group, Inris, Triple Canopy and Armor Group. The Niger Delta, for example,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 44:30
Aegis Defense Services funded
Algeria documented
“The firm was also finding work in Africa, turning its attention to oil and thus following the lead of other private military security companies, such as Control Risk Group, Inris, Triple Canopy and Armor Group. The Niger Delta, for example,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 44:30
Aegis Defense Services funded
Sudan documented
“and Sudan, as well as Yemen and Djibouti, where Aegis had recently entered negotiations with the government to set up a control center that would monitor piracy threats and disseminate risk information to vessels in the Gulf of Aden. And go…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 44:58
Aegis Defense Services funded
Yemen documented
“and Sudan, as well as Yemen and Djibouti, where Aegis had recently entered negotiations with the government to set up a control center that would monitor piracy threats and disseminate risk information to vessels in the Gulf of Aden. And go…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 44:58
Aegis Defense Services funded
Djibouti documented
“and Sudan, as well as Yemen and Djibouti, where Aegis had recently entered negotiations with the government to set up a control center that would monitor piracy threats and disseminate risk information to vessels in the Gulf of Aden. And go…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 44:58
Aegis Defense Services funded
Gulf of Aden documented
“and Sudan, as well as Yemen and Djibouti, where Aegis had recently entered negotiations with the government to set up a control center that would monitor piracy threats and disseminate risk information to vessels in the Gulf of Aden. And go…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 44:58
Aegis Defense Services funded_by
U.S. State Department documented
“in Afghanistan. New Mexico Tech, specifically the Playa Center, had become a subcontractor to Aegis Defense Services, LLC, their branch in Washington. Under Aegis' State Department Worldwide Protective Services contract, as a subcontractor,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 8 @ 4:09
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology funded
Aegis Defense Services host_asserted
“And in a year when so many businesses were faltering in the ongoing worldwide economic struggle, it was a time of growth in the private military security companies. By some accounts, it grew at a rate of 15%. After all, economic troubles le…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 8 @ 30:00
Tim Spicer headed
Aegis Defense Services documented
“was granted to a British company, Aegis Service Limited, in May to provide security teams for the project and contracting office, the body responsible for overseeing $18 billion in U.S. reconstruction funds for Iraq. The company is led by T…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 11:29
Tim Spicer founded
Aegis Defense Services documented
“was the banker star researcher also from Jardin. A few months later, in December of 2002, while the New Jersey project continued, Spicer, the two men from Jardin, and one more Jardin banker, who was a big backer, launched Aegis. So, you hav…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 27:22
Frederick Forsyth funded
Aegis Defense Services book_quoted
“Aegis. Are y'all following along? That's crazy shit. So from the start, this company basically fits all of the descriptions of this ongoing Operation Gladio bullshit. On the list of Aegis' early investors was Frederick Forsyte, who said lat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 27:52
Saad Investments Company funded
Aegis Defense Services book_quoted
“He told me he was setting up a new company and asked if I fancied investing in it. I thought, why not, Forsythe said. Also on the list was Saad, S-A-A-D, Investments Company. And of course, we know that's linked to Saudi Arabia, Saad Group.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 28:21
The Economist cited_as_source
Aegis Defense Services documented
“cast doubt on what actually happened. But the bottom line is it furthered their PR campaign. Later in the year, Aegis published a study on what had happened. The Economist magazine wrote, according to a new study, a London defense and secur…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 31:39
Tony Choate funded
Aegis Defense Services host_asserted
“He's writing the source requirements document to give to the United States government for them to find a contractor who's going to be his buddy in the UK. Sources within the private military security company industry seem confident that he …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 43:07
Aegis Defense Services funded
Tim Spicer book_quoted
“Aegis indeed focused on the coordination aspect of the project when it entered the competition, and this was what the U.S. government wanted. But the government also wanted Spicer's expertise, Avant said. At the time, according to knowledge…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 44:09
Department of Defense funded
Aegis Defense Services documented
“was not incorporated until the year after the shooting and was not under the AGES contract with the DOD in 2005. Legally, neither the British AGES nor the American version could be held accountable for the shooting, a fact as solidly ground…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 6 @ 47:07
U.S. State Department funded
Aegis Defense Services documented
“And we pay for it. In Afghanistan, it would be one of the last companies standing. By the summer of 2013, there were more than 100,000 private contractors working for the DOD in Afghanistan. This figure would not include contractors working…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 56:02
Aegis Defense Services carried_out_attack
Bahrain book_quoted
“To be sure, there were plenty of work for private military contractors during the Arab Spring, especially protecting companies trying to operate in the midst of the political unrest. For example, in Bagram, excuse me, Bahrain, where Aegis h…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 6:52
AFRICOM funded
Aegis Defense Services host_asserted
“And as one of the participants in the privatization study pointed out, for the private military and security industry, AFRICOM marked the beginning of a new market. Already stretched militarily, America would have to turn to private militar…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 6 @ 38:59
Tim Spicer founded
Aegis Defense Services host_asserted
“Well-known British journalist Stephen Armstrong began an article in a TV interview with the observation, Tim Spicer is the future of warfare. Another writer described him as the closest thing to the father of private security in the militar…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 29:55
Aegis Defense Services front_for
Tim Spicer host_asserted
“The resume of the CEO, none other than Tim Spicer, was long, deeply linking the firm to the industry's origins of mercenary. In Britain, Spicer was as well known as his firm was little known. In fact, Spicer and his friend Simon Mann were, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 49:42
USAID funded
Aegis Defense Services host_asserted
“That gets illustrated a little later in the book, but that's profound because you have the State Department hiring mercenaries directly, not the CIA, although they're involved as well. But the State Department contracts are hiring mercenary…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 1:07:11
Aegis Defense Services overthrew
Iran host_asserted
“And overthrew governments. He was literally in prison for doing that in Lloyd's of London. The insurance company props him up in business. And don't you know that there's this mysterious one off terrorist attack on a boat and they are a lar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Charlie Kirk Shooting and PRE 9_11 conversation @ 1:37:52
U.S. State Department funded
Aegis Defense Services host_asserted
“You have to really dig down in order to understand the presence of the Office of Public Safety. And that brings up another point. What you're going to find is a significant amount of the private military security contracts are not issued by…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 1:06:43
Mentions (105)
▶ 1:37:22
And AIG never changed its colors from its original roots. So there's all kinds of insurance things that play out through the Gladio as far as culpability in it and enabling it, not to mention Lloyd's of London, who we know funded Aegis. And…
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Last one real quick. And this one is Aegis. A-E-G-I-S. The Brits have long been well respected for their private military companies as well. And one of their most infamous people is a Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer. Spicer spent 20 years in …
▶ 49:43
have implications for the Tony Blair prime minister. Spicer left Sandline in 1999. The next few years were austere after a series of lackluster security firms. Spicer founded Aegis, A-E-G-I-S, Defense Services in 2002, which just so happene…
▶ 50:44
to all of Britain's higher-ups, as well as the Netherlands and everybody else all over Germany. So, Colonel David Sterling again, we have the circle and all of their contacts being in bed with this Spicer guy. A year after his meeting with …
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W-O-N-G-A, sponsored by his former business partner, Simon Mann, that was going on when he was awarded the IRAC contract. No doubt Spicer's contact with the Circle, as well as his friends at the Coalition Provisional Authority, helped. Ages…
▶ 54:08
Many of his friends ended up in the Operation Gladio OAS for France as part of their assassination squads. Given this background, the presence of Hunter Choke in the Coalition Provisional Authority and working with Spicer makes all of this …
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employees that displayed private security contractors randomly firing at civilian vehicles on an Iraqi highway. While in subsequent investigation, the U.S. Army criminal investigations determined that no crimes had been committed, even thou…
▶ 55:02
employees who randomly fired at civilian vehicles. As noted above, Blackwater contractors did it as well. Let's see. The Aegis was officially tasked with coordinating and overseeing all private contractors that were deployed to Iraq. So you…
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As you guys all know, that's been here. I go to dinner with my family on Wednesday. So we're going to try to get through most of chapter four. We may not get all of it. All right. Thanks to the contract signed with the Pentagon and with the…
▶ 1:36
military contractor in the world, said a Paris newspaper in June of 2004. From France to Britain to America, the news that Aegis had won America's largest security contract caused a stir. After all, they had never even been in Iraq. It was …
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highest bidder. And for those of you who don't know anything about U.S. government contracts, you're always supposed to go with the lowest bidder. And it had been operating under the name Aegis for less than two years. So, biggest military …
▶ 2:41
using government contracting standards, that they should have ever been awarded the contract. Shortly after AGES had entered the competition, the Department of Defense Defense Contracting Audit Agency at Fort Eustis, Virginia, sent a letter…
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profitable were insufficient, basically making a 12,000 pound profit. So not even close to profitable. Ageist's ability to win the $293 million contract with a renewal option in 2007, despite his financial condition, was hugely impressive a…
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Some commentary regarded the situation as business as usual for empire builders and nations accompanying to occupying other nations, such as England. Aegis, by some accounts, was simply a later version of the private military company known …
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That was their word, passed, as a mercenary, but saw no reason why that would be a barrier to his qualifying for the contract. The Financial Times article ended with a British foreign officer spokesman saying that the foreign office had not…
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DynCorp hoped the government would reopen the competition. In its complaint, the firm said it was shocked by its rejection, despite the fact that its bid was at least $80 million lower. Further, DynCorp asserted that Aegis did not have enou…
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Several weeks later, Senator John Kerry endorsed their letter. Here's what it said. Dear Secretary Rumsfeld, we are writing to request you to ask the Inspector General to investigate the $293 million Iraq security contract, given troubling …
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was exemplary and the company was successful, unquote. By August, the spokesperson for Aegis told the press, quote, the awarding of the contract was extremely rigorous and all relevant facts were obviously known by the authorities. We have …
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past was likely viewed as an asset for the work they wanted to do in Iraq. Some people have suggested that this shows that the U.S. was clueless about contracting. Avant says, but there is no reason for his company to have gotten the contra…
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and always seemed to know how to flip a failure into a success. In the evolution of private military and security sector, Sandline was a conceptual bridge between executive outcomes and Aegis. Playing corporate leapfrog, Sandline started ab…
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The prime minister was forced to resign and eventually Spicer was released. The next year, the second Sandline scandal occurred in Sierra Leone. This one was labeled by the media as arms for Africa. It caused a considerable stir during the …
▶ 25:27
however, disputed his claim, and investigation reports and heated disputes would ensue for years. In 1999, Spicer resigned from Sandline, and for the next few years until founding AGES, he started and ran several small enterprises, mostly p…
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was the banker star researcher also from Jardin. A few months later, in December of 2002, while the New Jersey project continued, Spicer, the two men from Jardin, and one more Jardin banker, who was a big backer, launched Aegis. So, you hav…
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Aegis. Are y'all following along? That's crazy shit. So from the start, this company basically fits all of the descriptions of this ongoing Operation Gladio bullshit. On the list of Aegis' early investors was Frederick Forsyte, who said lat…
▶ 28:49
because you have to be there if you're laundering money. At first, Aegis was a discreet entity, staying in the same London offices at Piccadilly as the maritime security firm Trident Maritime, which was one of Spicer's companies, and even u…
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cast doubt on what actually happened. But the bottom line is it furthered their PR campaign. Later in the year, Aegis published a study on what had happened. The Economist magazine wrote, according to a new study, a London defense and secur…
▶ 33:16
So they milked it for everything they could get. And immediately a star was born. Aegis was one of the first companies to discuss publicly the need for protecting commercial shipping industry from the risk of terrorist attacks. In the month…
▶ 33:45
So they just kept milking this for all it was worth. By the end of the summer of 2004, Aegis had more authority and attention than it had had when it first applied for the contract in Iraq. It was even quoted several times in news sources t…
▶ 35:12
is where many new players are popping up, unquote. His focus was on Aegis and the head Spicer, whom he referred to as the mercenary thrown out of Papua New Guinea. Cooks responds, these days Spicer's company will now sell you a 1,500 pound …
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inspector general concluded that ageist award had indeed been just fine this line there was there was little public reaction though sean mcmanus of the irish national caucus told the media i am hoping that president bush will show some basi…
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Contract. Why Aegis? From vicious and fantastic to plausibility and logical, rumors filled the atmosphere. The most commonly expressed opinion was that Tony Blair pressured the Bush administration to hand over a piece of the privatization p…
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among the British was that Spicer had been part of MI6 for years, and he was just continuing working for them. This fit with the long-lived suspicion that Jardin Fleming Banks, tethered to Aegis early days, was just an extension of the Brit…
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He's writing the source requirements document to give to the United States government for them to find a contractor who's going to be his buddy in the UK. Sources within the private military security company industry seem confident that he …
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One of the reports said, we believe Al Qaeda, again, a CIA creation, and its associates may be planning a maritime spectacular. An analyst from the British firm Aegis Defense Services, it in itself is the defense, private military defense c…
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There were six bidders, three in America, DynCorp, Custer Battles, and Triple Canopy, and three from UK, Armor Group, Aranis, and Aegis Defense Services. Of those six, three were already in Iraq. DynCorp, the longstanding client of the U.S.…
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Custer battles were guarding the Baghdad airport, and Aranus was protecting oil installations in southern Iraq. The winner, though, would be a small British company that had provided security for Disney Cruise Line, you know, maritime secur…
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for companies with the big contracts that we mentioned some of them in the previous chapters. The new companies were popping up daily, especially small ones forming quickly to capitalize on the subcontracting mania. They might last for the …
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to manage the mayhem. And because Aegis had the cost plus project matrix contract, that would be up for renewal in 2007. And that renewal would add an additional $500 million. They were not going to lose it. And as I had mentioned in our…
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and Halliburton to be able to get their contracts because these guys were their security. So a lot was riding on the success. Aegis' term began on shaky ground. Not enough armored cars, not enough weapons, and not enough soldiers. Because a…
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of a lot, one industry insider said. And those who knew how important this job was to the future for everyone basically had kind of dropped their disgruntledness of having not won the contract themselves. Control Risk Group, which was anoth…
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Inspector General for Iraq's Reconstruction, an office created by Congress to oversee the billions of dollars allocated for the rebuilding of Iraq, issued its first audit of Aegis. This was an early assessment to determine whether the compa…
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However, the auditors also pointed out there were serious problems in key areas. Quote, there is no assurance that Aegis is providing the best possible safety and security for government and reconstruction contractors, personnel, and facili…
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and largely irrelevant to the vetting process because of the current dysfunctional state of the Iraqi government. So, because we don't know who we're hiring, it's all the Iraqi government's fault. There were more criticisms, such as shoddy …
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may not have connected the shooting with the company running the coordination hub in Baghdad, Aegis. For Qadhim, the silence would be as tragic as the gunshot itself. For Aegis, it was sheer luck that while its critics and competitors conti…
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We were not disobeying anyone when we did that. I want that to be clear. We were following orders. The orders later changed, but you have to understand that we felt threatened and were doing what we thought was right. In 2005, an unsettling…
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adding a touch of mockery to the scene and making the images seem even more callous. Exactly who the shooters were and whether or not they worked for Aegis was a mystery, as was the providence of the video itself. But soon the video began c…
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Another posting from a profile called Low Profile, quote, all this plays into the hands of those that see us as mercenary, baby killers, whatever, unquote. Yeah. Later in November, an anonymous source sent a copy of the video to the Times o…
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Aegis is the prime contractor. So if their subs are engaging in this activity, they are still responsible for it. A company spokesperson told the Sunday Telegraph on November 27th, there is nothing to indicate that these clips are in any wa…
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By the end of the following day, Aegis had filed an injunction to prevent Stoner from speaking to the press or disseminating in any way the company's rules of engagement or other company confidential information. Stoner continued to talk to…
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A former colleague of Stoner's later said that Stoner was living underground for several months after the injunction as he felt that he was in danger. In June, Aegis announced that its investigation into the video was complete and that the …
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As was clear in the autumn of 2006 when Britain's Spectator magazine read a story with the headline, quote, guns, men with guns are the new dot coms, unquote. That began with this scene, quote, sitting behind his smartly fashioned desk in o…
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including $292 million to AGES for Iraq reconstruction services. AGES was of particular interest to Representative Kaptur because of the upcoming contract renewal. The first contract AGES had signed had totaled $293 million. Added to that a…
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and $48 million, almost twice as much. The upcoming contract, initial contract, was scheduled to be $475 million. Knowing that Aegis could end up with at least a billion dollars of American tax dollars, Kaptur initiated her own probe to lea…
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may only set the stage for an increase in their use. By the contract renewal year, the larger firms like Aegis were indeed becoming more embedded in American strategies, more entrenched and more established with their lucrative contracts, p…
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While Aegis might not have been the largest or the most powerful in the world by 2007, it likely had had one of the biggest increase in profits since the beginning of the Iraq War. In its first accounting for the year ending December 2003, …
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Aegis was becoming the best example among private military contractors of the trajectory from covert and infamous, excuse me, to acceptable and indispensable. Between 2004 and 2007, as industry began to consolidate, Aegis expanded and diver…
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also known for its intelligence work, and it was adding new members to its board and its advisory council, like Robert McFarlane, the Reagan chief advisor on the National Security Council that was responsible for Iran-Contra. More recently,…
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and had been a conservative member of Parliament since 1983. Other newcomers to the board include the former head of the British Army, a highly regarded top-drawer London attorney, and a former British Army officer who was also a former sen…
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This is only just becoming an industry, and there has been a question mark over how respectable it is. Certainly, the resurgence of the new board members' names offers an endorsement of our company. Yeah, like a criminal Robert McFarlane. I…
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to winning additional U.S. contracts. With the Matrix renewal coming up, lobbying and networking was essential components to Aegis image building in Washington. Helping with that was a group called Global Policy Group, which in 2007 was und…
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CEO Christy Clemons had run public relations for none other than Paul Bremer. She had also been a Bush appointee at the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Patrol. Ages had also became an official advisor to Lloyds of Londo…
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Aegis was not a member. Helping its members to succeed, the association retained a well-known lobbying firm called J.A. Green and Company. It was ran by Jeff Green, who was a specialist in defense lobbying, who was the former counsel to the…
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and always listed among the top companies were Academy, DynCorp, Triple Canopy, and Aegis. Such lists, though, were based largely on firms that had been operating in conflict-ridden zones during the past decade and were always helpful in as…
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Aegis was operating in 12 nations and was especially busy in diplomatic security work in maritime security. As its website noted, government and diplomatic contracts are part of the lifeblood of Aegis. Since the company was founded in 2002,…
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was $1.3 billion. Aegis had been one of the first private militaries to fly into Libya after the victory of the NATO-led forces in 2012 to facilitate Western business opportunities. Because that's what this is all about. They provided perso…
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And we pay for it. In Afghanistan, it would be one of the last companies standing. By the summer of 2013, there were more than 100,000 private contractors working for the DOD in Afghanistan. This figure would not include contractors working…
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consulates in Afghanistan. Aegis, as journalist Charles Glass wrote in Harper Magazine in 2012, was the elite private force in Afghanistan. This would be for years to come, despite Afghan President Karzai's order to expel all private milita…
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embassy security protection and thus Aegis could stay. Even the British Foreign Office, which had nearly declared war on Spicer in 1990, wanted Aegis to guard some of its embassies. We've built a brand. We've built a reputation. We've dispe…
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It had nine years since the headlines that marked Aegis' rise from winning the largest security contract in Iraq. Now, Spicer and his company rarely have ever made the news, nor did the industry he helped launch. By 2013, these businesses s…
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very vocal in urging a more extensive and better oversight capability, which, of course, played right into the hands of these people that are creating this facade. So here's some of the people that were there. AGES, G4F, TRIP, TANAPI, Contr…
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Soon the legal team started the process of filing a civil suit in the U.S. District in Washington, D.C. against Aegis Defense LLC in Washington.…
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Aegis Defense Services Limited in London and Unidentified Aegis Employees. The suit filed in the summer of 2009 claimed that the company and its unidentified agents acted negligently and wrongfully by failing to prevent their employees, age…
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one as a child and the other as a Special Forces soldier. His continuing struggle with fatigue would easily summon an image of the shooting, but there was another reminder he did not anticipate. He had lunch daily at a cafeteria where priva…
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In late spring 2010, a few months after he returned to Iraq, Khadim and his team of lawyers received the first big news about their suit from a federal judge in D.C. who had dismissed the case, ruling that the court did not have jurisdictio…
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was not incorporated until the year after the shooting and was not under the AGES contract with the DOD in 2005. Legally, neither the British AGES nor the American version could be held accountable for the shooting, a fact as solidly ground…
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in part because none of the facts in the shooting incident were in dispute, and partly because nothing had ever appeared in the media about the case at all. In his column for the Huffington Post, Eisenberg juxtaposed the bad news for Kadim …
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firm won a prestigious security contract for the Olympic Delivery Authority for the 2012 Olympics in London. Eisenberg wrote, one wonders if the Olympic Delivery Authority was aware that it was Aegis security contractors who shot and perman…
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as he returned to Baghdad International Airport after an intelligence mission in June 2005. The shooting, Eisenberg stressed, occurred at a place where there were no ongoing hostilities nor credible threats of imminent hostilities. And he e…
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They were part of an establishment. To believe they should be or could be abolished was to live in the past from the point of view of the industry leaders. I have watched the discussions of issues surrounding private military sector regulat…
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It would have no value without a mechanism for oversight and governance. On the day of the signing in 2010, the steering committee for developing the oversight system was already in place. It included representatives from the Pentagon, the …
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G4S, and Triple Canopy. Among the signers representing the many companies that day was Aegis Spicer, a predictable occurrence considering that Aegis had been actively involved in the Swiss initiative for several years. Spicer signed on beha…
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Graham Benz signed for Aegis Defense. The Aegis website that day announced the signing and noted the importance of the code and the work ahead. Quote, as private security companies face rapid changing missions and increasingly complex and d…
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and was called routinely by high-level government officials. Articles about Aegis and its CEO less frequently commented on his shadowy past as a mercenary, with his arms-to-Africa scandal, the New Guinea jail episode, his tie-to-coup plotte…
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While in the U.S., there were private militaries sometimes legally unaccountable to anyone. For Aegis and for Spicer, an ironic situation surfaced in August of 2010 when Aegis established a new non-operating holding company in Basel, Switze…
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sending the bill to the State Department to allow a replacement, task by task, of the job necessary to make Iraq a secure place for development. You know, Western development. Despite economic recessions and global instability, this industr…
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part of that $10 billion contract, contracted to train private security contractors to replace troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. By now, Aegis was one of the biggest stars in the galaxy. With its U.S. contract in Iraq twice renewed, having ga…
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It operated one national command center in six regional branches across Iraq, out of which it provided daily intelligence for every security firm and the U.S. military. You know, because we want our intelligence from the mercenary who's sho…
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including one from the DOD, to oversee private security companies in Afghanistan, basically setting up another command post in Afghanistan. It monitored their activities and investigating any escalation of force incidents. That's, again, th…
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The firm was also finding work in Africa, turning its attention to oil and thus following the lead of other private military security companies, such as Control Risk Group, Inris, Triple Canopy and Armor Group. The Niger Delta, for example,…
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in charge of determining whether there's a threat to put security on ships, what do you think my answer is going to be? I make more money if there's a risk. So regardless of whether there's a risk or not, there's going to be a risk. In 2010…
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the quote-unquote watchdog, that's another irony, for the Iraq reconstruction contracts, which would surely boost the company's respectability. In the report, the inspector general commended Aegis's financial record-keeping and control of i…
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to do what it was contracted to do without waste, fraud, and abuse? They noted that, of course, the answer is going to be yes. For a company with a history like Aegis, to reach this point was monumental. Aegis, wrote Eisenberg, was now cons…
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its strategies and developments as a thriving enterprise. In 2010, the components of its success were becoming apparent. For example, more board members with political connections. That year, Aegis LLC added two former senior CIA officials …
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In one case, it teamed up with an oil concern in the Gulf region south to spend $450,000 to refurbish a gym. Wonder who got that contract? Another tactic for escaping the mercenary image was litigation, or at least the threat of it. The U.S…
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in Afghanistan. New Mexico Tech, specifically the Playa Center, had become a subcontractor to Aegis Defense Services, LLC, their branch in Washington. Under Aegis' State Department Worldwide Protective Services contract, as a subcontractor,…
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There were even more sites in Nevada, Arizona, three in California, one in Riverside, one in Imperial, and one in San Diego. The company that boasted the largest facility west of the Mississippi was SOC Inc., Special Operations Consulting, …
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And in a year when so many businesses were faltering in the ongoing worldwide economic struggle, it was a time of growth in the private military security companies. By some accounts, it grew at a rate of 15%. After all, economic troubles le…
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whose contract to safeguard the Baghdad embassy would bring in nearly $1 billion to the company. Triple Canopy, who had a five-year $1.5 billion contract for embassy security. What do you think we were doing in that embassy that needed all …
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To be sure, there were plenty of work for private military contractors during the Arab Spring, especially protecting companies trying to operate in the midst of the political unrest. For example, in Bagram, excuse me, Bahrain, where Aegis h…
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A U.N. spokesman then tried to explain the organization's intention, falling back on definitions. He, Starr, wanted to know that our understanding of the current usage of the term private security contractors typically refers to contractors…
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companies. Clinton, after all, had been a strong critic all along. The maritime memo drew little attention in the mainstream media, but the use of armed security on ships had been intensely debated in the shipping industry, which had been r…
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would be the insurance industry, which we established early on in this book, was tightly linked to Aegis. Once again, the government was stepping aside and allowing the private sector to sell right in, and it wasn't just off the coast of So…
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The 2004 contract with the DOD under which the Cadem's shooter had been employed was a London-based Aegis. The Aegis American subsidiary had not opened until 2006. Besides, it was not the legal entity under the contract with the DOD when th…
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To counter that and to prove that D.C. was where the case should be, in 2011, his attorneys began to gather evidence, including phone records and travel data, to try and show how much business Aegis was doing in D.C. before the shooting. Ho…
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just like the Aegis, Blackwater, they all set up foundations, just like George Soros, just like the Ford Foundation, just like the Carnegie Endowment for War Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, so that they can fall back on that to over…