Papua New Guinea country
also: Papa, PNG
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Sandline Internationalorganization · 5Tim Spicerperson · 4Bougainvilleplace · 3Executive Outcomesorganization · 3Jean-Jacques Dozyperson · 2Tony Buckinghamperson · 1Aegis Defense Servicesorganization · 1Vietnamcountry · 1Tom Cooksperson · 1Washington, D.C.place · 1United Kingdomcountry · 1Sierra Leonecountry · 1Eben Barlowperson · 1
Claims (2)
Tim Spicer overthrew
Papua New Guinea documented
“He was involved in the Papua New Guinea debacle in which Spicer's client was overthrown after the nation's military learned of Sandline's involvement. Whoops. Effectively, Spicer and his merry band had toppled the government they had been h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 45:15
Sandline International carried_out_attack
Papua New Guinea documented
“Years later, however, the local landlords rebelled and shut down the mine. This became a problem for the Papua New Guinea government, which depended on its revenue from the mine for half of its budget. So in early 1997, the Papua New Guinea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 22:31
Mentions (11)
▶ 24:13
But that's not all of it. The author says, I want to draw attention to Dozie's attention to the copper mine and gold ratios in Papua New Guinea. And there's a separate mine that's called OK Teddy Mine, which is close to the border between P…
▶ 24:45
So I pointed out that the OK Teddy, the initial gold mining stage, had a capacity of 12,000 tons of ore a day. And in this copper mine, a gold concentration of 2.86 grams per ton. Compared to the original mountain that Dozie found, OK Teddy…
▶ 44:17
Some sources allege that they were actually linked and that EO founder Eben, E-E-B-E-N, Barlow, had downplayed the ties to make them appear as two separate units. Sandline subcontracted EO executive outcomes for at least one operation that …
▶ 45:15
He was involved in the Papua New Guinea debacle in which Spicer's client was overthrown after the nation's military learned of Sandline's involvement. Whoops. Effectively, Spicer and his merry band had toppled the government they had been h…
▶ 45:46
Spicer's efforts to support, let's see, effort in PNG were supported by Tony Buckingham, who appeared to have been running the same type of scheme with executive outcomes in Africa. And the PNG's negotiations with Sandline, Buckingham opene…
▶ 21:35
who had created and rebranded their mercenary business. It had rules that executive outcome did not, and it enlisted sentinels of public relations to ensure it didn't follow. What was most intriguing, perhaps, was that in its short life, Sa…
▶ 22:03
that declared its independence in 1975. And we covered that when we did Southeast Asia. It's a very interesting story. So did the nearby island of Bougainvillea, the site of one of the largest copper mines in the world. Oh my gosh, here's m…
▶ 22:31
Years later, however, the local landlords rebelled and shut down the mine. This became a problem for the Papua New Guinea government, which depended on its revenue from the mine for half of its budget. So in early 1997, the Papua New Guinea…
▶ 22:59
The Papua New Guinea military denounced Sandline's contract. The prime minister fired the military commander and the soldiers. The soldiers, showing their devotion to the commander and their anger to the government, began anti-government pr…
▶ 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 …
▶ 30:50
a few blocks away from K Street's office in Washington. He looked like an investment banker on holiday. It was hard to imagine him in a Papua New Guinea jail cell or surrounded by rebels in Sierra Leone during a mission to overthrow the gov…