Executive Outcomes organization
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Claims (23)
Simon Mann member_of
Executive Outcomes documented
“generation graduate of Eaton, which was a private school in England known to be, it's basically kind of like our Yale. He was also a former SAS commander, a former lieutenant in the British Army's Scots Guard Unit, and one of Buckingham's p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 1:36
Tim Spicer member_of
Executive Outcomes documented
“generation graduate of Eaton, which was a private school in England known to be, it's basically kind of like our Yale. He was also a former SAS commander, a former lieutenant in the British Army's Scots Guard Unit, and one of Buckingham's p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 1:36
Executive Outcomes founded
Eben Barlow host_asserted
“EO recruited heavily from the now unemployed ranks of the former apartheid government security forces. EO's founder, Eben Barlow, had served in the legendary 32nd Battalion, from which EO recruited the bulk of its infantry. Before moving to…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 7:20
Strategic Resources Corporation owned
Executive Outcomes host_asserted
“Executive Outcome itself was merely a subsidiary of an African holding company, which was named Strategic Resources Corporation. Strategic Resource Corporation owned 20 other corporations, all doing things like EO. They included companies c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 13:10
Tony Buckingham secured_contract_for
Executive Outcomes host_asserted
“became involved in EO by the 1990s. Well-connected, Buckingham secured the firm its first contract in Angola. So this is just another illustration of the international syndicate, oil, banking, steel, aluminum, all of that stuff, being invol…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 15:16
Executive Outcomes carried_out_attack
Sierra Leone host_asserted
“having inspired the Academy Award-nominated Blood Diamond movie in 2006 in a 2015 novel of the same name. The firm's reputation was well-founded. After the operations, it conducted in Angola and Sierra Leone in the mid-1990s. Now, you guys …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 3:49
Strategic Resources Corporation funded
Executive Outcomes host_asserted
“Right. Yeah. And by 66, he had collected over 4 million names. So you guys remember that we talked at the very beginning of this about executive outcomes. That's where the Aegis guy started as a mercenary, got jailed, was picked up attempti…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 1:07:14
Executive Outcomes carried_out_attack
Angola host_asserted
“having inspired the Academy Award-nominated Blood Diamond movie in 2006 in a 2015 novel of the same name. The firm's reputation was well-founded. After the operations, it conducted in Angola and Sierra Leone in the mid-1990s. Now, you guys …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 3:49
Tony Buckingham founded
Executive Outcomes documented
“that managed more than a dozen subsidiaries engaged in oil drilling, diamond mining, and copper mining. Kind of fits right into our storyline. He also owned private military services. Another of the gentlemen there was Simon Mann, M-A-N-N. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 1:06
Executive Outcomes front_for
Heritage Oil documented
“was a non-executive director at Heritage, and that Heritage owned an enterprise shrouded in mystery. Executive Outcomes had served as a front company to evade arms embargoes against South Africa and to facilitate the shipment of illegal wea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 3:06
Executive Outcomes supplied_arms_to
Angola documented
“in the Angolan government to defeat the quote-unquote insurgents, which were actually the party that the US and the UK didn't want to control the country. They were not insurgents. They were people that lived there that wanted to decide the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 4:06
Sandline International member_of
Executive Outcomes host_asserted
“to guard the nation leaders and battle their supposed pirates and Islamic militants. Some reports indicate the prince himself was the one bankrolling Saracen. The reader will recall that Saracen was one of the early executive outcomes, stay…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 30:09
Simon Mann founded
Executive Outcomes documented
“Spicer received early backing from a guy by the name of Simon Mann and another helper, Tony Buckingham. They were SAS men who had helped launch Executive Outcome. Mann had originally offered Spicer a role in Executive Outcomes, but he had d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 43:48
Executive Outcomes installed
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah documented
“Spicer moved on to Sierra Leone, where he became ensnared in what became Arms for Africa scandal. Executive Outcome had departed the nation in January, and the regime of Ahmed Tahan Kabbah, K-A-B-B-A-H, that they had helped install was soon…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 46:47
Nelson Mandela removed_from_power
Executive Outcomes documented
“and its foreign policy, which is why his government banned all mercenary activities in South Africa in 1998, and why executive outcomes left South Africa and moved to London. In the United States, by 2010, the cause to phase out private mil…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 17:08
Eben Barlow founded
Executive Outcomes host_asserted
“a company that originated in apartheid South Africa and became the model firm in the late 20th century for evolving phenomenon of private military companies. We're going to talk about it a lot more. Executive Outcomes, as it was typically r…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 46:19
Branch Energy secretly_owned
Executive Outcomes host_asserted
“It is likely that the executive outcome was under the control of the Branch Heritage Group, a holding company that specialized in natural resources in the developing world. Indeed, executive outcomes may have been the vehicle in which Branc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 41:49
Executive Outcomes linked_to
Wonga Coup host_asserted
“EO personnel were linked to the coup because that's what they do. It ultimately failed. Both Dutoit and Mann were arrested and many other of the mercenaries were also arrested. Mann was eventually released on grounds of compassion. By the t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 25:04
Executive Outcomes front_for
Branch Energy host_asserted
“It is likely that the executive outcome was under the control of the Branch Heritage Group, a holding company that specialized in natural resources in the developing world. Indeed, executive outcomes may have been the vehicle in which Branc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 41:49
Military Technical Services had_dealings_with
Executive Outcomes host_asserted
“Military Technical Services, abbreviated MTS, would have dealings with EO. Curiously, a reported co-founder of MTS was a guy by the name of Neek Detroit. And I'm going to spell that. His first name is N-I-E-K-D-U space T-O-I-T. He belonged …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 23:33
Executive Outcomes front_for
Civilian Cooperation Bureau host_asserted
“establish their own private security companies as front organizations for CCB activities. That sounds an awful lot like the CIA. Barlow had insisted that EO was never used for his work while he was in the CCB, though funds generated by it w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 10:36
Executive Outcomes modeled_after
Otto Skorzeny host_asserted
“Basically, it's the Dirty Trick Squad. They're talking about a South African version of Operation Gladio here. And it's being done through this EO company, which is basically modeled after Otto Skorzeny's company, just so that you guys see …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 8:20
Lloyd's of London funded
Executive Outcomes caller_asserted
“I don't know. So are you suggesting the Lloyds of London would create a threat so that they can? Yes. Yes. Okay. Well, we know that happened at least once with one of the, whose name I'm not going to remember, the guy that set up the execut…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 1:22:35
Mentions (68)
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Increasingly, nation states are being superseded by a network of transnational organizations like the UN, IMF, World Bank, blah, blah, blah. NGOs are leading in that area. The multinational corporations are involved in this as well. Early i…
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It is likely that the executive outcome was under the control of the Branch Heritage Group, a holding company that specialized in natural resources in the developing world. Indeed, executive outcomes may have been the vehicle in which Branc…
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I don't know. So are you suggesting the Lloyds of London would create a threat so that they can? Yes. Yes. Okay. Well, we know that happened at least once with one of the, whose name I'm not going to remember, the guy that set up the execut…
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Private military company industry really took off, which would have been in the 90s. One of the most critical ones is one most people have never heard of. It was called the executive outcomes. Now, what's interesting about that executive ou…
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We know that there has to be an executive finding signed in order to assassinate someone, you know, because they're a communist or terrorist. So executive outcomes, being the name of a private military company, tells you exactly what they'r…
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having inspired the Academy Award-nominated Blood Diamond movie in 2006 in a 2015 novel of the same name. The firm's reputation was well-founded. After the operations, it conducted in Angola and Sierra Leone in the mid-1990s. Now, you guys …
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created paramilitary training camps, trained them to be terrorists, and then unleashed them on their home country. While EO could do these things as well, it was also willing for a fee to launch a full-blown combat operation to include crea…
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Some of the services EO offered included direct infantry, light tank combat. It even had its own Air Force. That Air Force was called IBIS, IBIS, Air. It included gunship helicopters, such as MI-24 and MI-17s, based in South Africa.…
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EO recruited heavily from the now unemployed ranks of the former apartheid government security forces. EO's founder, Eben Barlow, had served in the legendary 32nd Battalion, from which EO recruited the bulk of its infantry. Before moving to…
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Basically, it's the Dirty Trick Squad. They're talking about a South African version of Operation Gladio here. And it's being done through this EO company, which is basically modeled after Otto Skorzeny's company, just so that you guys see …
▶ 8:57
Europe, and Middle East, among Barlow's many duties was to spread propaganda concerning Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Now, let me just say about Region 5. EO operated on a worldwide basis, okay? The fact that this guy, Barlow,…
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Had Europe in the Middle East means he was working hand in hand with Otto Skorzeny because Otto Skorzeny was working in Europe and the Middle East as well before he founded EO. Let me just add that to be clear. Barlow specialized in those a…
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I did a little bit of research on him and he had all of the same haunts that Otto Skorzeny did because E.O. was not formed as a company until after Otto Skorzeny's official death. There's some people that don't believe he died then, but wha…
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establish their own private security companies as front organizations for CCB activities. That sounds an awful lot like the CIA. Barlow had insisted that EO was never used for his work while he was in the CCB, though funds generated by it w…
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Barlow's explanation is plausible as E.O. was apparently incorporated after he was approached to develop a specialist intelligence course, you know, like a terrorist training camp. Curiously, Barlow's E.O. co-founder was a psychologist spec…
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manipulation techniques. Barlow himself was also a certified neuro-linguistic programming practitioner. That's crazy. As the CTB was not supposed to be linked directly to the SADF, the defense forces, it is unlikely that Barlow would have u…
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by the defense force to carry out operation for CCB. That being said, the possibility that EO was later used to preserve elite South African forces that were disbanded in the wake of apartheid cannot be totally dismissed either. Reportedly,…
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of stashing assets, you know, just like the CIA does. At a minimum, it is likely that Barlow's experience with setting up front companies during his time with the CCB influenced the complex structure of the multinational holdings of EO, whi…
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Executive Outcome itself was merely a subsidiary of an African holding company, which was named Strategic Resources Corporation. Strategic Resource Corporation owned 20 other corporations, all doing things like EO. They included companies c…
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and Saracen, S-A-R-A-C-E-N. Many of these firms were effectively stay-behind military firms. That's his words. That moved into a nation after EO departed while employing all of the same people in that country.…
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So it was like a phase one and a phase two, only it was the same company doing the destabilization. During his time with the CCB, Barlow made many of his corporate world contacts and alleged to have established ties with British intelligenc…
▶ 14:43
because they're all doing the same thing. SAS veteran Simon Mann, M-A-N-N, who had worked with Sterling's KAS outfit that we talked about yesterday, was infiltrated by the CCB in South Africa. And Tony Buckingham, another major shareholder …
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became involved in EO by the 1990s. Well-connected, Buckingham secured the firm its first contract in Angola. So this is just another illustration of the international syndicate, oil, banking, steel, aluminum, all of that stuff, being invol…
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paramilitary in order to exploit markets. So this brings up one of the most troubling aspects of EO, namely its close working relationship with corporations like oil and mining, specifically Strategic Resource Corporation. Now, think about …
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the resources that the international syndicate wants to go steal. This is the corporation that is used to secure strategic resources, which was the holding company that owned EO, had a close working relationship with Branch Heritage Group, …
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had mining and oil concerns all over the world. In 1993, a second EO was registered with this holding company in London proper. The above-mentioned Tony Buckingham was the senior director of Branch Heritage. In addition to being a key figur…
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in the corporation controlled by the holding company. So he kind of was the bridge between it all. Beyond EO, Branch Heritage also owned Ibis Air, which provided all of the air support for these fighting forces. Kind of like this. So wait a…
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I'm beginning to see a pattern here. OK, then we come to Sandline International, another notorious private military company that we're going to go to into a little bit more in a minute. So Branch Heritage had investments in almost all of th…
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actively recruited Italian fascist terrorists from their Gladio program as well. So Chile was all open. It was like, give me some Portugal guys, give me some French guys, give me some Italian guys. And that is how we tied Operation Condor t…
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to guard the nation leaders and battle their supposed pirates and Islamic militants. Some reports indicate the prince himself was the one bankrolling Saracen. The reader will recall that Saracen was one of the early executive outcomes, stay…
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It had begun as a subsidiary of Strategic Resources Corporation, which was also owned by Executive Outcomes. So basically, it's just a bunch of shell companies. It's all the same people. Prior to hooking up with Prince, Saracen had put a bi…
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I-N-G-H, who was a veteran of Executive Outcomes' Angola campaign. Lewatin would later become a key figure at Executive Outcomes. Prior to joining this whole racket, he had served in the South African Special Forces, which, of course, was u…
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Spicer received early backing from a guy by the name of Simon Mann and another helper, Tony Buckingham. They were SAS men who had helped launch Executive Outcome. Mann had originally offered Spicer a role in Executive Outcomes, but he had d…
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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 …
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The London branch of the Executive Outcomes had been registered with an organization called Branch Heritage Group in 1993. When Sandline was launched in 1996, it was also owned by the same group. Like it's two apples on the same tree. So, t…
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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…
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Spicer moved on to Sierra Leone, where he became ensnared in what became Arms for Africa scandal. Executive Outcome had departed the nation in January, and the regime of Ahmed Tahan Kabbah, K-A-B-B-A-H, that they had helped install was soon…
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only able to produce 1.5 million of the promised 10, but Spicer decided these funds were more than sufficient for him to start work. Initially, things went well, using many of the tactics as executive outcomes had used. Working on behalf of…
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Increasingly, nation states are being superseded by a network of transnational organizations like the UN, IMF, World Bank, blah, blah, blah. NGOs are leading in that area. The multinational corporations are involved in this as well. Early i…
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It is likely that the executive outcome was under the control of the Branch Heritage Group, a holding company that specialized in natural resources in the developing world. Indeed, executive outcomes may have been the vehicle in which Branc…
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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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and that it was not part of the process to look at the backgrounds of the principals. That's bullshit, by the way. Others disagreed and believed the government knew exactly what they were doing, and that is true. Supporting that theory, a f…
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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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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…
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If a ransom payment had to be paid and included the cost of highly trained SAS experts sent immediately to the location of the kidnapping. Radcliffe's first crew consisted of four former SAS officers. One of the most renowned offshoots of t…
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a company that originated in apartheid South Africa and became the model firm in the late 20th century for evolving phenomenon of private military companies. We're going to talk about it a lot more. Executive Outcomes, as it was typically r…
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a former officer in the Apartheid Air Highly Decorated Combat Unit called the 32 Buffalo Battalion. Barlow had also been a leader in South Africa's Civil Cooperation Bureau, notorious for trying to destroy the anti-apartheid movement and fo…
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imposed by the UN and other countries. In other words, they're the ones that helped everybody get around all of the don't trade with apartheid South Africa. Four years after starting Executive Outcomes in South Africa, Barlow collaborated w…
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of executive outcomes. The executive outcome logo in both nations was a chessboard knight, which represented the paladin, a freelance warrior for justice and virtue. Executive outcomes soon operated in at least 10 African nations. The firm …
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trying to defeat a rebel group that had taken over gold mines or oil rigs. And in exchange, it would receive a lien on future productions of the mineral wealth of the client country. So they're getting rich off of putting down honest rebell…
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from stealing their resources. So they go in and put down the rebellion trying to kick out the Western oligarchs and then take a share of what wealth comes out of that country. Isn't that a convenient setup? Executive outcome employed over …
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close to 500 military officers, many from the SAS teams, some from South African special forces. Then after Nelson Mandela's South African government passed an anti-mercenary law in 1998, Executive Outcome shut down in South Africa, but not…
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of private military firms, mineral resource businesses, and air charter companies, you know, like their own private CIA. Among its holdings would soon be a company called Sandline International, run by some of the same ex-military men and b…
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generation graduate of Eaton, which was a private school in England known to be, it's basically kind of like our Yale. He was also a former SAS commander, a former lieutenant in the British Army's Scots Guard Unit, and one of Buckingham's p…
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wanted the two men to meet for a variety of reasons. A few weeks before, a reporter at The Observer had exposed ties between Buckingham's parent company, Heritage Oil, and executive outcomes. The reporter noted that a high-level British pol…
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was a non-executive director at Heritage, and that Heritage owned an enterprise shrouded in mystery. Executive Outcomes had served as a front company to evade arms embargoes against South Africa and to facilitate the shipment of illegal wea…
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like with the Angola war that the CIA was engaged in, where they trafficked arms through Israel into South Africa. And executive outcomes, as it turns out, was mentioned in several of those stories. In recent months, the article reported so…
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At least for Buckingham and Mann, the article alleged that executive outcome had bartered its military services in exchange for natural resources, hence an accumulation of heritage mineral subsidies. Just like we learned yesterday, they giv…
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In fact, the suspicion swirling around executive outcomes alleged allegations that on at least two occasions, employees of the company had provoked conflicts in nations where Heritage was seeking mineral acquisitions, which again is the pat…
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This is not the special forces in a lot of the stories that we've covered. These are literally mercenaries that are hired by these companies. It was not surprising that part of the conversation that day was how to spin, market, or improve t…
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of suspicion in a business typically associated with mercenaries and brokering arms deals? How to prevent the exodus of executive outcomes clients? How to rebrand executive outcomes? Was the solution to create another company that would be …
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in order to pretend like they were a brand new company, kind of like what Blackwater did later. Spicer noted later in his autobiography that he, Buckingham, and Mann discussed the creation of a properly organized professional company market…
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this executive outcome point two that is going to run to their assistant. And we end up in the same place that we've been so many times where you're basically funding both sides of all of these wars. The company would have a new name, thoug…
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Reputable look, using Sandline as their model. London PR relation consultant Sarah Pearson, P-E-A-R-S-O-N, would work for Spicer at Sandline. She later said that the new term private military company took a lot of emotion out of the situati…
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The first use of the term private military company in the press occurred barely a month after the meeting. In an article from a French news agency reporting on the Civil War in Angola and referring to executive outcomes. Later, after Mann a…
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Blackwater was located on a 7,000-acre training base in North Carolina. It was not like any other American firm, old or new. It was more of the footprint of executive outcomes that was set up in South Africa. It was a company composed of ma…
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By some accounts, there was a strategy to shrink the size of the state in general before a new government of Nelson Mandela could come to power, as well as to move the best apartheid military structures into private companies so that those …
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Right. Yeah. And by 66, he had collected over 4 million names. So you guys remember that we talked at the very beginning of this about executive outcomes. That's where the Aegis guy started as a mercenary, got jailed, was picked up attempti…