Eben Barlow person
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Executive Outcomesorganization · 15Civilian Cooperation Bureauorganization · 10South Africacountry · 6South African Defense Forceorganization · 3Otto Skorzenyperson · 3Sandline Internationalorganization · 1African National Congressorganization · 132 Buffalo Battalionorganization · 1Inter-Services Intelligenceintelligence service · 1Operation Gladiooperation · 1Nelson Mandelaperson · 1Battalion 316organization · 1Papua New Guineacountry · 1
Claims (6)
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
Eben Barlow member_of
Civilian Cooperation Bureau host_asserted
“Cooperation Bureau, a shadowy special forces unit from South African Defense Force. The CCB, which is the Civil Cooperation Bureau, was part of a much bigger death squad capability and was tasked with targeted assassinations of opponents of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 7:49
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
Eben Barlow member_of
Civilian Cooperation Bureau host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 46:45
Eben Barlow established_ties_with
Inter-Services Intelligence host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 14:09
Eben Barlow worked_with
Otto Skorzeny host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 9:27
Mentions (16)
▶ 7:20
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…
▶ 7:49
Cooperation Bureau, a shadowy special forces unit from South African Defense Force. The CCB, which is the Civil Cooperation Bureau, was part of a much bigger death squad capability and was tasked with targeted assassinations of opponents of…
▶ 8:20
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,…
▶ 9:27
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…
▶ 9:59
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…
▶ 10:36
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…
▶ 11:06
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…
▶ 11:36
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…
▶ 12:09
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,…
▶ 12:40
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…
▶ 14:09
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…
▶ 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 …
▶ 46:19
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…
▶ 46:45
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…
▶ 47:15
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…