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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
Simon Mann attempted_coup_against
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo documented
“They had planned to overthrow the government of President Mbosago, who had ruled there since 1979. Equatorial Guinea was the third largest oil producer in Africa. In exchange for orchestrating the coup, the leaders of the plot would gain an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 50:44
Simon Mann organized
Wonga Coup host_asserted
“Wonga is spelled W-O-N-G-A and coup, like overthrow, an attempt to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004 because they had lots and lots of oil. It was organized by Simon Mann, who we just mentioned. In addition to Dutoit and…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 24:34
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
Simon Mann founded
Sandline International documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 8:33
Simon Mann member_of
2004 Equatorial Guinea coup attempt documented
“They had planned to overthrow the government of President Mbosago, who had ruled there since 1979. Equatorial Guinea was the third largest oil producer in Africa. In exchange for orchestrating the coup, the leaders of the plot would gain an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 50:44
Simon Mann infiltrated_by
Civilian Cooperation Bureau host_asserted
“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 …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 14:43
Simon Mann member_of
Sandline International host_asserted
“military groups. The plot that catapulted Mann into a jail cell in Zimbabwe was a classic mercenary operation that seemed to be real-life adaptation of Dogs of War. Spicer and Mann had been partners and compatriots in the private military w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 51:46
Tim Spicer traded_network_to
Simon Mann host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 29:27
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▶ 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 …
▶ 24:04
32nd Battalion, who were deployed into Angola and Sierra Leone to do basically gladio activities with the Cuban exiles and all of the other paramilitary that was deployed there. While working at MTS, Du Toit became a key figure in the infam…
▶ 24:34
Wonga is spelled W-O-N-G-A and coup, like overthrow, an attempt to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004 because they had lots and lots of oil. It was organized by Simon Mann, who we just mentioned. In addition to Dutoit and…
▶ 25:04
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…
▶ 43:48
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…
▶ 52:09
ended up with this contract. Prior to 9-11, Spicer had been held in such esteem by the U.S. government that he was once chained to a chair while officials sorted out his purpose of even being in the United States. To further complicate matt…
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I agree. So Silk Purse said that Mark Thatcher, who we've come across, he was an arms dealer, Margaret Thatcher's son, was involved in the Wonga failed coup with Simon Mann. But Simon Mann went to jail and Thatcher didn't. Does that surpris…
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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. …
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UK, because remember, it was created in South America. The third man's name was Tim Spicer. We're going to hear a lot about Tim Spicer. He was a former lieutenant colonel in the Scots Guard as well. Spicer had no man for many years, but he …
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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 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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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…
▶ 49:42
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, …
▶ 50:12
for separate events. While Spicer was seeking a lucrative U.S. contract for his latest company, Mann was planning a coup in another country. In March, a Boeing 727 loaded with 60 men and $180,000 in cash and crates of guns was stopped minut…
▶ 50:44
They had planned to overthrow the government of President Mbosago, who had ruled there since 1979. Equatorial Guinea was the third largest oil producer in Africa. In exchange for orchestrating the coup, the leaders of the plot would gain an…
▶ 51:46
military groups. The plot that catapulted Mann into a jail cell in Zimbabwe was a classic mercenary operation that seemed to be real-life adaptation of Dogs of War. Spicer and Mann had been partners and compatriots in the private military w…
▶ 29:27
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…