Sandline International organization
also: Sandline, Executive Outcome point two, Saline International
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Claims (19)
Sarah Pearson worked_for
Sandline International documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 10:06
Tony Buckingham 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 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
Tim Spicer 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
United States funded
Sandline International host_asserted
“Now, I have to stop here for just a second and say the US government's contracts are paid with American tax dollars. Now, again, I did not know this. I had no idea that the US government used our tax dollars in the biggest private military …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 37:03
Tim Spicer headed
Sandline International host_asserted
“Sandline's CEO, Tim Spicer, who we're going to talk about a lot, would become a highly influential and hugely controversial figure in the private military security industry. After the Cold War ended, companies like these grew in size and se…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 50:14
Sandline International member_of
Strategic Resources Corporation host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 30:39
Tim Spicer founded
Sandline International documented
“Spicer would vigorously defend their action, even testifying on their behalf. After being convicted of murder, both of his guardsmen were released from prison in 1998. Spicer later argued for their reinstatement back into the Scott Guard. U…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 42:49
Sandline International front_for
Branch Energy documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 44:44
Tim Spicer headed
Sandline International documented
“where they murdered somebody, and had managed PR for the British Army in Bosnia. After retiring from the army, he became a marketing director at one of London's most impressive investment firms, a job that required travel regularly to the M…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 20:06
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
Strategic Resources Corporation owned
Sandline International 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
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
Tim Spicer 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
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
Sandline International front_for
Tim Spicer host_asserted
“be seen as central to the new military privatization, making 2004 a defining year for private military security companies. And because of the company that won it, the contract would also represent a milestone in the modern history of mercen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 36:33
Erik Prince funded
Sandline International 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
United States funded
Sandline International host_asserted
“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
Sandline International supplied_arms_to
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah book_quoted
“the Project Matrix contract. In brief, Sandline allegedly violated a UN arms embargo when it supplied at least 1,000 AK-47s, as well as mortar, light machine guns, and ammunition to coup plotters favoring the return of Sierra Leone's exile …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 23:55
Mentions (29)
▶ 13:10
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…
▶ 18:12
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…
▶ 29:38
yesterday or the day before. In 2010, while still Blackwater's chairman of the board, Prince helped a private military company known as Saracen International. It would later become Sterling Corporate Services. When contracts in Somalia to t…
▶ 30:09
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…
▶ 30:39
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…
▶ 42:49
Spicer would vigorously defend their action, even testifying on their behalf. After being convicted of murder, both of his guardsmen were released from prison in 1998. Spicer later argued for their reinstatement back into the Scott Guard. U…
▶ 43:17
and it was founded during the following year. Amusingly, the early PR push for Sandline featured one of the earliest uses of the term private military company while it worked to rebrand mercenaries as contractors. In theory, this more corpo…
▶ 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 …
▶ 44:44
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…
▶ 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…
▶ 46:17
buying interest in the mines and Sandline would soon then liberate the mines. That's kind of, that's actually a very interesting. So now we've combined the international syndicate with the operation Gladio under one company. So we're going …
▶ 48:13
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…
▶ 49:14
despite Sierra Leone being under a UN arms embargo. To bypass the embargo, he arranged for the arms to be transferred to Nigeria first, and then they were going to pass them to Kaba's government. Spicer had secured approval for these effort…
▶ 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…
▶ 4:46
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 …
▶ 20:06
where they murdered somebody, and had managed PR for the British Army in Bosnia. After retiring from the army, he became a marketing director at one of London's most impressive investment firms, a job that required travel regularly to the M…
▶ 21:04
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…
▶ 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…
▶ 23:25
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 …
▶ 23:55
the Project Matrix contract. In brief, Sandline allegedly violated a UN arms embargo when it supplied at least 1,000 AK-47s, as well as mortar, light machine guns, and ammunition to coup plotters favoring the return of Sierra Leone's exile …
▶ 24:56
So they wanted him back in office and they wanted to overthrow the current government because Cabba had sold his soul to the Western oligarchs. And in this case, an Eastern one as well. The mineral rights, mostly diamonds, would be awarded …
▶ 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…
▶ 49:45
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…
▶ 8:33
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…
▶ 10:06
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…
▶ 36:33
be seen as central to the new military privatization, making 2004 a defining year for private military security companies. And because of the company that won it, the contract would also represent a milestone in the modern history of mercen…
▶ 53:55
You don't even get a picture of Tim Spicer on Wikipedia. Okay? I found one on a German website with an article about Sandline. So I did post that in the pill if anybody wants to go look. But trying to find a picture of that man is not easy.…