Triple Canopy organization
also: Tripoli Canopy
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Claims (11)
Triple Canopy member_of
International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers documented
“It would have no value without a mechanism for oversight and governance. On the day of the signing in 2010, the steering committee for developing the oversight system was already in place. It included representatives from the Pentagon, the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 25:18
United States funded
Triple Canopy documented
“There were six bidders, three in America, DynCorp, Custer Battles, and Triple Canopy, and three from UK, Armor Group, Aranis, and Aegis Defense Services. Of those six, three were already in Iraq. DynCorp, the longstanding client of the U.S.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 48:41
International Peace Operations Association member_of
Triple Canopy book_quoted
“The membership roster included all of the big ones, Triple Canopy, G4S, L3, SOC, DynCorp, and Academy. There were half a dozen member firms based in the UAE, mainly Dubai. Others came out of the UK, Bahrain, Cyprus, South Africa, South Kore…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 8:50
Triple Canopy member_of
Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International book_quoted
“Triple Canopy, DynCorp, and other private military companies, Academy was also a member of the largest drone lobby in America. That was called the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. The American public was unaware of the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 26:55
Triple Canopy overbilled_or_diverted
U.S. Department of Justice documented
“Company had billed the U.S. government for hundreds of Uganda security guards who failed to meet firearm proficiency requirements. We've heard that before. Prosecutors claim the company had falsified test scores to make the workers appear t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 35:10
Hilton International supplied_arms_to
Triple Canopy documented
“a large Afghani firm headquartered in Kabul with ties to Afghanistan's President Karzai. There was Defion International, which was based in Peru, with offices in Iraq, Dubai, Philippines, and Sri Lanka, often supplied private military perso…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 52:47
Triple Canopy funded
Baghdad book_quoted
“whose contract to safeguard the Baghdad embassy would bring in nearly $1 billion to the company. Triple Canopy, who had a five-year $1.5 billion contract for embassy security. What do you think we were doing in that embassy that needed all …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 4:26
Constellis owned
Triple Canopy documented
“The private military corporation formerly known as Blackwater. Oh, sorry. Triple Canopy and the company that was formerly known as Blackwater, which is Academy, was acquired by Constellas in 2016. So and then Apollo acquired. Hold on. I'm g…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13 @ 24:23
U.S. State Department contracted
Triple Canopy documented
“would be third world nationals. Triple Canopy, for example, the firm contracted to guard the diplomats, had often employed Uganda and Peruvians, according to a 2010 State Department audit of the country. And a significant portion of those e…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 8 @ 26:32
Defense Intelligence Agency funded
Triple Canopy documented
“that the company has once known as Blackwater simply doesn't exist anymore. It's now Academy. Unquote. That's utter bullshit. The same people are there. Barely a month after Tierney had introduced his bill, the Pentagon Defense Intelligence…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 33:44
United States funded
Triple Canopy host_asserted
“You have to think of the layering. OK, so DynCorp gets a contract and then they contract to Blackwater and they contract to one of those others. And that triple canopy, triple canopy will go to Colombia and Africa and get some of the parami…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 58:14
Mentions (24)
▶ 7:42
And as we have seen, they've also been recruited into the CIA, into the FBI, and into Congress. Unsurprisingly, the process of consolidation is also unfolding among contractors who deal with these elite soldiers. During the onset of the Ira…
▶ 8:12
Blackwater, now known as Academi, A-C-A-D-E-M-I, you know, because they got themselves in trouble, so they had to change their name, their name changer too. And Triple Canopy are presently owned by the same holding company, Constellis, C-O-…
▶ 8:41
There's only two. Because when you're owned by the same company, you are no longer actually separate companies. They basically do that as a dodge. So Triple Canopy and the former Blackwater belong to one company and DynCorp to another. The …
▶ 9:15
So in other words, I'm describing to you the enterprise that started during the outsourcing that happened after Carter basically got rid of the covert function of the CIA. So you just can't make this stuff up. So the CIA is running Constell…
▶ 23:41
of which Apollo was part of. Now, go back and look at what I just said. Apollo was loaning Jared Kushner money and also was founded by Leon Black. That's crazy. That's like totally crazy. Okay. So, got one more though. The holding company t…
▶ 24:58
I had to draw a chart because this is so confusing. All right. So Apollo owns the Constellus Group. The Constellus Group is owned by or ran by a CIA agent. It is the holding group for Triple Canopy and Academy, which was Blackwater. And the…
▶ 27:23
There will be a primary contractor and then they layer in subcontractors. So there's this ambiguity when things go wrong that they can point fingers and hold no one accountable. And this will happen over and over again. There were several n…
▶ 27:53
following the British model. Triple Canopy was a 2003 startup, you know, right at the same time that they're deciding that they're going to basically do Iraq and then Afghanistan by contract. It was founded in Chicago by Special Forces vete…
▶ 48:41
There were six bidders, three in America, DynCorp, Custer Battles, and Triple Canopy, and three from UK, Armor Group, Aranis, and Aegis Defense Services. Of those six, three were already in Iraq. DynCorp, the longstanding client of the U.S.…
▶ 58:14
You have to think of the layering. OK, so DynCorp gets a contract and then they contract to Blackwater and they contract to one of those others. And that triple canopy, triple canopy will go to Colombia and Africa and get some of the parami…
▶ 8:50
The membership roster included all of the big ones, Triple Canopy, G4S, L3, SOC, DynCorp, and Academy. There were half a dozen member firms based in the UAE, mainly Dubai. Others came out of the UK, Bahrain, Cyprus, South Africa, South Kore…
▶ 11:17
One for Tripoli Canopy has the slogan, you never know what threats lie ahead. Another one said, when the stakes are the highest, governments, Fortune 500 companies, and international organizations turn to Olive Group to enable their operati…
▶ 26:26
In North Carolina, the New Academy website on which the ad was posted read, quote, We are a professional organization serving as a solution provider to the U.S. government. We operate in the defense, training, logistics, and intelligence sp…
▶ 34:16
Companies competing, Academy, Triple Canopy, G4S, Team Crucible, Washington Security Group, and Signature Science. It was not a huge multi-billion dollar contract like the Worldwide Protective Services contract out of the State Department i…
▶ 34:46
Triple Canopy and G4S had recently been caught in a web of allegations of misconduct. Triple Canopy, which had accumulated roughly $2 billion in U.S. contracts by the time it won this new contract, was facing allegations based on whistleblo…
▶ 49:49
The Financial Times wrote that Blackwater and Triple Canopy alone made at least $3 billion. Other articles using the word around, possibly as much or more than, talked about $29 billion gap between the commission's two estimated totals for …
▶ 52:47
a large Afghani firm headquartered in Kabul with ties to Afghanistan's President Karzai. There was Defion International, which was based in Peru, with offices in Iraq, Dubai, Philippines, and Sri Lanka, often supplied private military perso…
▶ 53:12
and always listed among the top companies were Academy, DynCorp, Triple Canopy, and Aegis. Such lists, though, were based largely on firms that had been operating in conflict-ridden zones during the past decade and were always helpful in as…
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To continue at such a pace, the government was increasingly dependent upon private contractors to operate the drones. And then it talks about the maintenance, logistics leg of the drones. Along with Academy, Triple Canopy, DynCorp, and many…
▶ 25:18
It would have no value without a mechanism for oversight and governance. On the day of the signing in 2010, the steering committee for developing the oversight system was already in place. It included representatives from the Pentagon, the …
▶ 44:30
The firm was also finding work in Africa, turning its attention to oil and thus following the lead of other private military security companies, such as Control Risk Group, Inris, Triple Canopy and Armor Group. The Niger Delta, for example,…
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South African nationals. Mostly former police officers and soldiers were working in Iraq, being paid by the United States. Other countries supplying workers were Nepal, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Honduras, and our all-time favorite, the Philipp…
▶ 4:26
whose contract to safeguard the Baghdad embassy would bring in nearly $1 billion to the company. Triple Canopy, who had a five-year $1.5 billion contract for embassy security. What do you think we were doing in that embassy that needed all …
▶ 9:15
A U.N. spokesman then tried to explain the organization's intention, falling back on definitions. He, Starr, wanted to know that our understanding of the current usage of the term private security contractors typically refers to contractors…