operaciones clandestinas PMC

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Puede que alguno no supiera que una de las compañias que trabajan para la CIA en Iraq es MVM Inc., esta empresa no tiene una web llamativa ni sus contratistas son fáciles de reconocer, pero tiene uno de los contratos más lucrativos y sus requerimientos de acceso son -con diferencia- los más duros para un contrato gubernamental con una agencia federal, un ejemplo de una oferta que empezó a circular hace un par de días:

MVM is seeking mature, experienced, high risk mobile operators for existing overseas contract work:

PAY: Compensation varies from $525 - $700 a day.

SCHEDULE: Flexible Rotations!!! Usually 60-90 days on and 30-60 days off.

Applicant qualifications MUST include:
- U.S. Citizen: Must be eligible for US Government Clearance.
- 8 years of verifiable military special operations experience.

TRAINING: Day one of training consists of a PT Test and firearms pre-qualification (M-4, Glock 17) to continue training. Those not passing first-day evaluations will return home the same day. Applicants selected for work will then need to successfully complete two to three weeks of intense pre-deployment training relevant to the task/mission. Emphasis on fitness, shooting skills and CQB.

You MUST be in EXCELLENT physical condition with the ability to:

Run 1.5 Miles in 12 minutes or less.
Run ¾ mile then drag a 200lb dummy 50yds and then run ¾ mile in less than 14.5 minutes
Be able to run 3 - 100 yd sprints in kit to include ballistic plates and magazines.
Not have any injuries that prevent you from participating in training.

You MUST be a PROFICIENT rifle and pistol marksman:

A. Familiarize and practice 25yd pistol (Glock 17) shooting under stress prior to arriving.
B. Practice drawing a pistol from a belt holster while wearing a cover shirt
C. Practice prone, kneeling and standing rifle (M4) marksmanship out to 200yds.

APPLICATION:
If you are interested in applying, please email your RESUME to MVMxxxx@xxxxx.com
We will e-mail an application packet to you if you qualify. You must submit an SF-86 * (included in your emailed packet) for this position.

Si buscamos MVM en icasualties.org encontramos por ejemplo a Gregory R. Wright, Jr. muerto en combate en Iraq en 2005 mientras protegía a oficiales de la agencia, la CIA le otorgó la Agency Seal Medal



MVM ha vendido parte de sus filiales comerciales, concentrándose en contratos con el Gobierno, llevando desde los equipos ICE del Department of Homeland Security hasta la gestión de cárceles, contratos de apoyo lingüístico con agencias de inteligencia o los equipos de escoltas de los agentes que asesoran a las nuevas agencias de inteligencia de Iraq, Afganistán y otros aliados de EEUU.

Ala, una PMC que creo que no os sonaba y que está hasta las cejas en asuntos de la CIA



* Un SF-86 es un cuestionario gigantesco en el que se han de meter los datos que tiene que verificar la agencia que otorga los Security Clearance.

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Seguro que abuelo se acuerda de aquellos comentarios hace ya muchísimo tiempo sobre SOC y su papel en actividades clandestinas, por ejemplo con la CIA.

Bueno, hoy ha salido la noticia de que MVM Inc ha perdido el contrato con la CIA del Programa Panther (y Scorpio, con la NSA, está en el aire), y en hoy en el Wall Street Journal aparece la primera referencia en prensa de que SOC está metida en programas de la CIA, protegiendo no las sedes de la Agencia en Bagdad y otras localidades, sino "acompañando" a los agentes de la CIA "en desplazamientos por el país".

CIA Curtails Contract With U.S. Security Firm in Iraq
By SIOBHAN GORMAN and AUGUST COLE
August 28, 2008; Page B1

MVM Inc., one of the biggest security contractors used by U.S. intelligence agencies, has lost the bulk of a Central Intelligence Agency contract in Iraq after failing to provide enough armed guards, according to company emails and contractors familiar with the decision.

The loss of the CIA contract, which was potentially worth more than $1 billion over five years, is a big blow to closely held MVM, based in Vienna, Va. Overseas work for U.S. intelligence agencies represents a third of the company's $200 million in annual revenue and is believed to be one of the fastest-growing areas of the contracting business.

Intelligence officers needing protective services are likely to remain in Iraq even after U.S. troops leave, so demand for such services will continue or possibly increase. The CIA's largest foreign station is in Baghdad, with hundreds of officers estimated to be based there. The loss of the contract will likely hurt MVM's chances of winning further work with the agency.

"We are disappointed to announce that the client has not chosen MVM Inc.," Rob Whitfield, who manages MVM's CIA work, wrote to the company's pool of guards on Aug. 22, according to a copy of the email viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

MVM declined to respond to specific questions. In a written statement, the company said it has an "outstanding performance history" working in dangerous regions and it has never failed to "secure any personnel or facilities that we have been contracted to protect." The company also said that it is "fully compliant with all of the contractual obligations of our diverse client base."

A CIA spokesman said the agency doesn't comment on contracting decisions.

MVM's performance on the CIA contract, known as Panther, was the subject of a Page One article in the Journal last month. The article also discussed alleged problems with a related National Security Agency contract, dubbed Scorpion, which provides guards for NSA employees overseas.

The article detailed allegations from a former MVM guard who said his teammates fabricated an after-action report about a November 2004 shooting incident to cover up their errors. Other contractors detailed problems in areas such as staffing and equipment.

In the article, MVM Chief Executive Dario Marquez said the government had been satisfied with MVM's work. "We have a great working relationship with both these clients," he said in an interview for the article, referring to the CIA and NSA.

The NSA has begun probing the allegations, according to a former MVM manager familiar with the inquiry, including sending an official to Baghdad last month to interview contractors employed by MVM at the time. An NSA spokesman said the agency had no information to provide on the inquiry or the contract.

The CIA's Panther contract with MVM was to protect CIA officers in Iraq. MVM will retain a small portion responsible for guarding CIA facilities and will continue to provide a handful of mobile guards at two sites whose locations are classified, but which aren't in Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan, according to Mr. Whitfield's email.

The CIA awarded the more profitable work-protecting officers traveling around the country to a Nevada company, SOC Inc. SOC has been providing logistical support such as food services and electricity to the CIA in war zones.

SOC didn't respond to requests for comment.

The U.S. relies on contractors throughout the intelligence community, though few are sent overseas. According to a recent report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, about 5% of the estimated 37,000 contracted intelligence personnel work overseas.

Overall, about 70% of the total intelligence budget, including electricity, is outsourced; some 27% of the total amount is spent on people doing core work, such as those with specific skills such as languages.

According to several former MVM managers, MVM was regularly 10 to 15 guards short of the 100 or so it promised. The lack of guards required the agency to postpone missions, one former manager said.

Guards working on Panther were frustrated with MVM's management and pay and many decided to sign on with SOC, which promised $715 a day, compared with $630 MVM offered, according to a contractor familiar with the situation.

MVM's Mr. Whitfield said in the email that the company "would have provided the most positive working environment for the independent contractors in the field."

MVM plans to pursue "other opportunities" with CIA, Mr. Whitfield added.

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Noticia publicada por afrol News, sobre la liberacion de ingeniero Britanico en Gambia

Un ingeniero británico escapa de la justicia de Gambia
afrol News, 5 de Septiembre - Un ingeniero de minas británico en espera de juicio por cargos de exportación ilegal de uranio en Gambia ha escapado de la jurisdicción del país y del propio país del África Occidental asistido por agentes de una empresa de seguridad británica.

Charlie Northfield, que fue sacado del país a través de la frontera con Senegal, regresó finalmente el martes finalmente a su casa en Plymouth. Había pasado seis meses en prisión y bajo arresto domiciliario.

Northfield, de 48 años de edad, y padre de tres hijos, fue conducido 125 millas a través de la selva antes de nadar para cruzar un río inundado para cruzar la frontera con Senegal, desde donde voló a Gran Bretaña vía Marruecos.

Su detención y proceso se produjo después de que Carnegie Minerals, una empresa minera para la que trabajaba en Banjul, fuera acusada de exportación ilegal. Pasó diez días en prisión antes de ser puesto en libertad bajo fianza por 450.000 dólares, y posteriormente acusados de delitos económicos y robo.

Las autoridades de Gambia imputaron a Northfield y su empresa por presunta devaluación de los minerales que exportaban, y cancelaron la licencia de la empresa australiana.

Además, el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Gambia, Crispin Grey-Johnson, dijo que entre 2006 y diciembre de 2007, la empresa exportó cerca de 20.000 toneladas de arena con "gran concentración de uranio" a Australia y China.

A Northfield, que negó todos los cargos, le confiscaron su pasaporte, aunque le dieron los documentos con carácter temporal para volar a casa, y ahora está a la espera de adquirir un nuevo pasaporte para poder viajar a Tailandia y reunirse con su familia.

Dijo que la fuga era como "algo en una película."

© afrol News

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Hay cosas que ciertamente sorprenden...

Russia says U.S. mercenaries, others fought for Georgia
Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:58am EST

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia has evidence that citizens from NATO member states including the United States and Turkey fought for Georgia in the five-day August war, Russia's top investigator said on Monday.

A senior security official in Tbilisi dismissed the statement and said by law only Georgian nationals could serve in the country's armed forces.

Asked to list the nationalities of the foreign fighters it believes were involved, Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Prosecutor-General's investigative committee said: "America, the Czech Republic, Chechnya, the Baltic States, Ukraine and Turkey."

"It was a fairly small number of people. They mainly fulfilled support roles," Bastrykin told reporters in Russia's second city of St Petersburg.

He said some had conducted training for the Georgian armed forces. "There were also two snipers ... one from Ukraine and I believe a Latvian woman," he said.

He said he considered the presence of foreign fighters a criminal offence and said he would bring it up at a meeting with representatives of Interpol.

Russia launched a massive counter-offensive on land and sea in August after Georgian forces tried to retake South Ossetia, a Moscow-backed separatist region that rejects Tbilisi's rule.

Western states condemned Russia's actions as disproportionate, but Moscow said it acted to save the lives of innocent civilians and accused the West of fomenting the conflict by arming Georgia.

Responding to Bastrykin's allegation, Kakha Lomaia, the Secretary of Georgia's National Security Council, told Reuters: "It's really difficult to make comments on such absurd statements."

"There are only Georgian citizens in the Georgian army as it's a legal requirement."

"The statement that almost half of the world was fighting in our army in August is just a fantasy of those in the Russian leadership who would like to justify killings of the peaceful population," he said.

(Reporting by Denis Dyomkin in St Petersburg, Russia and Margarita Antidze in Tbilisi; writing by Simon Shuster; editing by Matthew Jones)

Mercenarios ucranianos, asesores americanos (cosa ya comentada en este foro gracias a KS), una francotiradora letona,... y rusos y georgianos mintiendo como bellacos. Bueno, en el caso de los georgianos no mienten del todo, dicen claramente que en las fuerzas armadas de Georgia solo sirven ciudadanos georgianos, pero los extranjeros no tienen porque pertenecer a las fuerzas armadas

PD: Si, lo de la letona es cierto. De hecho esa mujer estuvo una temporada en Irak trabajando para arreglar el "problemilla" de los Juba. Un mal bicho de tía.

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Pues ahora recuerdo que cuando lo de Chechenia estaba en su apogeo los rusos decían que por allí estaban mercenarios ucranianos y francontiradoras de Lituania o Letonia. Me sonó a cuento chino. Pero mira tú las vueltas que da la vida.

[Loopster]

Así es, parece que a la tipa esta la contrataron para Irak cuando corrió el rumor que entre los Juba había una célula dirigida por una chechena que era una vieja conocida de la letona. Dicen, cuenta, comentan... que estas mujeres del antiguo bloque soviético eran de las Compañías Anti-VIP, ahora rondarán los 30 y muchos, pero dentro de su sector han formado a sus sucesoras.

Como dije hace un par de días en el hilo de Guinea Ecuatorial, las pocas mujeres en estos negocios suelen ser unas hijas de p***

[Loopster]

Esto podría ir también en el tema de Blackwater, pero los programas de protección de la CIA no solo contrataron a personal de las empresas de Erik Prince:

Blackwater tied to clandestine CIA raids
Firm’s personnel were drawn into operations on ad-hoc basis

Highly trained personnel employed with the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide sometimes operated side by side with CIA field officers in Iraq and Afghanistan as the agency undertook missions to kill or capture members of insurgent groups in those countries, according to a former government official and a source familiar with the operations.

The actions taken by the private personnel went beyond the protective role specified in a classified Blackwater contract with the CIA and included active participation in raids overseen by CIA or special forces personnel, these sources said. They emphasized that roles and responsibilities often are blurred or altered in a battlefield setting, and that Blackwater personnel were drawn into the operations on an ad-hoc basis because they were present and had the necessary skills.

Still, the involvement of Blackwater’s officers in raids is likely to raise new questions about the degree to which deadly actions in Iraq and Afghanistan were outsourced to contract personnel who operated without direct contractual authority or without the kind of oversight and accountability applied to CIA and military personnel.

CIA Director Leon Panetta earlier this year ordered the agency to terminate many of its contracts with Blackwater, but CIA officials said Thursday that Panetta has ordered a special internal review of the agency’s contracts with the company to ensure that its work is strictly security-related — a review that may wind up shining a new light on intelligence practices during the Bush administration.

The agency still relies on the firm, now named Xe Services, to provide security for agency employees and assets. Panetta told Congress in the summer that he had shut down a CIA assassination program that employed Blackwater personnel in a supporting role. The CIA has publicly stated that the program, which dated from President George W. Bush’s first term in office, was never fully implemented and that no one was killed. A House committee is investigating that program.

The CIA declined to comment yesterday on specific intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Xe Services, said Blackwater was never under contract to participate in covert raids with CIA or Special Forces troops “in Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else.” Corallo added: “Any allegation to the contrary by any news organization would be false.” The New York Times published on its Web site Thursday evening a story saying Blackwater guards had participated in clandestine CIA raids.

Several former CIA counterterrorism officials who were based in Washington at the time said CIA headquarters was not aware of such actions and did not authorize them. They said they knew of occasions when Blackwater personnel took part in firefights while protecting CIA officers undertaking lethal raids, but the officials characterized these actions as defensive, not offensive.

A former intelligence officer who managed covert teams overseas said contractors would have been authorized to use deadly force if fired upon. “That was clearly understood and part of the rules,” the official said.

The source familiar with the operations said that they had been reviewed and approved in advance by CIA lawyers, and that agency personnel typically played the dominant role in their planning. Some requests from the field for lethal raids were rejected at CIA headquarters because they posed excessive risks to the U.S. teams or to civilians, or because intelligence experts merely wanted to keep watching the prospective targets.

But when the time came to carry out those raids — often against figures who were thought to be al-Qaeda leaders — some CIA field officers assigned responsibilities among the available personnel without regard to which ones were contractors or federal employees, according to the source, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss classified operations.

That meant Blackwater personnel helped to kill some of the targets and did not merely defend the CIA officers taking part in the raids, the source said.

A former agency officer experienced in covert operations in the Middle East said it was common knowledge that military contractors would sometimes participate in missions alongside Special Forces and paramilitary teams. He said the arrangements were made locally and were “practical,” because the active-duty forces and contractors typically shared the same training and were used to working together.

For government employees, working with contractors offered ways to circumvent red tape, said the retired officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “There was no bench strength with either the CIA or Special Forces, so sometimes they would turn to contractors, who often had lots of the same skills,” the former operative said.

Robert Baer, a former CIA officer, said such informal arrangements would undoubtedly lead to problems because they short-circuit normal chains of command. “Once you cede your authorities, people are no longer restrained by regulations and federal law,” Baer said. “There have been abuses; there’s no question about it.”

The CIA’s new review of its Blackwater dealings is only the latest in a series of investigations focused on the firm. Five Blackwater guards are on trial in federal court in the District on manslaughter and other charges in connection with the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in September 2007. The guards’ attorneys contend that the government does not have jurisdiction to bring such charges and that the guards’ conduct was justified. The Justice Department said in November that it would drop charges against one of the guards. A sixth guard pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and is expected to cooperate with federal prosecutors.

The company is also named in a separate civil case in federal court in Virginia in which 70 Iraqi civilians are alleging that the company engaged in “lawless behavior” and that it covered up killings and hired mercenaries. Attorneys for the company have denied the allegations and sought to dismiss the lawsuit.

In an interview with the magazine Vanity Fair this month, Blackwater’s founder and principal owner, Erik Prince — whose conservative leanings are widely known — depicted those who revealed the company’s links to the CIA as motivated in part by politics. “People acting for political reasons disclosed not only the existence of a very sensitive program but my name along with it,” he said.

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En relacion al tema, publicado hoy en "El Pais":

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internac ... iint_7/Tes

La CIA reveló ayer que ha cancelado una subcontrata a la empresa Blackwater por la cual sus mercenarios se encargarían de cargar con misiles los aviones no tripulados Predator y Reaper, utilizados habitualmente para atacar remotos enclaves en Pakistán y Afganistán, donde se refugian los talibanes.

El anuncio, filtrado ayer a diversos medios de comunicación estadounidenses, llega después de que el viernes el diario The New York Times revelara que empleados de la empresa de seguridad privada -que recientemente cambió su nombre por el de Xe Services- participaron junto con agentes de la CIA en operaciones para capturar y matar insurgentes en Irak y Afganistán entre 2004 y 2006.

La subcontrata, cuya cancelación se conoció ayer, pertenecía a uno de los programas más polémicos de la CIA, la ofensiva teledirigida a zonas recónditas de la montañosa frontera entre Afganistán y Pakistán, que ha acabado con numerosos líderes del Al Qaeda. Según un recuento de Associated Press, ha habido unos 67 ataques de ese tipo desde el pasado enero.

Ataques teledirigidos
El último terrorista abatido, el martes pasado, fue Saleh al Somali, uno de los 20 miembros de Al Qaeda más buscados por la CIA. Al Somali se encargaba de coordinar las actividades de la organización terrorista fuera de Pakistán y Afganistán y había participado en la planificación de diversos atentados contra intereses occidentales.

Hasta que el nuevo director de la CIA, Leon Panetta, dio por concluida la subcontrata, el pasado verano, los mercenarios se encargaban de cargar misiles modelo Hellfire y bombas con 270 kilogramos de explosivos en los aviones no tripulados. De elegir los objetivos e iniciar los ataques se encargaba la CIA directamente, desde su sede en Virginia.

Actualmente, Xe Services sigue trabajando con la CIA, pero sólo en operaciones muy limitadas de apoyo y suministrando seguridad a algunos de sus agentes. El otro gran cliente de la empresa, el Departamento de Estado, canceló todas sus contratas después de que el Gobierno de Irak exigiera su salida del país a raíz de la muerte de 17 civiles iraquíes a manos de contratistas de Blackwater, en el curso de una misión de protección de diplomáticos estadounidenses en Bagdad en 2007.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internac ... iint_7/Tes

Guardas privados al servicio de la CIA
Mercenarios de Blackwater mataron a insurgentes en operaciones secretas en Irak y Afganistán
S. P. - Nueva York - 12/12/2009

Agentes de la CIA y mercenarios de Blackwater participaron juntos en operaciones para capturar y matar insurgentes en Irak y Afganistán. Es la nueva revelación hecha por The New York Times sobre el programa clandestino, en la que reconstruye la supuesta "relación de hermandad" que existía entre ambas con base en los testimonios de antiguos empleados de la firma de seguridad y agentes de inteligencia de EE UU que hablaron bajo condición de mantener el anonimato.

La CIA cancela un contrato con Blackwater

Las redadas conjuntas acabaron convirtiéndose en una rutina
"Las operaciones secretas muestran una relación mucho más profunda entre la agencia de espionaje y la contratista que la que han reconocido los representantes del Gobierno", denuncia el rotativo neoyorquino.

Los lazos entre la CIA y Blackwater se estrecharon, según la información, después de que algunos de los altos cargos de la agencia pasaran a la nómina de la compañía.

Las operaciones, que incluían el controvertido traslado de detenidos, tuvieron lugar entre 2004 y 2006. Eran los años más intensos de la insurgencia contra las tropas estadounidenses. Estas redadas conjuntas, al parecer, acabaron convirtiéndose en una "rutina". Según el rotativo, "se producían por la noche" y el personal de Blackwater desempeñaba un "papel central".

Es decir, los guardias de seguridad de Blackwater fueron supuestamente más allá de proporcionar a la CIA los servicios de seguridad contratados. Eso provocó, según el rotativo, que desapareciera "la supuesta línea que separa a la CIA, los militares y Blackwater". Estas revelaciones elevan aún más las dudas sobre la implicación legal de involucrar a contratistas civiles en operaciones ofensivas y de inteligencia ejecutadas por el Gobierno de EE UU.

"Existía el sentimiento de que Blackwater era eventualmente una extensión de la agencia", afirma el diario. La firma de seguridad, que ahora es conocida como Xe Services, y el servicio de inteligencia negaron la mayor sobre la participación conjunta en las operaciones clandestinas. La CIA se limita a decir que la contratista actuó como un "refuerzo", y precisa en este sentido que es algo permitido por la legislación de EE UU.

"La agencia, al igual que muchas otras, utiliza contratistas en funciones que complementan y mejoran las capacidades de nuestra propia fuerza de trabajo", precisó un portavoz de la CIA. Por su parte, Xe Services responde al artículo diciendo que su contrato no le permitía participar en operaciones como las que relata el rotativo neoyorquino, ni con la CIA ni con ningún otro departamento de EE UU.

"Toda afirmación sobre lo contrario, que haga cualquier organización noticiosa, es falsa", reiteró ayer un portavoz de la compañía. Ante la controversia que rodea a las operaciones de Blackwater, el director de la CIA, Leon Panetta, ordenó el pasado verano que se revisaran los contratos con la firma. La revelación del Times coincide con la investigación lanzada por la Comisión del Inteligencia de la Cámara de Representantes

Un saludo

[Loopster]

Copio y pego desde el foro FAS:

El contrato que Panetta ha anulado (más bien puesto en suspenso) es el de los equipos de acción directa, actividad que asumió el JSOC hace ya año y pico y que la "anteriormente conocida como Select Programs Group" (una división de Blackwater/Xe) sigue ejecutando con un nombre diferente.

Por supuesto otras divisiones de BW siguen trabajando para la CIA, incluyendo el armado y montaje de armamento en los Predator y Reaper en Afganistán y Pakistán, la protección de equipos de la CIA y la formación de agentes de inteligencia y OEs afganos y pakistaníes.

Lo único que ha dejado de hacer Xe desde que Panetta soltó en el Congreso que Prince era en efecto un colaborador directo de la CIA es que las armas son activadas por personal del DoD antes de salir los UAV. Solo ha habido que mandar a un tío más a cada base y que los de BW se salten un último paso.

Pero vamos, que ni el Washington Post ni The New York Times, ni mucho menos Scahill y The Nation, están descubriendo nada nuevo...

viewtopic.php?f=61&t=41&p=20639&hilit=s ... oup#p20639

Apuntaros otra, Select Programs Group.

Mobile Security, HR/LP PSD, FSS,.... top notch y Tier 1 a carretadas

viewtopic.php?f=61&t=41&p=25767&hilit=select#p25767

La relación de Blackwater con la CIA no es en absoluto nueva, y desde luego el NYT no ha descubierto la rueda. Hay información oficial acerca de la participación de Blackwater en los programas Panther y Scorpio (seguridad para CIA y NSA en zonas de alto riesgo) y el libro de Robert Young Pelton recoge incluso información acerca del número exacto de hombres de Blackwater que trabajaban en la estación de la CIA en Kabul en 2002.

Y eso de que Panetta desmontó la unidad que se montó para cazar a Ben Laden porque Blackwater trabajaba en ella es una chorrada como un piano, la CIA sigue contratando a Xe Services a través de su multitud de divisiones, entre ellas la muy discreta "Select Programs Group".

En este foro hay al menos 60 referencias al trabajo de Blackwater entrenando a personal de la CIA, en particular de su división paramilitar, así como del apoyo en países como Afganistán, Irak, Yemen, Pakistán, Sudán, Somalia,...

viewtopic.php?f=61&t=41&p=25828&hilit=select#p25828

For its intelligence work, the company’s sprawling headquarters in North Carolina has a special division, known as Blackwater Select. The company’s first major arrangement with the C.I.A. was signed in 2002, with a contract to provide security for the agency’s new station in Kabul, Afghanistan. Blackwater employees assigned to the Predator bases receive training at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada to learn how to load Hellfire missiles and laser-guided smart bombs on the drones, according to current and former employees, who asked not to be identified for fear of upsetting the company.

The C.I.A. has for several years operated Predator drones out of a remote base in Shamsi, Pakistan, but has secretly added a second site at an air base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, several current and former government and company officials said. The existence of the Predator base in Jalalabad has not previously been reported.

Officials said the C.I.A. now conducted most of its Predator missile and bomb strikes on targets in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region from the Jalalabad base, with drones landing or taking off almost hourly. The base in Pakistan is still in use. But officials said that the United States decided to open the Afghanistan operation in part because of the possibility that the Pakistani government, facing growing anti-American sentiment at home, might force the C.I.A. to close the one in Pakistan.

Blackwater is not involved in selecting targets or actual strikes. The targets are selected by the C.I.A., and employees at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Va., pull the trigger remotely. Only a handful of the agency’s employees actually work at the Predator bases in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the current and former employees said.

They said that Blackwater’s direct role in these operations had sometimes led to disputes with the C.I.A. Sometimes when a Predator misses a target, agency employees accuse Blackwater of poor bomb assembly, they said. In one instance last year recounted by the employees, a 500-pound bomb dropped off a Predator before it hit the target, leading to a frantic search for the unexploded bomb in the remote Afghan-Pakistani border region. It was eventually found about 100 yards from the original target.

viewtopic.php?f=61&t=525&p=30708&hilit=select#p30708

Vale, entonces lo que quieren hacer es un único "contrato marco" en lugar del batiburrillo de servicios de seguridad que tienen ahora. Es algo así como el WPPS (Dyncorp, Triple Canopy y Xe Services), los WIT (NEK, Select,...) o más concretamente los TWISS (EODT, SOC, Sabre) que son la seguridad de bases e instalaciones en Iraq.

Etc, etc, etc...

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Loopster, a que crees que es debido esa externalizacion de servicios que nos cuentas en EE.UU ,militar,inteligencia,seguridad etc... a que es mas económico? Mas profesional? Tienen mas recursos las empresas privadas?
Crees que si hubiera marco legal aquí ,seria posible un desarrollo igual o te parece impensable?