DynCorp owners - Veritas Capital Fund buys Kroll Government Services

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Just in case you missed it Veritas Capital (connected to the Carlyle Group) and current owners of DynCorp  is buying Kroll's Government Services from Marsh & McLennon .

See: Veritas Capital  is never very far from The Carlyle Group

As a side note Michael Hayden also has a new job with DC Capital (A Veritas Capital spin-off)

http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/Datamonitor_Mergers_and_Acquisitions-Veritas_Capital_Fund_to_acquire_Kroll_Government_Services-2052-4213
Veritas Capital Fund to acquire Kroll Government Services
from Datamonitor Mergers and Acquisitions
2 page report published Apr 17, 2009

A newly formed acquisition vehicle of The Veritas Capital Fund III, L.P., a private equity fund, has agreed to acquire Kroll Government Services, Inc., the government consulting and monitoring subsidiary of Kroll, Inc.


http://www.euroinvestor.co.uk/News/ShowNewsStory.aspx?StoryID=10471832

Veritas Capital Acquires Kroll Government Services, Inc.
06/01/2009 - 19:51
  
NEW YORK, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Veritas Capital, a leading private equity firm with a focus on companies that provide services and products to the government market, today announced the acquisition of Kroll Government Services, Inc. from Kroll, Inc., a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan . In conjunction with the transaction, Kroll Government Services, Inc. has been renamed KeyPoint Government Solutions, Inc. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

KeyPoint is a leading provider of security-clearance background investigations and employment screening services to U.S. government agencies, also providing related investigative, monitoring and fraud prevention services helping such agencies ensure the integrity of these processes. KeyPoint's highly qualified and experienced employees serve U.S., state and local government customers including the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of Justice, the US Coast Guard, the Army National Guard and the Los Angeles Police Department, among others.

"The acquisition of KeyPoint Government Solutions is consistent with our strategy of investing in strong companies that perform mission critical functions for the U.S. Government," said Veritas Capital Founder and Chairman Robert McKeon.

"We welcome KeyPoint, the critical work it does, and its talented management team led by Jeff Schlanger to the Veritas portfolio of companies."

Mr. Schlanger, who will continue to lead the firm as Chief Executive Officer, said, "We are very enthusiastic about the prospect of conducting business as a stand-alone operating company with the support of Veritas Capital, the preeminent private equity firm focused on the government services sector. Aligning with Veritas and its impressive portfolio of government services companies, resources and strategic guidance will provide KeyPoint an opportunity to further grow and diversify our business platform. There is an increasing U.S. Government need for investigative and fraud, waste and abuse prevention services; KeyPoint is extremely well positioned to provide the highly effective integrated solutions that protect the integrity of our clients' most crucial processes."

Veritas Capital's McKeon concluded, "We are focused on growing KeyPoint organically -- through new contract wins -- as well as via acquisitions that fit KeyPoint's core competencies with the overriding objective of further enhancing the quality of service that can be offered to KeyPoint's government clients."

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No one is reading this so I suck.... so why is this important?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=92675&mesg_id=95300

Whistleblower Andrew Grove blames Kroll for 9/11

http://www.911blogger.com/files/audio/MeriaHellerRichardAndrewGrove.mp3

http://cortez.gnn.tv/blogs/15703/9_11_Whistleblower_Andrew_Grove_Comes_Forward

The Meria Heller Show – http://www.Meria.net

This man, Richard Andrew Grove, a whistleblower who worked for the big boys and money people behind 9/11 has come out with information to set the 9/11 movement on fire.

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To offer a little contextual History, AIG was founded by OSS operative Cornelius V. Starr (2 R’s), the uncle of Clinton’s friend Kenneth Starr. AIG was created for and is currently a front which provides cover for intelligence community illicit operations. In 2001, AIG owned a Risk Management firm called Kroll Associates.

Kroll played a major role in the events of September 11th, and continues to this day to enable events like the 7-7 and 7-21 bombings in the London Tube system… they then go on TV and provide “expert” counterterrorism testimony to the goldfish at home tuned into FoxNews and the like.

While Kroll provided the necessary operational capability, in part, for what was perpetrated; AIG and Marsh were focused on participating in both short and long-term money schemes. Kroll’s Jerome Hauer (a long time personal friend of ex-FBI Counterterrorism & Osama bin Laden expert John O’Neill) hired O’Neill as head of security for the WTC.

Kroll had also managed the bunker in WTC 7 for Guiliani, and Kroll’s board of directors shared one peculiar member in common with AIG; that being Frank G. Wisner Jr., son of OSS co-Founder Frank Wisner. I won’t go into the history of the OSS, Reinhard Gehlen, or the Council on Foreign Relations / Dulles affiliation with its creation, but I can recommend an excellent book, wherein its relevance is comprehensively documented; the title you’re looking for is: The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA by Burton Hersh (and printed in 1992).

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On July 8, 2004, Kroll Associates was sold to Marsh and McLennan. I would mention at this point that Kroll Associates also provides protection, I mean, Kidnap and Ransom coverage for major corporations and their executives- and employs ex- and-current Intelligence Operatives, as well as ex-Scotland Yard, and freelance mercenaries. Kroll is at the heart of 9-11, though it’s but a sub-aspect of many other superimposed actions and operative details that took place on that day.

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http://cortez.gnn.tv/blogs/15703/9_11_Whistleblower_Andrew_Grove_Comes_Forward

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http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/management-risk-management/5285028-1.html
Kroll is Awarded Background Investigation Contract by Department of Homeland Security, U.S.
Date: Wednesday, October 3 2007

NEW YORK -- Kroll, the worlds leading risk consulting firm, announced today that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security, awarded Kroll;s Government Services division a contract to conduct security clearance background investigations on
current and prospective employees and contractors.

The total potential value of the contract is $30,000,000. The contract includes a base year period that runs through August 31, 2008 with four additional one-year options. Kroll's government consulting and monitoring subsidiary will perform the services pursuant to the terms of the contract.

"This award will allow us to continue supporting ICE;s important role in protecting our nation;s security" said Jeff Schlanger, president of Kroll's Government Services division. "We are delighted that ICE has selected Kroll to perform these mission-critical security clearance investigations."

Kroll;s Government Services division is also currently working on substantial security clearance investigation contracts for the Department of Homeland Securitys Transportation Security Administration, United States Customs and Border Protection, as well as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Kroll has been performing background investigations for ICE since January 2006 when the agency began participating in an existing contract held by Kroll with United States Customs and Border Protection. Because of the substantial growth in the ICE requirements, they elected to have a competition for direct contracts for their investigations. Kroll is one of four awardees.

About Kroll Government Services

Kroll Government Services division is a subsidiary of Kroll, the world;s leading risk consulting company. The Government Services division is responsible for marketing and coordinating the services of Kroll;s diverse practices to local, state and federal agencies throughout the United States. It is also responsible for managing Kroll's compliance monitoring services and for conducting security clearance background investigations of U.S. government personnel.

About Kroll

Kroll, the world;s leading risk consulting company, provides a broad range of investigative, intelligence, financial, security and technology services to help clients reduce risks, solve problems and capitalize on opportunities. Headquartered in New York with offices in more than 65 cities in over 33 countries, Kroll has a multidisciplinary corps of more than 4,800 employees and serves a global clientele of law firms, financial institutions, corporations, non-profit institutions, government agencies, and individuals. Kroll is an operating unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (NYSE: MMC), the global professional services firm.

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Robert McKeon - Chairman of Dyncorp - buys Kroll via Veritas Capital...

I wonder who handles security for Bilderberg?

http://www.mergersunleashed.com/news/veritas-sets-cap-for-fund-iv-196540-1.html
Veritas Sets $1.25B Cap for Fund IV
The new fund, if it hits the target, will roughly double the firm's third vehicle.
By KEN MacFADYEN - August 12, 2009

Veritas Capital, according to a Form D filing submitted with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has set a $1.25 billion cap on its latest fund, Veritas Capital Fund IV, LP.

The New York-based buyout shop, headed by Robert McKeon, is currently investing out of its third vehicle, which closed on roughly $600 million in 2005. The firm has lined up UBS Securities to serve as placement agent for the new vehicle.

Veritas, over time, has traditionally leaned toward the defense sector, although the firm’s website describes its target as middle-market companies serving “a broad array of government-related customers.”

In July, it acquired Marsh & McLennan subsidiary Kroll Government Services, and it counts Vertex Aerospace, Global Tel*link, Vangent Inc., DynCorp, Integrated Defense Technologies and The Wornick Cos. as past investments.

McKeon served as the chairman of Wasserstein Perella Management Partners before founding Veritas in 1992. It wasn’t until 1998, however, that the firm raised its first institutional fund, closing on $175 million.

Calls placed to Veritas were not immediately returned by press time.


http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers.html

CFR Members:
McKeon, Robert B. - President of Veritas Capital LLC

http://www.zimbio.com/member/SIATD/articles/U053Dxg5Coe/Dynamight

Dynamight  PendingWritten on Jun-25-09 12:44pm

Private Security Contractors (PSCs) are, as noted in this discussion from Georgetown university, a relatively new phenomenon, and we're at something of a crossroads in deciding how to make them accountable for their actions. If we leave it much longer their influence will become such they'll become too powerful for any regulatory system to control, such is the money available to them in the increasingly lucrative private war business. Mercenary armies themselves are nothing new, but the globalised corporate mercenary army is a comparatively recent development. As countries and companies become more and more like each other, dissolving into supernational entities, the question of how to reign them in becomes ever more significant as traditional mechanisms of oversight prove themselves not fit for purpose.
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No such luck regarding PSCs. Though they've gained considerably more attention in recent years the problems go back to their very inception. One of the oldest of all is DynCorp, the world's premier rent-a-cop business. Their HQ is in Falls Church Virginia, less than 10 miles from the Pentagon. Their chairman Robert McKeon sponsors lectures at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the co-founder of a Wall Street private equity firm who have at times invested in DynCorp.

They have had many different government contracts. They were paid by the US military to produce anthrax, they recently got a near $1 billion deal to provide technical support to aircraft in Iraq, they landed a contract to upgrade and update the FBI's IT systems, an ongoing joke in the intelligence world, they handle secure data transfer for the Department of Justice, the Security and Exchange Commission, The Treasury, the IRS, The Centers for Disease Control, Federal Communication Commission and others. They also guard the US border with Mexico and are in charge of the entire Air Force One fleet of presidential jets.

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Robert McKeon - He is now on the boards of DynCorp International, The Wornick Company, Athena Innovative Solutions, and McNeil Technologies, and sits as a member at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

http://www.nationalcorruptionindex.org/pages/profile.php?profile_id=218
Robert McKeon Last Updated: July 16, 2008

 In 1992, at the age 37, of Robert McKeon founded equity investment firm Veritas Capital. Veritas, like The Carlyle Group, invested in intelligence and defense, a decision that has paid off handsomely in the Global War on Terror.

McKeon’s specializes as a corporate “cleaner,” taking over scandal-ridden companies that need removal from public scrutiny. He hires former government officials to do “due diligence” and is proficient at arranging for the company to keep its government contracts. In other words, he uses tainted companies to do highly classified government work related to our defense and security—work so classified, he says he doesn’t even know much about what they do.

Veritas’s first brush with trouble came in 1999, when the treasurer of Connecticut pleaded guilty to a scheme in which a Veritas consultant paid him kickbacks for approving a $125 million investment by the state in a Veritas fund. Veritas came out of the deal squeaky clean, even though McKeon refused to provide any refunds.

One of Veritas’s first big defense successes was the sale of Vertex Aerospace to L-3 Communications for $650 million in late 2003. Veritas had bought the company just two years earlier for $270 million from Raytheon. Around the same time, Veritas acquired IDT, which quickly acquired a $146 million chunk of major defense contractor BAE. In 2003, Veritas sold IDT to DRS Technologies for $550 million, and McKeon joined DRS’s board. A couple years later, DRS sold two IDT units—DRS Broadcast Technology, Inc. and DRS Weather Systems, Inc.—back to Veritas.

In July 2004, Veritas acquired McNeil Technologies, another major government contractor. McNeil does translation in Iraq, and it has done $10.5 million of work processing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for TSA and the departments of State, Transportation, Defense. (McNeil’s board counts six retired military brass.) In late 2006, McNeil and DynCorp, another Veritas-owned contractor (see below), won a $4.6 billion joint contract to do translation in Iraq.

McKeon’s most recent high profile project was the assumption of government contractor MZM from founder, and now convict Mitchell Wade, in September 2005. MZM had no federal contracts as of 2002, but after hiring many former intelligence officials from the military, FBI, and CIA, it accumulated $160 million in defense contracts, mostly unneeded no-bid earmarks, and had 85 employees with top-secret clearance. The most notorious contract was with the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), with whom MZM collaborated on the notoriously inaccurate Iraqi WMD findings. MZM also got contracts for other sensitive defense and intelligence work, some with the NSA, FBI, and CIA. The curious rapidity of MZM’s ascent was explained when Wade pleaded guilty to funneling over $1 million worth of bribes to Rep.Randy “Duke” Cunningham. Wade also made other illegal campaign contributions and hired family members of NGIC.

Before purchasing MZM, McKeon hired former CIA counsel Jeffrey Smith to ask Pentagon and intelligence employees about their contracts. When Smith, who works for Arnold and Porter, a firm that has represented defense companies, including Veritas and DynCorp reported back saying intelligence agencies were fond of MZM’s work, McKeon must have liked what he heard. He bought MZM, renamed it Athena Innovative Solutions (Athena was the goddess of wisdom and war), and the Pentagon allowed Athena to take over every one of every one of MZM’s contracts. Two years later, Veritas sold Athena to CACI, another contractor with a notorious history, for $200 million in cash.

McKeon picked up a much dirtier military contractor in 2005: DynCorp International. Veritas bought DynCorp from Computer Science Corporation (CSC) for $850 million and took it public while keeping a 56% stake; DynCorp is now worth $1.4 billion. DynCorp has over $2 billion in government contracts, despite a long list of abuse and controversies.

In Bosnia, DynCorp employees traded sex slaves, including girls as young as 13, and fired the whistleblowers. The site supervisor was caught on tape raping a woman. The company settled with the whistleblowers, but no one was prosecuted. DynCorp continued to reap military contracts and further enhance their bad reputation after Bosnia. The State Department noted DynCorp employees’ “aggressive behavior” with diplomats and journalists in Afghanistan, two DynCorp bodyguards beat journalists in Haiti, and many Ecuadoreans and Colombians have fallen sick in areas where DynCorp sprayed toxins as part of the War on Drugs. For all this, DynCorp was rewarded with an irony-laden contract to recruit police forces in Iraq.

It can’t hurt DynCorp that Veritas Capital’s “Defense & Aerospace Advisory Council” includes Richard Armitage (former Deputy Secretary of State), Gen. Richard Hawley (former Air Force Commander), Gen. Barry McCaffrey (former Drug Czar and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Southern Command), Gen. Anthony Zinni (former Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Central Command and BAE director), and other military luminaries.

In October 2006, Veritas bought another company with a sullied past: Cornell Companies, Inc., a major government contractor in the management of prisons. Veritas paid $245 million and assumed $273 million of Cornell’s debt. The company was indicted for illegal political contributions to Tom DeLay, a Texas Congressman indicted for money laundering and conspiracy. Also, Cornell was sued by shareholders in 2002; stock dove 40 percent and Cornell had to refile earnings statements with the SEC. SEC never found wrongdoing, but Cornell settled for $7 million in 2006.

Before Veritas, McKeon was a founding partner at Wasserstein Perella, where he managed a $1.1 billion fund. He is now on the boards of DynCorp International, The Wornick Company, Athena Innovative Solutions, and McNeil Technologies, and sits as a member at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The Capital Yacht Club, where Duke Cunningham lived on Mitchell Wade’s yacht “Duke-Stir”—and where members and employees were subpoenaed to testify in front of a grand jury regarding said corrupt Congressman—had a commodore Robert McKeon when the subpoenas took place. Though not determined that this is the same Robert McKeon, there is no denying that someone with that name is rolling in government contracts purchased from Cunningham’s sellout.

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http://www.insurancenewsnet.com/article.asp?n=1&innID=1009210898
Wall Street Goes to War - August 3, 2009
Nathan Vardi, 07.15.09, 06:00 PM EDT  - Forbes Magazine dated August 03, 2009



The battle for wartime profits is waged in the boardroom. Inside the most lucrative--and the ugliest--deal of the Iraq and Afghan wars.

For 19 years Robert McKeon and Thomas Campbell were inseparable. They raised money and struck deals together, buying and selling dozens of companies, often in the defense sector--smallish outfits such as Athena Innovative Solutions, Integrated Defense Technologies and Vertex Aerospace. Working 12-hour days out of next-door offices in midtown Manhattan, they could hear each other's phone conversations and knew the most personal details about each other. They golfed together, went skeet and trap shooting, traveled together for meetings and once shared a hotel room in Mexico. On Fridays they would dine, just the two of them, at Harry Cipriani, the ritzy Manhattan restaurant. "I believe we were pretty close to best friends," says Campbell.

They also hatched the most lucrative deal of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their 2005 purchase of DynCorp International, the Falls Church, Va. provider of services to the U.S. military, landed McKeon and Campbell at the center of a booming and controversial business. The leveraged buyout also helped rip apart their relationship. McKeon ended up very rich, personally earning $350 million, or seven times his investment, and in control of a company that has emerged as the biggest winner in the war game. Campbell, forced out of DynCorp, came away with very little and has started over. Today the two former friends are locked in mortal combat--trading accusations of greed and betrayal in protracted litigation and competing for $25 billion a year in battleground services contracts for the U.S. government.

Battlefield contractors have been around for years. But their importance has grown in post-Cold War defense spending. Roughly 240,000 contractor employees, many of them foreign nationals, support U.S. missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, outnumbering the troops they serve. They provide security, military and police training, logistics and air support, reconstruction and every mundane service it takes to feed, clothe and clean fighting forces--collecting some $100 billion of the $830 billion U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for in the two wars. Though they don't operate under the same rules of engagement as the U.S. military, contractors risk their lives; 1,360 of them have been killed and 20,000 injured in the two war zones.

Contractors have drawn fire because of high-profile scandals. KBR, split off from Halliburton, has prepared 937 million meals, issued 7 billion gallons of fuel and driven 745 million miles moving soldiers and supplies but has been dogged by accusations of negligence and overbilling. Titan Corp., now part of L-3 Communications, and CACI International were caught up in prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib (neither company has been prosecuted). Blackwater USA, a private security firm renamed Xe Services, had been protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq but got kicked out of the country after its employees killed civilians in Baghdad's Nisur Square in September 2007.

Yet the business keeps growing--for giants like KBR (annual sales: $11.6 billion) and SAIC ($10.1 billion), which manages the delivery of mine-resistant vehicles, and for smaller private firms like Triple Canopy, which does security work, and IAP Worldwide Services, helping to generate power at forward operating bases. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is trying to curtail outsourced jobs, suggesting in April that they be reduced from 39% of the Pentagon's workforce to 26%, largely by hiring civil servants to handle the acquisitions process. But Gates and his war planners have shown little inclination to get people in uniform to turn wrenches, peel potatoes, build bases, drive trucks or protect diplomats. "There is no intent not to have contractors in the battlefield--I am not uncomfortable with a 1:1 ratio," says Jacques Gansler, former Under Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration and chairman of a 2007 commission that urgently called for contracting reform. "Issues need to be resolved," he says, "but you can't get along without them."

President Obama sent 20,000 additional troops this summer to Afghanistan to go after the Taliban. DynCorp will be at the forefront of that action, training Afghan police, building barracks, managing poppy eradication and providing U.S. troops with laundry, fuel and meals in the war's biggest new contract. That's on top of big deals in Iraq, airlifting and protecting diplomats and supplying combat interpreters.

How did McKeon, 54, and Campbell, 50, get into this racket? Improbably. Born in the Bronx, McKeon, the son of a Drake's cakes deliveryman, got a B.A. from Fordham University, then worked his way through Harvard Business School to Wall Street, becoming head of private equity at Wasserstein Perella & Co., the investment bank founded by Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph Perella. McKeon, a registered Democrat who contributes to both parties, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and once contemplated running for governor of Connecticut

At Wasserstein McKeon became known for cosmetics, scoring a profitable deal for Maybelline. In 1988 he hired an accountant who also came from a relatively modest household north of Manhattan. Tom Campbell grew up in Ardsley, N.Y., sharing a bedroom with his two brothers, graduated from Lehigh University and did acquisition finance at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. before working on deals for McKeon at Wasserstein.

Four years later, weary of sharing profits with better-known founders, McKeon left to start his own investment firm, Veritas Capital. Campbell joined him, and they started buying companies with their own money, often reaching out to big shots like Harold (Red) Poling, chief executive of Ford Motor, and George Keller, chief executive of Chevron, to invest deal by deal.

By 1996, when they had raised $175 million for Veritas' first private equity fund, McKeon and Campbell had taken an interest in military suppliers. To run their fund they formed a management company, with McKeon holding 62.5% and Campbell 37.5%. After some profitable defense deals they raised another $153 million fund in 2002 and split the general partnership the same way; their biggest backer was Credit Suisse. For help navigating the defense bureaucracy, Veritas created an advisory board that included retired generals such as Barry R. McCaffrey and Anthony C. Zinni.

Then they hit pay dirt. On the eve of the Iraq war DynCorp, the legacy of two aviation-support firms formed in 1946 that provided depot-level repairs for the Air Force, had become a government contractor known as much for its information technology work as its paramilitary services. Computer Sciences Corp. bought the company for $622 million in 2003, but the data processing firm clearly didn't know what to make of DynCorp's military support businesses.

Veritas did. McKeon and Campbell had made a killing buying Raytheon Aerospace, a provider of maintenance services for military aircraft, renaming it Vertex and selling it for $650 million to L-3 Communications. "Follow the plane, because wherever the plane goes you want to touch all aspects of it," says Campbell, explaining the logic of such deals. "The parallel for DynCorp was follow the soldier, because behind every military individual is a long supply line." He and McKeon swooped in the moment DynCorp's nondata services business went up for sale. Campbell flew down to Fort Worth, Tex. to dig through the company's books and contracts. He discovered that Computer Sciences' offering memo was undervaluing the assets. McKeon struck a deal in fall 2004 to buy those assets for $850 million. But in the time it took for the transaction to close, investment banks like Goldman Sachs took a look at Campbell's and McKeon's assessment of their target and came to a startling conclusion: Veritas could quickly make five times its money by taking DynCorp public after closing and squeezing out a dividend equal to its original investment, court documents say.

There was jubilation at Veritas' midtown Manhattan offices. The firm needed to put up only $100 million of equity to make the deal happen. A potential windfall, however, turned contentious: Veritas' current fund, limited in what it could front, was capped at making a $38 million investment; Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance was good for an additional $14 million. Veritas insiders were thrilled to make up the difference by each chipping in various amounts. Court filings suggest that Campbell expected to get a sizable piece of the action.

Not so. McKeon took the entire investment opportunity for himself, putting up $48 million of his own, according to court documents. Because he put up the cash, McKeon also received half the $10 million transaction fee that DynCorp paid when the deal closed in February 2005, court papers show. There was more: A year later DynCorp went public on the New York Stock Exchange, using the proceeds to pay its equity sponsors a $100 million dividend, taking their original investment off the table.

DynCorp's filings with the Securities & Exchange Commission do little to reveal the size of McKeon's personal stake (he declined requests to comment). His share ownership is lumped together with the Veritas buyout fund and Northwestern Mutual stakes in DIV Holding, an entity that has 56% of DynCorp. The offering prospectus and nearly all subsequent filings say McKeon "disclaims this beneficial ownership, except to the extent of his pecuniary interest" in DIV Holding. A footnote in a single 13D filing made in May 2006 is just about the only public disclosure of that interest, acknowledging that McKeon is the sole member of a company that owns 45% of DIV Holding.

Bottom line: McKeon owns one-quarter of DynCorp, shares recently worth $270 million. He also is due to receive 12.5% of the buyout fund's investment gain from DynCorp--currently $25 million or so--when its holdings are cashed out. Campbell's stake, by comparison, is negligible.

Whatever feelings of betrayal he may have had, Campbell joined DynCorp's board with McKeon, who served as chairman. As the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan boomed, DynCorp prospered. These days 53% of its revenue comes from the battlefields. Last year DynCorp's 51%-owned joint venture secured a $4.6 billion multiyear contract to supply 9,100 linguists to translate for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Amid a worldwide recession, that contract helped boost DynCorp's revenues by 45% in the year ended Apr. 3, when the company earned $70 million on $3.1 billion of revenue and had paid down its debt, to $600 million.

Campbell was forced out of DynCorp and Veritas two years ago and has been playing catch-up ever since. Shortly after, he moved to Washington, where he founded dc Capital Partners, an investment firm that looks a lot like Veritas. It even has an advisory board with onetime generals such as Zinni and Michael Hayden, and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. Campbell tried to raise money but scrapped those plans when the credit crisis hit. He does have the backing of investment groups like Solar Capital and Alcentra. Last year, when Triple Canopy considered putting itself up for sale, Campbell showed some interest but never made a bid.

Campbell has assembled four defense and intelligence companies. One of them, National Interest Security, is in the black, he says, with revenue of $200 million and 967 employees. More than half of its contracts are classified, doing things like capturing and data-mining cell phone traffic and assessing the effectiveness of satellites. Another outfit, Kaseman, is wiring up buildings in Iraq and Afghanistan and will probably compete at some point with DynCorp for police training contracts.

Meanwhile, DynCorp has profited from the public embarrassments of Blackwater and KBR. After the Iraqi government revoked Blackwater's operating license, the State Department in June awarded to DynCorp a $915 million, five-year contract to provide air transport and security for U.S. diplomats.

Last year DynCorp wiggled into the biggest spoils of all--the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, or Logcap, a huge contract once awarded exclusively to KBR. It's catchall stuff: providing laundry, mail, food, water, fuel, power, sanitation, living quarters, construction and (the most dangerous service) transportation. Logcap generates thin profit margins but large and steady revenue; since the outset of the wars KBR has earned an estimated $700 million of income (before interest and taxes) on $31.4 billion of revenues off of Logcap. Now DynCorp will compete with KBR and Fluor Corp. for up to $50 billion of these orders over the next decade. In July DynCorp won a five-year, $5.9 billion deal to supply support services in southern Afghanistan.

DynCorp Chief Executive William Ballhaus is counting on Logcap work in Afghanistan and Iraq--even as U.S. troops in Iraq withdraw from the cities and the war there winds down--to provide most of the company's near-term growth. "In Iraq we actually think we will see an increase in our business largely driven by the logistics efforts required to reposition the personnel and equipment," says Ballhaus, whom McKeon plucked from BAE Systems. In the last year Ballhaus has traveled to Afghanistan four times, overseeing DynCorp's expansion of services to train Afghan police under a $3.8 billion State Department contract and the instruction of U.S. soldiers in manning mine-resistant vehicles. Ballhaus says the trips also let him convey the importance of his compliance and ethics program. "Given the areas in which we operate, it's an important dialogue for me to have with them personally," he says.

But no battle plan survives engagement with the enemy. The State Department is currently investigating whether DynCorp ignored drug abuse by its employees in Afghanistan after one of them died in Kabul from an apparent overdose. As part of an age discrimination suit filed in February, Gregory Caul, a former DynCorp arms instructor in Afghanistan, claims company employees shot at unarmed Afghan children who were hanging out at a shooting range to pick up brass casings they could sell for cash. "The men shot their weapons in the direction of the children for sport," claims Caul. DynCorp declines to comment on Caul's specific allegations or the State Department investigation into possible drug abuse (but of course recites that it investigates allegations of misconduct carefully).

Afghanistan is a tough assignment, and the deteriorating security situation has hurt DynCorp's construction work on Afghan army barracks in Jalalabad and Kunduz. The company has had to move people and equipment through the air instead of by trucks, leading to delays and soaring costs. That is killing the profit in this fixed-price deal (losses so far: $38 million). Ballhaus vows not to bid on any similar fixed-price jobs in Afghanistan. The cost-plus alternative means less risk but also less reward.

McKeon may well sustain more collateral damage--in the courts. Campbell never got over being squeezed out of the DynCorp deal, and believes McKeon plotted to cut him out of Veritas. Last year, when negotiations between them broke down, they sued each other in New York State court in Manhattan, both alleging breach of contract.

In his suit McKeon claims that he fired Campbell because Campbell violated his contracts with Veritas by personally buying Internet marketing assets from Omnicom Group eight years ago. McKeon adds that, when Campbell first proposed the deals, McKeon instructed him not to pursue them. McKeon claims he had no idea Campbell had gone ahead until 2006, when the transactions became the subject of a securities class action, which alleged sweetheart deals were arranged to hide Omnicom losses. (The class action was dismissed and is now on appeal.) Campbell denies the allegations.

For his part, Campbell alleges that McKeon used the Omnicom deals as a pretext to oust him from Veritas. Campbell further claims that his ouster helped McKeon to increase his profits while shrinking Campbell's share in their partnerships. McKeon, the suit continues, breached his contract and is withholding the personal capital Campbell put up in Veritas' investments, plus the resulting profits. McKeon claims all his actions have been aboveboard.

"There is a lot of money involved, and my work helped create a lot of value that I feel I am owed," says Campbell. "I can't just walk away, but I have moved on with my life." The suits grind on, stuck recently on whether Schulte Roth & Zabel, Veritas' longtime law firm, can represent McKeon.

If war is hell, so is Wall Street.

[TahoeBlue]

"Merchants of Death" ask BO to escalate Afhgan war....

It can’t hurt DynCorp that Veritas Capital’s “Defense & Aerospace Advisory Council” includes Richard Armitage (former Deputy Secretary of State), Gen. Richard Hawley (former Air Force Commander), Gen. Barry McCaffrey (former Drug Czar and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Southern Command), Gen. Anthony Zinni (former Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Central Command and BAE director), and other military luminaries.

Notice in the following Zinni is never referred to as a Lobbiest for DynCorp or BAE or Veritas Capital

he is referred as: "The former U.S. commander in Afghanistan" and "Zinni (who has trained local militias)"

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/1009/Zinni_WH_close_to_dithering_on_troop_request.html?showall
Zinni: W.H. close to 'dithering' on troop request - POLITICO Live ...

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/10/04/Zinni-Afghan-decisions-must-be-made-soon/UPI-62191254680026/
Zinni: Afghan decisions must be made soon

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/04/ftn/main5362095.shtml
Zinni: Don't Delay Decision on Afghan War - Face The Nation - CBS News

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/517750.html
Zinni: Don't Delay Decision on Afghan War - 10/4/2009

CBS)  The former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Anthony Zinni, warned that the deliberations over whether to send additional troops to Afghanistan - as many as 40,000, as suggested by General Stanley McChrystal - should not go on too much longer, lest the debate be viewed as indecision or weakness.

On CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Zinni said it was positive to have a strategic debate and to take all opinions into account. "But I think we have to be careful how long this goes on," he told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer. "It could be seen not only out there in the region but our allies, even [by] the enemy, as being indecisive, unable to make a decision."

He questioned why the White House is questioning the advice of their commander in Afghanistan, General McChrystal who made the request for additional troops.

"We have a general out there who is probably the best qualified we could have that's telling us what we need on the ground to have the security space and the time to get those non-military things done," Zinni said. "I just don't understand why we're questioning that judgment at this point.

"I hope this doesn't go on much longer."

The former commander said he agrees that America's [McLeon's DYNCORP's] success in Afghanistan is dependent upon an influx of troops. "I don't know much about the politics but I can certainly tell you, to prosecute the military perspective you have the finest lineup in Mullen, and McChrystal on the ground. It is what you need on the ground if you're going to make this kind of strategy work," he said.

Asked if he thought al Qaeda would make Afghanistan a safe haven should the Taliban return to power in the region, Zinni said, "I think they could find themselves with the safe sanctuary inside Afghanistan to work against the Pakistani military in the tribal areas, in the Swat Valley - just like the reverse, when they went into Pakistan to fight our forces there."

He warned that the battle over an Afghan strategy is not just about militants, but also about neighboring India and Pakistan. "We have two nations out there with nuclear weapons, one of which had the Taliban 65 miles from their capital. We have the Taliban and others trying to provoke some sort of conflict between these two nations. We also have a Taliban that is stretching their influence into Central Asia."

In the debate over the U.S. supplying more combat troops versus simply providing forces to train the indigenous military, Zinni (who has trained local militias) said that while it's "wonderful" to have trainers on ground, "Who protects the trainers? Who ensures the roads they're on aren't going to be full of IEDs because you can't control them? If you don't have enough forces on the ground, you give maneuvering space to the enemy, [and] the freedom to attack our outposts that are remote, ineffectively manned. I think you need both. It's not a matter of either/or."

[TahoeBlue]

Zinni - what a sell out...
[ update: General Anthony Zinni is also an SMOM Knight of Malta - Papal Gold Cross of Honor ]

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Anthony+Zinni+Named+Executive+Vice+President+of+DynCorp+International.-a0166521464
Anthony Zinni Named Executive Vice President of DynCorp International. July 2007
FALLS Church, NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc.  

Va. -- DynCorp InternationalDynCorp International[2] is a United States-based private military contractor (PMC) and aircraft maintenance company. DynCorp receives more than 96 percent of its $2 billion in annual revenues from the federal government.

 (NYSE NYSE :DCP DCP - definitional constraint programming ) Dyncorp International has named Gen. Anthony C. Zinni (USMC--Ret.) to the position of executive vice president, effective July 16 2007. As executive vice president, Mr. Zinni will be a member of the Office of the Chief Executive, along with President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  Herbert J. Lanese. Gen. Zinni's primary responsibilities will be for directing the company's energies in business development, business strategy, communications, and product branding.

"I am extremely pleased that Tony Zinni has agreed to assume a full-time position with our company," said CEO Herb Lanese. "During the last ten months, he's served as a senior adviser to DynCorp International, helping us build relationships with key leaders throughout the world and develop new business opportunities. His valuable insights and his notable experience in the Middle East have made him a trusted friend and adviser."

DynCorp International Chairman Robert B. McKeon said, "I have worked with General Zinni since 2001, and I have grown to appreciate the strategic perspective he brings to every situation. I look forward to his increased role with our company, and I am confident he will have a very positive impact on our business of providing critical services to government customers worldwide."

Gen. Zinni retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in September 2000 after 39 years of service. During his military career, he served as the Commanding General of the First Marine Expeditionary Force The largest Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF) and the Marine Corps principal warfighting organization, particularly for larger crises or contingencies. It is task-organized around a permanent command element and normally contains one or more Marine divisions, Marine aircraft wings, and  from 1994 to 1996, and as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Central Command from 1997 to 2000. In November 2001, he was appointed senior adviser and U.S. envoy to the Middle East by Secretary of State Colin Powell Noun 1. Colin Powell - United States general who was the first African American to serve as chief of staff; later served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush (born 1937)
Colin luther Powell, Powell .

Gen. Zinni has served on the Advisory Board of Veritas Capital and the board of directors of DynCorp International, of which Veritas Capital is the majority shareholder, as well as boards of other private companies. He has resigned from DynCorp International's board of directors to assume the position of executive vice president.

About DynCorp International

DynCorp International is a provider of specialized mission-critical technical services to civilian and military government agencies worldwide, and operates major programs in law enforcement training and support, security services, and the  base operations, aviation services, contingency operations, and logistics support. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., DynCorp International has approximately 14,000 employees worldwide. For more information, visit www.dyn-intl.com.

http://people.forbes.com/profile/anthony-c-zinni/27792
General Anthony C. Zinni (USMC Ret.),
age 64, has been the Executive Vice President of our operating company since July 2007. He served as a director from 2005 until he became an employee in 2007. He was the President, International Operations, of M.I.C. Industries, Inc. (a manufacturer of specialty equipment) from March 2006 to July 2007. General. Zinni retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 2000, after 39 years of service. He served as Commanding General, First Marine Expeditionary Force, from 1994 to 1996, and as Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command, from 1997 to 2000. He has participated in numerous humanitarian operations and presidential diplomatic missions. In November 2001, he was appointed senior adviser and U.S. envoy to the Middle East by Secretary of State Colin Powell. General Zinni holds a Bachelor"s degree in Economics from Villanova University and Master"s degrees in International Relations from Central Michigan University and in Management and Supervision from Salve Regina University.

He is a director of BAE Systems Inc. and MHI Hospitality Corporation.

Compensation for 2008
Salary $322,116.00  
Bonus $24,038.00  
Restricted stock awards $36,428.00  
All other compensation $64,200.00  
Option awards $ $0.00  
Non-equity incentive plan compensation $500,000.00  
Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings $0.00  
Total Compensation $946,782.00  

[TahoeBlue]

Just as a note CNN had Zinni on for about 30 minutes yesterday 10/10/09 rehashing what he said on CBS/face the nation.
Not once do they bring up his relationship with BAE - DynCorp or Veritas Capitol.  So a major example of the controlled media complex...

[ update: General Anthony Zinni is also an SMOM Knight of Malta - Papal Gold Cross of Honor ]

1. Zinni is CURRENTLY a director of BAE Systems Inc
2. Zinni is CURRENTLY Executive Vice President of DynCorp International since July 2007   $946,782.00 compensation in 2008
3. Zinni served on the Advisory Board of Veritas Capital
4. Zinni served on board of directors of DynCorp International

Also they refer to him as "The former U.S. commander in Afghanistan" when he RETIRED in September 2000 BEFORE 9/11 and the runup to the invasion of Afghanistan so they are being very deceptive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Bill_Clinton_administration

In 1996, the CIA established a special unit of officers to analyze intelligence received about bin Laden and plan operations against him, coined the "Bin Ladin unit." It was this unit that first realized bin Laden was more than just a terrorist financier, but a leader of a global network with operations based in Afghanistan. Given these findings, the NSC encouraged the Department of State to "pay more attention" to Afghanistan and its governing unit, the Taliban, which had received funding from bin Laden. The State Department requested the Taliban to expel bin Laden from the country, noting that he was a sponsor of terrorism and publicly urged Muslims to kill Americans. The Taliban responded that they did not know his whereabouts and, even if they did, he was "not a threat to the United States." The CIA's counter-terrorism division quickly began drafting plans to capture and remove bin Laden from the country. However, Marine General Anthony Zinni and some in the State Department protested the move, saying that the United States should focus instead on ending the Afghan civil war and the Taliban's human rights abuses.[40]

The Antony Zinni timeline and how he stopped the capture of Bin Laden:
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=anthony_zinni

March 1995: Chalabi Military Operation against Saddam Hussein Fails
December 1997-Spring 1998: Urgent Requests for Embassy Security Go Unheeded
Late 1998: ’Downing Plan’ to Overthrow Hussein Government Rejected by General Zinni
December 18-20, 1998: US Locates Bin Laden but Declines to Strike
Late 1998-2000: US Administration Officials Seek Ground-Based Plan to Kill Bin Laden
US Central Command chief General Anthony Zinni is considered the chief opponent to the “boots on the ground” idea.
Late 2000: Military Prepares Options for Striking at Bin Laden, but Not Serious about Using Them
“The Pentagon, especially General Anthony Zinni at Centcom, who remained close to [Pakistani President Pervez] Musharraf personally, emphasized the benefits of engagement with Pakistan’s generals.”

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Well one thing Zinni was absolutely right about was the supreme lunacy and folly of putting "boots on the ground" in Afghanistan and we would not be playing the "Union of Soviet States" (about to bankrupt and implode) game with a puppet dictator in Kabul today if we'd paid attention to his warnings about the CIA Mafia's red-herring "bin Laden" goose-chase.

[Dig]

Well one thing Zinni was absolutely right about was the supreme lunacy and folly of putting "boots on the ground" in Afghanistan and we would not be playing the "Union of Soviet States" (about to bankrupt and implode) game with a puppet dictator in Kabul today if we'd paid attention to his warnings about the CIA Mafia's red-herring "bin Laden" goose-chase.

Zinni is a psychopathic madman that should be investigated for war crimes (WTF?) Zinni supports 150% the ocupation of foreign lands for depopulation and NWO control.

[TahoeBlue]

Zinni is for whatever makes him money. Now that he's on the BAE payroll he's for lot's of Dyncorp boots...

What I am trying to show is that between Albright - Zinni - Hayden - Clinton - CIA - MPRI - KLA - Holbrooke  et al. that
Bin Laden was a protected asset.

Zinni and Albright were right in there keeping BinLaden "IN PLAY" and from being captured even after the Embassy bombings and thwarts FBI agent John O’Neill 's investigation...

see: Madeleine Albright confronted on Bilderberg & New World Order Crimes

After 1994-1999: CIA and Bin Laden Train KLA in Albania 
December 1997-Spring 1998: Urgent Requests for Embassy Security Go Unheeded
August 4-19, 1998: US Refuses Extradition of Two Embassy Bombers
February 6-23, 1999: Kosovo Talks - Albright also works closely with the Kosovar Albanians
 

[TahoeBlue]

Oh this is good - Dyncorp/Kroll protecting the poppy crop:

http://www.aipib.com/profiles/personal/10011.html
Association of International Private Investigators and Bodyguards
Personal Profile
--------
Protection Specialist, Instructor
Charter Member AIPIB
...

Experience

2005 - 2006
DYNCORP INTERNATIONAL, KABUL, Afghanistan
AFGHAN ERADICATION FORCE BASE CAMP SITE MANAGER/AEF DIRECTOR OF TRAINING.
My responsibilities include but are not limited to supervising Afghan Eradication Forces (AEF) base camp daily operations.And the supervising of Dyncorp Afghan Eradication Forces (AEF) instructional staff .

2004 - 2006
DYNCORP INTERNATIONAL/KROLL-CRUCIBLE, KABUL, Afghanistan
SENIOR INSTRUCTOR
Training of Afghanistans Drug Eradication Forces.

1984 - 2004
NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, NEW YORK, NY
POLICE OFFICER/SENIOR FIREARMS AND TACTICS INSTRUCTOR.
My responsibilities included but were not limited to designing,developing,organizing and presenting a full range of law enforcement training programs in the tactical use of firearms and defensive tactics while also providing a safe and professional learning environment.

[Dig]

Oh this is good - Dyncorp/Kroll protecting the poppy crop:

http://www.aipib.com/profiles/personal/10011.html
Association of International Private Investigators and Bodyguards
Personal Profile
--------
Protection Specialist, Instructor
Charter Member AIPIB
...

Experience

2005 - 2006
DYNCORP INTERNATIONAL, KABUL, Afghanistan
AFGHAN ERADICATION FORCE BASE CAMP SITE MANAGER/AEF DIRECTOR OF TRAINING.
My responsibilities include but are not limited to supervising Afghan Eradication Forces (AEF) base camp daily operations.And the supervising of Dyncorp Afghan Eradication Forces (AEF) instructional staff .

2004 - 2006
DYNCORP INTERNATIONAL/KROLL-CRUCIBLE, KABUL, Afghanistan
SENIOR INSTRUCTOR
Training of Afghanistans Drug Eradication Forces.

1984 - 2004
NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, NEW YORK, NY
POLICE OFFICER/SENIOR FIREARMS AND TACTICS INSTRUCTOR.
My responsibilities included but were not limited to designing,developing,organizing and presenting a full range of law enforcement training programs in the tactical use of firearms and defensive tactics while also providing a safe and professional learning environment.

Very important...

Kroll a company that has been known for creating the original black ops dismemberment forces and torture troops prior to the Vietnam War (talking over 45 years ago) has revamped their entire "offerings" to focus on cyber security.

Ya think maybe they got a hot tip on the NWO agenda for the next 20 years?

[TahoeBlue]

Just to show KBR is in Afghanistan too : Somewhat related - give it a read...  Iraq better then Afghanistan? Really?

http://www.jobvent.com/reviewDetail.php?ID=9613

Employee Review of Kellogg, Brown & Root -

From LOGCAP III - Kandaha — 11/03/2006

Well, the money is good. I can't say it isn't. But, being in Afghanistan has significant drawbacks over Iraq.

First, the living conditions are bad at the southernmost base in Afghanistan. The base is in Kandahar, Afghanistan (KAF for short). All other contractors and military live in modular container-type housing or will shortly. KBR still lives in tents at KAF that are now approaching 5 years old. The tents are called GP-medium tents and they are designed by the military to last 18 months at the most.

KBR crams 8 to 10 people in each tent for about 55 to 60 square feet per employee. KBR management in Afghanistan is cheap and will not pay to keep workers in better housing. Management, meanwhile, lives in modular containers (individual rooms having their own AC and heating control).

In Iraq, the KBR employees are housed in modular containers with individual AC/heating control. Mice, rats, and snakes get into the tents. Additionally, rain also gets in the tents (yes, it does rain in Afghanistan). I guess the point I am making is the huge difference between living in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A second problem with KBR is that management has not protected living tents against mortar attacks from the enemy. The tents have been on ground going on 5 years now and KBR management currently has about one-third of the tents with sandbags to protect against mortar shrapnel. Meanwhile, the Canadian forces who have been in southern Afghanistan only about 9 months are much better protected against mortars. The Canadians have some "short-term" type forces living in tents and the Canadian officials saw the importance of protecting their people. So, the Canadians went ahead and bit the bullet and purchased large concrete barriers to place in between tents. The barriers are an excellent protection against mortar shrapnel. I point this out to show how easy it is to protect tents against mortar shrapnel.

Unfortunately, KBR does nothing. And, by doing nothing, a former KBR employee (named Pedro) who was injured during a mortar attack in July 2005, still lives in a hospital because of taking shrapnel in his head. The shrapnel was easily preventable if KBR had provided barriers or at least sandbags around his tent. As of now (Novemember 2006), the man has not recovered, does not recognize his family, and will likely never work again.

A second man had his leg shattered in the same attack, although his leg was able to be repaired the man is back to normal. Sorry, I don't know his name.

A third thing that's bad about KBR is that there really isn't any mutual respect for others. Management does little to stop people from smoking around tents. 5 year old tents that have been sitting out in the Afghanistan desert will burn like crazy if an errant cigarette butt is thrown in their direction. But, the company preaches "don't smoke around tents" but does nothing to actually stop the practice.

The company should terminate people who smoke in or around the tents but management does nothing. Instead, it seems KBR management is waiting for a fire and people to be burned or killed. So, before you take a job with KBR in Kandahar, Afghanistan, check and see if you can get a job in Iraq first.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/07/09/070709fa_fact_anderson
The Taliban’s Opium War - The difficulties and dangers of the eradication program.
by Jon Lee Anderson  - July 9, 2007

While destroying a field of opium poppies in Uruzgan Province, members of the Afghan Eradication Force came under fire in an ambush apparently orchestrated by the Taliban. Photograph by Aaron Huey.
...
One afternoon this spring, at the height of the harvest, I drove through the area with Douglas Wankel, a former Drug Enforcement Administration official who was hired by the United States government in 2003 to organize its counter-narcotics effort here. Wankel, who is sixty-one and has piercing blue eyes, was stationed in Kabul as a young D.E.A. official in 1978 and 1979, during the bloody unrest that led up to the Soviet invasion. “I left on a flight to New Delhi a couple of hours before the Soviets rolled in,” he said. “People thought it was because I knew it was coming. I didn’t; I just happened to be leaving on a trip. But the Soviets branded me a C.I.A. agent, and so I couldn’t come back—until now, that is.”

Working first with the D.E.A. and then with the State Department, Wankel helped create the Afghan Eradication Force, with troops of the Afghan National Police drawn from the Ministry of the Interior. Last year, an estimated four hundred thousand acres of opium poppies were planted in Afghanistan, a fifty-nine-per-cent increase over the previous year. Afghanistan now supplies more than ninety-two per cent of the world’s opium, the raw ingredient of heroin. More than half the country’s annual G.D.P., some $3.1 billion, is believed to come from the drug trade, and narcotics officials believe that part of the money is funding the Taliban insurgency.

Wankel was in Uruzgan to oversee a poppy-eradication campaign—the first major effort to disrupt the harvest in the province. He had brought with him a two-hundred-and-fifty-man A.E.F. contingent, including forty-odd contractors supplied by DynCorp, a Virginia-based private military company, which has a number of large U.S. government contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world. In Colombia, DynCorp helps implement the multibillion-dollar Plan Colombia, to eradicate coca.
...
The Taliban instituted a strict Islamist policy against the opium trade during the final years of their regime, and by the time of their overthrow they had virtually eliminated it.

But now, Lieutenant General Mohammad Daud-Daud, Afghanistan’s deputy minister of the interior for counter-narcotics, told me, “there has been a coalition between the Taliban and the opium smugglers. This year, they have set up a commission to tax the harvest.” In return, he said, the Taliban had offered opium farmers protection from the government’s eradication efforts. The switch in strategy has an obvious logic: it provides opium money for the Taliban to sustain itself and helps it to win over the farming communities.

[TahoeBlue]

Very important... Kroll a company that has been known for creating the original black ops dismemberment forces and torture troops prior to the Vietnam War (talking over 45 years ago) has revamped their entire "offerings" to focus on cyber security.
Ya think maybe they got a hot tip on the NWO agenda for the next 20 years?

Yep, Take a Look at the Dyncorp op "Plan Columbia" in the Pre 9-11 world:

Dyncorp creates monopoly for cocaine supply ... Guess they made and make a lot (off book) by taking over the traffic and get paid by the taxpayers to do it.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=672
DynCorp in Colombia: Outsourcing the Drug War

by Jeremy Bigwood, Special to CorpWatch
May 23rd, 2001
 
A U.S.-made Huey II military helicopter manned by foreigners wearing U.S. Army fatigues crash lands after being pockmarked by sustained guerrilla fire from the jungle below. Its crew members, one of them wounded, are surrounded by enemy guerrillas. Another three helicopters, this time carrying American crews, cut through the hot muggy sky. While two of them circle, firing machine-guns at hidden enemy, one swoops down alongside the downed Huey, and the Americans jump through the wash of the blades into the firefight on the ground, successfully rescuing the downed crew members. It could be a scene from a soon-to-be-released Hollywood blockbuster based on the war in Vietnam or El Salvador.

But, it happened in Colombia last February, as part of the U.S. $1.3 billion intervention called "Plan Colombia." The Americans who braved the bullets were members of an armed "airmobile" Search and Rescue Team. However, they were not part of the U.S. Armed Forces, but civilian employees of a private company called DynCorp, the new "privateer mercenaries" of a U.S. policy that now "outsources" its wars.

Like the old English "privateer" pirates of the Caribbean five hundred years ago, sailing under no national flag - robbing and plundering Latin America's riches for the English Crown, Washington now employs hundreds of contract employees through U.S. corporations to carry out its policies in Colombia and other countries. In the old days, the British maintained that because the pirate ships did not fly the English flag, the Crown was not responsible for their actions. While the new privateers are underwritten through U.S. taxes, they are technically "contract employees." Like the sixteenth century pirates, if they get caught in an embarrassing crime, or are killed, the U.S. government can deny responsibility for their actions. What's more only a select few in Congress know of their activities and their operations are not subject to public scrutiny, despite the fact that they are on the government payroll.

"It's very handy to have an outfit not part of the U.S. armed forces, obviously. If somebody gets killed or whatever, you can say it's not a member of the armed forces," former U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, Myles Frechette told reporters. Meanwhile, Former Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey recently described himself as an "unabashed admirer of outsourcing." And there is an economic consideration too. Deploying high ranking active duty military officers to staff Colombian operations is far more costly than hiring retired officers working privately. A U.S. government official, who asked not to be named, said that there were several reasons that the U.S. government outsources projects: "[Outsourcing] can be a flexible, cost-effective means of providing specific labor-intensive services on a short-term basis. Once we hire government workers, they are here forever. Some of these jobs are only short-term."

Outsourcing belligerent activities on the part of the U.S. government is not new. It goes back to the Revolutionary War. Many such companies were involved in the Vietnam war, but they were only a minuscule presence compared to the major military effort by the U.S. there. What is new is that now contract employees are in the forefront of operations. In the Colombian war, private outsourced military men are out on the frontlines, while the real U.S. troops are hidden on bases as trainers. The exact number of contract employees in Colombia is not known. A recent State Department report states that there are only 200 U.S. military soldiers and about 170 American contractors working in Colombia. Historically, official counts of U.S. personnel and contractors tend to be underestimated in counter-insurgency operations.

DynCorp and Plan Colombia

By far the largest U.S. contractor company in Latin America is DynCorp, headquartered in Reston, Virginia near the CIA, and Pentagon. It hires and places many ex-military personnel, but is actually much more diverse and more high-tech than that. The company's website promotes it as an Internet Technologies corporation.

DynCorp describes its areas of expertise as "Information Systems, Information Technology/Outsourcing and Technical Services." Once you dig a little deeper, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary high-tech start up.

According to its own literature, "DynCorp's expertise spans more than five decades - encompassing events from the computer revolution, the Space Age, the Cold War and conflicts from Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm. Through these times, we have dedicated ourselves to providing customers with the best and most educated solutions. Our IT experience has evolved with this ever-changing industry, and we continue to offer our clients solid solutions based on this evolution." DynCorp has "worked with domestic and foreign government agencies to provide successful information, engineering and aerospace technology solutions. As a result, few companies understand the public sector like DynCorp, or can boast a government client base with the depth and breadth of ours."

Indeed, government contracts account for 98% of DynCorp's business. It contracts with more than 30 U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Defense, State Department, FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency, Bureau of Prisons, and the Office of National Drug Policy. About half of DynCorp's revenue comes from the Pentagon and many of its employees are retired military men. The rest of the contracts are mostly with civilian government agencies. According to its website, last year it generated more than $1.8 billion in annual revenues, a $4.4 billion-dollar contract backlog and more than 20,000 employees in more than 550 locations. CEO Paul Lombardi recently boasted to the Washington Technology website that he projects 2001 revenue will top $2 billion. Like many transnational giants DynCorp has gobbled up some of the competition. In 1999 it acquired GTE Information Systems which has helped the company pursue government mega-contracts.

Since 1997, DynCorp has operated under a $600 million-dollar State Department contract in Latin America. But, according to its contract with the State Department, recently acquired by CorpWatch, "mission deployments may be made to any worldwide location, including, potentially, outside of Central and South America." The company mainly "participates in eradication missions, training, and drug interdiction, but also participates in air transport, reconnaissance, search and rescue, airborne medical evacuation, ferrying equipment and personnel from one country to another, as well as aircraft maintenance," according to the contract. DynCorp operates several State Department aircraft, including armed UH-1H Iroquois and Bell-212 Huey-type helicopters and T-65 Thrush crop dusters. DynCorp provides the pilots, technicians, and just about any kind of personnel required to carry out the war in Colombia, including administrative personnel. Some of its personnel in Colombia, such as its helicopter pilots are Colombians, Peruvians, and Guatemalans, but most are from the U.S. All must speak passable Spanish and English, and all must possess U.S. government "Secret" personnel security clearances, except in the cases of foreign contractors, where this requirement may be waived.

DynCorp is tight lipped when it comes to its clients. Company spokesperson Janet Wineriter refused to comment on the company's overseas operations. Nor will the State Department make on-the-record statements about DynCorp's operations. Company paramedic Michael Demons apparently recently died of a heart attack on a Colombian military base and the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá attempted to keep his death secret. Because Demons was not a military officer and didn't work directly for the U.S. government, there was no official report and his death was treated as if he were a tourist. DynCorp has also lost three pilots in action. None of these deaths were reported in the news media.

DynCorp also operates in Bolivia and Peru, in conflict zones where indigenous coca growers feel U.S. drug operations encroach on their cultural use of coca and their economic livelihood. In Peru these areas also face renewed activity of Shining Path guerillas. But by far the largest DynCorp operations are in Colombia, and according to its contract with the State Department, it has a "command and control" function in the field, apparently outside any government oversight.

DynCorp's shroud of secrecy has the potential for giving cover to a wide range of activities outside stated US policy objectives. DynCorp is contracted to help eliminate drug production in Colombia. But a DEA document (see image), recently obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, stated that on May 12, 2000 the Colombian National Police intercepted a FedEx parcel at the airport. It was sent from the Bogota DynCorp site and destined for DynCorp's office on Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. The name of the sender has been blacked out. The 250 Gram liquid "tested positive for heroin," according to the DEA. "My understanding is that was a faulty test result," DynCorp spokesperson Wineriter told CorpWatch.

DynCorp is openly labeled "mercenary" by a hostile Colombian press, a charge they vigorously deny. A State Department official told CorpWatch that "mercenaries are used in war. This is counter-narcotics." But in Colombia, the line between the counter-insurgency and counter-narcotics has been blurred for many years. While it is true that Colombia now produces much of the cocaine used in the United States making it a target for the "war on drugs," Washington's policy objectives may go beyond drugs. The U.S. is also concerned about Colombia's more than 30-year long guerilla insurgency. Critics say that Plan Colombia is an expansion of Washington's involvement in counter-insurgency.

A hint of other U.S. policy aims is visible to anyone taking a commercial flight from Houston to Bogotá. Amongst the U.S. passengers, the embassy types, the businessmen and older ex-military types are easily recognizable. But those who stand out most are the young gringos with cocker-spaniel hairdos wearing blue jeans and sweatshirts with oil company logos inscribed on them. Increasing oil supplies is at the heart of Bush administration energy policy. And both U.S. presidential candidates during the 2000 elections had ties to major oil investments in Colombia. Al Gore's family owns shares in Occidental Petroleum and now-President George Bush has ties to Harken Energy Inc., of Houston, Texas.

According to Fernando Caicedo, a middle-aged, mustached, but sprightly guerilla commander interviewed in southern Colombia: "the gringos want to exploit the whole upper Amazon region, an area that includes parts of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, known for its richness in black gold -- oil."

DynCorp's day to day operations are overseen by a secretive clique of officials in the State Department's Narcotic Affairs Section (NAS) and the State Department's Air Wing, a group that includes unreformed cold warriors and leftovers from the Central American wars of the 1980's. Working hand-in-hand with U.S. military officials, Narcotic Affairs is supposed to be part of the drug war only, running the fumigation operations against drug crops. But there are indications that it is also involved in the counter-insurgency. In areas that are targeted for fumigation by Narcotic Affairs, Colombian right-wing paramilitaries arrive, sometimes by military helicopter, according to a human rights worker living in the Putumayo who asked for anonymity. Members of these paramilitaries "clear the ground" so that the planes spraying herbicides, often piloted by Americans, are not shot at by angry farmers or insurgents.

"If we did not take control of zones ahead of the army, the guerrillas would shoot down their planes" said southern Colombia paramilitary leader, "Comando Wilson" last April. Many of these paramilitary forces have benefited from U.S.-financed military training in the Colombian Army. Their frequent apparent coordination with the Narcotic Affairs Section and their DynCorp employees, as well as with the Colombian Armed forces, raises the question of U.S. collaboration with "outsourced" death squads, a charge vehemently denied by U.S. officials.

Questions on Capitol Hill

The growing death toll around the use of contractors like DynCorp has caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers. In April, private forces under a CIA contract in Peru identified U.S. missionaries flying in a plane as suspected drug dealers. They notified the Peruvian Air Force which shot them down, killing a woman and her seven month old daughter. While there was speculation that DynCorp might be involved, the company vehemently denied the allegations. "DynCorp does not provide surveillance services under this program and was not involved in any manner in the incident that occurred in Peru," according to spokesperson Charlene A. Wheeless. The New York Times reports another company, Aviation Development, was responsible for the downing of the plane. Aviation Development works in the same areas of Colombia as DynCorp, mainly as an airborne intelligence gatherer under contract to the Central Intelligence Agency.

Moved to action by the incident, Rep. Janice Schakowsky, D-Ill, submitted the Andean Region Contractor Accountability Act H.R. 1591, "legislation that would prohibit U.S. funds from being used to contract with private military companies in the Andean region."

"U.S. taxpayers are unwittingly funding a private war with private soldiers," Schakowsky recently testified in Congress. "American taxpayers already pay $300 billion per year to fund the world's most powerful military. Why should they have to pay a second time in order to privatize our operations? How is the public to know what their tax dollars are being used for? If there is a potential for a privatized Gulf of Tonkin incident, then the American people deserve to have a full and open debate before this policy goes any farther."

"Are we outsourcing in order to avoid public scrutiny, controversy or embarrassment? Is it to hide body bags from the media and thus shield them from public opinion?" she asked. "Or is it to provide deniability because these private contractors are not covered by the same rules as active duty U.S. service persons."

As Schakowsky's bill winds its way through the bureaucracy on Capitol Hill, DynCorp continues to operate in Latin America free from public scrutiny or accountability.

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Obama Sends 13,000 to Afghanistan

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/30/dyncorp-kbr-afghanistan-business-logistics-dyncorp.html

DynCorp Takes Afghanistan
Nathan Vardi, 07.30.09, 05:24 PM EDT
Increasingly frozen out by the U.S. military, KBR concedes the Afghan battlefront

DynCorp International, the Falls Church, Va., provider of mission critical services to the U.S. military, got good news Thursday from Houston rival KBR, which said it would not be protesting the recent loss of work supporting American troops in Afghanistan to DynCorp and Fluor Group.

"We recently met with the customer for a debrief of the selection criteria and the decision metrics for the awards," said KBR ( KBR - news - people ) chief William Utt on KBR's Thursday conference call. "After the debrief we decided KBR will not protest the outcome of the awards."

The announcement was excellent news for DynCorp, which has been consistently winning government war-zone work from competitors like Blackwater USA and KBR that have had trouble in Iraq. DynCorp is counting on the expanding war in Afghanistan to provide corporate growth and was bracing for a potential challenge from KBR. It is now likely that within six months DynCorp will begin working on a five-year, $5.9 billion deal awarded in July to logistically support U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan. Fluor ( FLR - news - people ) won the work that will be required in northern Afghanistan.

DynCorp has emerged as one of the big winners of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which now generate 53% of DynCorp's $3.1 billion of annual revenue. The company's revenue grew 45% last year thanks to a 51%-owned joint venture that has a multiyear $4.6 billion contract to supply 9,100 linguists to translate for U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

Last year DynCorp and Fluor, together with KBR, became part of the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, or Logcap, a huge contract once awarded exclusively to KBR. The three companies now are competitively bidding on various jobs under the wars' biggest contract. In the last six years, Logcap has meant big revenues for KBR, which earned an estimated $700 million of income (before interest and taxes) on $31.4 billion of revenues off of the program, mostly in Iraq, but been dogged by accusations of overbilling and negligence.

In July the Pentagon announced that it planned on having DynCorp and Fluor take over KBR's work in Afghanistan under Logcap, doing everything from providing laundry to food and fuel. The decision came as President Obama sent 20,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to go after the Taliban in an expanding war. KBR has now accepted the military's contracting switch in Afghanistan and will focus on trying to retain its Logcap work in Iraq, which should be up for bid by the end of this year.

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DynCorp has links to H1N1 and Baxter....Patents and CONtracts
Did DynCorp distribute and spray H1N1 along the U.S - Mexico Border?

Interesting video describing the patent links:
http://www.uzood.com/video/44265/swine-flu-vaccine-Baxter-linked-to-Dyncorp%C2%B4s-mercs-h1n1-patents-endtimes-2012-mark-of-the-beast-666

http://www.youtube.com/v/XJZIKrpQKBo

Just to be clear : the Green Monkey Kidney Cells are grown in vats of goo by Baxter and others and no live monkeys are involved anymore. This is the same "cell line" used for the 1961 Polio vaccine that SV-40 likes to grown in....

http://themorenoreport.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/diseased-african-monkey-flesh-a-key-ingredient-in-swine-flu-vaccine-notorious-defense-contractor-dyncorp-holds-patent/
...
(http://www.corpwatch.org/article.ph…), Dyncorp just happens to be paid big dollars by the U.S. government to patrol the U.S. / Mexico border, near where the H1N1 first swine flu virus was originally detected.

DynCorp also happens to be in a position to receive tremendous financial rewards from its patents covering attenuated live viral vaccine harvesting methods, as described in four key patents jointly held by DynCorp and the National Institutes of Health:

(6025182) Method for producing a virus from an African green monkey kidney cell line

(6117667) Method for producing an adapted virus population from an African green monkey kidney cell line (http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6…)
http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=themorenoreport.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.patentstorm.us%2Fpatents%2F6117667%2Fdescription.html

(5911998) Method of producing a virus vaccine from an African green monkey kidney cell line

(5646033) African green monkey kidney cell lines useful for maintaining viruses and for preparation of viral vaccines


Government collusion?

One of the key inventors in these patents now held by DynCorp was Dr. Robert H. Purcell. Who is Dr. Robert Purcell? He’s one of the co-chiefs of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases operating under the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. government.
http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=themorenoreport.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww3.niaid.nih.gov%2Flabs%2Faboutlabs%2Flid%2F
...
7) How much money is DynCorp collecting on the vaccine patents due to the sudden large-scale manufacture of swine flu vaccines taking place right now?

http://politicolnews.com/n1h1-dyncorp-deadly-vaccines/

NIH-Dyncorp-Baxter-Swine Flu Contracts of Deadly Vaccines

What is in The N1H1 Swine Flu Vaccine

A group of  unproved, untested cancer causing agents that will be made mandatory thanks to the drug companies like Baxter who are making billions with the co-operation of the Obama administration.

This vaccine will infect millions of people with dangerous genes-of African green monkeys which are known to carry the HIV -Aid virus. This is an inhuman method of infecting the monkeys with vaccines-that you will be given. The profit makers NIH and Dyncorp who are partners in billions of dollars in profits working for the US government stand to make a killing -literally. There is no medical or health benefit of being injected with the 3 viruses contained in this vaccine which are: Avian, Swine and Human flu viruses all at once.  In the natural world a person would not get all three viruses at once -this is an over abundance of bacteria entering the body.  The benefits are nil -there aren’t any benefits with the swine flu bacteria vaccine.  The human virus were also grown on aborted baby tissues which produces the human flu virus in this vaccine and will most certainly be refused by the right wing Republicans.

See this video and decide for yourself whether you want to take the risks of getting a host of diseases -and an auto-immune disorder just by getting this N1H1 vaccine.  Its your choice -and you can refuse it.

http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/labs/aboutlabs/lid/hepatitisVirusesSection/

Laboratory of Infectious Diseases
Robert H. Purcell, M.D.
Co-Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases
Chief, Hepatitis Viruses Section

Major Areas of Research

Seroepidemiology and molecular epidemiology
Pathogenesis and animal models of human disease
Active and passive immunoprophylaxis
Discovery of new viruses

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In regards to " Robert H. Purcell, M.D. "

I am having quite a trouble finding much information as to his background. His history goes way back to the days of early Hepatitis discoveries of 1970's and 1980's and AID's .  He went to the Univ. of Oklahoma.
Yes this is the Purcell who was involved with Merck to produce the Hepatitis-B vaccine for Homosexual men in N.Y.C.

http://osu.okstate.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1480&Itemid=90


Dr. Robert Purcell, one of the lead researchers behind hepatitis vaccines was named 2009 Distinguished Alumnus for the College of Arts and Sciences at Oklahoma State University on April 24

Dr. Robert Purcell, the co-chief of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., was presented with the honor at the College’s honors and awards banquet.
 
In his address, Purcell encouraged students to be receptive to new opportunities. “Working on hepatitis A opened up many possibilities,” he said. “That period was a wonderful convergence of history and science because at the time nothing – I mean nothing – was known about viral hepatitis.”
 
The Haileyville, Okla., native oversees more than 100 scientists who study and seek cures for viruses including West Nile and hepatitis. In 2007, he was elected the National Institutes of Health Distinguished Investigator, a distinction conferred on only the top 2 to 3 percent of senior investigators at the NIH.

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/aids.htm

AIDS: 'The Manufactured Virus'
...
By 1977 27,818 liters of oncogenic (cancer causing) virus material had been manufactured that year by Litton Bionetics under contract # (N01-CO-25423) initiated 1972. A portion of this complimented Merck Pharmaceutical experimental Hepatitis B vaccine batch 751 that was given to thousands of male homosexuals in Manhattan in 1978. It later complimented the “smallpox” vaccination given to over 93 million in Africa alone. (Previously sited part 1 The Times article May 11,1987 the front page of the London Times reported “smallpox vaccine triggers AIDS virus "WHO [the World Health Organization] murdered Africa".) This does not even touch the vaccinations in Haiti, Brazil and Southern Japan.

The manufacture of viral cancers combined with mycoplasma was the hallmark of the SVCP as well as the earliest bio-warfare. Mycoplasma was found in the late 1800 and crystallized from tobacco in 1935. 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt had appointed George W. Merck (Merck & Company Pharmaceutical founder) to direct the War Research Service with oversaw our biological weapons industry. As early as 1918 a flu virus modified with bird mycoplasma killed millions (associated with “Federation of the American Society for Experimental Biology”).

In reference to Merck’s batch 751; Between 1970-74 Robert H. Purcell of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), along with Maurice Hillerman Merck’s Chief vaccine developer & tumor cell virologist, collaborated with hepatitis B vaccine pioneer Dr. Saul Krugman of New York University Medical Center developed and tested Hepatitis B seed virus. Purcell announced in 1974, although cell cultures had failed, they had successfully cultured them by use of “high risk individuals” I.E. mentally retarded children at Willowbrook State School Staten Island, NY as well as rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees. (See: Antiviral Mechanism: Perspectives in Virology IX The Gustav Stern Symposium, New York Academic Press 1975 pp 49-76)

Putting children who are already tormented enough in life due to mental and other problems in the same class as test animals. How many did they infect? How many of those they infected died because they were termed “at risk” How sick is that? Remember they are still telling us AIDS just evolved. Can we trust anything they tell us ever again?

Yes these things are documented through government and medical records and other sources. I have no reason to lie about such things. Their records are damaging enough without any help from me. I have only sought the truth of these matters and to try to bring national attention to the subject demanding accountability. May God forgive US.

http://www.hepcan.org/training.htm
...
In the 1970s, available diagnostic tests indicated that 90% of posttransfusion hepatitis was not caused  hepatitis A and B viruses.
  
Then, in the 1980s, after many years of work, investigators finally identified HCV by using specialized genetic chemistry to identify the virus, and with this discovery, they named it Hepatitis C.  Discovery of HCV by molecular cloning in 1988 indicated that non-A, non-B hepatitis was primarily caused by HCV infection.
  
In 1990, the first test for HCV became commercially available.  Blood bank screens uncovered an explosion of cases.  The blood supply was not safe from HCV infection until 1992.
  
Hepatitis C is approximately 3 to 4 times more prevalent than HIV/AIDS in the United States.  Approximately 35% of HIV infected persons are co-infected with HCV.  
  
There is not a vaccine for Hepatitis C or a cure. There are treatments available, but it is estimated that only 200,000 to 400,000 patients have been treated.
  
National Institutes of Health: Hepatitis C Virus, An Introduction; Robert H. Purcell, MD, May, 2000, Hep C Alert;  National Institutes of Health Consensus Statements, March, 1997;  Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, Recommendations for Prevetion and Control of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection and HCV-Related Chronic Disease, MMWR, Reprinted March, 1999; Hepatitis C: Moving Forward, Overview of Hepatitis C in 2001: Where Are We Going?, William Lee, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

It is interesting that a very famous Purcell was the financial advisor to Rockefeller 's but I can't connect him to our M.D. :

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/11/obituaries/rw-purcell-79-dies-advised-rockefellers.html

R.W. Purcell, 79, Dies; Advised Rockefellers
Published: Sunday, August 11, 1991

Robert W. Purcell, a philanthropist and business adviser to the Rockefeller family, died on Friday at his home in New York City. He was 79 years old.

He died of cancer, his wife, Wendy, said.

A lawyer by training, Mr. Purcell became an investment adviser to the Rockefeller family in the 1950's, after almost 20 years of legal and financial work for railroad companies. His mentor was Robert Young, the flamboyant chairman of New York Central Railroad, who often clashed with the staid barons of the railroad industry.

In 1955, Mr. Purcell became a financial adviser to Rockefeller Family and Associates, a position he held until 1979. Four years later, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller named him a special consultant on commuter-railroad problems. During his tenure, Mr. Purcell developed proposals that helped ease the railroads' tax burden and helped them buy or lease air-conditioned cars.

Mr. Purcell received his bachelor's and law degrees from Cornell University and served on the university's Board of Trustees from 1959 to 1981, spending 10 years as chairman. In 1970, he presided over an unprecedented public meeting between the trustees and 2,200 students and faculty members to reduce racial tensions on the Ithaca, N.Y., campus.

Mr. Purcell was a Life Governor of New York Hospital and served on the joint board of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He also was a member of many corporate boards.

In addition to his wife, of New York City, Mr. Purcell is survived by one niece and four nephews.

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They can't say they don't know each other...

http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/abstract/110/5/373
Development and Evaluation of a Vaccine for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection

Anthony S. Fauci, MD; Robert C. Gallo, MD; Scott Koenig, MD, PhD; Jonas Salk, MD; and Robert H. Purcell, MD
1 March 1989 | Volume 110 Issue 5 | Pages 373-385
Abstract

The development of a safe and effective vaccine for infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is complicated by several unique scientific, logistic, and ethical issues. These issues include a lack of understanding of protective immunity to HIV and disease development, the absence of an adequate and convenient animal model for studying HIV infection, and difficulties in phase III evaluation of candidate vaccines. Because HIV can be transmitted as either a cellfree or cell-associated virus, a protective immune response against HIV infection will likely require both humoral and cell-mediated immunity. A neutralizing antibody against HIV and an antibody involved in antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity have been shown in HIV-infected persons, but their precise relation to protection is unclear. Cytotoxic lymphocytes from HIV-infected persons have been shown to lyse target cells expressing HIV or its proteins. Cloned T cells have been developed that manifest HIV-specific, major histocompatibility-complex class I-restricted cytotoxic capabilities that are broadly specific. Thus far, all attempts to protect chimpanzees, currently the only suitable animal model, from HIV infection have failed. Ongoing vaccine studies in humans include phase I trials of recombinant proteins of the HIV envelope in uninfected persons as well as the administration of whole killed virus to persons already infected with HIV. Rapid progress is being made in the development of new animal models for HIV infection. The establishment of alternative animal models, both primate and small animal models, will greatly facilitate the development of a vaccine for HIV infection.

Author and Article Information

An edited summary of a Combined Clinical Staff Conference held 1 June 1988 at the Amphitheater, Building 10, Bethesda, Maryland, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Authors who wish to cite a section of the conference and specifically indicate its author may use this example for the form of reference:

Gallo RC, Bolognesi DP, Nerurkar LS. The immune response to human immunodeficiency virus infection, pp 374-377. In: Fauci AS, moderator. Development and evaluation of a vaccine for human immunodeficiency virus infection. Ann Intern Med. 1989;110:373-385.

Request for Reprints: Anthony S. Fauci, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 31, Room 7A-03, Bethesda, MD, 20892.

Current author addresses: Dr. Robert C. Gallo, Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 37, Room 6A-09, Bethesda, MD, 20892.

Dr. Scott Koenig: Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 11B13, Bethesda, MD, 20892.

Dr. Robert H. Purcell: Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 7, Room 202, Bethesda, MD, 20892.

Dr. Jonas SaIk: The SaIk Institute for Biological Studies, P. O. Box 85800, San Diego, CA, 92138-9216.

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All the fingerprints that Purcell was part of the 1970's BW program... and Today
Here he has links to Plum Island, playing with the virtually unknown Hepatitis-E and a "Novel" HCV


http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/65501349/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Prevalence of antibodies to the hepatitis E virus in pigs from countries where hepatitis E is common or is rare in the human population

Xiang-Jin Meng 1 *, Serge Dea 2, Ronald E. Engle 3, Robert Friendship 4, Young S. Lyoo 5, Theerapol Sirinarumitr 6, Kitcha Urairong 6, Dong Wang 7, Doris Wong 1, Dongwan Yoo 4, Yanjin Zhang 7, Robert H. Purcell 1, Suzanne U. Emerson 1

1Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

2Centre de Microbiologie et Biotechnologie, INRS-Institut Armand Frappier, Université du Québec, Laval, Quebec, Canada
3Division of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Rockville, Maryland

4Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
5College of Veterinary Medicine, KonKuk University, Seoul, Korea
6Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kasetsart University, Kamphaengsaen, Thailand
7National Control Institute of Veterinary Bioproducts and Pharmaceuticals, Beijing, China
 
email: Xiang-Jin Meng (xjmeng@vt.edu)

*Correspondence to Xiang-Jin Meng, Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1410 Price's Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA 24061

This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America

Keywords
swine HEV; IgG anti-HEV; zoonotic; enzootic

Abstract
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a very important public health concern in many developing countries where epidemics of hepatitis E are common. Sporadic cases of clinical hepatitis E not only occur in these countries but also occur uncommonly in patients with no known epidemiological exposure to HEV in industrialized countries. The source of infection in industrialized countries is unknown but it has been suggested that animals might serve as a reservoir for HEV in both settings. We recently identified and characterized an HEV strain (swine HEV) that infects large numbers of pigs in the United States. To assess the potential of pigs to serve as a global reservoir of HEV, we measured the prevalence of HEV antibodies in pigs in two countries where hepatitis E is endemic and two countries where it is not. Swine herds in all four countries contained many pigs that were seropositive for IgG anti-HEV, although the percentage of seropositive pigs varied greatly from herd to herd. A very limited number of pig handlers in the two endemic countries were also tested and most of them were found to be seropositive for HEV. The results from this study suggest that hepatitis E is enzootic in pigs regardless of whether HEV is endemic in the respective human population. J. Med. Virol. 59:297-302, 1999. Published 1999 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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Accepted: 10 May 1999
U.S. Department of Agriculture Plum Island Foreign



Here he's (Purcell) is helping with "new and Novel forms of" HCV: Plum Island connection

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WXR-4FBW5VB-2&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1048725314&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6b55a805ba574a6037760306b3530885

Replication of a novel subgenomic HCV genotype 1a replicon expressing a puromycin resistance gene in Huh-7 cells
Received 24 September 2004;  revised 17 October 2004;  accepted 23 December 2004.  Available online 28 January 2005
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Plasmid pCV-H77C was a generous gift of Jens Bukh and Robert H. Purcell.
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1 Present address: Foot-and-Mouth Disease Research Unit, USDA, ARS, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Greenport, NY 11944-0848, USA.

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Still looking for a biography of Robert H. Purcell M.D. . Anybody find one please post it. This fits the history of BW people having "legends" built ( like Richard/Robert Shope(s) and  Erich/Robert Traub (s) )
Here he was associated with M.A.R.U. :

http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/5/873
The Epidemiology of Hepatitis B Antigen and Antibody among Panamanian Cuna Indians*
* Supported by NIH-NIAID contract 72-2514.
Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 24(5), 1975, pp. 873-875

W. C. Reeves, C. J. Peters AND R. H. Purcell
Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Middle America Research Unit, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014

Here back in 1966 he's playing with MycoPlasma:

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol84/issue1/index.dtl
R. H. PURCELL, D. TAYLOR-ROBINSON, D. C. WONG, and R. M. CHANOCK
A COLOR TEST FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF ANTIBODY TO THE NON-ACID-FORMING HUMAN MYCOPLASMA SPECIES
Am. J. Epidemiol. 1966 84: 51-66

http://iai.asm.org/cgi/reprint/5/1/70.pdf
Isolation and Characterization of Mycoplasma conjunctivae sp. n. from Sheep and Goats
with Keratoconjunctivitis
...
22. Somerson, N. L., R. H. Purcell, D. Taylor-Robinson, and
R. M. Chanock. 1965. Hemolysin of Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
J. Bacteriol. 89:813-818.

http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/pdfs/1995pdfs/06_06_1995.pdf
NIAID Scientists Enjoy Fruits of Vaccine Success

Recently, three NIAID scientists gathered with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, NIAID director, and Dr. Jane Biddle, NIAID senior technology transfer manager, to celebrate receiving royalty checks from their four patents that led to an effective
vaccine to prevent hepatitis A, an acute liver disease. The FDA licensed the vaccine in March 1995.

NIAID’s Drs. Robert H. Purcell, Suzanne U. Emerson and Jeffrey I. Cohen, and the FDA’s Drs. Stephen Feinstone and Richard Daemer, of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, developed and patented a hepatitis A virus (HAV) and related technology used to develop the vaccine. Purcell is chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Infectious Diseases hepatitis viruses section, in which Emerson works. Cohen works in the NIAID Laboratory of Clinical Investigation. Dr. John Ticehurst of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Dr. Ian Gust of Commonwealth Serum Laboratories of Melbourne, Australia, also collaborated on the patents.

“The hepatitis A vaccine is a wonderful example of how basic research from NIAID laboratories is applied to improve public
health,” noted Fauci. The patents cover a strain of human HAV, HM175, an attenuated form of HM175 and the methods developed to isolate and grow the viruses in cultures of kidney cells derived from African green monkeys.

In 1985, based on the scientific and commercial potentials of the NIAID inventions, SmithKline Beecham took a nonexclusive license on the patents and, in 1986, established a cooperative research and development agreement to develop HAVRIX,
the world’s first commercially available HAV vaccine.

HAVRIX uses an inactivated HM175 strain of HAV. In 1994, SmithKline received the European Prix Gallen award for HAVRIX in honor of its overall contribution to medicine in terms of safety, efficacy and innovation. Currently, HAVRIX is registered in more than 40 countries.

Prior to the availability of this vaccine, only passive immunization with blood-derived immunoglobulin could offer protection
against HAV, and then only for 2 to 5 months. The vaccine offers protection after one dose. With a booster in 6 to 12 months,
the vaccine is predicted to protect for up to 10 years. With more than 10 million cases each year worldwide, hepatitis A is the most widespread of the viral hepatitis infections. HAV is transmitted commonly by person-to-person contact and by  contaminated food and water.

The resulting liver disease usually is mild and does not become chronic. Occasionally, HAV infection leads to liver failure and death.—

Celebrating the arrival of royalty checks at NIAID are (from l) Drs. Suzanne U. Emerson, Jeffrey I. Cohen, Robert H. Purcell, Anthony S. Fauci and Jane Biddle.

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I missed this completely: followup coming...

McChrystal FIRED...against Iran plans, parasite contractors, genocide drones!
Cerebus to Buy Dyncorp
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Cerebus-to-Buy-Dyncorp-06313/
13-Apr-2010 18:18 EDT

Private investment firm Cerberus Capital Management, LP has reached a $1.5 billion deal to buy the support and security contractor DynCorp International, including the assumption of debt. The purchase price would be $17.55 per share – a 49% premium to the April 9/10 close of $11.75, and 12.4x the FY 2010 consensus forecast of $1.41 earnings per share. A “go shop” provision gives DynCorp 28 days to find a higher and better offer, if it can.

Affiliates of Veritas Capital Fund Management, L.L.C. have already executed a Voting Agreement in favor, swinging an aggregate of 34.9% of the outstanding shares. That level of support will make the deal very difficult to stop.

Note that 12.4x is still a low multiple, when compared to a number of more diversified public competitors like KBR and SAIC. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to compare DynCorp with privately-held security contractor peers like the similarly-controversial Xe (formerly Blackwater), IAP Worldwide Services, Triple Canopy, etc. The result is somewhat predictable…
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Barclays Bank plc and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. acted as financial advisers to Cerberus, and provided debt financing for the buyout. Evercore Partners was a non-financing advisor, while outside legal counsel included Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, and Jenner & Block, LLP.

DynCorp’s main financial advisor was Goldman, Sachs & Co. Outside counsel to DynCorp included Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP; plus Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., who acted as special outside counsel to the Board of Directors.

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Cerberus Capital Management
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus_Capital_Management

Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. is one of the largest private equity investment firms in the United States. The firm is based in New York City, and run by 50-year-old financier Steve Feinberg. Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle has been a prominent Cerberus spokesperson and runs one of its international units.

Cerberus Capital Management
Type   Limited Partnership
Industry   Private Equity
Founded   1992
Headquarters   New York City
Products   private equity funds
Total assets   $24 billion
Website   www.cerberuscapital.com


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