for the purpose of providing protective services in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Israel. Department of State under the Bureau of Diplomatic Security's Worldwide Personal Protective Services (WPPS) umbrella contract, along with DynCorp International and Triple Canopy, Inc. In July 2004, Blackwater was hired by the U.S. In August 2003, Blackwater received its first Iraq contract, a $21 million contract for a Personal Security Detachment and two helicopters for Paul Bremer, head of the U.S.
Paul Bremer escorted by Blackwater Security guards The company consisted of nine divisions and a subsidiary, Blackwater Vehicles. Overall, the company received over US$1 billion in U.S. Department of Homeland Security to protect government facilities, as well as by private clients, including communications, petrochemical, and insurance companies. Blackwater was also hired during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by the U.S. Smith left Blackwater to start his own firm, SCG International Risk, in 2003. BSC was originally formed as a Delaware LLC and was one of over 60 private security firms employed during the Iraq War to guard officials and installations, train Iraq's new army and police, and provide other support for coalition forces. Blackwater was one of several private security firms employed following the U.S. 2003–2006: First contracts īSC's first assignment was to provide 20 men with top secret clearance to protect the CIA headquarters and another base that was responsible for hunting Osama bin Laden. Additionally, Smith has been accused of further embellishing his military and contracting record to defraud investors at SCG International Risk. However, this claim is denied by Prince and Blackwater executive Gary Jackson who describe firing Smith from his position as a low-level administrator for "non-performance" after a 30-day contract. Jeremy Scahill has claimed that Blackwater Security Company (BSC) was the brainchild of Jamie Smith, a former CIA officer who became Vice President of Blackwater USA and the Founding Director of Blackwater Security Company, holding both positions simultaneously. The concept was not a financial success and was kept financially solvent by sales from sister company Blackwater Target Systems. The company says it is the largest training facility in the country. It comprises several ranges: indoor, outdoor, urban reproductions an artificial lake and a driving track in Camden and Currituck counties. The Blackwater Lodge and Training Center officially opened on with a 6,000-acre, $6.5 million facility headed by Jamie Milam.
There, he created his private training facility and his contracting company, Blackwater, which he named for the peat-colored water of the swamp. "We needed 3,000 acres to make it safe," Prince told reporter Robert Young Pelton. Prince purchased approximately 7,000 acres (28 km 2) of the Great Dismal Swamp, a vast swamp on the North Carolina–Virginia border that is now mostly a national wildlife refuge. After working with SEAL and SWAT teams, Blackwater USA received its first government contract following the bombing of USS Cole off of the coast of Yemen in October 2000. In explaining its purpose, Prince stated: "We are trying to do for the national security apparatus what FedEx did for the Postal Service".
History 1997: Blackwater USA īlackwater USA was formed on Decem by Al Clark and Erik Prince in North Carolina, to provide training support to military and law enforcement organizations. 1.3 2002–2007: Blackwater Security Company.In 2014, Academi merged with Triple Canopy, a subsidiary of Constellis Group. In 2013, its subsidiary, International Development Solutions, received an approximately $92 million contract for State Department security guards. Since 2003, it has provided services to the Central Intelligence Agency. Īcademi provides contract security services to the United States federal government. In 2007, it received widespread notoriety for the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, when a group of its employees killed 17 Iraqi civilians and injured 20, for which four guards were convicted in the United States but later pardoned on Decemby President Donald Trump. Security management, full-service risk management consultingĪcademi is an American private military company founded on Decem by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince as Blackwater, renamed Xe Services in 2009 and known as Academi since 2011 after it was acquired by a group of private investors. Law enforcement training, logistics, close quarter training, and security services
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