clicked on one of the links...and wally fucking dah. Weird huh? They have been known to do work for the CIA, and well...here's some info on the company...well..there's some here:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/stillcool47as well as what's below
Fronts within fronts, is a standard modus operandi of Wackenhut. Wackenhut Corp. itself appears on occasion to be the collective front of a variety of felons and scofflaws. They hide behind a wall of omerta excused by "national security" and enforced by an old boy network rooted deep in the intelligence community. Scams also lie hidden behind the facade of ineptitude projected by their under-trained and under-paid employees. This has proved a somewhat less successful tactic. Wackenhut Corp. does not inspire a degree of "loyalty up," commensurate with the "loyalty down" they demand. Instead, they buy it. They buy it cheap. Loyalty bought is intrinsically fleeting. Loyalty bought cheap is fleeter still. The testimony of disgruntled former employees has damaged Wackenhut's reputation in court as well as the press.
Potential future employees sometimes take note, and act in advance. According to the Los Angeles Times, members of a state prison guards association picketed the American Correctional Assn. convention in San Diego on Tuesday, August 14, 1990, to protest the organization's unhealthy private-sector influence on public prison policy nationwide. The guards said such influence is manifested locally in the planned construction of a 200-bed pre-arraignment jail in the East Otay Mesa Correctional Complex, to be operated by Wackenhut Corrections Corp. through a joint San Diego city-county contract. The pickets, members of the California Correctional Peace Officer Assn., carried placards up and down the length of the San Diego Convention Center. While California law prohibits counties from contracting out the management of its jails to the private sector, the San Diego county counsel's office (not a Court of Law) had recently determined that the sheriff could contract for beds in the city's proposed jail. According to correctional officials, the Otay facility would be the first privately owned and operated jail in California. Just what we need. eh? How many more are in the works, one wonders?
Wackenhut operates 10 detention or correctional facilities in seven states that house 3,456 inmates. It's first facility, a federal Immigration and Naturalization Services detention center, opened in 1987. Within two years the correctional business generated about $25 million of Wackenhut's $462 million in 1989 revenue This is according to company spokesman, not independent auditors. Robert Hennelly reports in the Village Voice , that Wackenhut is also developing and marketing electronic systems for tracking prisoners under house arrest for local, state, and federal authorities.
According to the L. A. Times , Wackenhut does not "operate" any jails in California, but it does "run" a minimum security "correctional facility" for the state in McFarland, where parole violators are housed. This subtle distinction may be lost on those outside the profession. "Privatization is a slap in the face to corrections officers as professionals," said Jeff Doyle, a prison guard and CCPOA vice president. "It's irresponsible for government to turn this over to the private sector." Although Doyle acknowledged there is an element of self-protection among the state guards who are upset with privatization plans, he emphasized that the Wackenhut guards do not have the same level of training and experience that state corrections officers do. Pete Abrahano, the San Diego manager for Wackenhut, said the guards who will run the Otay Mesa facility, will be better trained than the rest of the company's guards. "They will have the necessary training and experience required by federal law," he said. "These will not be just regular guards."
http://www.transbay.net/~nessie/Pages/wackenhut.htmlThe GEO Group:
George C. Zoley
Chairman of the Board
Chief Executive Officer
WACKENHUT CORPORATION -- A PATRIOT OR A PARTNER IN EXECUTIVE CRIME?
by Armen Victorian
2 Jun 1997
Wackenhut Corporation - A Patriot or a Partner in Executive Crime?
The following short essay provides some insight into the activities of Wackenhut Corporation, the Guardians of the famous, restricted Area 51, and many other restricted areas within the US.
Wackenhut Corporation has its roots dating back to 1954, when George Wackenhut and three other former special agents of the FBI formed a company in Miami called "Special Agent Investigators," to provide investigative services to business and industry. Success was such that a year later, in 1955, another company was formed to apply the same philosophy and approach to physical security problems. Three years later, in 1958, the two companies merged under the name of Wackenhut Corporation, in Florida. From the outset George Wackenhut was the President and the Chief Executive in the company. He established the headquarters in Coral Gables. By establishing a wholly-owned subsidiary, in the same year, Wackenhut managed to extend the operation of physical security to the United States Government. The "Wackenhut Services, Incorporated" was created to comply with federal statutes prohibiting the government from contracting with companies which provide investigative or detective services.
In 1962, Wackenhut extended its operations from Florida to California and Hawaii. Four years later, on January 1, 1966, Wackenhut became an international company, with offices in Caracas, Venezuela, through half ownership of an affiliate. In the same year Wackenhut Corporation became public, and in 1967, floated its shares through the American Stock Exchange.
By then Wackenhut had expanded through its subsidiaries to 20 strong companies, and its contracts expanded into several countries, and various territories. It was then the single, largest security and investigative firm.
In 1978, by acquisition of NUSAC, a Virginia firm providing technical and consulting services to the nuclear industry, Wackenhut launched into energy and environment management fields. A year later, in 1979, Wackenhut acquired Stellar Systems Incorporation. Stellar Systems Inc. specialised in outdoor electronic security.
The main business objective of the company is to provide security and investigative services, first to the US Government, and then to business, industry, and professional clients.
Through Wackenhut Electronics Systems Corporation, it develops and produces sophisticated computerized security systems to add further edge to its security based services.
The major clients of the investigative arm of Wackenhut are the insurance industry and financial firms. They include insurance inspections, corporate acquisition surveys, personnel background reports, pre-employment screening, polygraph examinations, fraud and arson investigations.
The wide array of services offered by Wackenhut Corporation includes guard and electronic security for banks, office buildings, apartments, and industrial complexes. Training programs in English and foreign languages apply Wackenhut procedures to individual client needs. It offers fire safety and protective patrols, rescue and first aid services, and emergency support programs tailored to labour-management disputes. Its pre-departure programmes are widely in use by airports and airlines.
With about 50,000 armed security guards, and 20,000 employees, plus over 100 offices and facilities spread across the US, extending to Canada, United Kingdom, Western Europe, the Middle East, Indonesia, central and South America and the Caribbean, Wackenhut is a fearsome force, and an implement to please the desires of its clients, especially the US Government.
Some of Wackenhut's directors, past and present are:
John Ammarell - Former FBI Agent
Robert Chasen - Former FBI Agent
Clarence Kelly - Former FBI Director
Willis Hawkins - Former Assistant Secretary of the Army
Paul X. Kelly - Four star General (ret.), US Marine Corps
Seth McKee - Former Commander in Chief, NORAD
Bernard Schriever - Former member, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Frank Carlucci - Former Defense Secretary, and former Deputy Director, CIA
Joseph Carroll - Former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
James Rawley - Former Director, US Secret Service
Bobby Ray Inman - Former Director, NSA; Deputy Director, CIA; Director Office of Naval Intelligence
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