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Count the number of shell corporations Academi (formerly Blackwater) has. I lost count at about 100 of them, and I'm sure there's many, many more. Now, track w
by runjake 14y ago
Count the number of shell corporations Academi (formerly Blackwater) has. I lost count at about 100 of them, and I'm sure there's many, many more.
Now, track what each shell corp does and who their customers are. I hope you have a vast team dedicated to sorting that out.
Academi is staffed by experienced, former CIA personnel who know the ins and outs of the trade.
And if you further need convincing, look at Air America and South American CIA operations where the CIA didn't even know what was going on under their OWN chain of command.
The CIA is (mostly) not some mystical, all-seeing spy organization. They suffer the same problems as any company/agency of their size. Bureaucracy, and especially PHBs.