Wackenhut
From CAVDEF
Contents
History
Employees
Clients
State government
[Wackenhut is/was a private prison contractor for various states, including Florida]
Federal government
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- Rocky Flats Plant (run by Rockwell International)
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Corporations
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- Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture
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Controversies
CIA collaboration
PROMIS backdoor
Main article: Inslaw affair
Private prisons
Belgium fascist ties
Main article: Operation Gladio
Garrison investigation
During New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's investigation of the JFK assassination, Wackenhut performed detective work for Clay Shaw's defense team[3] and was illegally eavesdropping on Garrison's office[4].
Political connections
National security state
Directors of Wackenhut tend to come from law enforcement and national security backgrounds, especially the following agencies:
Lobbyists
The following people and groups are known to have a lobbying relationship with Wackenhut
- American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
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- Tom Feeney - Lobbyist for Wackenhut in Florida, while a Florida legislator
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Corporate connections
References
- ↑ Spy Magazine, Wackenhut article, 1992/09
- ↑ The Humanist, "Inman's friends and other enemies", 1994/03/01
- ↑ Jim DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (2012), p.209: "For in the files secured by the Assassination Records Review Board there are now contributions by Shaw's own defense team. This collection by attorneys Bill and Ed Wegmann includes a report by Wackenhut—a detective agency the Wegmanns hired—of an interview of a secretary who worked for attorney G. Wray Gill."
- ↑ Jim DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case (2012), p.262-265
External links
- Sourcewatch article on Wackenhut
- 1991 congressional oversight hearings
- Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, 2003 - p.213-217 cover its private prisons in New Mexico and elsewhere, including child prisons where the inmates were molested and raped by guards and possibly executives, as well as Wackenhut's hiring by an Exxon-British Petroleum joint team to wiretap an Exxon Valdez disaster whistleblower working with Congress
- Child molestation and human trafficking
- CBS, "Locked Inside A Nightmare", 2000
- Prison Legal News, "Wackenhut Wracked by Sexual Abuse Scandals", 2000/08/15
- Kate Dixon accuses Robert Mueller and Wackenhut of covering up illegal child experimentation in the Emery Unified School District of Alameda County CA
- See the case of Richard Hamlin and Sid Siemer, wherein Michael Riconosciuto mentioned "things happening to children that were beyond comprehension and that G. Wackenhut and friends were part of it"
- 2013 Topix thread discusses how Lake County FL courthouse security was turned over to Wackenhut (by Gary Borders, the sheriff accused of covering up the rapes of boys at the Green Isle Ranch)
- The Independent, "G4S sacks employee arrested over international human trafficking ring investigation", 2015/05/26
