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https://corpwatch.org/article/intelligence-iraq-l-3-supplies-spy-support
Intelligence in Iraq: L-3 Supplies Spy Support
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Special to CorpWatch
Article Author:
Pratap Chatterjee
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
The official headquarters for a 300-person intelligence support operation in Iraq is discreetly located in a two-story red building in a business park in Chantilly, Virginia, just outside the border fence of Washington, DC's Dulles airport. From its nondescript corporate offices, Government Services Incorporated (GSI) supplies staff for an operation that spreads over 22 military bases in the Middle East.
Walk through the entrance and to the left of the reception desk, next to a glass case showcasing electronic surveillance gear, is an announcement congratulating employees on winning a $426.5 million intelligence contract from the Pentagon last year.
GSI is a major subsidiary of L-3 Communications, a Fortune 500 company. Retired Lieutenant General Paul Cerjan took GSI's helm in May, after spending a year running Halliburton's multi-billion dollar military logistics contract in Iraq and around the world.
GSI is only one of several L-3 subsidiaries enjoying the Bush
administration's largesse. On March 10, Titan won a no-bid contract
worth $840 million over 12 months to supply translators for
intelligence and regular military operations in the "global war on
terror." Yet another L-3 subsidiary, MPRI, manages the recruitment of
U.S. military advisors to key Iraqi ministries such as defense and
interior.
Military "prime" contractors such as L-3 extend the complex web of
contracts by farming out work to smaller subcontractors, sometimes
disabled- or minority-owned businesses. Its partners on the
intelligence contract include Florida-based, disabled-owned Espial
Services and Virginia-based Gray Hawk Systems. Both are currently
advertising for interrogators. Other L-3 subcontractors on the project
include Future Technologies Incorporated, a South Asian-owned company
which is hiring Middle East regional intelligence analysts; and
Operational Support and Services, an obscure North Carolina company
seeking counter-intelligence agents.
"The government is
desperate for qualified interrogators and intelligence analysts so they
are turning to industry," says Bill Golden who now runs
IntelligenceCareers.com, one of the biggest intelligence employment
websites in the business. "Over half of the qualified
counter-intelligence experts in the field work for contractors like
L-3."
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