| Brazil: Amazon Contractor Raytheon has CIA Ties by Pratap Chatterjee, Inter Press Service December 3rd, 1995 A contract to monitor the Amazon rainforest in Brazil will include a shadowy company once described as ''virtually indistinguishable'' from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The 1.4-billion-dollar contract for satellite monitoring of drug trafficking and deforestation in the 3.2-million-square-kilometre forests in the Brazilian Amazon was awarded last summer to Raytheon, a 12-billion-dollar, Massachusetts-based company, Raytheon, that makes Patriot and Sidewinder missiles. |
| Brazil: Police Wiretap Jeopardizes Raytheon Radar Project
by Katherine Ellison , The Miami Herald November 25th, 1995 It was meant to be a shining model of the new era of inter-American trade: a $1.4 billion U.S. contract -- the largest ever awarded in Brazil -- in which the Massachusetts- based Raytheon Corp. would build a vast radar project in the Amazon jungle. |
| South Korea: General Dynamics Denies Bribery Allegations by John Mintz, Washington Post October 26th, 1995 A South Korean legislator alleged yesterday that General Dynamics Corp. paid former president Roh Tae Woo at least $100 million in 1991 in a successful effort to persuade the South Korean military to buy the company's F-16 fighters. The Falls Church-based company strenuously denied the allegation. |
| World: Bribe Probe For US Arms Firms by Mark Tran, Guardian (London) September 2nd, 1995 The US government is investigating two of America's biggest defence contractors, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, for possible bribery in foreign sales - with the world's most widely used fighter, the F-16, the apparent focus of interest. |
| US: Missile-Blower by Daniel Golden, Boston Globe July 19th, 1992 When MIT professor Theodore Postol punctured the Patriot missile's invincible reputation, he made some powerful enemies: Raytheon, the Army, and MIT administrators who valued corporate contributions over academic freedom |
| US: General Electric Expose Garners an Oscar by Megan Rosenfeld, Washington Post April 23rd, 1992 Chasnoff's film indicts the multi-billion-dollar corporation on two counts: failing to clean up the site of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state, and knowingly poisoning workers with asbestos and radiation at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y. Scenes of Hanford area residents who have had or know of birth defects and cancer are juxtaposed with the familiar jingle: "GE: We bring good things to life." |
| Turkey: U.S. Businessman Slain; Terror Group Claims Responsibility by Ahmet Balan, New York Times March 22nd, 1991 Gunmen today killed a former U.S. Air Force officer working for an American company in Turkey, police said. A Marxist terrorist group claimed responsibility. It was the third time in two months the group - Dev Sol, or Revolutionary Left - said it was behind armed attacks on Americans. |
| US: The "Patriots" at Raytheon by Jim Donahue, Multinational Monitor March 1st, 1991 Raytheon Corporation has recently become known throughout the United States as an outstanding defender of democracy thanks to its Patriot missile, which has attracted so much media attention for its role in the Persian Gulf War. |
| US: Secret Task Led to Web Of Firms; Virginian Ran Covert Missions Washington Post March 22nd, 1987 The mission that apparently launched the network of private companies now embroiled in the Iran-contra affair took place in October 1983, when an obscure U.S. Army unit asked a retired lieutenant colonel to undertake a secret job in the Caribbean, according to informed sources. |
| US: Oman Hold Delicate Negotiations Over Bases; Sultanate Pushing for Greater Control Over Access to Persian Gulf Facilities by David B. Ottaway, Washington Post July 19th, 1985 The United States has been involved for two months in delicate negotiations with the Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman, which is seeking more control over U.S. access to, and use of, its strategically located airfields and other military facilities. |
| Saudi Arabia: How U.S. Is Helping in Huge Arms Buildup by Saudi Arabia by Smith Hempstone, U.S. News & World Report April 17th, 1978 An impressive combination of U.S. weapons and American know-how is helping turn this thinly populated kingdom into one of the leading military powers in the entire Middle East. |
| Saudi Arabia: This Gun For Hire by Kim Willenson with Nicholas C. Profitt in Beirut and Lloyd Norman in Washington, Newsweek February 24th, 1975 In the aptly named Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra last week, a private contractor was recruiting a ragtag army of Vietnam veterans for a paradoxical mission: to train Saudi Arabian troops to defend the very oil fields that Henry Kissinger recently warned the U.S. might one day have to invade. |
| Saudi Arabia: Vinnell Adds Saudis To Its Trainee Roster Business Week February 24th, 1975 Vinnell Corp., has a $77-million contract to train Saudi Arabian forces to defend Saudi oil fields, but the Pentagon sidesteppped any probing questions about the contract, shunting them to the State Dept., which had approved it. |
| LIBERIA: Liberia recruits a new army by Elizabeth Blunt, BBC News The new Armed forces of Liberia are being trained by Dyncorp. |
| IRAQ: Indian Youths Coerced Into Iraq by Ajay Bharadwaj, Daily News & Analysis India Human trafficking is not a new phenomenon in Punjab. However, it is the landing of young aspirants in Iraq that has started raising hackles. |
| US: Pentagon Stalls on Bannning Contractors that Use Forced Labor
by Cam Simpson, The Chicago Tribune A proposal prohibiting defense contractor involvement in human trafficking for forced prostitution and labor was drafted by the Pentagon last summer, but five defense lobbying groups oppose key provisions and a final policy still appears to be months away. |
| IRAQ: KBR Workers in Iraq Paid 50 cents an Hour by Pamela Hess, United Press International KBR hires out subcontractors whose job is to recruit, transport, house, feed and pay "third-country" nationals to stock, prepare, serve and clean up at the dining facilities at 43 bases across Iraq. As pressure to keep contract costs down, subcontractors have moved from country to country in search of cheaper labor markets. |
| US: CACI Plans to Drop Interrogation Work by Ellen McCarthy, The Washington Post CACI International Inc., the Arlington-based defense contractor that attracted controversy when an employee was accused of participating in the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, is getting out of the interrogation business. |