Airscan - Revision history

Steven Harkins at 22:51, 9 December 2009

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Steven Harkins: /* Affiliations */

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Affiliations

Steven Harkins at 15:27, 9 December 2009

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Steven Harkins at 15:26, 9 December 2009

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Steven Harkins: /* Balkans */

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Balkans

Steven Harkins: /* Balkans */

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Balkans

Steven Harkins at 15:02, 9 December 2009

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Steven Harkins: /* Colombia */

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Colombia

David at 08:03, 9 December 2009

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Steven Harkins: /* Iraq */

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Iraq

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 Airscan has several regularly renewed US government contracts including the protection of the area around Cape Canaveral, monitoring certain parts of the United States-Mexican border and detecting cocaine fields in Colombia as part of the U.S. fight against the drugs trade. The firm also works extensively for the oil industry. Ever since 1993 it has been protecting ChevronTexaco's facilities in the Cabinda enclave of Angola. It also has a contract to conduct surveillance on the Cano Limon pipeline in Colombia<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>.
-According to Robert E. Peck:
+According to Journalist Robert E. Peck writing in ''Z Magazine'':
 :"Florida-based, Airscan, has also been implicated in funneling Pentagon weapons for counter-insurgency operations of Uganda's People's Defense Force, as well as to rebels in southern Sudan fighting the Khartoum regime. AirScan founder, retired Brigadier General [[Joe Stringham]], was responsible for secretive U.S. counter-insurgency activities against the FSLN during El Salvador's civil war"<ref>Robert E. Peck, [http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticle/13403 Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit], ''ZMagazine'', October-2000, Accessed 09-December-2009</ref>.

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 ==Affiliations==
-[[Occidental Pertroleum]] | [[Erinys International]]
+[[Occidental Pertroleum]] | [[Erinys International]] | [[Bechtel]] | [[Chevron]]
 ==Notes==

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 According to Robert E. Peck:
-:"Florida-based, Airscan, has also been implicated in funneling Pentagon weapons for counter-insurgency operations of Uganda's People's Defense Force, as well as to rebels in southern Sudan fighting the Khartoum regime. AirScan founder, retired Brigadier General Joe Stringham, was responsible for secretive U.S. counter-insurgency activities against the FSLN during El Salvador's civil war"<ref>Robert E. Peck, [http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticle/13403 Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit], ''ZMagazine'', October-2000, Accessed 09-December-2009</ref>.
+:"Florida-based, Airscan, has also been implicated in funneling Pentagon weapons for counter-insurgency operations of Uganda's People's Defense Force, as well as to rebels in southern Sudan fighting the Khartoum regime. AirScan founder, retired Brigadier General [[Joe Stringham]], was responsible for secretive U.S. counter-insurgency activities against the FSLN during El Salvador's civil war"<ref>Robert E. Peck, [http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticle/13403 Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit], ''ZMagazine'', October-2000, Accessed 09-December-2009</ref>.
 ==Angola==

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 Airscan has several regularly renewed US government contracts including the protection of the area around Cape Canaveral, monitoring certain parts of the United States-Mexican border and detecting cocaine fields in Colombia as part of the U.S. fight against the drugs trade. The firm also works extensively for the oil industry. Ever since 1993 it has been protecting ChevronTexaco's facilities in the Cabinda enclave of Angola. It also has a contract to conduct surveillance on the Cano Limon pipeline in Colombia<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>.
-[[AirScan]] is a Florida Based<ref>Pamela Hess, Iraq oil attacked 196 times since war, ''UPI'', 20-January-2005, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref> airborne security and surveilence company based in the United States. The company was founded in 1989 by two retired United States military officers<ref>About Airscan, [http://www.airscan.com/about.html About Us], AirScan.com, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>. Airscan are one of the few private operators of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the world<ref>Spotlight, Private Security for Pipelines?, ''Africa Energy Intelligence'', 17-November-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>. Airscan has a fleet of drones and Cessna 337 aircraft equipped with infrared and radar gear<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>. One of the founders of Airscan is [[John Mansur]], a former executive in [[Bechtel]]'s aeronautics division<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>.
+According to Robert E. Peck:
-Airscan has several regularly renewed US government contracts including the protection of the area around Cape Canaveral, monitoring certain parts of the United States-Mexican border and detecting cocaine fields in Colombia as part of the U.S. fight against the drugs trade. The firm also works extensively for the oil industry. Ever since 1993 it has been protecting ChevronTexaco's facilities in the Cabinda enclave of Angola. It also has a contract to conduct surveillance on the Cano Limon pipeline in Colombia<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>.
+:"Florida-based, Airscan, has also been implicated in funneling Pentagon weapons for counter-insurgency operations of Uganda's People's Defense Force, as well as to rebels in southern Sudan fighting the Khartoum regime. AirScan founder, retired Brigadier General Joe Stringham, was responsible for secretive U.S. counter-insurgency activities against the FSLN during El Salvador's civil war"<ref>Robert E. Peck, [http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticle/13403 Remilitarizing Africa for Corporate Profit], ''ZMagazine'', October-2000, Accessed 09-December-2009</ref>.
 ==Angola==

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 :"AirScan is operating a Cessna 337 light aircraft in Macedonia in support of US Army attempts to monitor the Kosovo-Macedonian border. One of the company's US-registered Cessnas is based at Petrovec airport to the east of Macedonia's capital, Skopje, and is equipped with a Wescam forward looking infrared pod under its port wing and datalink pod under its starboard wing.
-It is understood that the aircraft has flown daily missions along the border as part of the NATO effort to interdict the movement of ethnic Albanian insurgents inMacedonia from Kosovo.
+It is understood that the aircraft has flown daily missions along the border as part of the NATO effort to interdict the movement of ethnic Albanian insurgents inMacedonia from Kosovo"<ref>Stewart Penney, AIRSCAN POLICES BALKAN BORDER, ''Flight International'', 21-April-2001, Accessed 09-December-2009</ref>.
-The aircraft was operating in Macedonia at the height of the fighting in Tetovo last month, two weeks before US Air Force General Atomics RQ-1B Predators arrived at Petrovic to take over the mission of providing real-time imagery support for US forces. The AirScan aircraft is operating solely on behalf of US forces and does not share the imagery with NATO forces"<ref>Stewart Penney, AIRSCAN POLICES BALKAN BORDER, ''Flight International'', 21-April-2001, Accessed 09-December-2009</ref>.
+:"The aircraft was operating in Macedonia at the height of the fighting in Tetovo last month, two weeks before US Air Force General Atomics RQ-1B Predators arrived at Petrovic to take over the mission of providing real-time imagery support for US forces. The AirScan aircraft is operating solely on behalf of US forces and does not share the imagery with NATO forces"<ref>Stewart Penney, AIRSCAN POLICES BALKAN BORDER, ''Flight International'', 21-April-2001, Accessed 09-December-2009</ref>.
 ==Canada==

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 ==Balkans==
-Airscan were contracted to support the US military in the Balkans<ref>Special Report, The Balkans, ''U.S. News & World Report'', 4-November-2002</ref>.
+Airscan were contracted to support the US military in the Balkans<ref>Special Report, The Balkans, ''U.S. News & World Report'', 4-November-2002</ref>. In April 2001 a report showed that:
 ==Canada==

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 [[AirScan]] is a Florida Based<ref>Pamela Hess, Iraq oil attacked 196 times since war, ''UPI'', 20-January-2005, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref> airborne security and surveilence company based in the United States. The company was founded in 1989 by two retired United States military officers<ref>About Airscan, [http://www.airscan.com/about.html About Us], AirScan.com, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>. Airscan are one of the few private operators of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the world<ref>Spotlight, Private Security for Pipelines?, ''Africa Energy Intelligence'', 17-November-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>. Airscan has a fleet of drones and Cessna 337 aircraft equipped with infrared and radar gear<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>. One of the founders of Airscan is [[John Mansur]], a former executive in [[Bechtel]]'s aeronautics division<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>.
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 Airscan had a contract to watch over Chevron's facilities in Cabinda, Angola<ref>Spotlight, Private Security for Pipelines?, ''Africa Energy Intelligence'', 17-November-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>.
 ==Canada==

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	:"Members of the helicopter's crew have said they were fed incorrect co-ordinates by Americans in a surveillance plane operated by AirScan, a security contractor. AirScan has denied an involvement in the attack. A government official said an appeal to the ruling had been filed"<ref>Ruth Morris, Colombia must pay bombed villagers: court, ''The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec''), 27-May-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>.		:"Members of the helicopter's crew have said they were fed incorrect co-ordinates by Americans in a surveillance plane operated by AirScan, a security contractor. AirScan has denied an involvement in the attack. A government official said an appeal to the ruling had been filed"<ref>Ruth Morris, Colombia must pay bombed villagers: court, ''The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec''), 27-May-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>.
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		+	Airscan are also contracted by the US government to locate cocaine field in Colombia as part of the US war against drugs<ref>JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, Outsourcing the Dirty Work; The military and its reliance on hired guns, ''The American Prospect'', May 2003, Accessed 09-December-2009 via Nexis UK</ref>

	==Iraq==		==Iraq==

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−	AirScan is a Florida Based<ref>Pamela Hess, Iraq oil attacked 196 times since war, ''UPI'', 20-January-2005, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref> airborne security and surveilence company based in the United States. The company was founded in 1989 by two retired United States military officers<ref>About Airscan, [http://www.airscan.com/about.html About Us], AirScan.com, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>. Airscan are one of the few private operators of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the world<ref>Spotlight, Private Security for Pipelines?, ''Africa Energy Intelligence'', 17-November-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>. Airscan has a fleet of drones and Cessna 337 aircraft equipped with infrared and radar gear<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>. One of the founders of Airscan is [[John Mansur]], a former executive in [[Bechtel]]'s aeronautics division<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>.	+	[[AirScan]] is a Florida Based<ref>Pamela Hess, Iraq oil attacked 196 times since war, ''UPI'', 20-January-2005, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref> airborne security and surveilence company based in the United States. The company was founded in 1989 by two retired United States military officers<ref>About Airscan, [http://www.airscan.com/about.html About Us], AirScan.com, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>. Airscan are one of the few private operators of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the world<ref>Spotlight, Private Security for Pipelines?, ''Africa Energy Intelligence'', 17-November-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>. Airscan has a fleet of drones and Cessna 337 aircraft equipped with infrared and radar gear<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>. One of the founders of Airscan is [[John Mansur]], a former executive in [[Bechtel]]'s aeronautics division<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>.

	Airscan has several regularly renewed US government contracts including the protection of the area around Cape Canaveral, monitoring certain parts of the United States-Mexican border and detecting cocaine fields in Colombia as part of the U.S. fight against the drugs trade. The firm also works extensively for the oil industry. Ever since 1993 it has been protecting ChevronTexaco's facilities in the Cabinda enclave of Angola. It also has a contract to conduct surveillance on the Cano Limon pipeline in Colombia<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>.		Airscan has several regularly renewed US government contracts including the protection of the area around Cape Canaveral, monitoring certain parts of the United States-Mexican border and detecting cocaine fields in Colombia as part of the U.S. fight against the drugs trade. The firm also works extensively for the oil industry. Ever since 1993 it has been protecting ChevronTexaco's facilities in the Cabinda enclave of Angola. It also has a contract to conduct surveillance on the Cano Limon pipeline in Colombia<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>.

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 :"Erinys was the major security provider, but subcontracted some work to Security Application of Indiana, while Florida's AirScan provided night air surveillance"<ref>Feature Stories, Iraq: Guarding the oil, ''Energy Compass'', 17-December-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>.
-Airscan are contracted for night surveillence of the two main pipelines in Iraq, Kirkuk-Amman and Kirkuk-Ceyhan<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>.
+Airscan are contracted for night surveillence of the two main pipelines in Iraq, Kirkuk-Amman and Kirkuk-Ceyhan<ref>BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND LOBBYING/FIRMS; N. 469, Airscan in Iraq, ''Intelligence Online'', 30-January-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009 via Nexis UK</REF>. The firm also have a $10 million lease contract with the Iraqi government "to provide night air surveillance of the pipeline and oil infrastructure, using low-light television cameras to try to spot and head off saboteurs trying to use the cover of darkness. Under terms of the lease, the Iraqi government has the right to buy the equipment after two years and will then use Iraqi pilots<ref>Jackie Spinner, Iraqi Oil Gets Its Own Police Force; Recruits Defend Against Infrastructure Sabotage, ''Washington Post'', 17-Januray-2004, Accessed 08-December-2009</ref>.
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 In September 2008 Airscan were awarded a further $165 million contract by the US Army for surveillance support services in Iraq<ref>US Fed News, U.S. Army Awards $165 Million Contract to AirScan for Surveillance Support, ''US Fed News'', 13-September-2008, Accessed 08-Decmber-2009 via Nexis UK</ref>.
 ==Affiliations==