Keenie Meenie Services
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Also known as Keenie Meenie Services.
- Formed in 1974 as a subsidiary of Control Risks by a former SAS officer, Major David Walker, its brief was to win government contracts for security work. In 1977 Walker staged a management buyout and took control. He was joined by Colonel Jim Johnson who had managed the Yemen operation for David Stirling and the company base was moved to Jersey.[1].
KMS's first major contract was training the Sultan of Oman's special forces. In 1983, the company was hired to train Sri Lankan forces fighting the Tamil Tigers. In 1987, the discovery of a flow chart prepared by Oliver North proved the company's involvement in the Iran-Contra affair.
- That June, Walker and Johnson handed over the day-to-day running of KMS to two former SAS officers, and much of the work was passed to a subsidiary company based in London. From time to time during 1987, other stories surfaced about KMS, alleging that they were training the guerrillas in Afghanistan at the behest of the CIA. [2]
