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Giraldi is a former employee of [[Beckett Brown International]], a private security firm that operated between 1995 and 2001. | Giraldi is a former employee of [[Beckett Brown International]], a private security firm that operated between 1995 and 2001. | ||
| − | :According to Giraldi, there was not a lot of work for him and [[Vincent Cannistraro|Cannistraro]]. "We would go to a company like Enron and see if they had any issues if they were looking to acquire a company," he recalled. "See if the [company to be acquired] is connected to the Russia mob. That's what we were selling. We were not very successful." Giraldi left the firm in 1999. By then, he had become aware of the firm's more unconventional activities: "Scooping garbage, trying to get penetrations of companies and environmental groups. I didn't know a lot of the details." But, he says, he knew BBI was "working on Greenpeace."<ref>[http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/04/firm-spied-on-environmental-groups-2.html Exclusive: Cops and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups], by James Ridgeway, Mother Jones, 11 April 2008.</ref> | + | :According to Giraldi, there was not a lot of work for him and [[Vincent Cannistraro|Cannistraro]]. "We would go to a company like [[Enron]] and see if they had any issues if they were looking to acquire a company," he recalled. "See if the [company to be acquired] is connected to the Russia mob. That's what we were selling. We were not very successful." Giraldi left the firm in 1999. By then, he had become aware of the firm's more unconventional activities: "Scooping garbage, trying to get penetrations of companies and environmental groups. I didn't know a lot of the details." But, he says, he knew BBI was "working on Greenpeace."<ref>[http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/04/firm-spied-on-environmental-groups-2.html Exclusive: Cops and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups], by James Ridgeway, Mother Jones, 11 April 2008.</ref> |
==External Resources== | ==External Resources== | ||
Latest revision as of 13:49, 3 February 2009
Former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and CIA officer and columnist for Antiwar.com Philip Giraldi spent three years in Turkey with the CIA.[1]
Beckett Brown International
Giraldi is a former employee of Beckett Brown International, a private security firm that operated between 1995 and 2001.
- According to Giraldi, there was not a lot of work for him and Cannistraro. "We would go to a company like Enron and see if they had any issues if they were looking to acquire a company," he recalled. "See if the [company to be acquired] is connected to the Russia mob. That's what we were selling. We were not very successful." Giraldi left the firm in 1999. By then, he had become aware of the firm's more unconventional activities: "Scooping garbage, trying to get penetrations of companies and environmental groups. I didn't know a lot of the details." But, he says, he knew BBI was "working on Greenpeace."[2]
External Resources
- Philip Giraldi - Cooperative Research History Commons profile
- Philip Giraldi - Namebase bibliography.
References
- ↑ Charles Goyette Interviews Philip Giraldi, Antiwar.com, 13 May 2008.
- ↑ Exclusive: Cops and Former Secret Service Agents Ran Black Ops on Green Groups, by James Ridgeway, Mother Jones, 11 April 2008.
