G4S Secure Solutions
 G4S Secure Solutions      | |
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| Parent organization | G4S Secure Solutions, Group 4 Falck |
| Headquarters | Jupiter, Florida, United States |
| Member of | Defence Manufacturers Association |
| Membership | • John Connolly • Ashley Almanza • Michel van der Bel • Clare Chapman • Elisabeth Fleuriot • Adine Grate • Steve Mogford • John Ramsay • Barbara Thoralfsson • Tim Weller |
The Wackenhut Corporation was a US security company started in 1954. It became a subsidiary of G4S and was later renamed "G4S Secure Solutions".[1]
By 1965, Wackenhut was boasting to potential investors that the company maintained files on 2.5 million suspected dissidents—one in 46 American adults then living. In 1966, after acquiring the private files of Karl Barslaag, a former staff member of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Wackenhut could confidently maintain that with more than 4 million names, it had the largest privately held file on suspected dissidents in America.
Leadership
Early boards of directors included such prominent personalities of the political right as Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, General Mark Clark and Ralph E. Davis, a John Birch Society leader, by the 1990s the board have included much of the country's national-security directorate: former FBI director Clarence Kelley; former Defense secretary and former CIA deputy director Frank Carlucci; former Defense Intelligence Agency director General Joseph Carroll; former U.S. Secret Service director James J. Rowley; former Marine commandant P. X. Kelley; and acting chairman of President Bush's foreign-intelligence advisory board and former CIA deputy director Admiral Bobby Ray Inman. Before his appointment as Reagan's CIA director, the late William Casey was Wackenhut's outside legal counsel.[2]
Subsidiaries
References
- ↑ About Wackenhut, Wackenhut Corporation, accessed 6 September 2009.
- ↑ http://prop1.org/legal/prisons/92wack.htm
