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The [[Wackenhut Corporation]] was a US security company started in 1954. It became a subsidiary of [[G4S]] and was later renamed "G4S Secure Solutions".<ref>[http://www.g4s.com/usw/usw-about_wackenhut.htm About Wackenhut], Wackenhut Corporation, accessed 6 September 2009.</ref>
 
The [[Wackenhut Corporation]] was a US security company started in 1954. It became a subsidiary of [[G4S]] and was later renamed "G4S Secure Solutions".<ref>[http://www.g4s.com/usw/usw-about_wackenhut.htm About Wackenhut], Wackenhut Corporation, accessed 6 September 2009.</ref>
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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.
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==Leadership==
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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. Kelle]]y; and acting chairman of [[GHWB|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.<ref>http://prop1.org/legal/prisons/92wack.htm</ref>
 
==Subsidiaries==
 
==Subsidiaries==
 
[[ArmorGroup North America]]
 
[[ArmorGroup North America]]

Revision as of 22:31, 18 October 2020

Group.png G4S Secure Solutions   Sourcewatch WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
G4S.svg
Parent organizationG4S Secure Solutions, Group 4 Falck
HeadquartersJupiter, Florida, United States
Member ofDefence 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

ArmorGroup North America

References

  1. About Wackenhut, Wackenhut Corporation, accessed 6 September 2009.
  2. http://prop1.org/legal/prisons/92wack.htm


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