Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Cofer Black, former Director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center is a Chairman of a Private Intelligence Company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofer_Black
J. (Joseph) Cofer Black had a distinguished 28-year career in the Directorate of Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency, culminating in his appointment as Director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center (CTC) in June 1999.

Black was the United States Department of State Coordinator for Counterterrorism with the rank of Ambassador at Large from December 2002 to November 2004. The point man for the U.S. government's international counterterrorism policy in the first term of the Bush administration, he resigned shortly after George W. Bush was elected to a second presidential term.

Since February 2005, Black has been Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA, a US-based private security firm. He also heads other private intelligence companies. ie. totalintel.com.

http://www.totalintel.com/dsp_aboutus.php

Black became Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA, a US-based private security firm, in early 2005. Black is also Chairman of Total Intelligence Solutions, a private intelligence gathering group. A merger; Total Intelligence Solutions; Terrorism Research Center, Inc.; Feb. 2007 The Black Group LLC.

In March 2006 Black allegedly suggested at an international conference in Amman, Jordan, that Blackwater USA was ready to move towards providing security professionals up to brigade size for humanitarian efforts and low intensity conflicts. Black denies the allegation. Critics have suggested this may be going too far in putting political decisions in the hands of privately owned corporations. The company denies this was ever said.

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