Blackwater Security Consulting

Blackwater Security Consulting (BSC) was a division of Blackwater, an American private security company.[1]

History

BSC was founded in 2002 by Jamie Smith, a vice president of Blackwater USA, alongside Blackwater founder Erik Prince.[2][3]

According to the LinkedIn profile of BSC consultant Chris White, the company's "first assignment was to provide 20 men with top-secret clearances to protect the CIA headquarters and another base that was responsible for hunting Bin Laden."[4]

Personnel

The team at Blackwater Security Consulting was listed anonymously on the company's website.[5]

Name Position Notes
Jamie Smith Founding Director[3:1] Blackwater, SCG International, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)[6]
Brian Berry Director[7] Naval Special Warfare Development Group (SEAL Team 6), United States Department of Energy (DOE), Office of the Secretary of Defense
Steve Babylon Training and Logistics Officer[8] United States Naval Special Warfare Command, Unified Task Force (UNITAF)
Susan McFarlin Personnel Management Officer[8:1] McMurdo Station
Chris White Security Consultant (November 2003-September 2006)[4:1] Aegis Academy, Trident Group, Procinctu Group, United States Navy
Kim Arnold - -
Dana Clements - -

  1. BSC Home. Blackwater Security Consulting. Retrieved September 24, 2002, from https://web.archive.org/web/20020924094525/http://blackwatersecurity.com/ ↩︎

  2. Scahill, J. (2009, August 21). Making Sense Of The Blackwater Connection. CBS News. http://archive.today/2021.08.07-054423/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/making-sense-of-the-blackwater-connection/ ↩︎

  3. Smith, J. (2015). Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy (p. 19). Harper Collins. https://www.amazon.ca/Gray-Work-Confessions-American-Paramilitary/dp/0062271695?asin=0062271695&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1 ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. Chris White. LinkedIn. Retrieved November 15, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.11.15-173355/https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-white-193a0467/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  5. Staff. Blackwater Security Consulting. Retrieved October 15, 2003, from http://archive.today/2003.10.15-043345/http://blackwatersecurity.com/staff.html ↩︎

  6. Black, B. (2010, July 29). Learn how to Gather Intel with SCG International: The Graduate School of Tactical Training. ITS Tactical. https://web.archive.org/web/20230206023953/https://www.itstactical.com/intellicom/tradecraft/learn-how-to-gather-intel-with-scg-international-the-graduate-school-of-tactical-training/ ↩︎

  7. Admin Staff. Blackwater USA. Retrieved October 20, 2002, from https://web.archive.org/web/20021020051502/http://blackwaterusa.com/adminstaff.html ↩︎

  8. Admin Staff. Blackwater Security Consulting. Retrieved April 6, 2004, from http://archive.today/2004.04.06-161715/http://blackwatersecurity.com/adminstaff.html ↩︎ ↩︎

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Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess is a Canadian writer, researcher and investigative reporter focused on issues of human rights and civil liberties, with a particular interest in the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the founder of White Rose Intelligence.

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