. 。 But by early 2008, Blackwater had largely receded from the headlines save for the occasional blip on the media radar sparked by Congressman Henry Waxman’s ongoing investigations into its activities.但由2008年年初，黑水已大致消退，从标题储存偶尔位置亮点，对媒体的雷达所引发的众议员亨利韦克斯曼的正在进行的调查纳入其活动。 Its forces remained deployed in其部队仍然部署在 Iraq伊拉克 and和

Blackwater’s 黑水的

Such an arrangement could find Blackwater operating in an arena with the godfathers of the war industry, such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon. 这样的安排可以找到黑水经营的舞台，与契爷的战争工业，如洛克希德马丁公司，诺斯罗普格鲁曼和雷声公司。 It could also see Blackwater expanding into 它也可以看到黑水扩展到

As populist movements grow stronger in 作为民粹主义运动的壮大，在

If there is one quality that is evident from examining Blackwater’s business history, it is the company’s ability to take advantage of emerging war and conflict markets. 如果有一个质量是显而易见的，由审查黑水的商业历史，这是该公司的能力，充分发挥各种新兴的战争和冲突的市场。 Throughout the decade of Blackwater’s existence, its creator, Erik Prince, has aggressively built his empire into a structure paralleling the US national security apparatus. 在整个十年的黑水的存在，它的创始人埃里克王子，一直积极兴建他的帝国成为一个结构并联美国国家安全器具。 “Prince wants to vault Blackwater into the major leagues of US military contracting, taking advantage of the movement to privatize all kinds of government security,” reported the Wall Street Journal shortly after Nisour Square. “王子要跳马黑水到美国职棒大联盟美国的军事承包，趁运动私有化的各种政府安全” ，报华尔街日报后不久， nisour平方米。 “The company wants to be a one-stop shop for the US government on missions to which it won’t commit American forces. “该公司希望成为一个一站式美国政府代表团，它不会承诺美国部队。 This is a niche with few established competitors.” 这是一个利基与数既定的竞争对手“ 。

In addition to providing armed forces for war and conflict zones and a wide range of military and police training services, Blackwater does a robust, multimillion-dollar business through its aviation division. 除了为病人提供武装部队的战争和冲突的地区和范围广泛的军事和警察培训服务，黑水是否强劲，数百万美元的业务通过其航空记名表决。 It also has a growing maritime division and other national and international initiatives. 它也有越来越多的海上司和其他国家和国际行动。 Among these, Blackwater is in Japan, where its forces protect the US ballistic missile defense system, which, according to Stars and Stripes, “points high-powered radio waves westward toward mainland Asia to hunt for enemy missiles headed east toward America or its allies.” Meanwhile, early this year, Defense News reported, “Blackwater is training members of the Taiwanese National Security Bureau’s (NSB’s) special protection service, which guards the president. 其中，黑水是在日本，其力量保护美国的弹道导弹防御系统，其中，根据颗星和条纹， “点，高功率的无线电波向西对亚洲大陆，以追捕的敌方导弹，为首的东亚对美国或其盟国“同时，今年年初，国防新闻报道， ”黑水是训练的成员，台湾国家安全局（国安局）的特别保护，服务，看守总统。 The NSB is responsible for the overall security of the country and was once an instrument of terrorism during the martial law period. 国安局是负责整体国家安全和曾经是一个工具，恐怖主义在戒严时期。 Today, according to its Web site, the NSB is responsible for ‘national intelligence work, special protective service and unified cryptography.’” Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto reportedly tried to hire Blackwater to protect her as she campaigned for the presidency in 2007. 今天，根据在其网站上，国安局是负责国家情报工作，特别保护的服务和统一的加密技术。 “巴基斯坦前总理贝布托据报道，试图聘请黑水，以保护她，因为她竞选总统在2007年。 Conflicting reports indicated that either the US State Department or the Pakistani government vetoed the plan. 冲突的报告指出，无论是美国国务院或巴基斯坦政府否决了这一计划。 She was assassinated in December. 她被暗杀的12月。

What could prove to be one of Blackwater’s most profitable and enduring enterprises is one of the company’s most secretive initiatives — a move into the world of privatized intelligence services. 有什么可以证明之一黑水的最有利可图的和持久的企业之一，该公司的最隐秘的倡议-走向世界的私有化情报服务。 In April 2006, Prince quietly began building Total Intelligence Solutions, which boasts that it “brings CIA-style” services to the open market for Fortune 500 companies. 在2006年4月，王子悄悄地开始建设，总智能解决方案，拥有它“带来了美国中央情报局式”服务，以开放的市场，为财富500强公司。 Among its offerings are “surveillance and countersurveillance, deployed intelligence collection, and rapid safeguarding of employees or other key assets.” 其产品是“监视和countersurveillance ，部署了情报的收集，维护和快速的雇员或其他关键资产” 。

As the United States finds itself in the midst of the most radical privatization agenda in its history, few areas have seen as dramatic a transformation to privatized services as the world of intelligence. 由于美国发现自己在中最激进的私有化议程在其历史上，少数地区已被视为戏剧性的转变，以私营化服务作为世界的情报。 “This is the magnet now. “这是磁铁现在。 Everything is being attracted to these private companies in terms of individuals and expertise and functions that were normally done by the intelligence community,” says former CIA division chief and senior analyst Melvin Goodman. 一切都被吸引到这些私营公司而言，个人和专业知识的职能，通常所做的情报界，说： “中情局前部和行政的高级分析师梅尔文古德曼。 “My major concern is the lack of accountability, the lack of responsibility. “ 我的主要关切是缺乏问责，缺乏责任。 The entire industry is essentially out of control. 整个行业基本上是失去控制。 It’s outrageous.” 它的离谱“ 。

Last year RJ Hillhouse, a blogger who investigates the clandestine world of private contractors and US intelligence, obtained documents from the office of the Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI) showing that Washington spends some $42 billion annually on private intelligence contractors, up from $17.5 billion in 2000. 去年的RJ hillhouse ，一个Blogger谁调查的秘密世界的私人承包商和美国的情报，获得了文件，从办公室的首长，国家情报（ DNI ）的显示，华盛顿的一些花费420亿美元，每年对私人情报承办，由一百七十五亿元在2000年。 That means 70 percent of the US intelligence budget is going to private companies. 这意味着70 ％的美国情报预算案是去私人公司。 Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that the head of DNI is Mike McConnell, the former chair of the board of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the private intelligence industry’s trade association. 也许，这是毫不奇怪，那么，首长达创科技是麦克。麦克柯奈尔，前董事会主席的情报和国家安全联盟，私营情报业的行业协会。

Total Intelligence, which opened for business in February 2007, is a fusion of three entities bought up by Prince: the Terrorism Research Center, Technical Defense and The Black Group — Blackwater vice chair Cofer Black’s consulting agency. 总的情报，其中开业于2007年2月，是一个融合的三个实体收购了王子：恐怖主义研究中心，技术国防和黑色集团 -黑水副主席科弗布莱克的咨询机构。 The company’s leadership reads like a Who’s Who of the CIA’s “war on terror” operations after 9/11. 该公司的领导，读起来就像一谁是谁的中央情报局的“反恐战争”行动后， 9 / 11 。 In addition to the twenty-eight-year CIA veteran Black, who is chair of Total Intelligence, the company’s executives include CEO Robert Richer, the former associate deputy director of the agency’s Directorate of Operations and the second-ranking official in charge of clandestine operations. 此外，到28年的CIA官员黑，谁是主持会议的总的情报，该公司的行政人员，包括行政总裁罗伯特丰富，前副副主任，该机构的首长级人员的行动和第二级别的官员在负责秘密行动。 From 1999 to 2004, Richer was head of the CIA’s Near East and South Asia Division, where he ran clandestine operations throughout the Middle East and South Asia. 从1999年至2004年，更丰富的任中央情报局的近东和南亚司，他在那里然的秘密行动，在整个中东和南亚。 As part of his duties, he was the CIA liaison with Jordan’s King Abdullah, a key US ally and Blackwater client, and briefed George W. Bush on the burgeoning Iraqi resistance in its early stages. 的一部分，他的职责，他是美国中央情报局的联络与约旦国王阿卜杜拉，美国的重要盟友和黑水客户端，并介绍了布什总统对新兴的伊拉克抵抗力量在其早期阶段。

Total Intelligence’s chief operating officer is Enrique “Ric” Prado, a twenty-four-year CIA veteran and former senior executive officer in the Directorate of Operations. 总情报的首席营运官是恩里克“ 。 Ric ”普拉多， 24年的CIA官员和前高级行政主任，在首长的行动。 He spent more than a decade working in the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center and ten years with the CIA’s “paramilitary” Special Operations Group. 他花了十年以上的工作，在中情局的反恐中心和十年与中央情报局的“准军事”特别行动小组。 Prado and Black worked closely at the CIA. 普拉多和黑色密切合作，在中央情报局。 Prado also served in Latin America with Jose Rodriguez, who gained infamy late last year after it was revealed that as director of the National Clandestine Service at the CIA he was allegedly responsible for destroying videotapes of interrogations of prisoners, during which “enhanced interrogation techniques,” including waterboarding, were reportedly used. 普拉多也曾任职于拉丁美洲与何塞罗德里格斯，谁取得的耻辱去年年底后，据透露，作为主任的国家秘密的服务在CIA据称，他负责销毁录像带，盘问的囚犯，在此期间“强化审讯技术， “包括waterboarding ，据报被人使用。 Richer told the New York Times he recalled many conversations with Rodriguez, about the tapes. 丰富的告诉纽约时报 ，他回顾了太多的交谈与罗德里格斯，有关录音带。 “He would always say, ‘I’m not going to let my people get nailed for something they were ordered to do,’” Richer said of his former boss. “他总是说， '我不想让我的人民获得钉的东西，他们被勒令做， ”丰富的说，他的前任老板。 Before the scandal, there were reports that Blackwater had been “aggressively recruiting” Rodriguez. 之前的丑闻，有报道说黑水已“积极招募”罗德里格斯。 He has since retired from the CIA. 他退休以来，从中情局。

The leadership of Total Intelligence also includes Craig Johnson, a twenty-seven-year CIA officer who specialized in Central and South America, and Caleb “Cal” Temple, who joined the company straight out of the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he served from 2004 to ‘06 as chief of the Office of Intelligence Operations in the Joint Intelligence Task Force — Combating Terrorism. 领导总情报还包括克雷格约翰逊， 27年的美国中央情报局人员，谁专门在中美洲和南美洲，和， Caleb “华航”庙，谁加盟该公司，直接的国防情报局，在那里他从2004年到2006年，作为办公室主任的情报行动中，联合情报专责小组-打击恐怖主义。 According to his Total Intelligence bio, Temple directed the “DIA’s 24/7 analytic terrorism target development and other counterterrorism intelligence activities in support of military operations worldwide. 据他总情报生物，庙指示 “ 直径的24 / 7解析恐怖主义的目标，发展和其他反恐怖情报活动，以支持世界各地的军事行动。 He also oversaw 24/7 global counterterrorism indications and warning analysis for the US Defense Department.” The company also boasts officials drawn from the Drug Enforcement Agency and the FBI. 他还主持24 / 7迹象显示，全球反恐和预警分析，为美国国防部“该公司还拥有官员取自缉毒机构和联邦调查局。

Total Intelligence is run out of an office on the ninth floor of a building in the Ballston area of Arlington, Virginia. 总的情报是一发不可收拾的办公室，九楼的建筑物，在ballston领域的弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿。 Its “Global Fusion Center,” complete with large-screen TVs broadcasting international news channels and computer stations staffed by analysts surfing the web, “operates around the clock every day of the year” and is modeled after the CIA’s counterterrorist center, once run by Black. 其“全球融合中心” ，完成与大屏幕电视广播的国际新闻频道和计算机站的工作人员分析家网上冲浪， “运作围绕时钟，每天的一年” ，是仿照后，中情局的反恐中心，一旦运行由黑色。 The firm employs at least sixty-five full-time staff — some estimates say it’s closer to 100. 该公司雇用了至少65全职工作人员-有人估计说，它的接近1 00。 “Total Intel brings the…skills traditionally honed by CIA operatives directly to the board room,” Black said when the company launched. “总英特尔带来了…技能，磨练了由传统的美国中央情报局特工直接向董事局会议室， ”黑色时说，该公司推出的。 “With a service like this, CEOs and their security personnel will be able to respond to threats quickly and confidently — whether it’s determining which city is safest to open a new plant in or working to keep employees out of harm’s way after a terrorist attack.” “与服务这样， CEO和他们的保安人员将能够威胁作出反应迅速，满怀信心地-不管它是决定哪个城市是最安全的打开一个新厂，或工作，以让员工走出伤害的方式后，恐怖袭击“ 。

Black insists, “This is a completely legal enterprise. 黑色坚持， “这是一个完全合法的企业。 We break no laws. 我们打破没有法律。 We don’t go anywhere near breaking laws. 我们没有去任何地方附近违法。 We don’t have to.” But what services Total Intelligence is providing, and to whom, is shrouded in secrecy. 我们不一定要“ ，但什么服务，共提供情报，及向谁，是笼罩在保密的。 It is clear, though, that the company is leveraging the reputations and inside connections of its executives. 很明显，虽然，该公司正在利用的声誉和内连接其高管。 “Cofer can open doors,” Richer told the Washington Post in 2007. “科弗可以打开门， ”丰富的告诉华盛顿邮报在2007年。 “I can open doors. “我可以打开大门。 We can generally get in to see who we need to see. 我们一般都可以得到的，看看谁，我们需要看到的。 We don’t help pay bribes. 我们不帮助支付受贿罪。 We do everything within the law, but we can deal with the right minister or person.” Black told the paper he and Richer spend a lot of their time traveling. 我们尽一切法律，但我们可以处理的权利，部长或个人。 “黑告诉他的文件和更丰富的花费很多的时间旅行。 “I am discreet in where I go and who I see. “我很谨慎，在那里我去和谁我明白了。 I spend most of my time dealing with senior people in governments, making connections.” But it is clear that the existing connections from the former spooks’ time at the agency have brought business to Total Intelligence. 我花了我的大部分时间处理与高级人民的政府，使连接。 “但很明显，现有的连接由前spooks时间，在该机构带来业务的总情报。

Take the case of Jordan. 采取案件约旦。 For years, Richer worked closely with King Abdullah, as his CIA liaison. 多年以来，丰富的工作，密切与约旦国王阿卜杜拉，因为他的美国中央情报局的联络工作。 As journalist Ken Silverstein reported, “The CIA has lavishly subsidized Jordan’s intelligence service, and has sent millions of dollars in recent years for intelligence training. 作为记者肯西尔弗斯坦报道， “美国中央情报局lavishly资助约旦的情报服务，并派出了数百万美元的近年来的情报训练。 After Richer retired, sources say, he helped Blackwater land a lucrative deal with the Jordanian government to provide the same sort of training offered by the CIA. 之后，丰富的退休，消息人士说，他帮助黑水土地有利可图的处理与约旦政府提供相同形式的培训所提供的中央情报局。 Millions of dollars that the CIA ‘invested’ in Jordan walked out the door with Richer — if this were a movie, it would be a cross between Jerry Maguire and Syriana. 以百万元计的说，中情局'投资'在约旦走出大门，与丰富的-如果是这样的一部电影，这将是一个两岸之间的杰里马圭尔和辛瑞纳。 ‘People [at the agency] are pissed off,’ said one source. '人[在该机构] pissed小康， '说的来源之一。 ‘Abdullah still speaks with Richer regularly, and he thinks that’s the same thing as talking to us. '阿卜杜拉仍操与丰富的定期，他认为的同样的事情作为谈给我们。 He thinks Richer is still the man.’ Except in this case it’s Richer, not his client, yelling ’show me the money.’” 他认为，丰富的仍是该名男子。除外，在这种情况下的富裕，不是他的客户端，大喊'显示我的钱“ 。

In a 2007 interview on the cable business network CNBC, Black was brought on as an analyst to discuss “investing in Jordan.” At no point in the interview was Black identified as working for the Jordanian government. 在2007年接受采访时电缆的业务网络， CNBC的，黑色是带来了对作为一个分析师，讨论“投资在约旦。 ”在任何一点在采访中被确定为黑色工作，为约旦政府。 Total Intelligence was described as “a corporate consulting firm that includes investment strategy,” while “Ambassador Black” was introduced as “a twenty-eight-year veteran of the CIA,” the “top counterterror guy” and “a key planner for the breathtakingly rapid victory of American forces that toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan.” Black heaped lavish praise on Jordan and its monarchy. 总的情报被形容为“企业咨询公司，其中包括投资策略” ，而“大使黑 ” 介绍了“ 28年，经验丰富的美国中央情报局” ， “ 顶端反恐家伙”和 “ 一个关键规划为breathtakingly快速的胜利，美国军队推翻阿富汗的塔利班。 “黑堆的盛情赞誉对约旦和它的君主立宪制。 “You have leadership, King Abdullah, His Majesty King Abdullah, who is certainly kind towards investors, very protective,” Black said. “你的领导下，约旦国王阿卜杜拉，阿卜杜拉国王陛下，谁肯定是一种对投资者，非常注重保护， ”布莱克说。 “Jordan is, in our view, a very good investment. “约旦是，在我们看来，一个很好的投资。 There are some exceptional values there.” He said Jordan is in a region where there are “numerous commodities that are being produced and doing well.” 也有一些例外值。他说： “ 约旦是在这个区域里有”许多商品正在制作和做好“ 。

With no hint of the brutality behind the exodus, Black argued that the flood of Iraqi refugees fleeing the violence of the US occupation was good for potential investors in Jordan. 没有味道的残酷性背后的外流，黑色认为，泛滥的伊拉克难民逃离暴力的美国占领是好的，为潜在的投资者在约旦。 “We get something like 600 - 700,000 Iraqis that have moved from Iraq into Jordan that require cement, furniture, housing and the like. “我们得到的东西一样， 600 -7 00000伊拉克人已经提出的从伊拉克到约旦的需要水泥，家具，房屋等。 So it is a — it is an island of growth and potential, certainly in that immediate area. 因此，这是一个-它是一个岛屿的增长和潜力，当然在这方面立即地区。 So it looks good,” he said. 因此，看起来很不错， “他说。 “There are opportunities for investment. “有投资机会。 It is not all bad. 这是不是全是坏事。 Sometimes Americans need to watch a little less TV. 有时美国人需要观赏少电视。 … But there is — there is opportunity in everything. … …但有-有机会在一切。 That’s why you need situation awareness, and that’s one of the things that our company does. 这就是为什么你需要的情况的认识，并且的事情之一，我们的公司。 It provides the kinds of intelligence and insight to provide situational awareness so you can make the best investments.” 它提供的各种情报和有识之士提供态势感知，这样您可以做出的最佳投资“ 。

Black and other Total Intelligence executives have turned their CIA careers, reputations, contacts and connections into business opportunities. 黑人和其他共计情报首长已经把他们的美国中央情报局的职业，图虚名，接触和联系到的商机。 What they once did for the US government, they now do for private interests. 他们一次也没有为美国政府，他们现在做的私人利益。 It is not difficult to imagine clients feeling as though they are essentially hiring the US government to serve their own interests. 这是不是很难想象，客户的感觉，虽然他们基本上是租用美国政府自己的利益服务。 In 2007 Richer told the Post that now that he is in the private sector, foreign military officials and others are more willing to give him information than they were when he was with the CIA. 在2007年丰富的告诉邮报说，现在，他是在私营部门，外国军事官员和其他人更愿意给他的资料，比他们当他与中央情报局。 Richer recalled a conversation with a foreign general during which he was surprised at the potentially “classified” information the general revealed. 丰富的回顾一个会话与外国一般，期间他感到惊讶，在潜在的“机密”资料显示，一般。 When Richer asked why the general was giving him the information, he said the general responded, “If I tell it to an embassy official I’ve created espionage. 当丰富的问，为什么一般是给他信息，他说，一般的回应， “如果我告诉它，以1大使馆官员我已经建立了间谍活动。 You’re a business partner.” 您的商业伙伴“ 。

In May, Erik Prince gave a speech in front of his family and supporters in his home state of Michigan. 今年5月，埃里克王子发表演讲，介绍了在前面的他的家人和支持者在他的家乡密歇根州。 Security was extremely tight, and Blackwater barred cameras and tape recorders from the event. 安全是非常紧绌，黑水禁止摄像机和录音机从事件。 “The idea that we are a secretive facility, and nefarious, is just ridiculous,” Prince told the friendly crowd of 750 gathered at the Amway Grand Plaza. “的想法，我们是一个秘密设施，和邪恶的，只是可笑， ”王子说，友好的人群750人聚集在安利大广场。 In Iraq, Blackwater has banked on the idea that it is a sort of American Express card for the occupation. 在伊拉克，黑水已兑现的对的想法，这是一种美国运通卡为占领。 But for the future, Prince has a different corporate model, as he indicated in his speech. 但对于未来，王子有不同的企业模式，他表示，在他的演辞。 “When you send something overseas, do you use FedEx or the postal service?” he asked. “ 当您传送一些海外，你使用联邦快递或邮政服务？ ”他问。

There are serious problems with this analogy. 有严重的问题，与这个比喻。 When you send something by FedEx, you can track your package and account for its whereabouts at all times. 当您传送一些联邦快递，您就可以追踪您的包裹和帐户供其下落，在任何时候。 You can have your package insured against loss or damage. 您可以有您的包裹被保险人对损失或损害。 That has not been the case with Blackwater. 认为情况并非如此，与黑水。 The people who foot the sizable bill for its “services” almost never know, until it is too late, what Blackwater is doing, and there are apparently no consequences for Blackwater when things go lethally wrong. 人民的谁买单可观的条例草案，供其“服务” ，几乎永远都不会知道，直到它是太迟了，什么黑水正在做，并且有显然没有后果黑水时，致死的事情是错的。 “We are essentially a robust temp agency,” Prince told his fans in Michigan. “我们基本上是一个强劲的气温机构， ”王子说，他的歌迷在密歇根州。 He’s right about that one. 他的权利，约一。 A temp agency serving the most radical privatization agenda in history. 1气温机构服务的最激进的私有化议程的历史。

Jeremy Scahill is the author of the international bestseller, 杰里米斯卡希尔是作者的国际畅销书， Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army 黑水：崛起的世界上最强大的军队，雇佣军 , which has just been released in updated paperback form. ，刚刚被释放，在更新的平装本的形式。

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