Dirty Tricks, Inc.: The DynCorp-Government
Connection
by Uri Dowbenko
Organized White-Collar Crime is the absolute
essence of Mega-Corporate-Government Business.
As Jim Hougan wrote in his landmark book,
Spooks: The Haunting of America - The Private Use of Secret Agents,
"With their cultural and career investments in upholding the stereotype
of the Mafia as the vehicle of organized crime, the public and
the press have generally failed to grasp the felonious nature
of the outfit's WASP counterparts on the Big Board. Whereas some
petty hoodlums put out contracts on individuals, the multinationals
have begun to place contracts on entire countries (for example,
ITT versus Chile). With that difference, their operational styles
are similar: offshore laundries used to wash bribes paid in clandestine
support of a sales effort designed to create and satisfy the potentially
lethal addictions of their would be customers. Whether the product
is heroin or Starfighter jets, the result is often the same: profits
that corrupt and impoverish… In short it appears that some multinationals
had evolved into genuinely criminal enterprises." (p. 441)
Likewise, outsourcing State Terrorism is
the fastest growing segment of the US Government market. In fact,
white-collar criminal activities, like Federal IT, or Information
Technology, which involves "privatizing" the financial database
management of government agencies, accounts for some of the most
lucrative contracts available anywhere on earth.
The practice of privatizing (using private
companies for government work) has been long exploited by the
CIA and the Pentagon, who like to use proxies, like contractors
or mercenaries, to fight their covert wars. The benefits for federal
agencies include "plausible deniability" with respect to assassination
and drug trafficking, as well as the ability to bypass the Military
Code of Honor and the accords of the Geneva Convention, which
hold "official" combatants to a different standard. In other words,
by privatizing "dirty tricks," a federal agency cannot be held
liable to the standards one would expect of, well, the US Government.
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