NP echoes of Vineland, GR, &etc

[Doug Millison]

Dyncorp In Columbia: Outsourcing The Drug War
Dyncorp, which bills itself as an Internet Technologies corporation
specializing in "Information Systems, Information Technology/Oursourcing and
Technical Services," earns 98 percent of its $2 billion annual revenue from
contracts with the U.S. government. But what do they actually do with the
tax-generated dollars they earn? On the populist ombudsman Web site
CorpWatch.org, Jeremy Bigwood examines how the government wages war with
mercenaries by hiring them through private companies.

According to former U.S. Ambassador to Columbia Myles Frechette, "It's very
handy to have an outfit not part of the U.S. armed forces, obviously. If
someone gets killed or whatever, you can say it's not a member of the armed
forces." Recalling notorious shadow operations in Vietnam, Chile, El
Salvador, and Nicaragua, DynCorp operates armed State Department aircraft
and recruits pilots and technicians, most of whom are former U.S. military
personnel.
--Al Paulson

summary from http://www.utne.com/webwatch/
CorpWatch article at
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/military/featured/2001/dyncorp.html