by Eamon Javers
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Trident Group was first described by the author in “I Spy—for Capitalism,” Business Week, August 13, 2007. It can be found online at www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_33/b4046052.htm.
EPILOGUE: IN FROM THE COLD
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Michael Calderone, “Two WSJ Reporters Launch New Company,” Politico. com, March 23, 2009. Blog available online at http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0309/WSJ_reporters_start_company.html?showall.
“Rock Star: That’s Not Me Drinking on Google,” CNN.com, March 28, 2009.
Searchable Terms
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Abbott, Jim, 112–14
Abramoff, Jack, ix, 283
Abraxas, 44
Adams Express Company, 40–42
Alfa Bank, 5, 16, 21–22
Alfa Group Consortium, 2–3, 3n, 5
Allan Pinkerton (Mackay), 32n, 45
Allied Waste, 168
Alperstein, Leslie, 247, 248
Analysis Corporation, The, xiii
Analysis of intelligence
Arcelor Mittal steel prices, 243–44
political intelligence and, 246–48
USG Corporation stock, 246–47
Verbatim Advisory Group, 243–46
Anderson, Frank, 259
Anderson, Jack, 108–9
Annapolis Group, 167
Arcadia Partners, 185
Arcelor Mittal Company, 243–44
Arthofer, Frank, 149
Astor, John Jacob, 70–71
Attac, 170
Atticus Capital, 26
Audio surveillance, bugging, and wiretaps, 36n, 63–74. See also Broady, John; Shimon, Joseph
commodities trading and, 63
corporate espionage, 69–70
divorce work, 70–71
firms specializing in, 151–52, 160
Hal Lipset and technology, 71–74
as labor intensive, 65
laser microphone, 227
legality of, 132
Manhattan telephone office, 67–71, 69n
members of Congress, 64, 66
NSA global wiretapping, 129
Supreme Court building, 63–64
sweeping for, 102, 235–36
Aviator, The (film), 66n
Background checks, 7, 92–93, 102, 168, 262, 263
Bacon, Sir Ranulph, 105
Bahamas
background checks, 92–93
Britannia Beach Hotel, 100
gambling corruption, 105n
Howard Hughes living in, 100–101
Peloquin and, 92–93, 99n, 101–2, 105n
Shah of Iran in, 101–2
Bailey, Joshiah, 64–65
Baird, Brian, 247–48
Baker, Jamie, 188–89
Baker, Mike, 5, 10–11, 14–15, 18–21, 23–24
Bank of America, 174
Bara, Thomas, 112–13
Bara Hutton Group, 112–13
Barakett, Timothy, 26
Barbour Griffith and Rogers
clients of, 14, 16–17, 21
Diligence and, 5, 8, 14–17, 21, 22
“Project Yucca” and, 22–23
Barrick Gold, 26
Barron’s, 187
Beard, Dita, 108–9
Beckett, Richard, 142, 166, 167
Beckett Brown International
background of operatives, 143–44, 155–56
clients of, 140–41, 167–68
collapse of firm, 166–69
Greenpeace infiltrated by, 141
history of company, 140–43, 143n
John Dodd and, 141–43, 166–67
Nestlé and, 151–69, 161n
surveillance by, 140, 141, 151–52, 155–58, 162–66
Belisle, David, 94
Belova, Natalya, 3n
Benöhr, Johann, 254, 261–64
Bermuda, 1–9, 5n, 22
Bernstein, Carl, 118, 189n
Bertain, William, 131–32
Blackwater (now Xe), 44, 58
Boesky, Ivan, 121, 131, 131n, 134
Boggs, Patton, 152–53, 158
Bonaparte, Charles, 61–62
Bond, James, 270n
Boon, Levi, 34
Booz Allen Hamilton, 44
Bosworth, Stephen, 260
Boycan, Patsy, 179, 188
Boyle, James, 52
Bradlee, Ben, 102
Breach (film), 275n
Brender, Mark, 206, 208
Brennan, John, xii–xiii
Bresett, David, 144
Brewster, Owen, 66
Bristol-Myers, 69, 70
Britain
former elected officials and private-sector investigation, 4, 16
London as spy center, 221–22, 228, 233–34
London surveillance cameras, 239
MI5, ix, x, 2, 7, 11, 234, 235
SIS or MI6, 258, 269
veteran intelligence and military officers in private-sector investigation, ix, x, 2, 4, 7, 11, 105, 221, 234, 235, 258, 269
British Petroleum (BP), 273–74
British Virgin Islands (BVI), 5n
Broady, John, 68–71, 69n
Brown, Art, 259, 260n
Brown, John, 43
Brown Derby, Los Angeles, 95
Buckham, James, 149
Buffett, Warren, 193
Burrough, Bryan, 134
Burrus, Chip, 9
Burt, Gayle, 15, 20
Burt, Richard, 14–16
Burundi, 256–57
Bush, George W., 17, 181, 265
Business Intelligence Advisors (BIA), 173–99
Cascade Investment and, 193–94
CIA and, 173, 179–80, 183, 186, 198–99
founding of, 181, 186
Goldman Sachs and, 191–92
Southwest Airlines analysis, 188–91
undercover operations, 196
UTStarcom analysis, 173–79
Business Week, 123
Cadence Industries, 117–18
Cannistraro, Vincent, 143–44, 144n
Cargo, Bob, 155
Carlson, Don, 186–87, 191, 198, 199
Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C., 66
Carlucci, Frank, 143
Carlyle Group, 4, 16, 140–41, 142–43, 168
Carnegie, Phillips Steel, 56–57, 56n
Carroll, James, 54
Carroll, Phil, 271
Carter, Jimmy, 101, 214
Cascade Investment, LLC, 193–94
Cassidy, Butch, 40
Castro, Fidel, 95–97, 97n
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 255
banking transactions traced by, 129
BIA and, 173, 174, 179–80, 197, 198–99
changes in since 1980s, 10–11
founding of, 62
GeoEye and, 205–6, 217
Hamilton Trading Group and, 274–77
intelligence contractors and, 44, 95
interrogation techniques, 174, 177, 179, 181, 187
Langley headquarters, 144
moonlighting program, 180, 197, 198–99
pay scale, 197–98
plot to assassinate Castro, 95–97, 97n
post-war drug experiments, 281
psychological profiling, 249
TDI and United Arab Emirates, 268
Veracity and, 253, 255–56, 258–59
veterans in private-sector investigation, ix, x, xii–xiii, 2, 4, 5, 10, 16, 128, 143–44, 179, 180, 183, 194, 195, 198, 217, 254, 264–65, 266, 272, 274
Charlie and the Chocolate Fa
ctory (Dahl), 162
Chase, Gary, 190
Cheney, Dick, 140
Chesapeake Strategies, 167
Chevron, 248
China
CNOOC vs. Chevron, 248
political intelligence firms, 248–49
Churchill, Winston, 270n
Citibank, 20
Clinton, Bill, 16, 125, 258, 282
Clorox Company, 110
Cogswell, Stephen, 164
Columbia University, 20
Commodities trading, 63, 128, 208–12, 209n
Control Risks Group, 262
Conversation, The (film), 74
Cook, Cheryl, 186
Coppola, Francis Ford, 74
Corio, Ann, 71, 71n
Cornered at Last (Pinkerton), 39n
Corporate espionage. See also specific companies; specific individuals
analysis of information, 243–51
audio surveillance, bugging, and wiretaps, 63–74, 227–28
background of operatives, x–xi, xii–xiii, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8–9, 10, 16, 74–75, 85, 86–91, 93–94, 110, 112, 124, 128, 143–44, 149, 155–56, 179, 180, 183, 194, 195, 198, 212, 221, 223, 254, 264–65, 266, 272, 274, 283
business model for, 226
chocolate industry, history, 161–62
chocolate wars, 137–40
collapse of Soviet Union and, 114
corporate intelligence firms, 23, 134, 140–41, 198, 224, 226, 253–80 (see also Beckett Brown International; BIA; Hakluyt; Hamilton Trading Group; specific firms; TD International; Trident Group; Veracity)
counterintelligence, 249–51
countersurveillance and, 231–32
customers, typical, 13–14
defensive vs. offensive, 239
Enron energy trading scheme, 17–20
ethics of, xi–xii, 38–39, 56, 82–83, 92–93, 124–25, 130–35, 254, 255, 265, 274–77, 283–84
Foremost-McKesson takeover, 119–20
globalization, xii–xiii, 219, 221–41, 253–80
Hewlett-Packard spying scandal, 4–5
history of capitalism and, 27
insider-trading laws and, 13
“Kroll” and Wall Street, 121–23
leaks and exposure, 9, 69, 74n, 159, 229, 241, 247, 249, 277
Lipset’s investigation of Maris, 76–81
location of firms, xi, 10, 142, 221–22, 233–34, 243, 254–55, 262, 282
number of firms involved in, x
open-source information, 246
Pan American Airways and, 64–65
Pfizer and tetracycline, 69–70
Pinkertons and, 48–55
“Project Yucca,” 1–9
skills of spies in, 13–14, 114
spy satellites, 201–19
surveillance, 221–41
tactical behavior assessment, 173–99
threat assessment, 249–51
typical approach to, example, 11–13
U.S. Congress earmarks and, 159–60
Corporate Risk, 282
Counterintelligence, 249–51
Covington and Burling, 258
Creative Capital, 76–80, 81
Credit Suisse First Boston, 175, 259
Crimes Against Business: A Practical Guide (Kroll, ed.), 118
Crosby, James, 92, 93, 101, 105n, 111
CSX Corporation, 143
Custer Battles, 58
Dahl, Roald, 162, 162n
DaimlerChrysler, 14
Dalgety, PLC, 138, 155
D’Aniello, Daniel, 142–43
Dart, Kenneth, 279–80
Dash, Sam, 63, 63n, 68
Davies, Harry, 45
Davis, Chester, 94, 94n, 95, 99, 101, 103
Davis Polk and Wardwell, 123
Day, Nick, ix–x, 1–10, 11, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 221n
Dearlove, Sir Richard, 258
DeCarlo, Angelo (“Gyp”), 80–81
Deloitte and Touche, 24
Delta Airlines, 14
Deripaska, Oleg, 26
Desert Inn, Las Vegas, 94, 100, 107n
Deutsche Bank, 174
Deutsche Telecom, 262
Devost, Matthew, 282
Diamond International, 119
DiCaprio, Leonardo, 240–41
DigitalGlobe, 204–5, 215, 218
Diligence, LLC, ix–x, 10, 14–27, 258, 282
Dingell, John D., 131–34
Disney, 277
Disney, Walt, 277–78
DLA Piper, 266
Dodd, John, 141–43, 166–69
Donahue, Liam, 185–87
Drexel Burnham Lambert, 121, 122, 131
Dubai, 254, 264–69
Due-diligence investigations, 134, 135, 168, 193–95, 248, 258, 262
Duff, Patricia, 168
Dulles, Allan, 281, 282
Dumpster diving, 154–55
Dunn, Patricia, 5
Durkin, William, 95n
Dyer, Larry, 163–64
Earnest, Peter, 284
Earth Observation Satellite Company (EOSAT), 214
Easton, Maryland, 140, 141, 143, 166–69
Eavesdroppers, The (Dash), 63, 68
Eisner, Eric, 3n
Eisner, Michael, 3n
Eizenstat, Stuart, 258
E-mail, 40, 227, 233
Enright, Guy, 1–9, 24
Enron, 17–20, 266n, 271–72
Eritrea, 17
Esoteric Ltd., 233–40
Ethical issues, xi–xii
countersurveillance and, 232
Hal Lipset and, 82–83
Kroll Associates and, 130–35
loyalty, 254, 255, 265, 274–77
Pinkerton’s principles, 38–39, 56
political espionage, 124–25
political intelligence and, 247–48
privacy issues, 92–93, 217n, 283–84
surveillance and, 239–40
Executive Action, 282
Exxel Group, 20–21
Eye That Never Sleeps, The (Morn), 43
Fairfax Group, 282
Fairfield, Pennsylvania, 86
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
directory of former agents, 112–14
documents passed to from private-sector intelligence, 8–9
Lipset’s investigation of Maris, 76–81
Mafia investigations, 96–97
Maheu, Castro plot, and, 96–97
9/11 attacks investigation, 9
origins, 35n, 62
veterans in private-sector investigation, x, 4, 8–9, 16, 93, 110, 112, 124, 149, 283
Felton, Samuel Morse, 44–45
Ferraro, Bobby, 201–2, 203–4
Finch, Stanley W., 62
Flour Corporation, 271, 271n
Floyd, Mike, 183, 191–92
Fontainbleau Hotel, Miami, 96
Forbes, Steve, 143
Ford, Henry, 102
Foreign Correct Practices Act, 263
Foundation for Electrical Construction, Inc, 135
Fox, Stephen, 255–59
Freeh, Louis, 149
Frick, Hans Peter, 169–70
Frick, Henry Clay, 56–57, 56n
Fridman, Mikhail, 2–3
Frist, Bill, 246–47, 248
Gallagher, Liam, 284
Gallo wine company, 141, 168
Galmond, Jeffrey, 3
Gamble, Mel, 259
Garnett, Charles, 258
Gaston, Gayle, 168
Gates, Bill, 193
Gay, Bill, 94, 95, 99, 101, 106, 107
General Electric (GE), 113
GeoEye, 201–13, 204n, 218
background of employees, 212
clients of, 204, 205–6, 207–8, 215
NextView, 205
overlap with government, 205–6, 216–17
technology of, 207, 207n, 213
GE Pension Trust, 20
Germany, 261–64. See also Benöhr, Johann
BND, 274
corporate spyi
ng scandals, 262
spying on Greenpeace, 272–74
Giancana, Sam, 95, 97n
Gibbons, John, 131–34
GlaxoSmithKline, 14
Globalization of intelligence industry, xii–xiii, 219, 221–41, 253–80, 282–85. See also Benöhr, Johann; Britain; Hakluyt; Hamilton Trading Group; TD International; Trident Group
Global Security Services, 167
Goldman Sachs, 187, 191–92
Goldsmith, Sir James, 119
Google
GoogleEarth, 204, 215
Maps, 217, 217n
Street View, 284
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 280
Gowen, Franklin, 49–50, 54–55
Graham, Katharine, 102
Green, William, 266
Greenhow, “Rebel Rose,” 281
Greenpeace, 141, 254, 272–74
Griffin, Merv, 86
Gris, Charles, 69n
Hachette Publishers, 128
Haddad, William, 151n
Hakluyt, Richard, 270
Hakluyt and Company, 222, 254, 269–74, 269n
Halliburton, 168
Hamilton Trading Group, 254, 274–77
Hammett, Dashiell, 39n, 123
Hanssen, Robert, 275, 275n, 281
Hawthorn Group, 151–52, 161
Hawx (video game), 207n
Healy, Jim, 110
Hedge funds, 114
analysts for, 244, 245–46
political intelligence firms and, 247–49
TBA used by, 173–99
Hewlett-Packard (HP), 4–5
Hillhouse, Raelynn, 280
Hilton London Green Park hotel, 221
Hoax, The (film), 103
Hoffa, Jimmy, 74n
Holmes, Sir Peter, 270
Holt, Patricia, 74–75, 82
Hoover, Herbert, 94
Hoover, J. Edgar, 74n, 102
Horan, James, 49
Hougan, Jim, 99
Houston, Phil, 181, 183, 184, 185–87, 191–92
Howard, Michael, 4, 16
HSBC Holding, 269
Hubbard, William, 149
Hughes, Howard, 65, 66n, 85, 86, 94–108, 94n, 95n, 109, 110
Hughes Aircraft Company, 98, 214
Hundley, Bill, 91, 91n, 92
Hussein, Saddam, 126–27
ImageSat, 218–19
INSEAD MBA, 257
Intelligence contractors, x, xiii, 44, 58, 97n. See also private investigators (private eyes); specific firms
Anti-Pinkerton Act and, 58
connections with U.S. government intelligence, 85–101
government clients, 43–48
Intelligence Online, 135, 255
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 93
International Intelligence (Intertel), 85–111, 123. See also Peloquin, Robert
clients of, 110
Clifford Irving hoax, 103–5, 103n
creation of, 93
development of technology, 110