Little jeremiah said:
Bottom part of 1231 drop. I wish I knew what it meant. Blackwater USA?
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We aim to please, little jeremiah!
I searched the Swordmaker List (Qompendium) and was surprise not to see neither Blackwater nor Erik Prince there! (It’s getting pretty vast!) He does show up under Betsy DeVoss. Perhaps now both Blackwater and Erik Prince might deserve their own listing?
In a nut shell:
BLACKWATER is a private security organization.... some might call them Mercs. It was founded by Erik Prince. He is a former Navy Seal. His sister is Betsy DeVoss.
At some point his company provided services for CIA. Was involved in Trump transition, thought to have helped Trump obtain a back channel for communication with Russia/Putin. At some point Blackwater was involved in providing security services to the United Arab Emirates.
Blackwater is now known as “Academi” after Prince sold it.
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Documentation for the above assertions were located here:
BLACKWATER/ ACADEMI/ ERIK PRINCE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi
This above link yields:
Academi
Type
Private
Industry
Private security services contractor
Founded
1997; 21 years ago
North Carolina, U.S.
Founders
Erik Prince
Al Clark
Headquarters
12018 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 140, Reston, Virginia, U.S.[1]
38.948389°N 77.361806°W
Coordinates: 38.948389°N 77.361806°W
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Craig Nixon
Products
Law enforcement training, logistics, close quarter training, and security services
Services
Security management, full-service risk management consulting
Parent
Constellis
Website
www.academi.com
Academi is an American private military company founded in 1997 by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince[2][3] as Blackwater,[4] renamed as Xe Services in 2009 and now known as Academi since 2011 after the company was acquired by a group of private investors.[5] The company received widespread notoriety in 2007, when a group of its employees were convicted of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square, Baghdad for which four guards were convicted in a U.S. court.
Academi provides security services to the United States federal government on a contractual basis. Since 2003, the group has provided services to the Central Intelligence Agency, including a 2010 contract for $250 million.[8] In 2013, Academi subsidiary International Development Solutions received an approximately $92 million contract for State Department security guards….”
ALSO FOUND:
Link with a bunch stories about Prince and Blackwater:
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/company/blackwater-worldwide
[I did not climb very deep into that particular rabbit hole, but am documenting the link here.]
Prince may have been assisting Trump in establishing a back channel for communicating with Putin/Russia
ALSO FOUND:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince
Link yields:
Prince currently heads the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group and is chairman of Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group Ltd. He is the brother of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
At some point he was involved in the private security for United Arab Emirates.
Link also explains:
“Ties to Trump transition[edit]
In 2016 Prince supported Republican candidate Donald Trump for President of the United States. Prince had no formal role in Trump’s transition. In December 2016 Prince visited the transition team offices in New York City. In April 2017 as part of a broader investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a January 11, 2017 meeting in the Seychelles at which Prince presented himself as an unofficial representative of Trump.”
ThankQ!
Actually, TexOkie, Erik Prince is there, but the source material spelled his first name as "Erick". I've just corrected that. I should learn not to take spelling from the MSM. They get it wrong half the time. LOL!
Erik Prince and Blackwater are there also under the Betsy DeVos entry under the usage of Q as Betsy D, and in the body of explanation of Betsy DeVos. You won't find her with two S's though. I made that mistake when I was first looking her up. It's a natural mistake to make, but it's the Dutch spelling. One S.
Blackwater is mentioned, but only in a side note in Erik Prince's and Betsy DeVos's entries because Q had not yet mentioned it. I'm adding an entry today.
I found I did not have a separate entry for Prince Alwaleed and he is an important enough player to rate one of his own, so he gets one as of today.
I wonder what connection Craig Nixon of Academi has to Agnes, Sarah, Mary, and Maggie Nixon? That surname is popping up a lot lately. . . and it is NOT a common name.
Actually, TexOkie, Erik Prince is there, but the source material spelled his first name as "Erick". I've just corrected that. I should learn not to take spelling from the MSM. They get it wrong half the time. LOL!
Erik Prince and Blackwater are there also under the Betsy DeVos entry under the usage of Q as Betsy D, and in the body of explanation of Betsy DeVos. You won't find her with two S's though. I made that mistake when I was first looking her up. It's a natural mistake to make, but it's the Dutch spelling. One S.
Blackwater is mentioned, but only in a side note in Erik Prince's and Betsy DeVos's entries because Q had not yet mentioned it. I'm adding an entry today.
I found I did not have a separate entry for Prince Alwaleed and he is an important enough player to rate one of his own, so he gets one as of today. I