Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy

by Eamon Javers

  Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova, “A Chill in the Moscow Air,” Newsweek, February 6, 2006. Available online at www.newsweek.com/id/57048.

  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

  Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 2007), p. 65.

  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