An investigative blogger has turned up damning facts about a US-expat-owned mercenary army operating in Haiti, and has published an account that includes spying and the undermining of democratic elections on the island.
My friend Kathryn Cramer has written extensively on mercenary forces around the world and recently began to research and publish on Consultants Advisory Group (CAG), a US-expat-owned mercenary army operating in Haiti.
She began to receive anonymous tips from inside Haiti, including a leaked UN PowerPoint presentation indicating that CAG was providing “covert surveillance” for MINISTAH, the UN agency operating Haiti.
Representatives of the company contacted her to tell her that they had intercepted a call to her phone and secured the arrest of her informants in Haiti. Kathryn has posted the PowerPoint slides alongside her account, along with some good analysis pulling the whole story together.
This is some of the most thoroughgoing blogger reporting I’ve ever seen; Cramer has delved into a story widely neglected in the professional press and has gotten astonishingly far with nothing more than a search engine, a telephone, and her own gumption.
I got a query from someone in Haiti asking what I knew about a company called Consultants Advisory Group and if I had any idea of why they were following Top Cat Marine Security’s sales leads. I looked into the matter of CAG, resulting in the post Consultants Advisory Group(TM) (CAG): A Security Company Born Every Minute? CAG had a domain name registered a week earlier (just about the time the US State Department issued Top Cat a cease and desist order) and CAG was using Melbourne IT’s domain privacy service beloved of spammers and scammers. So I toasted them a bit to see what they had to say for themselves.
A CAG representative, Valerie Sendecki, obediently appeared to try to discuss matters, requesting that we settle this as “ladies.” The resulting exchange was pretty strange, but the general upshot was that CAG, ostensibly staffed with ex-military and ex-“agency” personnel, wished to remain unknown and inasmuch as it was known, it wished to be known as a “management consulting” company. It was founded by US ex-patriates and is registered in Panama. And, very specifically, CAG did not wish to be seen as either a private military company or as a security company. They claimed to be management consultants…
Dr Sage requested I send to you this MINUSTAH document concerning the use of Mercenaries by the UN in Haiti. The TopCat Blancs are killing poor Haitians fleeing by sea from UN oppression in Cite-Soliel. The US spies called CAG are undermining the election process to prevent the popular election of Rene Preval and the return of President Aristide.
Dr Sage is afraid that Comandante Sendecki of the US Navy is going to harm her for exposing this dispised behavior. She has been reassigned to Jeremie and has no acess to internet. This is her response to the abuse. She advices you to be very careful as they having eyes many and wishes you the best of luck.
