erik prince

Erik Prince, in collaboration with Oliver North (of Iran/Contra -- cocaine and arms smuggling fame), is pitching a private global 'intelligence' - secret police force. The excuse for this is to provide expendable spooks, on the ground, that would have no official state cover for their spy...

We don't really have a good category for this type of post, so I put in History since it mentions the British East India Corporation BEIC, and my comments about that further below. The author of the excerpted article was a mercenary, and he distinguishes his motivations as different from such...