DynCorp
| DynCorp International Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US26817C1018 |
| founding | 1946 |
| Seat |
Annandale, Virginia , United States
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| management | William L. Ballhaus, President & CEO (May, 2008) |
| Number of employees | 14,000 (2007) |
| sales | US $ 3.1 billion (2009) |
| Branch | Military services, aircraft maintenance |
| Website | www.dyn-intl.com |
DynCorp is an American private security and military company . The Annandale, Virginia based company has employees stationed in many conflict areas around the world, including Bosnia , Somalia , Angola , Haiti , Colombia , Kosovo , Kuwait , Afghanistan, and Iraq . It is also active in the province of Chapare in Bolivia (destruction of coca fields).
DynCorp employees were involved in a human trafficking and forced prostitution scandal between 1999 and 2004.
Company history
DynCorp was formed in 1951 through the merger of the two companies California Eastern Airways and Land-Air Inc. , founded in 1946 , initially under the name Dynalectron Corporation .
In 1964, the company expanded its business area by purchasing Hydrocarbon Research, Inc. , a service provider in the energy industry. By 1987 Dynalectron Corporation had bought 14 other companies in the aviation services industry. In the same year she was transferred to DynCorp International LLC. renamed.
In March 2003 DynCorp was bought by Computer Sciences Corporation for US $ 950 million. However, since CSC was primarily interested in the IT sector, all other sectors were sold after internal restructuring. DynCorp has been operating under the new parent company DynCorp International Inc. since February 11, 2005. At the time, DynCorp had 26,000 employees and 95% of its revenue came from US government contracts.
Areas of application
Afghanistan
DynCorps employees in the north of the country are entrusted with training the Afghan National Police (ANP) in the RC (Regional Command) North in the KUNDUZ area, which is run by the Federal Republic of Germany.
Bosnia Herzegovina
Company employees worked for the United Nations after the Bosnian War. Some were involved in forced prostitution . After Kathryn Bolkovac discovered this, DynCorp fired her. She successfully sued the company for unjustified dismissal, which first brought the scandal to the public. Parts of the action were processed in the film Whistleblower - On a dangerous mission from 2011.
Gaza Strip
On October 15, 2003 , three DynCorp employees were killed in a terrorist bombing in the Gaza Strip . They worked as bodyguards for American diplomats , adding to the diplomatic security service.
Iraq
DynCorp employees were involved in interrogations of prisoners in the Iraqi prison in Abu-Ghuraib , which became known because of the torture that took place there .
Colombia
DynCorp deployed 88 aircraft and 307 employees as part of the Plan Colombia . Their job is to spray coca fields with chemicals so that the plants die. There are also frequent reports that DynCorp employees are actively participating in combat operations.
Liberia
Around 60 DynCorp employees took over the reconstruction and training of the Liberian army on behalf of the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf government in January 2006. The US government paid for the training.
United States
DynCorp worked with Dewberry of Fairfax and Parsons Corporation of Pasadena to build makeshift housing for victims of Hurricane Katrina . In addition, 13 workers were dispatched to assess the potential damage to New Orleans' five hospitals.
Legal situation
Like all other "security service providers", the company is not (directly) supervised by the state in the USA. This is only the case if a company works for the US government / state. The Argentine journalist Sheila Mysorekar writes: “This is how criminal incidents are increasing. DynCorp employees were involved in machinations with underage prostitutes in Bosnia, for example. Soldiers fall under military jurisdiction, security companies do not, but under civil jurisdiction. You work in a legal gray area, especially due to the chaotic situation in war zones. There is no public discussion about it. In the USA, privatizations are per se positive. "
criticism
Critics accuse the company of being used to counter insurgency in Bolivia and of making money on cocaine smuggling, which, however, are still unproven charges. In addition, as with other private security and military companies , there is the question of the accountability of the companies, which cannot be directly held accountable like the military and are not subject to the same controls as the military . On September 11, 2001, the "Fundacion International por los Derechos Laborales" presented a complaint from 10,000 Ecuadorian farmers from the Colombian border area with Colombia and from the Amazon before a federal court in the USA. They charged DynCorp with "undirected all-affecting" torture, child murder and negligent homicide in the rainforest and along the Ecuadorian-Colombian border. The lawsuit, which relied on the "alien tort claims" law, was dismissed in January 2002 by Federal Judge Roberts on the grounds that the work of DynCorp affects national security. DynCorp flies sprays with glyphosate , which in this strength is not approved for the US American and Western European markets.
In 2010 a scandal was discovered by the whistleblower site Wikileaks, which evidenced massive child abuse at DynCorp-funded celebrations.
US government contracts
The US secret services outsource various tasks, such as intelligence surveillance, to private companies. In 2013, the most important companies, including DynCorp, received nearly 190 billion US dollars for their work for the American secret services, which is said to make up around 70% of the total secret service volume. Many companies were able to multiply their sales through the US government contracts after September 11, 2001 .
| Company Name | Number of employees (% with security check) |
US government contracts as percentage of all contracts |
Sales 2013 in billion US dollars |
Sales growth since 2001 |
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Booz Allen Hamilton | 24,500 (75%) | 99% | 5.9 | + 504% |
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Computer Sciences Corporation | 90,000 (unknown) | 34% | 15.0 | + 43% |
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Science Applications International Corporation | 39,600 (unknown) | 85% | 11.2 | + 200% |
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L-3 Communications | 51,000 (unknown) | 76% | 13.1 | + 560% |
| Armaments company | |||||
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General Dynamics | 92,200 (unknown) | 66% | 31.5 | +262% |
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Lockheed Martin | 120,000 (> 50%) | 82% | 47.2 | +197% |
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Northrop Grumman | 68,100 (unknown) | 90% | 28.1 | + 207% |
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Raytheon | 67,800 (unknown) | 73% | 24.4 | + 45% |
| Service company | |||||
| Abraxas | 7,900 (unknown) | 50% | 1.4 | unknown | |
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CACI | 15,000 (50%) | 94% | 3.8 | +675% |
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DynCorp | 29,000 (unknown) | 97% | 4.0 | unknown |
| ManTech | 9,700 (> 70%) | 99% | 2.6 | +599% | |
References
literature
- Dieter Drüssel: High Tech with ground troops. DynCorp - a global private group of violence. In: Dario Azzellini and Boris Kanzleitner (eds.), (2003): The company war . ISBN 3-935936-17-6
Web links
- [ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) The Nation - Article about DynCorp] (English)
- Dan Baum: This Gun For Hire in: Wired (English)
- Sheila Mysorekar: DynCorp and the Privatization of War
- Sheila Mysorekar: Warriors against payment. The role of private armies in wars and civil wars
- DynCorp at www.sourcewatch.org
- DynCorps embroiled in scandal in Afghanistan
swell
- ↑ http://ir.dyn-intl.com/annuals.cfm ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.huffingtonpost.com: It's Déjà Vu for DynCorp All Over Again
- ↑ Further details at www.answers.com
- ↑ See Rent-a-Soldier by Herbert Wulf
- ↑ Information on the DynCorp company website under History
- ↑ www.guardian.co.uk: British firm accused in UN 'sex scandal' - International police in Bosnia face prostitution claims , July 29, 2001
- ^ Marc Malan: Security sector reform in Liberia: mixed results from humbled beginnings. (PDF; 391 kB) Strategic Studies Institute (US Army), March 2008, p. 100 , accessed on January 22, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Andrea Böhm: Liberia: The iron grandmother . In: The time . May 17, 2007, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 12, 2019]).
- ↑ Mac Donald Jr., Theodore; Edeli David: Pueblos Indigenas y Plan Colombia. QUITO: EDICIONES ABYA-YALA , 2005
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Guardian Staff: US embassy cables: Afghan government asks US to quash 'dancing boys' scandal . In: The Guardian . December 2, 2010, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed July 12, 2019]).
- ↑ C. Fuchs, J. Goetz, F. Obermaier, B. Obermayer: The Secret War - How CIA & Co leave sensitive orders to civil companies - also in Germany. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 16, 2013, pp. 8–9.
