MEDIUM RARE

By Jim Rarey

May 24, 2001

PRIVATE POWER IN KOSOVO AND PERU

The prefix "dyn" from the Greek connoting power or energy appears in
many English works, e.g. dynamo, dynamic and dynamite. It also is
found, in one form or another, in the names of corporations many of
which are involved in the business of providing energy.

For one corporation, inclusion of that prefix in its name may be more
appropriate than many of us realized. The company is "Dyncorp."

The Virginia based company first came to this writer's attention in
March of last year. A local police officer (Skender Gocaj from
Westland, Michigan) had just returned from Kosovo. He had been hired
by Dyncorp (under a contract with the U.S. State Department) to spend
one year at a salary of $101,000 helping train KLA terrorists to
perform the local police function.

Gocaj was fired after four months in Kosovo. He claims it was because
he reported corruption he had witnessed to Dyncorp managers. Dyncorp
would only say that Gocaj was terminated for "unsatisfactory
performance." Gocaj admits he was reprimanded for talking to local
Kosovars in their native language. He was born in Kosovo and came to
the U.S. at age eight.

Michigan U.S. Senator Carl Levin (Dem.) supposedly asked the State
Department to look into the allegations of Dyncorp corruption. Nothing
happened.

The name of Dyncorp surfaced once more in connection with the shoot
down of the missionary plane in Peru. Early news reports identified
the American "spotters" who fed the Peruvian pilots the targets as
under contract to the CIA. It turns out they were actually contracted
by Dyncorp which may or may not have had a contract with the CIA.
Dyncorp "employees" are also involved in the "defoliating" campaign in
Peru and Columbia reminiscent of the Agent Orange debacle in Vietnam.

Dyncorp is only one of a number of government "fronts" or
"proprietaries" involved as surrogates around the world. Almost all
of its $1.4 billion in 1999 revenue came from the U.S. Government. Its
1999 annual report stated a $4.4 billion backlog of government
contracts. Its "extensive sampling" of public sector clients listed in
the report includes almost every government agency except the CIA. Of
course, it was not portrayed as a complete list.

It also belongs to some interesting associations including The
American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and the Society
for Epidemiological Research.

These private companies performing government functions ("Cutouts" in
the vernacular of the intelligence community) serve two purposes. They
provide "deniability" to government officials and they are beyond the
reach of congressional oversight and investigations as well as the
Freedom of Information Act.

Congress should (but won't) take action to forbid this practice.

Permission is granted to reproduce this article in its entirety.

The author is a free lance writer based in Romulus, Michigan. He is a
former newspaper editor and investigative reporter, a retired customs
administrator and accountant, and a student of history and the U.S.
Constitution.

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