Dyncorp

One of the seven U.S. “military companies” contracted by the U.S. State Department for its war on drugs.

In Colombia, DynCorp presented itself as a British company with offices in Aldershot, Hampshire. In its contracts with the U.S. State Department, it appears as a U.S. company based in Reston, Virginia, which has a base of operations in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

The company was created in 1946, a year after the conclusion of World War II, by a group of U.S. pilots aiming to break into the air cargo business. Started as California Eastern Airways, it was renamed DynCorp in 1987.

Its current line of work dates back to the Korean War, from 1950 to 1953. Later, it was involved in the Vietnam War, from 1960 to 1975. During the Persian Gulf War, DynCorp employees serviced the American military. They were involved in counterinsurgency campaigns in El Salvador, operated in Bosnia and, currently, are involved in the implementation of Plan Colombia, among other activities.

DynCorp is one of the world’s largest private companies offering security and defense services. It has some 20,000 employees working in 50 different countries around the world and its yearly income exceeds 400,000 million dollars.

DynCorp hires mercenaries for war operations. DynCorp presents itself as a highly versatile company that offers a broad variety of services to the U.S. military, scattered across 1,500 bases around the world, but, in essence, it is a company that recruits and hires mercenaries to carry out war operations which, for one reason or another, cannot be undertaken by regular U.S. military forces.

In Colombia, for instance, the United States is officially involved in a war against drug-trafficking, but it denies any kind of war against insurgents. This war, however, exists and is the responsibility of DynCorp, which trains and directs counterinsurgent battalions and paramilitary forces.

In July 1999, the first scandal hit the newsstand when a U.S. Navy spy plane piloted by Jennifer Odom crashed at the Ecuador – Colombia border. Five U.S. and two Colombian soldiers perished. The U.S. embassy spoke of an accident. But the pilot’s husband, retired U.S. Colonel Charles Odom, stated his wife’s plane had been downed by a FARC operative during an intelligence operation for the U.S. government.

DynCorp operates under a 600-million-dollar State Department contract in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia and has a team of mercenary combat experts (delta forces) and veteran pilots who took part in the imperialist invasions of Vietnam, Granada, Panama, Iraq, El Salvador and Haiti. The aerial fumigation program aimed at eradicating cocaine, poppy-seed and marihuana plantations in Colombia is also carried out by DynCorp, the military company which Oliver North, according to information revealed during the Iran-Contra affair, under direct orders from the Pentagon, utilized to supply Nicaraguan Contras with weapons and transport cocaine to finance the terrorist activities of anti-Sandinista mercenaries.

DynCorp planes and mercenaries operating in coordination with the air wing of the Colombian National Police enter and leave Colombia without undergoing any type of check by Colombian authorities, a situation arising from the conditions that the U.S. State Department imposed upon the Colombian government.

The U.S. government’s initial offer of $1,600 million for Plan Colombia was conditional on Colombian non-interference in U.S. operations. It comes as no surprise, thus, that the anti-narcotics police chief who, in May 2000, led the operation which resulted in the discovery of a shipment of cocaine belonging to DynCorp was dismissed from his post.

Sources:www.rebelion.org Amlai-alatina