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DYNCORPS POST STORY -- SECOND SHOE TO DROP From: Cheryl Mills
To: Hillary Clinton Date: 2009-06-03 06:24
Subject: DYNCORPS POST STORY -- SECOND SHOE TO DROP UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05761691
Date: 06/30/2015 RELEASE IN FULL
From: Mills, Cheryl D <
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To: Subject: FW: Dyncorps Post Story -- Second Shoe To Drop
Attachments: Dyncorps Sec Note.doc; Kabul Memo Washington Post 5 June.docx FYI From: Johnson, David T Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:37 AM To: Campbell, Piper A; Wood, Robert A (PACE); Crocker, Bathsheba N Cc: Crowley, Philip J; Hammer, Michael A; Byrnes, Robert S; Pittman, Susan R (INL); Sullivan, John C (INL/PC); McGlynn, William J; Macmanus, Joseph E; Kennedy, Patrick F; Matano, Albert K; Jones, Paul W; Russell, Daniel A; Polt, Michael C
Subject: Dyncorps Post Story -- Second Shoe To Drop Folks, You may recall an April 17 Post story on problems with Dyncorps in Afghanistan which focused on a suspected drug overdose death, breakdown in internal controls within the company, and actions the USG and the firm were taking. The other issue that surfaced at the time was a colossal error in judgment by one of the contractors' employees in hiring an adolescent boy dancer for some sort of event that, at least to most folks, looked very inappropriate. The Post is now looking at the dancing boy, which was not included in the April 17, article, and we expect will soon publish a story on it.
The Post inquiry at this point focuses only on confirming whether or not there's an OIG investigation. We are, of course, referring the Post to the OIG on such a question. However, the premise for the question raises the issue again in some eye-popping rhetoric which could feature in the follow-up story, so I wanted to make sure everyone had a heads-up. We have already relieved the folks involved with both incidents and I am meeting with the firm's CEO today to hear his report on his trip to Afghanistan and Iraq to address these, as well as other, issues on which we have demanded corrective actions. I'm attaching the original note to Deputy Secretary Lew at the time of the original inquiry which lays out both issues, a copy of the memo the INL section at Embassy Kabul provided to Post Management on the most recent Post inquiry, as well as the Post inquiry itself for context. David.
Incoming from Post: "According to my reporting, the week of April 13th, the DynCorp regional commander from Konduz, Flint Chambers, allowed his men to hire a 15-year-old boy dancer to do tribal dances at a DynCorp party on the training site. Some 15 or so DynCorp employees in attendance pulled out a single chair and had the boy do mock lap dances. This was captured on video. The video shows DynCorp employees putting dollar bills in the boy's waistband, just as they would a stripper's garter. The revelry lasted about 45 minutes.
74 UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05761691 Date: 06/30/2015 No sex took place. The video was leaked to Kabul INL program manager, Marissa Martin. INL Washington ordered INL Kabul to replace the entire DynCorp chain of commaand. The video was leaked by Mike Gonzalez to another DynCorp employee who emailed the video to Martin. Flint Chambers retaliated against Mike by spitting in his face, pushing him to the ground in front of the DynCorp security building in Kabul. Chambers was fired, along with Dean Deines, Stan Knee and David Kelly. Can you confirm that the IG is looking into this? (in addition to the Kurt Schafer incident) Thank you, Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post" From: Nash, Ardenia R (INL/FO) Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:56 PM To: Johnson, David T Subject: FINAL version - Note to Lew - Dyncorp «Dyncorps Sec Note.doc>> «Kabul Memo Washington Post 5 June.docx>> 25
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/00221812176/so-wikileaks-is-evil-releasing-documents-dyncorp-gets-pass-pimping-young-boys-to-afghan-cops.shtml
So WikiLeaks Is Evil For Releasing Documents... But DynCorp Gets A Pass For Pimping Young Boys To Afghan Cops?from the wtf deptOne refrain we keep hearing against Wikileaks is that the cable releases aren't really "whistleblowing," because they're not really revealing anything. However, it seems like each day there's another big revelation of rather horrible things being done (and covered up) by the US government. The latest, pointed out by Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/07/report-wikileaks-cab.html), involves a report from a cable that US-based private security contractor DynCorp, who was hired by the US to train Afghani police, was apparently supplying drugs and young boys for a sort of sex party (http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_texas_company_helped.php).
The details are horrifying. The Afghani interior minister apparently went to US officials to warn them that reporters were sniffing around this story, and urged them to try to kill the story. He specifically warned that this would look bad if the connection to DynCorp was made clear (he called them "foreign mentors"). Apparently, US diplomats told him not to worry, and the eventual story was in fact watered down greatly (until now, of course) calling the whole thing a "tribal dance," rather than a party where young boys wear "scanty women's clothes" and "dance seductively" before being "auctioned off to the highest bidder" for sex.
Oh, did we mention that DynCorp makes $2 billion per year -- 95% of which comes from American taxpayers.
And US government officials are declaring Wikileaks as an organization to shun and not to work with? What about DynCorp? Are their DNS providers pulling the plug? Are their banks shutting down their accounts? Are they being denounced by Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman? No? Why the hell not?
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2138241-c05761762.html#document/p1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-isenberg/its-dj-vu-for-dyncorp-all_b_792394.html
For an example of how just one transgression can lead to endless bad publicity consider the movie titled The Whistleblower (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896872/) that was released earlier this year. To summarize the plot, in Bosnia in 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac, a U.S. policewoman served as a U.N. peacekeeper. Her post was with the International Police Task Force which was arranged by DynCorp Aerospace. She was assigned to run the IPTF office that investigates sex trafficking, domestic abuse and sexual assault. She ultimately alleges that peacekeepers, U.N. workers and international police are visiting brothels and facilitating sex trafficking by forging documents and aiding the illegal transport of woman into Bosnia. DynCorp responds by firing Bolkovac, who returns to the U.S. and files a wrongful termination case. She wins the suit but says she’s still blacklisted.
Put bluntly, DynCorp was involved in a sex slavery scandal in Bosnia in 1999, with its employees accused of rape and the buying and selling of girls as young as 12. Dyncorp, hired to perform police duties for the UN and aircraft maintenance for the US Army, were implicated in prostituting the children, whereas the company’s Bosnia site supervisor filmed himself raping two women. A number of employees were transferred out of the country, but with no legal consequences for them.
This was one of two cases involving DynCorp and sexual scandal in Bosnia. The other, involved air plane mechanic Ben Johnston who sued DynCorp, alleging he was sacked because he had uncovered evidence that Dyncorp employees were involved in ‘sexual slavery.
The negative impact of just those two cases cannot be overstated. Indeed, search online for “dyncorp AND sex scandal” as I just did and you get nearly nine thousand hits. DynCorp spent many years trying to move past the bad publicity resulting from these cases. And indeed, one can look forward to more on the subject when Ms. Bolkovac’s book (http://www.amazon.com/Whistleblower-Trafficking-Military-Contractors-Justice/dp/0230108024/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291604474&sr=8-1) on the incident is released this coming January.
One could also note that, in a much less noticed case, in October 2004 it was revealed that DynCorp contract workers operating at Tolemaida Air Base in Colombia distributed a video in which they could be observed sexually violating underage girls from the town of Melgar. This video was even sold on the main streets of Bogotá. Nonetheless, the Lawyers’ Collective of Colombia has not learned of any criminal investigation undertaken in relation to these acts involving minors. According to follow-up work carried out by the Lawyers’ Collective it was discovered that one of the minors involved in the videos committed suicide some time after the publication of them.
Now, courtesy of Wikileaks, DynCorp can look forward to a new round of ridicule and denunciations.
As first reported (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/213720) by the British Guardian newspaper, on June 24, 2009 the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan sent a cable to Washington, under the signature of Karl Eikenberry, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, regarding a meeting between Assistant Chief of Mission Joseph Mussomeli (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/150152.htm) and Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar. Among the issues discussed was what diplomats delicately called the “Kunduz DynCorp Problem.” Kunduz is a northern province of Afghanistan
Report faults State Department, DynCorp for missing 1 billion
http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/01/25/report-faults-state-department-dyncorp-for-missing-1-billion/