Eric Prince: Contractor, Soldier, Spy

Of course Blackwater sensing that it had a tainted brand is now Xe. It still manages to obtain contracts from the US government. Although the US denies it, there is considerable evidence it is operating in Pakistan. This is just a snippet from Vanity Fair. Prince was a darling of the Bush administration and had huge profitable contracts in Iraq but managed to get itself in hot water because of the actions of some of its employees.


Scandal Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy
Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting juggernaut Blackwater, a company dogged by a grand-jury investigation, bribery accusations, and the voluntary-manslaughter trial of five ex-employees, set for next month. Lashing back at his critics, the wealthy former navy seal takes the author inside his operation in the U.S. and Afghanistan, revealing the role he’s been playing in America’s war on terror.
By Adam Ciralsky January 2010


Iput myself and my company at the C.I.A.’s disposal for some very risky missions,” says Erik Prince as he surveys his heavily fortified, 7,000-acre compound in rural Moyock, North Carolina. “But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.” Prince—the founder of Blackwater, the world’s most notorious private military contractor—is royally steamed. He wants to vent. And he wants you to hear him vent.