#PrivateIntelligence

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Charles B. Flack Jr. Former FBI agent who merged his investigative firm into the Wackenhut Corporation in 1962 and ran its Philadelphia office for the Pennsylvania and New Jersey area.
George R. Wackenhut FBI agent from 1951 to 1954 who founded the Wackenhut Corporation, kept files on 2.5 million people, held a CIA covert security approval, and ran Florida's privately financed war on crime in 1967.
Robert Peloquin Justice Department organized crime lawyer who founded the Resorts International subsidiary Intertel in 1970, took over security for Howard Hughes's Nevada casinos that December, and later chaired Resorts International.

Audio Intelligence Devices Fort Lauderdale maker of eavesdropping equipment run by the Anguilla adventurer Jack Holcomb, where Michael Townley spent the morning of the Letelier bombing, and which his co-defendants called a CIA front.
Church League of America Illinois anticommunist organization founded in 1937, run from the 1950s by a former Air Force intelligence officer, which in 1975 took over the Wackenhut Corporation's name files after the Fair Credit Reporting Act made them a liability.
Intertel Private intelligence company formed by Justice Department organized crime lawyers Robert Peloquin and William Hundley as a subsidiary of the Bahamian casino operator Resorts International, staffed from the IRS operation that had investigated the islands.
NSO Group NSO Group is an Israeli cyber-intelligence company founded in 2010 by Unit 8200 alumni Omri Lavie, Shalev Hulio, and Niv Karmi, developer of the Pegasus spyware capable of zero-click mobile-phone compromise, whose government clients used the product to surveil over 50,000 targets including Jamal Khashoggi's family, 180 journalists, Catalan independence leaders, and Mexican activists before the July 2021 Pegasus Project exposure.