My good buddy Atrios, taking a break from whining Shrub-this "peace"-that, takes time to link to the 1992 SPY Magazine article 'Inside the Shadow CIA', which is about unsavory activities of the Wackenhut Corp.:

What? A big private company - one with a board of former CIA, FBI, and Pentagon officials; one in charge of protecting nuclear-weapons facilities, nuclear reactors, the Alaskan oil pipeline and more than a dozen American Embassies abroad; one with long-standing ties to a radical right-wing organization; one with 30,000 men and women under arms - secretly helped Iraq in its effort to obtain sophisticated weapons? And fueled unrest in Venezuela? This is all the plot of a new best-selling thriller, right? Or the ravings of some overheated conspiracy buff, right? Right? Wrong.

Examples: supposedly sending chemical weapons to Iraq, joining with the Cabazon Indians in Indio, CA to construct a bioweapons lab for the Contras, and other black ops, pseudo-CIA type of work. Including maintaining files on millions of Americans suspected of "derogatory" activities.

Most of the text of the article appears here, although I can't vouch for its completeness or accuracy.

There's more - including an OBL connection - here, and more on the Indians here.

There's more about Wackenhut's prison business in 'Wackenhut's Free Market in Human Misery' and 'Outback Nightmares & Refugee Dreams'

Some of this appears to be tinfoil material, some not. I just link to it and let you decide.

(Oh yeah: apparently FreeRepublic doesn't want people linking to americanpolitics.com articles for one reason or another. That site joins a list including americanpatrol.com and vdare.com)