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John F. Kelly - Wikipedia

On August 18, 2017, Kelly removed Steve Bannon from his role as White House Chief Strategist, on behalf of President Trump. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._K…

Kelly's membership on the board of DC Capital Partners and its for-profit detention facilities at the Southern Border and Florida, operated by its subsidiary Caliburn International had called into question his neutrality as they have been described as private for-profit

concentration camps. The company was formed by DC Capital Partners and is currently managed by James Van Dusen, former Chief Financial Officer of Comprehensive Health Services. The board includes Generals John Kelly, Anthony C. Zinni, Michael Hayden, and admirals Stephen F.

Loftus, and Kathleen Martin.[4] Retired Admiral James G. Stavridis previously served on the board and resigned in September 2019. Comprehensive Health Services also operated at Balad Air Base during the time that Sallyport Global is accused of worker mistreatment and neglect.[

General Stanley McChrystal, commander of Joint Special Operations Command, regularly visited the site, reporting that the staff of interrogators and analysts was six times the number of detainees, enabling important detainees to be questioned through each shift.[

In 2014, Sallyport Global, subsidiary of Caliburn International, was awarded contracts to work on Balad Air Base in support of the Iraq F-16 program.[22] Following reports alleging timesheet fraud, investigators found evidence of alcohol smuggling, human trafficking, security

violations, and theft. The investigators were subsequently fired by the human resources personnel that they were originally sent to investigate, and removed from the base under armed guard. Employees have also raised concern about racism, particularly from white South African

security guards who made open endorsements of Apartheid and refused to work alongside Iraqis and other people of color. In 2019, FSG signed contracts to support China's One Belt and One Road initiative, including building a series of bases in China's Xinjiang, where the

internment camps of ethnic Uyghurs attracted widespread allegations of human rights abuse. Chinese Communist Party officials in Xinjiang reported that FSG's work would enhance the paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. FSG's CEO, Dongyi Hua, was the key

driver in investing the re-education camps.

Effective April 13, 2021, Erik Prince resigned from his positions as executive director and deputy chairman of the company.

FSG's area of service has since expanded to the Belt and Road areas of Africa, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. It also works with the Chinese paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Frontier Services Group (FSG) is a Chinese Africa-focused security, aviation,

and logistics company founded and led until April 2021 by Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater Worldwide. The XPCC was founded by Wang Zhen in 1954 on orders from Mao Zedong, and Tao Zhiyue (a former Nationalist general who defected to the Communists in 1949) became its

first commander, a post he held until 1968. After the Soviet Union invaded neighbouring Afghanistan in 1979, and the Islamic mujahid movement gained force, fears of Soviet encirclement and Islamic fundamentalism lead to the re-establishment of the XPCC in 1981

Throughout the

1980s, Herring created the United States support for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan by assisting the U.S. Representative Charlie Wilson to persuade the U.S. government to train and arm the Mujahideen resistance fighters to fight in the Soviet–Afghan War, which began in 1979,

known as Operation Cyclone. Gates described Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Stansfield Turner and the CIA's Directorate of Operations (DO) as contemplating "several enhancement options"—up to and including the direct provision of arms from the U.S. to the mujahideen

through the ISI—as early as late August 1979,[24] and an unnamed Brzezinski aide acknowledged in conversation with Selig S. Harrison that the U.S.'s nominally "non-lethal" assistance to the mujahideen included facilitating arms shipments by third-parties Although Turner and

fellow transfer student Jimmy Carter were in the same class at the Academy, "the two men barely knew each other at the time."Key proponents of the initial program were Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson; Michael G. Vickers, a young CIA paramilitary officer; and Gust Avrakotos, the

CIA's regional head, who developed a close relationship with Wilson. He left the CIA in 1989 after he had been moved to the CIA's Africa Division, a position of relative obscurity within the organization. After working for defense contractor TRW Inc. and then News Corporation, he

returned to the CIA as a contractor between 1997 and 2003. In 1953, TRW was recruited to lead the development of the United States' first ICBM. Starting with the initial design by Convair, the multi-corporate team launched Atlas in 1957. News C owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch

Since the late 1970s, the CIA had been sending the weapons for the mujahideen through the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence. Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage regularly met with mujahideen, particularly Burhanuddin Rabbani.