The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein

Author:Andrew Feinstein [Feinstein, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Security (National & International), Arms Control, International Relations, Political Science, Arms Transfers
ISBN: 9780241144411
Google: u06m3epox7wC
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Published: 2012-01-02T22:00:00+00:00

After 9/11 and the declaration of the War on Terror, there was virtually no limit on contracts in the military-intelligence field. With Cunningham’s help MZM garnered $163m in contracts, nearly all sole-sourced and classified.

113 The company also won a so-called blank-purchase agreement worth $225m. This was a controversial contracting method meant to simplify high-volume business with the government for everyday requirements, but it had little oversight, competition or transparency.

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MZM extracted huge profit margins on the dubious contracts. For example, 850 per cent profit on a $6m earmark attached by Cunningham for storage devices for Counter Intelligence Field Activity, which had not requested the devices and did not need them. Wilkes and Wade bought the devices off the shelf for $700,000. MZM was also involved in contracts in Iraq for translators, and countering improvised explosive devices (IEDs), though the details are classified.

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