Dave grew up in Chicago, and has worked in most regions of the U.S., as well as England, Kuwait and Bahrain. He worked as a computer systems developer for EDS [Electronic Data Systems] and a management consultant for Arthur Andersen.
He served as a Private and a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He moved to Colorado in 1994, and currently lives in Denver.
https://www.authorsreading.com/authors/dave-cullen/
ELECTRONIC DEFENSE SYSTEMS
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Item 2:The largest information technology contract ever awarded by the government, worth nearly $7 billion, has been won by the Electronic Data Systems Corporation, the United States Navy said yesterday.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/20 ... 7002217bbb
Item 3:HP's EDS division has won a $111m contract from the US Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA, to provide security readiness reviews for the Department of Defense.
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EDS already provides DISA with a range of infrastructure services, hardware, and software.
https://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/12/17/3861775.htm
PLANO, Texas, Oct. 2 /CNW/ -- The EDS-led ATLAS Consortium today announced that the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD) has approved an amendment to the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) (DII(F)) contract, confirming that ATLAS will deliver DII Increment 2b, which extends DII(F) into the deployed -- military operations -- environment. This is a further element of the 10-year contract awarded in March 2005, to modernize and create a single coherent MoD information infrastructure.
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/e ... 20461.html
Electronic Data Systems (EDS), founded by Ross Perot, has extensive contracts with the military intelligence services of the U.S. and U.K.
Perot - a candidate for the presidency of the U.S. in 1992 and 1996 - was an honorary chairman of the OSS Society.
The OSS (Office of Strategic Services) is the premier wartime intelligence service of the U.S. and precursor to the CIA. On October 2, 2010, the Society gave Perot the William J. Donovan Award at a dinner in his honor. Others listed as "honorary chairmen" of the group include six former CIA directors, among them George H.W Bush.
From "October Surprise" by Barbara Honegger, p. 205:
CONTRASAccording to [Gene] Wheaton [whistleblower in Iran-Contra], a major source of [Dan] Quayle's political power in Indiana, his home state, is a longtime associate of former CIA director William Casey, Beurt SerVaas. SerVaas, Wheaton says, was on the Executive Board of the Veterans of the O.S.S. [OSS Society] which "runs the CIA from behind the scenes." SerVaas' daughter, Joan, according to Wheaton, is married to an "off-the-books" French intelligence asset and Indiana resident, Bernard Marie. In 1982, Wheaton claims to have introduced Marie to Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials who then played a key role in the Reagan-Bush Administration's secret deliveries of U.S. arms to Iran in the late 1980's.
Perot had been recruited by Lt. Col. Oliver North in 1981, reportedly to provide funds for the release of U.S. hostages. In 1982, Perot became a member of Reagan (Bush)'s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
Lt. Col. North was also arranging sponsorship for the Nicaraguan Contras. According to Human Rights Watch, the Contras murdered, kidnapped and tortured civilians, raped women and burned down homes. In a 1989 report, they concluded:
[The] contras were major and systematic violators of the most basic standards of the laws of armed conflict, including by launching indiscriminate attacks on civilians, selectively murdering non-combatants, and mistreating prisoners.
According to Washington Post:
THE SHAH OF IRANNorth's role in soliciting Perot's private funds to ransom American hostages seems to parallel North's efforts to solicit private funds for the Nicaraguan rebels, called contras. One source said that North asked Perot to provide money for the contras, but Perot reportedly declined.
EDS personnel were present in Iran at the time 52 hostages were taken at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
It is perhaps unsurprising to learn that EDS was providing services to the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, who was installed in a 1953 coup orchestrated by the CIA and MI6. Deputy Director of Plans Richard Helms had been one of Pahlavi's classmates. As reported in the Times of Israel (5/12/18): "Iran’s feared Savak secret police is created in 1957 with the help of the CIA and eventually Israel’s Mossad."
SAVAK became infamous for severe human rights abuses, including torture.
Mahvi was briefly blacklisted for improper arms sales and, according to former U.S. diplomat John Stempel, "was widely known as a bagman for the Shah" ... An executive doing business in Iran had recommended that EDS first establish a relationship with Mahvi, and **by May 1975 Perot and Mahvi were dining together at Dallas' Petroleum Club, according to an internal EDS memorandum.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992 ... e-commando
ARTHUR ANDERSEN
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Arthur Andersen, which traces its history back to 1913, shredded Enron audit documents amid an investigation into covering up billions in losses at the energy firm. The accountant was subsequently found guilty of obstructing justice, effectively putting an end to all its audit activities in 2002.
It continued as a holding company with few operations while the Enron saga ranks as one of the biggest corporate scandals of all time, and led to substantial losses for shareholders and many thousands of job losses.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/new ... andal.html
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Item 3:The Houston-based company [Enron] was among the first to back Bush when he ran for governor of Texas. Enron and its executives went on to become the largest source of financial support for Bush's gubernatorial campaigns, giving more than $500,000, according to a study by the Center for Public Integrity.
"Enron was the number one career patron for George W. Bush," said center director Charles Lewis. "There was no company in America closer to George W. Bush than Enron." Lewis says the company's goal in backing Bush and other politicians was to encourage further deregulation of the energy industry.
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Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has been a friend of Bush and the Bush family for years. When Gov. Bush ran for president, Enron gave him access to a company jet. (The Bush campaign reimbursed the company roughly $25,000 for the flights.)
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When Vice President Dick Cheney drafted a new energy policy, he met with Lay and other Enron executives. Enron was reportedly the only company to be granted such a meeting.
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Enron alumni also fill prominent slots in the Bush administration. The president's chief economic adviser, Larry Lindsey, and the top trade negotiator, Robert Zoellick, both served as advisers to the company. Secretary of the Army Thomas White was an Enron executive before joining the administration. When he assumed the Army post, White was forced to sell more than $25 million in Enron stock, according to a financial disclosure form he filed.**
Rep. Henry Waxman, D.-Calif., has been pressing Cheney to detail his contacts with the troubled company.
There is a very intimate connection between Enron and the Bush administration. How could they not have known what was happening?" Waxman said in an interview last week. "I think we need to find out what people in the administration knew, many of whom used to work for Enron. We ought to find out whether they ignored warning signs."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121269&page=1
WASHINGTON -- [George W. Bush's] Army Secretary Thomas E. White is fighting battles on two fronts. As his soldiers lead the ground war in Afghanistan, the former Enron Corp. executive has found himself increasingly fielding uncomfortable questions about his role in the energy company's sudden collapse.
The public advocacy group Public Citizen, founded by activist Ralph Nader, has suggested the Army secretary has engaged in a conflict of interest by pursuing changes in Army energy policy that could have benefited his former employer. White recused himself from dealing with Army contracts involving Enron but continued to play a role in advocating the privatization of energy services at Army installations, which employ 1.2 million soldiers and civilians on 15 million acres of land.
After going from the Army, from which he retired in 1990 as a brigadier general, to Enron and back, White argued that privatization would trim costs from the department's $82-billion annual budget. "If indeed Enron was in a position to secure more contracts, clearly there was a conflict of interest," said Tyler Slocum, Public Citizen's research director for energy issues. "We know he headed up a division . . . that was specifically targeting military installations to provide utility services."
https://web.archive.org/web/20050404144 ... 126-02.htm
