Wackenhut Services
The Wackenhut Corporation (now G4S Solutions) is a prominent private security firm founded in 1954 that is deeply associated with UAP legacy program operations. The company historically provided professional security — especially perimeter security — for numerous US Department of Defense and Department of Energy installations, including the Nevada Test Site, Groom Lake (Area 51), and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Wackenhut is alleged to have served as a CIA front during the Cold War, as evidenced by a released March 1963 memo detailing the corporation's desire to provide cover for the CIA.
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Board of Directors and Intelligence Connections
Wackenhut's board reads as a who's who of senior US military and intelligence officials. Notable board members include:
- Bobby Ray Inman — Four-star US Navy Admiral; former Director of NSA, Deputy Director of CIA, Director of Naval Intelligence, and Director of the National Underwater Reconnaissance Office (NURO). Identified by UAP researchers as one of the most central alleged gatekeepers of UFO legacy program infrastructure.
- Frank Carlucci — Former US Secretary of Defense and Deputy Director of the CIA. UAP Gerb has wagered Carlucci may have been alongside Brad Sorensen at the classified section of the 1988 Norton Air Force Base air show where flux liner alien reproduction vehicles were observed.
- William F. Raborn — Also served on the board of SAIC and directed the Polaris submarine program for the US Navy. The Polaris program is significant because Navy chief scientist John Piña Craven stated he was ordered to carry out the Deep Submergent Systems Project — a program to drastically increase deep-ocean engineering depth to satisfy Project Sand Dollar, which allegedly cataloged every item of US national security interest resting on the seafloor tagged for retrieval.
As detailed in Edward S. Herman's 1989 book The Terrorism Industry, Wackenhut operated as a revolving door for accomplished military and intelligence professionals, similar to SAIC.
DOE Special Response Teams
Wackenhut trained and staffed Department of Energy Special Response Teams (SRTs) — elite operator forces entrusted with transporting US nuclear arsenals across the continental United States. These SRT units had arrest-on-site authority and, at least in the 1980s, wore all-black outfits and gear. According to the General Accounting Office, beginning in 1987 Wackenhut subcontracted DOE guard services including controlling access to sites, conducting patrols, responding to security alarms, performing property searches, and providing protection for classified materials. Wackenhut also provided special response teams to act at the behest of the DOE.
UAP Involvement
UAP Gerb theorizes that the clandestine armed team encountered by Rodrik Castle during the 1997 Hunter Warrior Advanced Warfighting Experiment may have been a Wackenhut-trained and staffed DOE SRT operating alongside Navy and Air Force ARV programs for domestic UFO crash retrieval exercises. This theory is supported by:
- The operators' all-black unmarked appearance matching historical DOE SRT descriptions
- Castle's 2002 recruitment by Wackenhut for helicopter teams, despite Wackenhut seemingly knowing non-public details of his service record
- Wackenhut's established role providing security at UFO legacy program sites
- SRT's continental US authority and ability to classify operations under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as transclassified foreign nuclear information
Similarly, the crash retrieval team that detained Jonathan Weygandt in Peru in 1997 may have involved Wackenhut-trained DOE SRTs, given that Wackenhut had established forward operating bases in Peru in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Wackenhut is also notable in UFO lore for its perimeter security at Area 51, where its guards famously caught Bob Lazar and friends who attempted to observe test flights of the "sports model" UFO from nearby Bureau of Land Management lands.
Richard Mingus Incident
In 1982, Richard Mingus, a Federal Services security guard at the Nevada Test Site who often worked at Area 51, was securing an underground nuclear test area at Area 6 when the base came under attack by armed combatants while a live nuclear bomb was exposed above ground. The breach was escalated through the chain of command to President Ronald Reagan as a significant national security issue. It was later determined the attackers were simply Wackenhut personnel conducting a drill.