![]() ![]() Prince was also questioned by House lawmakers last month over reports that he met the head of a Russian investment fund in an apparent effort to set up a backchannel for Russian communication with the Trump administration, and that senior Trump officials had authorized the meeting. The company was later renamed and sold, and now operates as Academi. Prince founded Blackwater, a private defense contractor that provoked international outrage after a deadly 2007 shooting in Iraq.īlackwater lost a $1 billion contract with the State Department to protect American diplomatic personnel in 2009, after the Iraqi government refused to renew the company’s operating license. “The Intercept has, once again, targeted Erik using his high profile as a click-bait to promote its own website and indulge the fantasies of its reporters with no care or regard for the facts.” Any meetings Erik did have with members of the intelligence community, current or former, focused on his well-publicized plan for saving the US taxpayer $42 billion in Afghanistan,” the statement said. ![]() “The allegations made in Intercept’s latest article about Erik are completely false and this was made clear to them before the article was published. A CIA spokesperson told The Intercept, “You have been provided wildly inaccurate information by people peddling an agenda.”Ī spokesperson for Prince denied the claims in a statement to CNN’s Erin Burnett. The Intercept was first to report the proposal. Erik Prince details Seychelles meeting with Russian banker
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