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Blackwater Wins Portion of $10B State Department Contract

HeadlineOct 04, 2010

Wired.com has revealed a shell company run by Blackwater has won a piece of a five-year, $10 billion State Department contract to provide security services to diplomatic missions around the world. The shell company, “International Development Solutions,” is at least the thirty-fourth front company formed by Blackwater to help it win government contracts.

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