| 2020-03-07 | New York Times Exposes Erik Prince's Recruitment of Former Spies for Project Veritas Domestic Intelligence Operations Erik Prince · Richard Seddon · James O'Keefe · Project Veritas · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-08-14 | Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Invests $15M in Carbyne, Connecting Epstein-Barak Surveillance Network to Erik Prince Operations Peter Thiel · Erik Prince · Lital Leshem · Jeffrey Epstein · +7 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-25 | DarkMatter Signs Strategic Surveillance Technology Agreement with Huawei, Facilitated by Erik Prince Network DarkMatter · Huawei · Erik Prince · Pegasus · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-15 | Cofer Black, Former Blackwater Vice Chairman and CIA Counterterrorism Chief, Joins Burisma Board Joseph Cofer Black · Erik Prince · Nikolay Zlochevskyi · Hunter Biden · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-07-01 | Harvey Weinstein Hires Black Cube to Suppress Rose McGowan Allegations Harvey Weinstein · Black Cube · Rose McGowan · Stella Penn Pechanac/Diana Filip · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-02-27 | WikiLeaks Publishes 5 Million Stratfor Emails Revealing Private Intelligence Firm's Surveillance of Activists and Corporate Espionage WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Jeremy Hammond · Stratfor · +10 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-08-24 | CIA Awards Blackwater Classified Intelligence Contracts, Creating Private Paramilitary-Intelligence Capability Blackwater · Erik Prince · Central Intelligence Agency · Total Intelligence Solutions · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-07-01 | Kroll Associates sold to Marsh & McLennan for $1.9 billion Kroll Associates · Marsh & McLennan · Jules Kroll |
| confirmed |
| 1998-01-01 | CIA Begins Developing In-Q-Tel Concept -- Intelligence Community Plans Entry Into Venture Capital George Tenet · Central Intelligence Agency · Sue Gordon · Ruth David · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1997-12-01 | Kroll Associates Merges with O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, Expanding Into Full-Service Security and Intelligence Firm Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt · Kroll-O'Gara Company |
| confirmed |
| 1996-01-01 | George Friedman Founds Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor), the "Shadow CIA" of Private Geopolitical Intelligence George Friedman · Stratfor · Matthew Baker |
| confirmed |
| 1993-02-26 | Port Authority Hires Kroll Associates After 1993 World Trade Center Bombing -- Private Intelligence Enters Counterterrorism Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Brian Michael Jenkins · Port Authority of New York and New Jersey |
| confirmed |
| 1991-07-05 | Kroll Associates Investigates BCCI Collapse, Demonstrating Private Intelligence Capability Rivaling Government Agencies Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Bank of Credit and Commerce International · Robert Morgenthau · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1990-10-01 | Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly Begins Lobbying for Kashmiri American Council, Later Revealed as Pakistani ISI Front Paul Manafort · Black Manafort Stone and Kelly · Kashmiri American Council · Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Wackenhut Corrections Wins First Federal Immigration Detention Contract in Aurora, Colorado Wackenhut Corporation · Wackenhut Corrections Corporation · George C. Zoley · George Wackenhut · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1986-11-25 | Attorney General Meese Reveals Iran-Contra Scandal to Public Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Oliver North · John Poindexter |
| confirmed |
| 1985-08-20 | First Secret Arms Shipment to Iran Initiates Iran-Contra Scandal Ronald Reagan · Robert McFarlane · Oliver North · Manucher Ghorbanifar |
| confirmed |
| 1984-06-01 | CIA Director Casey and Oliver North Create "The Enterprise" -- A Private Intelligence Operation Template William Casey · Oliver North · Richard Secord · Albert Hakim · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-12-04 | Reagan Signs Executive Order 12333, Loosening Intelligence Restrictions and Enabling Private Contractor Involvement Ronald Reagan · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Black, Manafort & Stone lobbying firm founded, nicknamed 'Torturers' Lobby' Charlie Black · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone |
| confirmed |
| 1977-08-12 | Weinberger v. Equifax: Fifth Circuit Guts Anti-Pinkerton Act, Clearing Path for Private Intelligence Industry U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · Equifax Inc. · Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 1972-01-01 | Jules Kroll founds innovative private intelligence firm Kroll Associates Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1966-01-01 | Wackenhut Corporation Acquires HUAC Staffer's Files, Claims Dossiers on 4+ Million Americans George Wackenhut · Wackenhut Corporation · Karl Baarslag · House Un-American Activities Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1861-04-21 | Pinkerton Heads Union Intelligence Service for McClellan, First Federal Use of Private Intelligence Personnel Allan Pinkerton · George B. McClellan · Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Army of the Potomac · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1850-08-22 | Allan Pinkerton Founds North-Western Police Agency, Precursor to Private Intelligence State Allan Pinkerton · Edward Rucker · Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Illinois Central Railroad |
| confirmed |