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• • 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

SECRET

28 July 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Wackenhut Corporation

SF: 493 364

1.

The files on George R. Wackenhut (SF#254 530) and

his company, Wackenhut Corporation, were opened in May of

1960.

Agency interest in Mr. Wackenhut and his company was

for

the purpose of obtaining cover support for Western 24

Hemisphere Agency employees assigned to Florida,

2 .

MI.

Wackenhut,

a former Federal Bureau of Investi-

gation agent, was investigated by this Agency with favorable

results, land

a Covert Security Approval for his use was

granted on 21 November 1961. Subsequently, his company

provided cover backstopping to Western Hemisphere employees

stationed in the Miami, Florida, area.

3.

In April of 1967 due to the notoriety that

Mr. Wackenhut had received in connection with his activities

in Florida, Mr. Wackenhut's Covert Security

Approval was

rescinded

However,

and this Agency severed our relations with him. ay

in November of 1974 it was learned that Wackenhut

Corporation was providing

guard coverage to Global MarIne

Development, Incorporated (GMDI), Los Angeles, California,

a firm that

the Agency office of DDS&T was dealing with.

This Agency made no attempt to persuade GMDI to terminate

their contract with Wackenhut Corporation, and it is assumed

that GMDI is still receiving guard coverage from them.

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