Re: SAIC bought InterNic, but who is SAIC? A spook contractor!

At 05:18 PM 9/28/95 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
>Forwarded-by: gordoni@base.com (Gordon Irlam)
>SAIC's board members include Admiral Bobby Inman, former NSA head and deputy
>director of the CIA; Melvin Laird, Nixon's defense secretary; and retired
>General Max Thurman, commander of the Panama Invasion. Recently departed
>board members include Robert Gates, former CIA director; William Perry,
>current Secretary of Defense; and John Deutch, the current CIA director.
>Current SAIC government contracts include re-engineering information systems
>at the Pentagon, automation of the FBI's computerized fingerprint
>identification system, and building a national criminal history information
>system.
I am not supporting the idea that SAIC is not annother govt mouthpiece or
cover op but it is standard practice to hire retired workers from government
that worked in the area that you want to sell services into.
I know of a ex army colonel that used to work for a government
contractor. I'm sure that he used his contacts to sell services to the
government. You gotta love it!

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I used to work for SAIC. It's a legitimate beltway-bandito contractor. To 
call it a cover op is sort of missing a point. The government hardly ever 
does _anything_ itself (as, say, percentage of budget). Contractors are 
the ones who do the dirty work in the trenches.

SAIC is very widely dispersed. Each field office is responsible for 
getting it's own contracts.  Hardly any revenue flows down from HQ to the 
field offices. My boss used to say, "this place is like a McDonalds".

AS we speak, the US Navy is busy dis-establishing its Shore 
Establishment. Cost savings. The same people will do the same jobs - they 
will have merely been hired by contractors.

Alan Horowitz
alanh@infi.net