E-Systems (now owned by Raytheon) - which boasts an impressive bevy of former high-ranking CIA, NSA and DoD personnel - is a major government contractor allegedly involved in some very dirty business.[1]
Some of the people on E-Systems’ personnel roster include former NSA Director (and CIA Deputy Director) Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, former CIA Deputy Director Peter Moreno (Director of the Agency’s Technical Services Division), and former CIA Director Admiral W. F. Raborn, who also sits on the board of Wackenhut - a large quasi-governmental security/intelligence firm loaded with former CIA and FBI people - also reportedly involved in some highly questionable covert activities.
E-Systems’ CEO from 1989 to 1993, E. Gene Keiffer, a former Marine, was described as a “prominent figure among intelligence community contractors.[2]
E-Systems has collaborated with the U.S. intelligence community, including the military and the CIA, since 1947. As their press release states:
“A leader in systems integration, E-Systems business areas include reconnaissance and surveillance systems; specialized aircraft modification; command, control, and communications; electronic imaging; and other information-based technologies....”[3]
E-Systems’ contracts include Air Force One - the Presidential jet, and the so-called nuclear Doomsday Plane. They also produce navigation equipment, air-traffic control systems, and electronic border security systems.
E-Systems has nine divisions, the largest being its Greenville plant. Sales were $1.99 billion dollars in 1991, and $2.1 billion in 1992.[4]
Yet E-Systems denies any involvement with the CIA. As Daniel Brandt of Public Information Research writes:
“E-Systems president John W. Dixon insists that “we have never done any business with the CIA,” even though other former top CIA officials are among the senior executives at E-Systems, and Dixon himself was a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers in 1983. Okay, we’ll assume that they work together out of love of country to prevent excessive corporate profiteering....”[5]
Contrary to Dixon’s claims, E-Systems purchased the CIA’s front company, Air Asia, in 1975 - a company that had been involved in countless covert operations in Southeast Asia (not to mention drug smuggling). The purchase “gave E-Systems the largest aircraft repair-and-maintenance facility in Southeast Asia and a vast network of CIA affiliations.”[6]