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Part One: Erik Prince: The Rich Kid Who Bought An Army

Behind the Bastards

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The C I a - I'm Not Here Tofen Ling Un

A, he attempts to join the c i. A, a, but he fails to pass their polygraph test. So eric isn't going to let the litlething like the c i a stop him from living out his dream of walking around with guns in foreign countries. He forms blackwater security consulting and he moves his company into the business of selling mercenaries to the government. By two thousand seven, they'd made more than a billion dollars in federal contracts.

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