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72 Ibid.
73 See Sandline contract with Papua New Guinea government.
74 Not all former EO staff who are deployed into new companies retain formal links with EO and it would be useful, given
EO’s reputation, to describe oneself as attached to EO in order to secure contracts.
75 P Thornycroft, South African Arms Going to UNITA, Weekly Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, 25 June 1997.
76 See Chapter 6 on MPRI.
77 Silverstein, op. cit.
78 Ibid.
79 See Chapter 6.
80 Saracen unsuccessfully tendered for a contract to do dog training in Angola in 1996. EO also tendered with rival MPRI
for such a contract in Saudi Arabia in 1997. Interviews with former EO personnel, October 1997; documents in the
possession of the author.
81 Sierra Leone has one of the largest known deposits of rutile – a rare, strategic metal that is used in the production of
titanium and its alloys. The SRL mine used to produce 25 per cent of the world’s rutile and was the cornerstone of Sierra
Leone’s mining industry and economy prior to the start of civil conflict in 1992.
82 Confidential corporate report produced for a mining corporation by a Johannesburg-based strategic analysis company,
May 1997.
83 According to a UK informant, in 1994 – barely one year after they first began – they were already said to be worth $43
million. Interview, October 1996.
84 E Ballesteros, UN Special Rapporteur, to S Correy, We Don’t Do Wars, Background Briefing, Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC), 15 June 1997.
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