Eeben barlow biography of martin
Eeben barlow biography of martin
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Eeben Barlow
South African military officer
Eeben Barlow | |
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Born | Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia) |
Rank | Lieutenant-Colonel |
Unit | Special Forces 32 Battalion and Civil Cooperation Bureau |
Commands | second-in-command of Special Forces 32 Battalion |
Known for | Founder of Executive Outcomes |
Lt-Col.Eeben Barlow is a veteran of the South African Defence Force and was the second-in-command of its elite special forces32 Battalion Reconnaissance Wing.[1] He later served in Military Intelligence as an agent handler and later as an operative and region commander in the ultra-secret Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), a covert division of Special Forces.
He founded the private military contractor (PMC) Executive Outcomes (EO) in 1989, and was involved in providing counter-insurgency as well as peacekeeping forces in Africa and Asia.[2][3] Barlow resigned from Executive Outcomes in July 1997 and the company closed its doors on 31 Dec