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History

The company was founded in August of 1995 in Orlando, Florida, as The Intel Group, Inc., later known as Hyperion Risk. In 1997, the company expanded throughout the Southeastern United States with the acquisition of Edgewood Investigations and Contax Investigations. In 2000, the company launched the GlobalTrak™ technology platform and expanded to a national investigations company, obtaining investigation agency licenses nationally in all required states. In 2006, Hyperion Risk was merged with Confidential Business Resources, forming GlobalOptions Fraud & SIU, a division of GlobalOptions Group, Inc.

From 2006–2008, the company acquired Facticon, Inc., York Investigative Services, and First Advantage Investigative Services. In January of 2009, the five-company integration was completed, allowing GlobalOptions to retain the best people and technology from each acquisition. In July of 2010, the Fraud and SIU division was taken private in a buyout from GlobalOptions Group, Inc.

GlobalOptionsis currently going on its third year as a privately held company. Since its founding in 1995, the company continues to experience positive growth, having entered the international market within the last year. With investigative coverage in six continents, GlobalOptions is now the largest privately held investigative organization in the world.

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Neil C. Livingstone is Chief Executive Officer for [Global International]], a division of Global Options Group, which is described as "an emergency management consultancy covering everything from natural disaster preparedness to antiterrorist measures." [1]

He has has been described by NBC’s Tom Brokaw as "one of this nation’s preeminent authorities on terrorism." [2] A biogrpahical note states that "he is a familiar face on the nation's newscasts as a commentator on terrorism, intelligence, and other national security issues. A veteran of more than 1,000 television appearances, he served as an on-air commentator to NBC News during the Atlanta Olympics and in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City and September 11 terrorist attacks." [3]

In addition, he has published numerous articles in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, USA Today, and The Los Angeles Times.

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Global Options, Inc., headquartered in New York City, according to the company profile, "is a multi-disciplinary, international, risk management and business intelligence company." The "staff of professionals includes former intelligence and law enforcement officers, veterans of America's elite military units, and legal and crisis communications specialists."

Global Options provides "a broad spectrum of unique services and innovative solutions to commercial, government, and individual clients ... assembled under a single umbrella to provide a comprehensive approach to solving difficult business and government problems."

The company states that "Recent assignments include the protection of fissile material in Russia, corporate crisis management, the recovery of assets, due diligence in major merger and acquisition (M&A) cases, undercover investigations of NAFTA violations, and coordination of all legal defense efforts associated with the largest civil RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act] action in U.S. history."

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75 Rockefeller Plaza

27th Floor

New York, NY 10019

Phone: 212.445.6262

Fax: 212.445.0053

Email: info AT globaloptionsgroup.com

Web: http://www.globaloptions.com

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Ms. Frances D. Cook "graduated from the College in 1967. Having been one of our very first graduates to pass successfully the very difficult State Department Foreign Service examination, Ambassador Cook began her foreign service career in Paris where she was a special assistant to Sargent Shriver, then U.S. ambassador to France. In 1970, she became a member of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam. It was during this period in her life that she became acquainted with some of the legendary American diplomats of the 20th century such as Ambassadors Philip Habib and David K. Bruce of Virginia." [1]

"A former U.S. ambassador to Burundi, to Cameroon and to the Sultanate of Oman, Ambassador Cook also held numerous senior positions in the Department of State, including Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Refugee Programs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, Consul General in Alexandria, Egypt, and Director for West Africa. She transitioned to the private sector in May 1999, where she runs an international business consulting firm, The Ballard Group llc. Ambassador Cook currently serves on the boards of Alliant Techsystems (NYSE) and Global Options Group (NASDAQ), and the Corporate Council on Africa. She is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was educated at the Universities of Virginia and Harvard, and resides in Washington, D.C" [2]

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  1. ↑ Lewis P. Fickett U.S. Ambassador Frances D. Cook '67 University of Mary Washington bio/recollection, organizational web site, accessed June 8, 2011
  2. ↑ lonrho Board, organizational web page, accessed October 1, 2012.
  3. ↑ Lonrho plc Board, organizational web page, accessed October 1, 2012.

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White House Writers Group

White House Writers Group consists of former White House speechwriters who provide a range of communication services including speech writing; drafting and placing opinion-editorials; writing and staging presentations; and planning and strategy.

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GlobalOptions Inc., headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a multi-disciplinary, international, risk management and business intelligence company. Our staff of professionals includes former intelligence and law enforcement officers, veterans of America's elite military units, and legal and crisis communications specialists.

We provide a broad spectrum of unique services and innovative solutions to commercial, government, and individual clients. Never before have all these services been assembled under a single umbrella to provide a comprehensive approach to solving difficult business and government problems.

Recent assignments include the protection of fissile material in Russia, corporate crisis management, the recovery of assets, due diligence in major merger and acquisition (M&A) cases, undercover investigations of NAFTA violations, and coordination of all legal defense efforts associated with the largest civil RICO action in U.S. history.

GlobalOptions' Advisory Board is chaired by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral William Crowe, and is comprised of many distinguished individuals, including a former CIA Director, a former British Trade Minister, and a number of retired ambassadors and military leaders.

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Neil C. Livingstone

Neil C. Livingstone is the Chairman and CEO of ExecutiveAction LLC. He was the founder and, until November, 2006, CEO of GlobalOptions Inc., which went public in 2005 and currently has sales of more than $80 million.

Livingstone is also Lead Director of Erickson Air-Crane, a $186 million helicopter company headquartered in Central Point, Oregon, and a member of the M&A committee.

Livingstone was described by former NBC anchor Tom Brokow as "one of this nation's preeminent authorities on terrorism." He is a familiar face on the nation's newscasts as a commentator on terrorism, intelligence, and national security issues. A veteran of more than 1300 television appearances, he has appeared on such programs as "Nightline," "Meet the Press," "Today," "The Early Show," "Crossfire," "Newsmaker Sunday," "The Charlie Rose Show," "Hardball," "Dateline," "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer," "The O'Reilly Report," and the evening newscasts on all of the major networks. He served as an on-air commentator for NBC News during the Atlanta Olympics and in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City and 9/11 terrorist attacks. He predicted the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center on CNBC six months before they occurred, said the terrorists would drop both towers, and that Osama bin Laden would be behind the attacks.

He is the author of nine books on terrorism, security, and foreign policy, including Inside the PLO, The War Against Terrorism, and Rescue My Child, which was an NBC movie-of-the-week. In addition, he has published more than 200 articles in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, USA Today, and The Los Angeles Times.

Leading corporations and institutions routinely seek his views on a variety of topics, and he has delivered more than 500 major addresses, both in the U.S. and abroad, including recent talks at the House of Commons and the United Nations. He has advised top government officials and testified before Congress.

He serves on a number of fiduciary and advisory boards. Among the advisory boards are Supercom Inc., NeoStem, Inc., Digital Ally, theAfrica Society, and No Greater Love (a non-profit, non-political humanitarian organization dedicated to programs of remembrance, friendship, and care for families who have lost loved ones in service to the country or through acts of terrorism). In the past, he was a Founding Member and Incorporator of the Solidarity Endowment, formed in the West to promote the goals of Polish Solidarity. He also was the Founder and Chairman of the Institute on Terrorism and Subnational Conflict. He served as President of Watergate South for more than seven years. Over the years, he has advised the Secretary of State, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Pentagon.

He is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, the George Town Club, the Cosmos Club, the Writers Guild of America, and Iran Policy Committee.

An Honors graduate of the College of William and Mary, he has earned three Masters Degrees, as well as a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.

Publications

Protect Yourself in an Uncertain World: A Comprehensive Handbook for Your Personal and Business Security. (New York: Mastermedia, Sept., 1996).

Rescue My Child: The Story of the Ex-Delta Force Commandos Who Bring Home Children Abducted Overseas. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992). Literary Guild book club alternate selection, Doubleday book club selection, 4 foreign language printings. (Was made into an NBC movie-of-the-week.)

Inside the PLO, with David Halevy. (New York: Morrow, 1990). Also soft cover edition by Quill/Morrow, 1991. Published in the United Kingdom by Robert Hale, 1991.

The Complete Security Guide for Executives. (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1989). Soft cover edition by Lexington Books, 1991.

The Cult of Counterterrorism. (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1989).

Beyond the Iran/Contra Crisis: The Shape of U.S. Counter-Terrorism Policy in the Post-Reagan Era, with Terrell E. Arnold. (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1988). Soft cover edition by Lexington Books, 1988.

{America}_{ the Vulnerable: The Threat of Chemical/Biological Warfare}_, with Joseph D. Douglass Jr. (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1987. Two printings. First soft cover edition by Lexington Books, 1990.

Fighting Back: Winning the War Against Terrorism, with Terrell E. Arnold. (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1985. Introduction by Robert C. McFarlane. Four printing in hard cover, six printings in soft cover. First printing in Portuguese (Brazil, 1987).

The War Against Terrorism. (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1982). Two printings in hard cover, eight in soft cover by Lexington Books, 1982.

Major Monographs

Failure: America's Misdirected Efforts to Combat Terrorism and Recommendations for a More Effective Policy, (Washington, D.C.: The Center for Global Security and Cooperation, 1997).

American Bhopals: The Threat of Catastrophic Refinery Accidents and Sabotage to Hydrofluoric Acid Alkylation Units, (Lincolnshire, Ill.: Energy Safety Council, 1991).

CBW: The Poor Man's Atomic Bomb, with Joseph D. Douglass, Jr., (Cambridge, Mass.: Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, 1984). Introduction by Senator John Tower.

Personal Security Hints for Business and Government Employees, (Washington, D.C.: Joseph J. Cappucci Assocs., Inc., 1979.

Crisis Management for Kidnap and Extortion Incidents, (Washington, D.C.: Josephy J. Cappucci Assocs., Inc., 1979.

A Collection of the Wit and Wisdom of Leo Gross, with Farrokh Jhabvala, (Hull, Mass.: The Friends of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1976).

Other Publications

Nine chapters in books.

Major Scholarly papers.

More than 200 articles in publications such as: New York Times, Washington Post, Los angeles Times, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsday, Sea Power, Army, DomesticPreparedness.com,Justice, Counterterrorism & Security, Washington Times, Soldier of Fortune, Reader’s Digest, International Freedom Review, Washingtonian, Washington Jewish Week, National Review, This World, World Affairs, Detroit News, Defense and Foreign Affairs, Air University Review, Conflict, Leaders, International Security Review,Strategic Review, World & I, Officer Review, The Center Magazine, Roll Call, The Sunday Times (Singapore), andAdventure Unlimited.

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GlobalOptions sues ex-exec in security firms tiff

By Jeff Stein

Updated on Sept. 20, 2012: This lawsuit has been settled.

GlobalOptions, the private Washington security firm that once billed itself as “a private CIA,” is suing a former top executive who left the company for a competitor this summer and allegedly lured others to go with him.

It's the latest bit of publicity for companies that prize secrecy but have been forced into public controversies in recent years, G4s for its labor practices, GlobalSecurity for board members tainted by scandal.

Halsey Fischer, Global Options says in its suit, violated a no-compete contract when he resigned as the firm’s vice president for national sales and went to work for G4s, the multinational, U.K.-based security guards company that owns Wackenhut.

Fischer could not be reached for comment, but G4s rejected the charge, filed Sept. 17 in U.S. District Court in Nashville, Tenn.

“Halsey Fischer is employed to work with us in a capacity that will not violate any restrictive covenants he may have with former employers,” a company spokesman said in an e-mailed statement.

Fischer was the founder and longtime chief executive ofConfidential Business Resources, a Nashville-based investigative firm. Following its acquisition by Global Resources in 2005, according to the suit, he became the firm’s president of investigations.

After he left GlobalOptions for G4s in August, the suit says, two other executives who had been working for Fischer resigned and followed him to the firm.

It's the latest sign of tumult at GlobalOptions, founded in 1998 by Neil C. Livingstone, a behind-the-scenes adviser to Reagan White House official Col. Oliver North during the arms-for-hostages deal with Iran. Livingstone left the company in late 2006 to start a similar firm,Executive Action LLC, headquartered in Dupont Circle. He took the "private CIA" moniker with him.

In 2007, GlobalOptions, which said in an SEC filing that its “foreign clients operate primarily in Russia and the Caribbean,accusedLivingstone of trying to steal its clients. Asked about the outcome Thursday night, Livingstone said he was prohibited from discussing the case because of a non-disclosure agreement "but I was very happy with the outcome. The only thing that was bad was the fact that there was any publicity."

As SpyTalk reported in June, a major investor in GlobalOptions wasKenneth I. Starr, the disgraced financial adviser with an A-List stable of Hollywood clients.

Starr pled guilty Sept. 10 to swindling at least $50 million from a glittering list of film and media stars including Uma Thurman, Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese, Neil Simon, newscaster Diane Sawyer and photographer Annie Leibovitz.

In June, Starr's son Ronald, who had been managing director of his father’s investment firm, resigned from the board of GlobalOptions, where he had held a seat since its founding.

Now headed by Harvey Schiller, a former sports and broadcasting business executive and onetime executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, GlobalOptions today stops short of advertising itself as “a private CIA.”

But the heart of its business remains in security services and corporate intelligence.

“With a single call, through a single point of contact,” the firm’s brochure says, “you can access our entire array of international risk services - from security and investigations, to disaster preparedness and management, to fraud prevention and litigation support.”

By Jeff Stein  | September 23, 2010; 6:43 PM ET 

Categories:  Financial/business, Intelligence, Lawandcourts

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