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<http://cubamoneyproject.org/?p=1427> U.S. companies in Cuba tied to top-secret work<http://cubamoneyproject.org/?p=1427> Filed under News <http://cubamoneyproject.org/?category_name=news> {no comments <http://cubamoneyproject.org/?p=1427#commentlist>} At least 37 U.S. companies that worked in Cuba from 2000 to 2009 are involved in top-secret taxpayer-financed endeavors somewhere in the world, Washington Post and FedSpending <http://www.fedspending.org/> records show. In July 2010, the Washington Post identified 1,931 companies that do top-secret work on behalf of the U.S. government (See the Posts Top Secret America <http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/> database). FedSpending records show that at least 37 of those firms also have been contracted for jobs though not necessarily secret work in Cuba. Records do not show precisely where all of the classified work was carried out, but it appears that most or all took place as part of multimillion-dollar upgrades to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, or GITMO, after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In June 2010, the Post reported<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/06/AR2010060604093.html>that U.S. officials had spent at least $500 million to transform what was once a sun-beaten and forgotten Caribbean base into one of the most secure military and prison installations in the world. The Post said spending included: - $249,000 for an abandoned volleyball court - $296,000 for an unused go-kart track and - $3.5 million for 27 playgrounds that are often vacant. The total spent at Guantanamo could be nearly $2 billion, the Post reported. The Cuba Money Project reported on March 14 that U.S. companies had gotten nearly $1 billion <http://cubamoneyproject.org/?p=960> in U.S. contracts for work in Cuba and detailed some of the costs. The 37 companies involved in both Cuba and top-secret work somewhere in the world include some familiar and not-so-familiar names: 1. CH2M Hill Companies 2. CACI International Inc. 3. Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions Incorporated 4. Carahsoft Technology Corp. 5. Endeca Technologies Incorporated 6. Lockheed Martin Corp. 7. Dell Computer Corporation 8. dck Worldwide LLC 9. Xerox Corp. 10. Apptis 11. URS Corp. 12. IBM Corp. 13. Motorola, Inc. 14. Symantec Corporation 15. Integrated Security Technologies 16. BAE Systems, Inc. 17. GTSI 18. immixGroup 19. Transperfect 20. CALNET, Inc. 21. General Dynamics 22. Trusted Computer Solutions 23. L-3 Communications 24. Global Technology Resources Inc. 25. Blue Tech 26. Microsoft Corporation 27. Siemens 28. Quantum 29. Zel Technologies LL 30. Harris Corporation 31. Verizon 32. AINS, Inc. 33. Dataline Inc. 34. QinetiQ 35. Parsons Corporation 36. Aecom 37. Thales Dana Priest and William M. Arkin led the team that carried out the Posts two-year investigation. They said U.S. government agencies and private contractors doing top-secret work amounted to a fourth-branch of government that operated with little oversight. They wrote: The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work. *Source information*: - *Download **Washington Post list*<https://sites.google.com/site/cubamoneyproject/wash-post/wash-post.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1> * of 1,931 companies involved in top-secret work* - *Download **FedSpending data*<https://sites.google.com/site/cubamoneyproject/fed-spending/fed-spending.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1> * showing list of companies that received contracts to carry out work in Cuba from 2000 to the roughly the third quarter of 2009.* *Note: A quick scan showed that at least 37 companies that are on both lists. I didnt include companies with similar names. 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