I've counted about 15 very significant people on
the Comair flight, and then had to ask how they
happened to be on the plane. A terror drill might
explain it, though I have no evidence to that effect
so far. But I looked into terror drills in the area
and who manages them. The answer was Tetra Tech - a
CIA creation directly tied to the early Reinhard
Gehlen network, it turns out. Interesting reading.
This is just a glance at the company. There is much
more on the Net. 

- AC
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http://www.tetratech.com/service/security/emergency_preparedness.asp

TETRA TECH developed implemented, and moderated a
large-scale mock terrorism exercise in Louisville,
Kentucky called Operation River City. The exercise
lasted for 60 continuous hours and consisted of
multiple chemical, biological, radiological, hostage,
and explosive scenarios meant to simulate a nationally
significant incident. 

http://www.tetratech.com/company/execbios/smith.aspAlbert
E. Smith

Chairman of the Board?Director since 2005

Mr. Smith has been a member of our Board since May
2005 and was elected Chairman on March 6, 2006. Mr.
Smith is a former member of the Secretary of Defense's
DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD, serving from 2002 to 2005. He
was an Executive Vice President of Lockheed Martin and
President of its Integrated Systems & Solutions
business until 2004. From 1999 to 2003 Mr. Smith was
Executive Vice President of Lockheed Martin's Space
Systems Company. Prior to that, Mr. Smith was
President of Government Systems at Harris Corporation.
He has also worked for the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY, where he received the Intelligence Medal of
Merit.

Hugh M. Grant
Director since 2003
Mr. Grant joined our Board in January 2003. He has
been a business consultant since 1996. Prior to 1996,
Mr. Grant spent approximately 38 years with Ernst &
Young LLP ...

Richard H. Truly
Director since 2003

Admiral Truly joined our Board in April 2003. He is
the former Executive Vice President of Midwest
Research Institute (MRI). Prior to joining MRI in
1997, Admiral Truly was Vice President of the Georgia
Institute of Technology, and Director of the Georgia
Tech Research Institute, from 1992 to 1997. From 1989
to 1992, he served as NASA's eighth Administrator
under President George H. Bush, and prior to that, had
a distinguished career in the U.S. Navy and NASA,
retiring from the Navy as Vice Admiral. Admiral Truly
was an astronaut with NASA and piloted the Columbia,
commanded the Challenger and, in 1986, led the
investigation of the Challenger accident. Admiral
Truly was awarded the Presidential Citizen's Medal,
has served on the Defense Policy Board and Army
Science Board, and is a member of the National Academy
of Engineering.

Dr. Li-San Hwang
Chairman Emeritus

Dr. Hwang retired from Tetra Tech on March 6, 2006 and
serves as Chairman Emeritus for life in an advisory
role. Dr. Hwang, joined our predecessor in 1967 and
led our acquisition of the Water Management Group of
Tetra Tech, Inc., an operating unit of Honeywell
Inc....
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TETRA TECH'S REINHARD GEHLEN CONNECTION
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jhcritchfield.htm
Wednesday, 23 April 2003    
  
Ex-CIA Official James Critchfield Dies

James H. Critchfield, 86, a decorated World War II
Army officer who played a key role in the Central
Intelligence Agency's controversial postwar alliance
with former German officials to spy on the Soviet
Union, died April 22, 2003, at a hospice in
Williamsburg. He had pancreatic cancer.

Mr. Critchfield, who retired in 1974, was the chief of
the CIA's Near East and South Asia division in the
1960s and a national intelligence officer for energy
as the oil shortage crisis began in the early 1970s.
Later, as president of TETRA TECH International, he
focused on Middle East energy resources, especially
those in Oman, and did consulting work.

It was his part in the early days of Cold War
intelligence that most recently catapulted him to
attention.

Only in the late 1990s did the CIA begin to disclose,
through an act of Congress, its collaboration with
former Nazi spies in what was known as the Gehlen
Organization. The network was named for Reinhard
Gehlen, a German general who oversaw Adolf Hitler's
anti-Soviet intelligence and became the first head of
West Germany's secret service.

For many, Gehlen's work came to symbolize the moral
compromises of the United States. Mr. Critchfield,
often credited with recommending the CIA's union with
Gehlen, defended the work, which supplied the West
with an infusion of fresh intelligence material about
the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries at the
start of the Cold War.
During the Berlin Airlift and other vital moments,
such intelligence was hard to obtain, he said.

He added that many of the top Germans, including
Gehlen, were far from Nazi ideologues and that many
sympathized with those who tried to kill Hitler.

"I've lived with this for 50 years," Mr. Critchfield
told The Washington Post in 2001. "Almost everything
negative that has been written about Gehlen, in which
he has been described as an ardent ex-Nazi, one of
Hitler's war criminals -- this is all far from the
fact."

As the size of the Gehlen group grew to several
thousand, many in the organization were reputed to be
Soviet spies, former Nazis and other unsavory types
used as informants and for other purposes.

"There's no doubt that the CIA got carried away with
recruiting some pretty bad people," Mr. Critchfield
told a reporter.
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MXs Near Canada
http://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v04n5p31.htm

... Last August, the USAF held hearings about the MX
rail garrison proposal, mediated by Colonel Mike
McShane, a U.S. military tribunal judge.

The meeting began with a talk by a Pentagon expert,
Lt. Col. Walsh. He discussed the history of MX policy,
and the controversial Draft Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS), a document detailing the potential
impact of rail garrison on the local economy.

The report originated from an earlier set of hearings
and from studies conducted by a private research
company hired by the U.S. military, Tetra-tech.
Tetra-Tech was once a Honeywell subsidiary. Speakers
from the audience were given a three-minute limit.
Comments were addressed to a panel, made up of: two
airforce officers; a Tetra Tech representative; a
pentagon expert, the formerly mentioned Lt. Col.
Walsh; and a Pentagon scientist.

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(added by brad)
usgs.gov Tetra_Tech_Inc

Since late 2003, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has conducted 
extensive ammunition clearance operations of the former Iraqi regime’s 
ammunition stock-piles located at remote sites throughout the country. 
The USACE sub-contracts the different projects under the programme 
to a number of explosive ordinance (EOD) companies, including ECC and Tetra Tech.
http://www.armorgroup.com/globalreach/middleeast/case/tetra/


Founded in 1966, Tetra Tech Inc. provides consulting, technical and engineering services in areas such as resource management and infrastructure. The company has more than 8,000 employees in over 250 offices around the world. Tetra Tech, which was part of the Honeywell Corporation from 1982 to 1988, has done work for several U.S. government agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Defense Department. Tetra Tech also worked on Capitol Hill in the fall of 2001—testing congressional offices for anthrax and decontaminating buildings after anthrax-laced letters were anonymously sent to some members of Congress.

The company had annual sales of $740.7 million in 2002.
Iraq contracts

Tetra Tech Inc. was given a work order on Aug. 18, 2003, under an existing contract to assist with the destruction of "captured enemy ammunition" in Iraq, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. In addition to Tetra Tech, three other companies were awarded new work orders. Parsons was awarded new tasks for $89 million while EOD Technology, USA Environmental and Tetra Tech each were awarded $65 million. According to Tetra Tech, it is the largest single work assignment it has ever received. The company will collect captured munitions from U.S. soldiers and determine if the munitions are unserviceable or serviceable. Tetra Tech will destroy selected munitions—most likely onsite in Iraq —and the rest will be stockpiled under U.S. control until further disposition is determined. Work was scheduled to start immediately and was expected to be complete by July 2004.
Afghanistan contracts

Tetra Tech is a subcontractor on a project that will provide facilities to support the First Brigade of the Afghan National Army. Perini is the prime contractor, but Azad Architects, POWER Engineering and Tetra Tech are part of Perini's team for this $25 million contract.
Government ties

Chairman and CEO Li-San Hwang and President James M. Jaska have served as advisers to several government and professional society committees, according to their company biographies. It could not be ascertained which government committees that included.

James T. Haney served as captain in the U.S. Air Force, when he was project officer in the Biomedical Sciences Corps for the U.S. Air Force Weapons Laboratory, according to his company bio.
Updates

As of December 18, 2003
After receiving new information and additional documents since original publication, the Center has updated the contract value and also posted a task order the company received from the Army Corps of Engineers. The company was given a work order on Aug. 18, 2003, under an existing contract to assist with the destruction of "captured enemy ammunition" in Iraq, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. As of December 2003, the contract ceiling had been increased to $120 million and work in Iraq totaled $66.9 million.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=71