SCG International Risk

[1] In August 2012, the US Air Force debarred the company for a period of three years from any federal assistance.

Since its founding in 1996, SCG has been operated under the direction of experienced former United States government intelligence officers and military personnel.

SCG International provides training and security services to governments, law enforcement and military units, and to private and corporate entities.

SCG was one of over 60 private security firms employed during the Iraq War and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to guard officials and installations, train Iraq's and Afghanistan's new army and police, and provide other support for coalition forces.

[3] Smith has a background as a CIA officer in publications for SCG,[4] although this assertion has been challenged and never independently verified.