The Deepening Mystery of Raymond Davis and Two Slain Pakistani Motorcyclists
February 9th, 2011Update: It’s Official: Raymond Davis Is a CIA Contractor
Via: Los Angeles Times:
Pakistani and U.S. authorities say U.S. Embassy worker Raymond Davis, who killed two alleged robbers in Lahore, works for the CIA.
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Wow. You have to check out hyperion-protective.com. No really. Must see. But be warned: Your sides will hurt from laughing.
My personal favorite: The “professional” throwing stars on page 3 of the catalog.
Ok, so, Raymond A. Davis, some variety of spook or mercenary, working out of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, killed two people, and was carrying business cards for Hyperion Protective Consultants?
I looked up the whois on hyperion-protective.com and it lists the address as:
2150 Brengle Ave. in Orlando, Florida. This address isn’t mentioned in the piece below.
Google shows two businesses at 2150 Brengle Ave.: Transpo Electronics and Transworld Holdings. It’s a large warehouse type building (See: Google Maps).
Anyway, my roosters are awake, which means that I should be asleep. Let me know if you find anything interesting.
Via: Counterpunch:
The mystery of American Raymond A. Davis, currently imprisoned in the custody of local police in Lahore, Pakistan and charged with the Jan. 27 murder of two young men, whom he allegedly shot eight times with pinpoint accuracy through his car windshield, is growing increasingly murky. Also growing is the anger among Pakistanis that the US is trying to spring him from a Punjab jail by claiming diplomatic immunity. On Feb. 4, there were massive demonstrations, especially in Lahore, demanding that Davis be held for trial, an indication of the level of public anger at talk of granting him immunity.
Davis (whose identity was first denied and later confirmed by the US Embassy in Islamabad), and the embassy have claimed that he was hired as an employee of a US security company called Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC, which was said to be located at 5100 North Lane in Orlando, Florida. Business cards for Hyperion were found on Davis by arresting officers.
However CounterPunch has investigated and discovered the following information:
First, there is not and never has been any such company located at the 5100 North Lane address. It is only an empty storefront, with empty shelves along one wall and an empty counter on the opposite wall, with just a lone used Coke cup sitting on it. A leasing agency sign is on the window. A receptionist at the IB Green & Associates rental agency located in Leesburg, Florida, said that her agency, which handles the property, part of a desolate-looking strip mall of mostly empty storefronts, has never leased to a Hyperion Protective Consultants. She added, “In fact, until recently, we had for several years occupied that address ourselves.”
The Florida Secretary of State’s office, meanwhile, which requires all Florida companies, including LLSs (limited liability partnerships), to register, has no record, current or lapsed, of a Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC, and there is only one company with the name Hyperion registered at all in the state. It is Hyperion Communications, a company based in W. Palm Beach, that has no connection with Davis or with security-related activities.
The non-existent Hyperion Protective Consultants does have a website (www.hyperion-protective.com), but one of the phone numbers listed doesn’t work, an 800 number produces a recorded answer offering information about how to deal with or fend off bank foreclosures, and a third number with an Orlando exchange goes to a recording giving Hyperion’s corporate name and asking the caller to leave a message. Efforts to contact anyone on that line were unsuccessful. The local phone company says there is no public listing for Hyperion Protective Consultants–a rather unusual situation for a legitimate business operation.
Pakistani journalists have been speculating that Davis is either a CIA agent or is working as a contractor for some private mercenary firm–possibly Xe, the reincarnation of Blackwater. They are not alone in their suspicions. Jeff Stein, writing in the Washington Post on January 27, suggested after interviewing Fred Burton, a veteran of the State Department’s counter-terrorism Security Service, that Davis may have been involved in intelligence activity, either as a CIA employee under embassy cover or as a contract worker at the time of the shootings. Burton, who currently works with Stratfor, an Austin, TX-based “global intelligence” firm, even speculates that the shootings may have been a “spy meeting gone awry,” and not, as US Embassy and State Department officials are claiming, a case of an attempted robbery or car-jacking.
Ah, I see you created that “Florida” category you once threatened to 🙂
http://www.superpages.com/bp/Orlando-FL/Hyperion-Protective-Consultants-L2063696131.htm&count=0 shows that company name at a different address, which sure looks like an apartment complex.
http://www.resumebucket.com/HYPERION shows the owner of the company as being one Gerald Richardson, also connected with Transpo at the other address.
This has more connections with Richardson: http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Orlando/hyperion-protective-consultants-llc-6355878.aspx
Hmmm. Counterpunch’s research sure did suck. There are dozens of active corporations with “hyperion” in the name in Florida, including Hyperion Protective Consultants:
http://www.sunbiz.org/scripts/cordet.exe?action=DETFIL&inq_doc_number=L07000013012&inq_came_from=NAMFWD&cor_web_names_seq_number=0000&names_name_ind=N&names_cor_number=K65714&names_name_seq=0000&names_name_ind=N&names_comp_name=HYPERIONINVESTMENT&names_filing_type=
Kevin,
transpo electronics is a business that manufactures automotive and truck electronic components. Wiring harnesses, voltage regulators, diodes and such. I toured the place 10 or so years ago.
I can’t imagine how the company would be affiliated in any way with the hyperion clown(S). Maybe someone was an executive there and was having mail sent there … or something.
Kevin,
I didn’t find anything interesting on this issue other than what you put up on this site. It would be absolutely absurd if this Raymond Davis fellow were granted diplomatic immunity. The website was a farce. The site was selling what? Not sure? Couldn’t spell – looked like one of my late night posts!:-)
Surely the Pakistani’s are intelligent enough to have looked at the same things!
But it brings to my mind some interesting questions. Did my senior thesis on the Wackenhut Corporation back in 1988. Har. They were wearing ski masks and toting machine guns on the front page of their annual report! My professors did NOT like my subject choice and made me resubmit because it wasn’t one and a half spaced. Am showing my age here.
Am wondering how Wackenhut (Reagan and Ollie North – Wackenhut put a perimeter fence around Ollie North’s homestead while he was testifying about Iran-Contra. Most likely at taxpayer expense – but who cared about taxpayer expense during Reagan? Barf) most likely morphed into Blackwater and XE now. A who’s whose would be interesting to me. I’ll look into it in my spare time. HAR.
But if I were a Pakistani in charge right now, I’d be holding this Raymond guy close to the chest and would NOT be releasing him.
Diplomatic immunity in the U.S., when I lived in Washington, D.C. meant that you could park anywhere you wanted to and flip the bird at a parking ticket. But man, no one I knew of shot someone. Periond. And then thought they could get out of dodge under the cloak of diplomatic immunity.
Raymond needs to stay in jail for awhile, in Pakistan methinks. Maybe the Pakistani’s should do what the U.S. does to those they capture. I dunno, (and I hate to say this) but maybe we should start torturing him (like the U.S. does to all their prisoners)?
I know that sounds terrible for me to suggest. But I’m getting exhausted by the lack of checks and balances in the U.S. government. Eric “Holder” seems to be an appropriate name for an Attorney General who wants to prosecute whistleblowers rather than investigate crimes. Hold onto it Eric. Maybe it’ll perk itself up one of these days. Anyways, before I even get started, See who comes out of the woodwork for Raymond’s rescue. This could become even more so, very, very interesting.
yeah, the catalog was pretty cheezy…I would have bought a t-shirt but they didn’t seem to offer any with the hyperion corp logo…I bought a Blackwater T from their supposedly defunct ‘Pro Shop’….very style-ey….has the bear paw/target site logo with “blackwater” down the sleeves…I had checked with Tripe Canopy, Aegis, Dyncorp to see if they had corp logo’d shirts and gear for sale…I know I shouldn’t support the ‘beast’ in any way since my tax $ do that already…I guess I am a black ops groupie to some degree…shucks, it could be like owning an original Grateful Dead or Stones concert t-shirt, 20 years from now….