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American Police Force and what is it doing in Montana?
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A secretive California outfit called the American Police Force is taking over the 2-year-old, never-used prison in Hardin, Mont., that was briefly considered a possible spot for Guantanamo prisoners.
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The story has many twists and turns. We recommend you read The Billings Gazette article for a primer on the story. KULR TV of Billings, Mont., The Missoulian, and Talking Points Memo are also on the case.
APF's website, which has been periodically unavailable (click here for a recent cache of their site), says it "leverages the talent and expertise of their extensive global network to provide local, regional, and national security solutions to the United States Government and other clients who are in need of customized private investigative services."
Here's its website pitch:
Whether you are suspicious about a cheating spouse or concerned about a personal threat, APF's team will employ their experience to fulfill your domestic investigation needs.
In one odd twist, Becky Shay, a reporter for the Billings Gazette who has reported extensively on the Hardin Prison, quit her job and is now a spokeswoman for the group in Hardin. Except that she now mainly has "no comment" when pressed about what is going on.
Some other unusual wrinkles:
-- Mercedes SUVs belonging to APF began showing up recently in town with magnetic decals that said "City of Hardin Police Department." The decals were later removed.
-- APF, which has mentioned using the facility for military training, refuses to offer any specifics until after a contract to take over the prison is signed.
-- Albert Peterson, vice president of Hardin's tax-supported economic development arm that built the prison two years ago, says people will be "shocked" when they learn the high quality of the person who will run the operation, The Gazette reports. "I did my background checks and my homework, and they're legit," he said, but won't reveal the name.
--Peterson says APF hopes to begin filling the prison with inmates early next year, but neither he nor APF will say where the prisoners are coming from.
-- The Gazette quotes local officials as saying "they have reason to believe" that APF is a spinoff of a "much larger security company that has contracts around the world."
-- State Rep. Bob Ebinger has joined other lawmakers in seeking answers from Hardin officials about the unusual deal. "Always when things are secretive, you end up getting everybody — on both the right and the left — making suppositions about what's going on," Ebinger, a Democrat, tells the Great Falls Tribune.
--- KULR says APF's founder, Michael Hilton, has an extensive criminal record and has "spent six years in a California prison." The Missoulian says court records show he also uses the aliases Midrag Ilia Dokovitch, Midrag Ilia Dokovich and Michael Miodrag.
-- And, for what it's worth, the APF logo is almost identical to the symbol on the state flag of Serbia.
Update at 2:34 p.m. ET: Talking Points Memo reports that the city's economic development arm, apparently concerned about the publicity around whatever is going on, has posted this message on its website (click here to read it yourself):
We welcome anyone to visit our town! There are no commandos in the streets.There is no fence or gate being built around Hardin. People are free to come and go as they please. APF is not running our town or our police force.
(Photo of Albert Peterson by Matthew Brown, AP)
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Heh interesting. So Blackwater, now known as Xe Services LLC due to a terrible company image, a private mercenary army who's leader, Erik Prince, is a Bilderberg/Council on Foreign Relations member who hired extremists for his army of murderers has now taken over an old prison and a small town via a front company called American Police Force.
Could the conspiracy ever get anymore obvious? Jesus Christ it's so comically out in the open at this point.