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| The Safeguards Company | 2026-10-08 | published | A nuclear safeguards consultancy bought by Wackenhut in 1978 became a security-technology subsidiary run by the Energy Department's former safeguards chief, and was sold off in 1993. |
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The Safeguards Company
The Nuclear Surveillance and Auditing Corporation, established in 1968 to audit fuel fabrication and reprocessing, was headed by Ralph F. Lumb, who had chaired the Atomic Energy Commission's ad hoc committee on safeguarding special nuclear materials. Renamed NUSAC in 1975, it hired a former head of security at the commission's Savannah River operations office, and in 1979 a computer security manager from the Defense Intelligence Agency. By 1980 its security divisions listed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy and the United States Navy as clients.1
On December 28, 1978 the Wackenhut Corporation bought NUSAC's assets, and a Florida subsidiary was filed the next day at Wackenhut's Coral Gables headquarters. "NUSAC is and will remain an independent firm," George R. Wackenhut was quoted as saying. Its board in late 1979 was George Wackenhut as chairman, Lumb, Robert E. Miller and Dr. Myron S. Malkin, then director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Shuttle program.12
In April 1981 Robert Frye, president of Wackenhut Services, Inc., and Tribal Chairman Arthur Welmas signed the joint venture between Wackenhut and the Cabazon Indian Reservation band.3 A letter over Welmas's name, headed "CABAZON INDIAN SECURITY /WSI JOINT VENTURE," Indio, describes a planned "new assault weapon, which would have unique characteristics, including an adjustable cycle rate of fire and a laser sighting system." The names that follow the signature are Peter Zokosky, Bob Frye, Dr. Myron Malkin, Colonel Glade Flake, John James, Bruce James, John Paul Nichols and Wayne Reeder. Whether the Dr. Myron Malkin of the letter is the NUSAC director is not established in the records.4
On May 8, 1984 NUSAC, Incorporated became Wackenhut Advanced Technologies Corporation, at Reston, Virginia, absorbing three other Wackenhut security divisions. Its president was Ralph E. Caudle, a retired Air Force colonel who since 1981 had headed the Department of Energy Office of Safeguards and Security, responsible for the protection of nuclear weapons materials and facilities and all of the department's classified information.25 In 1985 the new company was selected to draw up the conceptual design of the security system for the nuclear device assembly facility at the Nevada Test Site, and in 1986 to engineer it.6
From September 1987 its vice president for national security studies was James B. Motley, a retired Army colonel, whose resume appears in the June 1990 packet of Counter Terrorism Consultants, Inc.7 Renamed the Wackenhut Applied Technologies Center in January 1990 and moved to Fairfax, it had by then a Defense Systems Analysis Group whose clients included the Army Survivability Management Office, and whose staff, the parent's annual report states, "apply their skills and background in military operations, requirements and intelligence to support the Department of Defense."28 Wackenhut's annual reports describing this work are among the papers of Danny Casolaro.68
In March 1993 the report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua on the INSLAW matter stated that the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture had no employees and that "the only individual employed by Wackenhut was Frye."3 Wackenhut's annual report for 1994 states that the Applied Technologies Center was sold or discontinued in 1993. The State of Florida dissolved the corporation on August 26, 1994.29
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Nuclear Materials Management (Journal of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management), vol. 2, no. 4 (Winter 1974); vol. 4, no. 1 (Spring 1975); vol. 8, nos. 1, 3 and 4 (1979 to 1980); vol. 9, no. 1 (Spring 1980), https://resources.inmm.org/system/files/jnmm/vol_08/V-8_1.pdf. ↩︎
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Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, document 599071, Wackenhut Applied Technologies Center, Inc. (filed December 29, 1978; name changes May 8, 1984 and January 9, 1990; administrative dissolution August 26, 1994), https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResults/EntityName/WACKENHUT%20ADVANCED/Page1. ↩︎
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United States Department of Justice, report of Judge Nicholas J. Bua on the INSLAW matter (March 1993), section on the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture, printed pp. 55 to 58, https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/nsa/DOJ-OIP-INSLAW_1993.pdf. ↩︎
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Arthur Welmas, letter dated May 1 (year not printed) to La France Specialties, San Diego, headed "CABAZON INDIAN SECURITY /WSI JOINT VENTURE," Danny Casolaro papers, folder "Wackenhut-Correspondence," https://archive.org/details/casolaro-notebooks. ↩︎
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Nuclear Materials Management, vol. 13, no. 1 (Spring 1984), "Ralph E. Caudle Heads Wackenhut Advanced Technologies Corporation," https://resources.inmm.org/system/files/jnmm/vol_13/V-13_1.pdf. ↩︎
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The Wackenhut Corporation, annual reports for 1985 and 1986, sections on Wackenhut Advanced Technologies Corporation and its Security Programs Division, Danny Casolaro papers, folder "Wackenhut-CompanyReportsannualQuarterly," https://archive.org/details/casolaro-notebooks. ↩︎
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CounterTerrorism Consultants, L.P., "Proudly Presents The Resumes of its Associates," fax copy headed "JUN 20 '90," pages 141 P10 and 141 P11, Danny Casolaro papers, folder "Promotional Material," https://archive.org/details/casolaro-notebooks. ↩︎
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The Wackenhut Corporation, annual report with 1989 results, pages on the Wackenhut Applied Technologies Center, same folder as note 6. ↩︎
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The Wackenhut Corporation, Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 1, 1995, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104030/0000912057-95-001626.txt. ↩︎