Hayden employed MZM CEO who had worked for/with him at NIMA

Muckraker has an exclusive Lt. Gen. James C. King became president of MZM when Mitchell Wade (who bribed Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham with $1.4 million in money and gifts) left the company in June 2005. Since then, the company has been acquired by Veritas Capital (major investor in DynCorp) and renamed Athena Innovative Solutions, 1523 New Hampshire Ave NW ,Washington, DC 20036 - which is the address of the company that bought Duke Cunninghams House and was MZM's address in Washington.DC....links to Lincoln Group, BKSH, MZM, Rendon - who else? Athena's client list.

1. Federal records show King contributed to some of Wade's favourite lawmakers, including $6000 to Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) and $4000 to Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL).

2. Before joining MZM in December 2001, King served under Gen. Michael V Hayden as the NSA's associate deputy director for operations, and as head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.NIMA was then currently leading the U.S. government-funded effort to develop a spy satellite that can focus in on something as small as a person.

3. King then worked at NSA Headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland, in 2004 and 2005, he worked on the same floor as Hayden both sources told me. "King was out there working on same floor as Hayden," one former employee with firsthand knowledge of the arrangement said. "He was doing special projects for Hayden as an MZM employee." Neither former employee knew details of King's work for Hayden; one said he thought he was doing "special projects" for the director, while the other speculated it was "high-ranking advisory work."

4. Hayden left the NSA in April 2005 to take the post of Deputy Director of National Intelligence.

5. As an MZM employee, King was involved in a number of controversial projects. In 2002, he was a key adviser to the team creating CIFA, the Pentagon's domestic surveillance operation. In 2004, he was one of three MZM staffers who worked on the White House Robb-Silberman Commission, which recommended expanding CIFA's powers.

6. USA Today has an interesting article Nov 5th 2005 about MZM.

7. Wade's mother's name was Saieed, and probably his grandparents were Iraqi Christians.

8. Tommy Kontogiannis, 56, of Glen Head,Long Island, had his home Rosedale, Queens office and yacht Kelly C in Glen Cove searched by Federal agents in September 2005.In October 2002, Kontogiannis pleaded guilty to misdemeanor fraud charges involving bid-rigging on computer contracts in School District 29 in Queens. Cunningham wrote a letter to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown saying he thought that Kontogiannis was the victim of an unfair prosecution. Kontogiannis was involved in the financial transactions both fro Cunninghams house and his yacht.

It is further interesting to note that from 1991-1993 (Bush Pere/Cheney Sec of Def) he worked in the Pentagon as a program manager for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence. That would have been Duane P. Andrews, now Chief operating officer of SAIC (HQ, San Diego)...." work to solve complex technical problems in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care and logistics" Here is an interesting interview with him about DOD systems security.