A decade ago, Blackwater barely existed; and yet its "diplomatic security" contracts since mid-2004, withethe State Department alone, total more than $750m£370m0m).
Over the next several years, the two small State Department offices issued more than $250 million in police training and diplomatic security contracts to DynCorp for work in Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo.
The Nisour Square killings ultimately led the State Department to drop Blackwater from its diplomatic security contract in Iraq.
"It would hurt us," Mr. Prince, the chairman, said in an interview in January about losing the diplomatic security contract.
Its diplomatic security contract with the State Department is now the company's largest, Ms. Tyrrell said, while declining to provide the dollar amount.
The company employs about 850 workers in Iraq under its diplomatic security contract, about three-quarters of them Americans, according to the State Department and the Congressional Research Service.
The committee report places a significant share of the blame for Blackwater's record in Iraq on the State Department, which has paid Blackwater more than $832 million for security services in Iraq and elsewhere, under a diplomatic security contract it shares with two other companies, DynCorp International and Triple Canopy.
Inside the compound, the State Department is in charge, relying on a mix of diplomatic security officers, local contract guards and Marines.
The contrade consider themselves miniature republics and engage in diplomatic relations among themselves, contracting alliances and stoking rivalries. .
Later that year, DynCorp won a contract from the diplomatic security office to guard American diplomats in Haiti.
