Spies For Hire: CTC International Group

United States of America (Press Release) August 17, 2007 -- CTC International Group was founded in 1992 to fill the need for high quality, affordable business intelligence. Its executives are mostly former officers of the Central Intelligence Agency, with unique training, experience, and contacts. All the personnel and associates are hand-picked because of their exceptional qualifications, and they are licensed investigators and members of several international investigative organizations. To ensure the highest quality product possible, it uses the same basic organizational structure as the CIA; it has an operational component that collects information from a wide variety of sources and an analytic component that synthesizes, analyzes, and reports the information to the client. The analysts also identify any existing gaps and task the operation department to collect the information to fill those gaps. They also work closely with the client to ensure that the investigation is answering their specific questions. Additionally, because they use clandestine collection methods, CTC International Group is able to maintain complete confidentiality for the client. It uses the same methodology whether they are undertaking an international or domestic investigation.

CTC takes its name from the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center (Rustmann commanded the center’s overseas station prior to his retirement). The company maintains a low profile and runs just like what it is: a miniature CIA with representatives in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok, Addis Ababa, Cyprus, Mexico and elsewhere. All dealings with CTC are conducted through the firm’s corporate headquarters in Florida.

Each type of assignment requires skills CTC operatives developed at the CIA such as computer research, hostile area operations, contact interviews and information extraction and evaluation. Clients receive periodic progress reports and an end-of-assignment wrap-up written by operatives who are highly educated and experienced in producing intelligence packages for American and foreign leaders.

“Providing risk analysis information is usually the mundane part of our business, although it occasionally gets exciting,” Rustmann said, “but without this type of information a business can’t be effective internationally.” Risk analysis information is a collection of basic information about a country’s economic, political and cultural data - a rundown on local business practices and the interplay between government and business. It also includes advice on criminal and, if applicable, insurgent/terrorist activities and how to deal with them.

CTC’s extensive web of high level international contacts and knowledge of cultures and business climates allows them to provide clients with important information on how to accomplish business goals in foreign countries and to introduce clients to the important members in government and business circles.