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About Stephen McLeod, Founder

Founder and Owner /Operator

My name is Stephen McLeod I was raised in Greenwich CT. My interest in truth justice in the American way started at an early age knowing that my father’s dad was a war hero serving in WWI on the western front. My father was in the Air Force during the Korean war era and this served him well for his future when he received his private pilot’s license and was captain of his own multiple airplanes.

Coming out of Greenwich High School where most of my student athlete friends were off to to get an MBA or law degree I had my sights set on becoming an infantry officer in the USMC..This goal was met with reality in 1992. As a student at Ithaca College I arrived in Quantico VA, home of the toughest training outside of special forces. I was physically prepared with a fitness rating that had me at the top 10% of the company, however I wasn't prepared for the high speed environment where most of the candidates were coming out of the Citadel, Naval Academy, and many were already ranked marines. I became an attrition casualty (heat stroke npq) along w/ 45% of the class. OCS is different than enlistment training slots are extremely competitive and they are happy to get rid of anybody w/ a physical, mental, or spiritual issue. I left completely broken hearted however my patriotic aspirations never waned.

From 1998-2001 I trained myself to become a private investigator and personal protection specialist in an expeditious manner. My wife started working a high profile job in the entertainment industry which attracted men w/ psychological profiles that resulted in 24/7 OCD harassment, stalking, phone taps, indirect threats, unrealistic fantasies etc.. This kind of life is extremely uncomfortable and unfortunately law enforcement can’t do anything until something actually happens. I took this job very seriously, she was my wife.

9-11 hit me like most Americans - like a ton of bricks. I started reading up on different avenues to pursue and became naively jingoistic about the administrations aggressive pursuit of imperialistic hegemony that was very persuasive in leading us to believe that this one country had ties to 9-11 and unequivocally had WMDs. I applied to the Naval officer reserve intel program but my asvabs weren’t great and I didn't have a realistic chance as an officer anyway because they always give the career enlisted guy first dibs for that kind of elite program. As the one country with ties to 9-11 was ignored and the Rumsfeld doctrine of a blitzkrieg mop up job comparable to the first gulf war didn't seem to pan out my eyes started to open. I thought why are we sending our best guys overseas when our country was hit and our stateside security guards make 9 dollars an hour with no real training? I decided then that my mission would be to raise the bar of stateside private security and investigation because last time I checked a US security guard career wasn't at the top of the college placement program advisory list.

Although Eisenhower’s last parting words warned us about how dangerous the rise of the military industrial complex would be, I am a strong believer in how private contractors are utilized both overseas and on a stateside level. In 2005 I founded Executive Protection Associates and attended Dr. Kobetz Executive Protection Institute as well as Blackwater S Advanced EP class shortly thereafter. Dr Richard Kobetz program is internationally acclaimed, he is the founding father of the executive protection industry and a member of Whos Who in the world. I was honored when I was asked personally by Dr Kobetz to be a member of his 5 man detail team for his wedding in Oct.2007

When most people think about private contractors they may have visions of former special force operatives turned civilians running amok in Iraq. The reality is that many people working for our federal intelligence agencies are private contractors working for private intel corporations, and their pay scale is far greater then if they worked for the agency directly. Blue Badgers are direct federal employees and green badgers are private contractors, however many blue badgers moonlight as green badgers for our private intel corporations as well for hedge funds and private equity firms. These people play an important role gathering information that may expose corporate malfeasance and industrial espionage.

In 2008 I worked as a contractor for Raytheon, this is where I was able to associate with true American heroes and gained valuable experience in intel gathering (humint) for investigation purposes. I was amazed that some of these people used to work directly for the CIA and now worked for private investors and utilized Tactical Behavior Assessment to expose body language inaccuracies during various earning report reviews. In light of what happened with Enron, Worldcom, our mortgage crisis, etc., it would be safe to say that these people are valuable assets. Some of the other highlights of my career was working for a Greenwich hedge fund as well as opening an account that provided security and advance work for a coin show at the old Greenwich Civic Center. I decided to launch SM Investigations Group when I opened an office in South FL after speaking to one of my NLA associates who has a private investigation license that is valid in multiple US states. He also conducts many overseas assignments. Many of our contractors have verifiable DD214 tier 1 backgrounds as well as highly qualified stateside former law enforcement experience.

Skepticism toward our government has been justly earned from our experience with rogue operatives across the board that assassinated JFK, Vietnam, Watergate and Rumsfeld's Office of Special Planning that used unvetted intel to invade Iraq. However we stepped up in a big way by creating the DNI (Director of National Intelligence) to prevent this from ever happening again. Little known and highly classified agencies such as the(NGA) National Geo-spatial Intel Agency allegedly took out Bin Laden . Data mining was used to apprehend the D.C. sniper and I urge all solid citizens to become members of FBI Infragard. This will shed light on the real threats that come at us every day that don't even make it to our news outlets. China has hacked our critical military infrastructure and the largest cyber hacking criminals in the world all have advanced data mining skills and we are their number one target. There is a big difference between freedom of information requests and our pursuit of government transparency and acts of war toward our country and flat out espionage.

I urge all Americans to solemnly swear to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. Spies and terrorists exploit our networks, steal our secrets, attack our critical infrastructure, and directly threaten our people and believe me I am not one of those paranoid McCarthyism cold war types. Terrorists use the Internet and may launch a full scale cyber attack. Cyber warfare and state sponsored hackers are patient and calculating. These people conduct reconnaissance and ex filtrate seemingly innocuous information that in aggregate is of very high value. Hostile foreign nations seek our trade secrets, this is dangerous espionage at the highest levels. Mercenary hackers have created criminal syndicates and of course we have once trusted insiders selling ours secrets, perimeter defense does not matter when our enemy is inside the gates.

Shadow operatives of our government continue to stage false flag terrorist attacks on our soil and extort trillions of dollars worth of tax payers money under the phony guise of civil liberties and democracy and keeping us safe from a threat that never even existed while they continue to attempt to eliminate our Bill of Rights, our Right to Bear Arms and to speak freely in our country where the US Constitution is still the supreme Law of the Land.

I take continued attacks on our homeland as well as the sociopathic wannabe big shot investment ponzi schemes and the people behind them that pray on innocent Americans on a very deep and personal level. The message I am sending out is "We have all ready stepped up our game in a big way and for those overseas cyber criminals we are collaborating on international levels, you soon will be extradited back to the USA to face justice because we already know who you are." If you get targeted by a ruthless cyber crook and your entire life gets turned upside down due to an unscrupulous buyer on eBay, a cyber stalk, somebody that writes slanderous reviews about you or your company etc. please come to us first. FBI IC3 is way too busy, local law enforcement has budget constraints that limit expertise in aggressive cyber crime divisions, and in most cases their hands are tied because it is considered a civil issue. Most attorneys do not specialize in advanced data mining and have zero experience putting pieces together from various geographic locations. We will do that and more and bring that unscrupulous individual to justice.

In May 2021, I attended ESS Global corporation - ESS- executive protection course. This is the only school in the state of Florida that is certified by the DOE (Dept of Education)