Wackenhut Dies at 85
Feb 1, 2005 12:00 PM
George R. Wackenhut, a former F.B.I. agent who built the Wackenhut Corp. into an international security firm that promoted the use of private guards at prisons, airports and nuclear power plants, died of heart failure on Dec. 31 at his home in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 85.
Wackenhut persuaded thousands of communities and government agencies to put private guards in public jobs — an idea law enforcement officials had long resisted. He turned a three-man operation into one of the most successful security firms in the world.
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