Welcome.

The Berntsen Group provides expertise in Corporate Security, Crisis Management, Corporate Intelligence, Kidnap/Ransom Consulting, Physical and Personal Security and Due Diligence. From our offices in New York and San Diego and with consultants in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East we service the needs of our clients around the globe.

The Berntsen Group offers, on a global basis, timely, accurate and reliable investigative and security services. We maintain the highest level of confidentiality on behalf of our clients. Our U.S. domestic staff consist of highly trained former senior U.S. intelligence and federal law enforcement personnel. Former foreign law enforcement, military officers and justice ministry personnel augment our services in offshore operations.

About Gary Berntsen

Gary Berntsen spent more than twenty years as an officer in the Clandestine Service and served in an array of Field Command assignments.

During the course of his career, he was privileged to serve as a CIA Station Chief on three separate occasions and led many of CIA's most important counterterrorism deployments including the United States' response to the East Africa bombings and the 9/11 attacks.

He is the recipient of CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal and the Intelligence Star.

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The Berntsen Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 508
Babylon, New York 11702

Tel: (631) 422-3423
Fax: (631) 422-3431



In the News

  • Washington Post article on Berntsen, Jawbreaker, and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden [more]
  • Berntsen on "Hardball With Chris Matthews" [more]
  • Berntsen talks to Kyra Philips, host of CNN's "Live From" [more]
  • Berntsen Interviewed on National Public Radio [more]

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