| Type | Private military security firm |
|---|---|
| Industry | Private military and security contractor |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder(s) |
Torsten Grunert Richard Gates |
| Headquarters | Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and Towson, Maryland, USA |
| Employees | > 150 worldwide |
Private Security and Intelligence Service was a German-American private military company founded in 1999 by Torsten Grunert and Richard Gates.
Based in Germany (Cologne) and in the US (Towson), PSIS operated two secret facilities.
FBI search and closure in September 2012[]
After a FBI search in the Towson headquarters and a shooting in Cologne, both PSIS facilities were closed in September 2012. It is currently unknown, what the FBI search was about, or if there were any casualties in Cologne.
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