Post-military Career
Upon retiring from the Army in 1990, Haney was employed as a freelance security consultant and trainer. He worked within the United States and abroad as a bodyguard, trainer for military and police forces, and private kidnap rescuer.
Some of Haney's assignments in the private sector include conducting the ransom negotiation and ransom hand-over for a kidnapped oil executive in Colombia, and helping governments in two Middle Eastern countries develop their special forces capabilities. He also worked for several years as personal security detail leader for several high-profile clients, such as Saudi Prince Khalid al Faisal, the CEO of the largest corporation in Mexico, and Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide upon his return from exile in 1994.
During the 1990s, Haney performed security consulting work in Algeria on a gas pipeline project, and started a contract aviation company in Liberia. Some time after that, Haney was approached about organizing and leading a coup attempt in another African nation. He was able to completely thwart the parties who wanted that coup, several of the conspirators were arrested a short while later.
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