SPECIAL ACTIVITIES SQUAD
The Special Activities Squad (SAS) of MNS is combined with a logistical backup attachment named Team Gray.
The SAS and Team Gray are providing services in following fields:
The SAS and Team Gray are providing services in following fields:
- LOCATING MISSING PEOPLE
- TRACKING WANTED INDIVIDUALS
- INTELLIGENCE GATHERING / TERROR CONTROL ASSISTANCE (COUNTERINTELLIGENCE & COUNTER-SABOTAGE)
- DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS / PROVIDING EMISSARIES TO MEDIATE IN WAR AND CONFLICT ZONES
- TRAVEL SECURITY & JOURNEY MANAGEMENT
- BODYGUARD SERVICES (LATIN AMERICA, ARAB WORLD & AFRICA)
- CONFLICT ZONE THREAT ASSESSEMENTS FOR NGOs
- SECURITY EVACUATIONS (WAR AND CONFLICT ZONES)
- HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS
- ANTI-TRAFFICKING CONSULTATION
- HUMAN RIGHTS CONSULTATION
- CONSULTATIONS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
- INVESTIGATIVE INTERVIEWING
OPERATIONAL AREAS
OPERATION SOMALIA
In 2010, MNS founding member Mad Nick participated in a joint hostage negotiation operation in the case of Paul and Rachel Chandler, a British couple held hostage by Somali pirates for nearly 13 months.
The British government persistently refused to pay the ransom to the pirates to save the elderly couple's lives. Mad Nick and a companion eventually teamed up and conducted a covert operation together to secure the release of Paul and Rachel Chandler.
The team's first point of contact was a heavily guarded refugee camp on Malta, mainly inhabited by Somali refugees, to which the two, disguised as press representatives, gained access and established contacts with the Somali pirates' liaison officers.
In a further step, the team contacted various large media outlets and daily newspapers with the appeal to pay the ransom to the pirates in order to save the old couple from certain death.
The ransom was finally brokered to the pirates through many channels and daring connections, and the married couple Paul and Rachel Chandler were finally released by the pirates.
The operation was manifested in a newspaper report under the following headline:
"Mystery over ransom for kidnapped yacht couple"
The British government persistently refused to pay the ransom to the pirates to save the elderly couple's lives. Mad Nick and a companion eventually teamed up and conducted a covert operation together to secure the release of Paul and Rachel Chandler.
The team's first point of contact was a heavily guarded refugee camp on Malta, mainly inhabited by Somali refugees, to which the two, disguised as press representatives, gained access and established contacts with the Somali pirates' liaison officers.
In a further step, the team contacted various large media outlets and daily newspapers with the appeal to pay the ransom to the pirates in order to save the old couple from certain death.
The ransom was finally brokered to the pirates through many channels and daring connections, and the married couple Paul and Rachel Chandler were finally released by the pirates.
The operation was manifested in a newspaper report under the following headline:
"Mystery over ransom for kidnapped yacht couple"
OPERATION OASIS
In 2011, MNS obtained one square kilometer of land located in West Africa. Mad Nick transformed the property in a covert operation into a self-sufficient colony for people of oppressed tribes in the region. A settlement with several houses was built on the empty land, a well was drilled, palm oil and palm wine production was started, a rice field was grown, a banana plantation was established and nuts were grown to ensure a regular income for the settlers. The colony operates since then.
OPERATION NAZARENE
In 2015 to 2017, Mad Nick led a special operation named Operation Nazarene when ISIS opened the first modern slave markets in Syria and Iraq, selling women and children to psychopathic terrorists.
Operation Nazarene included:
Mad Nick planned and carried out the operation within 12 hours and completed the mission within 24 hours:
The volunteer security guards arrived Iraq on April 28, 2015 and where attached by Mad Nick to the Assyrian Protection Unit "Dwekh Nashwa" and its Commandant Albert Kisso. The volunteer security guards returned home after the ISIS defeat in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
Operation Nazarene included:
- the transfer of volunteer security guards into Iraq
- to campaign for financial support of the volunteer security guards
- to run a media campaign to gather support for the volunteer security guards
- to supply the volunteer security guards with intelligence on ISIS
Mad Nick planned and carried out the operation within 12 hours and completed the mission within 24 hours:
- the planning
- the logistic
- the coordination
- the execution
The volunteer security guards arrived Iraq on April 28, 2015 and where attached by Mad Nick to the Assyrian Protection Unit "Dwekh Nashwa" and its Commandant Albert Kisso. The volunteer security guards returned home after the ISIS defeat in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
OPERATION BEACON IN THE EAST
In 2014 to 2015, Mad Nick assisted the Artsakh Defence Forces in military logistics, counter-sabotage and counterintelligence operations, leading a Special Operation Unit and covert operations in the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, hunting down an ISIS Terrorist of british nationality who posed in the war torn region as diplomat.
After the arrest of the terrorist, Mad Nick delivered a detailed report from the frontline in Nagorno-Karabakh and his accomplished mission to the Russian Embassy in Yerevan in Armenia.
After the arrest of the terrorist, Mad Nick delivered a detailed report from the frontline in Nagorno-Karabakh and his accomplished mission to the Russian Embassy in Yerevan in Armenia.
OPERATION KIGALI
OPERATION MOZAMBIQUE
In 2020, Mad Nick took on a mission on behalf of the father of the Australian girl Elly Warren, who was murdered in Mozambique, after all investigative authorities had failed for four years. Mad Nick used his many years of experience and contacts that he had gained on his numerous missions on the African continent and he located the prime suspect in the Elly Warren murder case two days after he accepted the assignment.
Excerpt from a crime documentary about Mad Nick`s covert operation and investigation into the murder of Elly Warren:
Some of the international press coverage of Mad Nick's investigation into the Elly Warren murder:
Full exclusive report on Mad Nick's investigation into the murder of Elly Warren:
OPERATION ANTIOCH
In 2018, Mad Nick carried out a diplomatic mission as an emissary in the Middle East on behalf of an Italian organization. The details of Operation Antioch remain sealed to the general public.
OPERATION SPIDERWEB
From 2017 to early 2023, Mad Nick led an operation against a network of child traffickers:
So far, five men and one woman have been arrested for luring children into the sex trade by approaching them in impoverished villages in several Eastern European countries and posing as representatives of modeling agencies. The MNS Special Activities Squad was able to eliminate part of the criminal network in 2020 as well as in 2022 by providing intelligence to the local police authorities to take action.
- Operation Spiderweb
- Location: Eastern Europe, North Africa and South East Asia
So far, five men and one woman have been arrested for luring children into the sex trade by approaching them in impoverished villages in several Eastern European countries and posing as representatives of modeling agencies. The MNS Special Activities Squad was able to eliminate part of the criminal network in 2020 as well as in 2022 by providing intelligence to the local police authorities to take action.
Early 2023, Operation Spiderweb was completed by successfully identifying all of the cartel's perpetrators as well as identifying all of the cartel's victims. The final report of Operation Spiderweb was handed over to a UNICEF liaison as well as to local law enforcement agencies to finalize procedures on the ground.
Team Gray was formed in 2022 to assist in the final phase of Operation Spiderweb. Team Gray is composed in part of former members of the MNS's "The Order 777" division, which was disbanded in 2016. Team Gray has since acted as logistical backup for MNS special operations.
OPERATION JOY
Since 2007, the MNS has carried out numerous humanitarian and charitable missions under the name "Operation Joy", primarily to provide direct support to children in developing countries, regions in crisis and war zones. The missions include the following operational fields:
- the renovation of an orphanage in Uganda
- paying school fee for several children in different regions of Africa
- the transport of relief supplies to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- organizing charity events in the Cancer Children Center in Yerevan, Armenia
- Sponsorships and logistical support for young athletes in Africa and Eastern Europe.
Thanks and appreciation goes to the Intelligence Training and Education Community of Gray Man Concepts.