More Victimless Stolen Valor

I just got an email from our friends at POW Net about some doofus named James Becker, who POW Net folks were familiar with when he lived in Florida. Apparently he was calling himself a USMC General when he lived in Punta Gorda. Now he’s expanded his horizons (I’ve redacted the names);

On Monday, 19 April 2010, while visiting the City of Cuenca and the Ecuadorian Military’s 3rd Division, COL XXXXXX, CDR XXXXX, LTC(R) XXXXX, and I were introduced to an individual who presented himself as a retired USMC Lt. Gen. This individual, James (Jim) A. Becker, proceeded to tell us that he was asked to be the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) when he retired in 1997, at the request of GEN(R) John Shalikashvili, a close personal friend. He also claimed the following:

1. That he has used his retired rank/status to attempt to influence the issuance of visas at the Consulate in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

2. That he had influenced Miltec Security Corp. to send mercenaries to Northern Ecuador and that these people had been employed in operations to neutralize (kill) FARC insurgents.

3. That he has used his position as a Rotary Officer and retired military officer to gain access to the highest levels of the Ecuadorian Military in the 3rd Division.

4. That he had a 38 or 39 year-old son (USMC) who was gravely injured in Beirut Рsupposedly this son was born in 1980 Рthe math doesn̢۪t work unless he joined the Corps at the age of 9 or 10 (Semper Fi). His other son, (45 yrs old) is supposedly the President of the Americas Division of ING (Google Search shows that Jeffrey T. Becker is the CEO of ING Americas and that he attended Colgate Univ., which corroborates with what he told us).

5. That he is a retired Company Officer and current board member of Miltec Security Corp. (formerly Blackwatch) and has a 20% share in the company.

6. That he could use his influence both as a military professional and retired civilian with Miltech to bring additional resources to bear in the FARC threat along Ecuador’s Northern Border – funds, equipment, personnel and use his ” personal contacts” with Robert Gates (Sec Def) and former President Clinton to shape US/Embassy policy with regards to the US position on the Northern Border. He intimated that he had personal funds and knew donors that would help finance these activities.

7. That he had inside information that Vice President Biden would be travelling to Ecuador within two months.

We are highly suspicious of this gentleman since there is no evidence that he was ever a general officer in the USMC or that he was Director of DIA. His personal email address is: jabecker25@yahoo.com, and his phone numbers in Ecuador are the following: Home 04 409-3263 Cell 080971282.

Yeah, the folks at POW Net say he has no military records, yet here he is in Ecuador pretending to be a general, obviously because his bullshit wasn’t making him any money in Punta Gorda.

Another emailer chimes in;

Gents – FYI. The list of this guy’s BS stories is actually longer and might fill a small book, listed below are his most offensive claims, however, he also claims to have been a POW in LAOS in 1961 (freed by Vietnamese Montagnards!!!),flown U-2s and F-4s, run the Desert One operation in Iran in 1980, run Afghanistan Mujahedeen operations in the 1980s, been the Consul General for DOS in Bombay, India, is a personal friend of VP Biden and a litany of other “accomplishments.” He needs to be shut down here, before he does something at the EC military or political level.

So here, the little chickenshit is strutting around in Ecuador – how much do you think he’s helping relations in that country? But, hey, Stolen Valor is a victimless crime, right? My only hope is that the Ecuadorans get a hold of this post and dispense with the pesky formalities of a trial like they tend to do in that part of the world. Maybe they’ll turn him over to FARC and let them play with him.

Category: Phony soldiers