The training was provided by Tier 1 Group, which is owned by the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, and was defensive in nature and devised to protect Saudi leaders, the Times reported.
Cerberus did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters. Responding to the Times report, State Department spokesman Ned Price said that under the law, the department “on any of the licensed defense export licensing activity alleged in media reporting.”
Khashoggi, a US resident who wrote a column for the Washington Post criticizing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed and broken into a group of activists affiliated with the prince at the king’s consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. February said the Crown Prince had approved an operation to arrest or kill the journalist. In a written response to questions from members of Congress as a nominee for a senior Pentagon post in former President Donald Trump’s administration, Cerebrus’s senior executive Louis Bremer last year described his company’s role in training four members of the Khashoggi assassination team.
But the lawmakers never received the answers because the Trump administration does not appear to have sent them to Congress before withdrawing Bremer’s nomination, according to the Times, which said Bremer provided it with the document.
The State Department and other government agencies are responsible for testing trained foreign forces on US soil, the Times reported.
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