Post One Global Contingency Advisers
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ABOUT
Post One is staffed by seasoned, professional, retired Federal Law Enforcement Officers with decades of domestic and international law enforcement, close protection, physical security, and crisis management experience. Gerry Mahoney and Jim Sauer are experienced Special Agents who retired from the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service. They worked together at the agency’s Boston Field Office where they were case agents for major criminal and terrorism investigations including the Boston Marathon Bombing and complex international trafficking in persons schemes. Further, they served on protection teams for the Secretary of State both domestically and abroad, visiting diplomats to the United Nations General Assembly, various other foreign diplomats visiting the United States, and U.S. diplomatic personnel in high-threat areas overseas. Both have extensive international experience in facilities security to include embassies, consulates, and diplomatic residential compounds. They are regularly deployed as security and military advisers for local forces in distressed nations.
When you need experience on your side, Post One can cut through red tape and bureaucracy.
Gerry Mahoney
Gerry Mahoney served as a Special Agent with the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service where he operated in multiple locations overseas and domestically. His overseas tours include: Mogadishu, Somalia; Havana, Cuba; and Hermosillo & Guadalajara, Mexico. Other overseas experience includes service on six continents including the President Karzai Protective Detail, Afghanistan. His domestic experience includes serving on the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Boston (to include the Boston Marathon Bombing Task Force); Protective Intelligence & Investigations; protection details at several United Nations General Assemblies; the DSS New York & Boston Field Offices; the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S. Customs Service Northeast Area Intelligence Unit, and Fraud Group. He possesses extensive international experience in executive protection related assignments, comprehensive security solutions and management at U.S. embassies and consulates, complex terrorism investigations, liaison with foreign law enforcement agencies, and international financial investigations. He is the recipient of several U.S. Department of State Meritorious Honor Awards and commendations from the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the New York Police Department. Mr. Mahoney has trained host nation embassy security personnel in Latin America, Africa, and Central Asia, and supervised sensitive diplomatic protection teams in high-threat environments. Mr. Mahoney continues to regularly deploy throughout Africa training local personnel in support of U.S. Diplomatic missions. He is a graduate of The Catholic University of America.
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Jim Sauer
Jim Sauer served with the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service, as a Special Agent in the United States and overseas. His assignments included domestic tours in Boston, MA where he was on the Boston Marathon Bombing Task Force, lead case agent and interagency liaison on complex trafficking in persons investigations, and on numerous protection details for the Secretary of State and visiting foreign diplomats. Further, he served at the DSS Portsmouth New Hampshire Resident Office where he investigated immigration schemes, visa fraud, passport fraud, and threats to the National Passport and Visa Centers. In addition, he conducted site security surveys in support of protective operations. Between domestic assignments, he served as Assistant Regional Security Officer for Investigations at the U.S. Embassy, Kabul, Afghanistan. His portfolio included investigation and response to terrorist incidents and threats against the embassy and U.S. personnel, antiquities smuggling, narcotics investigations, criminal activity to include thefts and assaults, and coordination of the counterintelligence and law enforcement working groups. From 2003 and 2012, Mr. Sauer served on U.S. Government projects in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel, and as a military adviser in Africa. Enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1971, he served in infantry units and infantry related assignments. Additionally, he served as a drill instructor for enlisted recruits and officer candidates, non-commissioned in charge of reconnaissance indoctrination training, preliminary SCUBA training, and a scout-sniper orientation program. Further, he was on the instructor staff of the Department of Naval Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He retired as a Sergeant Major in 2003. Mr. Sauer has extensive experience as a criminal investigator, protection agent, subject matter instructor, as well as being a project/program manager and adviser on complex security projects in high-threat areas. Mr. Sauer has trained host nation security personnel in the Middle East and Central Asia, and military forces in Africa. He is a graduate of Boston College.
781-733-6098