Mark D. Yates

Mark D. Yates (born 22 April 1957) is a British security expert who trained former KGB officers in the Ukraine and Crimea to become body guards and anti-Mafia police squads.

Career
Yates was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, the son of a British Army physical training instructor.
Security
Yates helped to train the 'Omon' special forces in Kazakhstan, former Soviet Union. This unit provided protective services to the country's president and other dignitaries. He also helped train the 'Berkut' Anti Mafia Task Force in Diplomatic protective service operations in Kiev, Ukraine, and senior officers of the MBC Police force in the Crimea, CIS.
Notably Yates was the officer in charge of a 22-man protection team for Queen Elizabeth's Royal Gala Anniversary in London UK 1993. The function was a 12 hour event. A total of sixty different Royals from various countries and approximately three hundred other titled guests.
Yates provided protective services for the British TV camera crew, NGP Productions who were part of a full film production crew recording a documentary on the border of Kazakhstan and China, and British VIPs in the office of the President of the Crimea.
Additional training was given to KGB & MGB Officers in tactical firearms drills in the Crimea. One of the trained officers sons was stabbed over 50 times by the mafia as a warning.
Ground Zero USA 2, a Special Forces bodyguard training facility in Marion, Alabama part owned by Yates, was linked to Al-Qaeda training via a direct connection to Sulayman Balal Zain-ul-abidin AKA Frank Etim who previously attended three of Mark's security training sessions in Wales in 1996. It was proven in the Old Baily court case in 2002 that Mark had never trained him or any other suspected terrorists at the US site. Sulayman Balal Zain-ul-abidin used the knowledge from his security training to start a website that promoted a weapons course called "The Ultimate Jihad Challenge" which was allegedly accessed and used by Muslim terrorists. Yates claimed he received several credible death threats after news of the case broke. Zain-ul-abidin was later acquitted of all charges.
Publications
*Men in Black: The Bodyguard Training Manual (1998) (ISBN 0-9533025-0-4)
*Turnaround Management Journal: Change Management Tips used by Turnaround Companies P:25 (2011) (ISBN 1456493094)
*Killer LinkedIn Power Networking (2012)
*No. 1 on LinkedIn: How to Get to No. 1 on LinkedIn (2013)
*LinkedIn - The Art of Business War (2013)
*LinkedIn - The Art of Business War (2014)

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