Corporate Training Unlimited

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Corporate Training Unlimited

Industry	Security
Founded	1986
Headquarters	U.S.
Key people	Donald Feeney Jr. (Founder)
Services	Security contracting

Corporate Training Unlimited operates as a security contracting firm. Established in 1986 by Donald Feeney Jr., the company has been involved in providing security services.

Founder

Don Feeney, originally from Brooklyn, enlisted in the Army at age 17 and became a member of the Delta Force in 1978. He survived the fatal crash during Operation Eagle Claw which claimed eight lives and was deployed to Beirut in 1982. As a former team leader within Delta Force, he opted to retire from the US Army rather than face a Courts Martial after an audit revealed discrepancies in his travel expense claims. His discharge was honorable.

Repatriation of American Minors

For a period, CTU concentrated on retrieving children abducted to foreign nations, often taken by their fathers who were foreign nationals married to American mothers. When children were taken to countries that had ratified the Hague Treaty, assistance could be provided by the US State Department. However, in nations that were not treaty signatories, the State Department was powerless and cautioned mothers against CTU or other Americans engaging in "hostile recoveries." Feeney explained to Playboy, "Our missions rely mostly on intelligence—95 percent brains. We cannot employ weapons or counterfeit documents abroad. Doing so would result in federal imprisonment."

Cathy Mahone

In 1988, Cathy Mahone enlisted CTU to recover her daughter from Jordan. The team successfully retrieved the child and covertly transported her to Israel. This incident inspired the television film Desperate Rescue: The Cathy Mahone Story, which increased both publicity and clientele for CTU. Following this operation, the US State Department issued an apology to Jordan for the incident.

1992 Iceland Operation

In 1992, CTU was engaged by two American fathers, Fred Pittman and Brian Grayson, aiming to find and return their daughters from Iceland. The girls had been taken there by their Icelandic mother, Erna Eyjólfsdóttir (also known as Erna Pittman Grayson), in defiance of Florida court orders. The mission ended without success; both daughters remained in Iceland, while Feeney and CTU operative Brian Grayson were arrested, prosecuted, and convicted of kidnapping under Icelandic law. Feeney received a two-year prison sentence. In 1993, he escaped from Litla-Hraun prison with another inmate but was apprehended the following day in Vestmannaeyjar, where they awaited a charter flight via Íslandsflug bound for the Faroe Islands. Feeney was subsequently released in January 1994.

This episode was featured in an NBC Dateline segment titled "Rambo Goes to Reykjavik." Dissatisfied with their portrayal, CTU filed a defamation lawsuit against NBC, which was ultimately unsuccessful.

Iraq Wars

During the 1991 Gulf War, the company deployed civilian security personnel to the combat zone, and following the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, it provided both civilian guards and personal bodyguards.

On June 5, 2009, Iraqi law enforcement detained Don Feeney along with three other employees of Corporate Training Unlimited while investigating the homicide of American Jim Kitterman within Baghdad's "Green Zone".

According to The Washington Post, Iraqi authorities arrested these five individuals after receiving an alert from the FBI. The Associated Press noted that the raid on Corporate Training Unlimited's facilities and living quarters occurred due to expired weapons licenses held by those detained. Initially, Iraqi officials suspected two of the detainees might be linked to the murder.

Subsequently, CNN cited sources at the US Embassy clarifying that none of the five were considered suspects in Kitterman’s killing. CNN also referenced "a source close to the suspect" who confirmed that all five had alibis. Three contractors were freed on June 11 owing to insufficient evidence. Milligan and Jones, who remained in custody longer under FBI oversight, were released in July. Testimonies presented in the Iraqi Central Criminal Court (ICCC) indicated that Kitterman's murder was carried out by another American individual who was himself killed shortly thereafter. On the same day as Kitterman’s death, Larry Eugene Young, also a CTU employee, was fatally struck by mortar fire within the Green Zone.