From Iron Box to Invisible Shield

Reevaluating Surveillance Strategies in Executive Protection

When it comes to surveillance, surveillance detection, and countersurveillance, we need to clearly understand what these terms mean in relation to executive protection operations. They are critical aspects of this mission, and there appears to be some confusion over what they mean and how they are executed. To put this into perspective, we need to look back a few years and examine an event that forever changed how the world looks at protective operations.

Demise of the "Iron Box' Tactic

Alfred Herrhausen, Chairman of the Deutsche Bank, was assassinated on 30 November 1989 in Frankfurt, Germany, by the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group, a West German radical leftist terrorist group. The RAF detonated a small explosive device attached to the back of a bicycle as Herrhausen drove by in his armored limousine. The platter charge propelled by the explosives ripped through the armored vehicle and killed Herrhausen.

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