A person who now directs the Pentagon's Economic Defense Unit previously worked at Cerberus Capital Management, which owns Tier 1 Group — the security firm that trained four operatives later involved in Jamal Khashoggi's 2018 murder. The post's claim that Kollitides 'helped train' the killers misattributes corporate responsibility to personal action; Cerberus-owned Tier 1 provided the training under a State Department contract approved in 2014, but Kollitides personally did not conduct it. The core concern — that Cerberus executives now shape Pentagon investment policy despite the firm's ties to training Khashoggi's killers — is legitimate and well-sourced, but the framing here personalizes a corporate connection inaccurately.