James Shortt became the first outsider to train the Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennory Bezopasnosti
(KGB) (Committee for State Security) in the Crimea (1991), and started the training of Polish government
and corporate bodyguards in (1988), as well as bodyguards in Estonia (1989), and Latvia and Lithuania
(1990). To date James Shortt has trained bodyguards on 5 Continents, including thirty-six countries.
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James Shortt is the current hereditary Baron of Castleshort. As such he is the Colonel and Commander of
one of the oldest existing bodyguard formations in the world; The Royal Galloglas Guard. The Galloglas
originated in Western Scotland and its isles from the Warlike offspring of mixed Celtic and Viking
marriages. They were established in Ireland at the turn of the 14th Century, following their success against
Anglo-Normans while under the command of Sir William Wallace and King Robert the Bruce. To learn
more about the Lordship of Castleshort Click here!
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