The private U.S. prison company Wackenhut is publicly denying charges that it is working with Venezuelan dissidents to overthrow the government of Hugo Chavez. Last week Chavez supporters released a video that purported to show CIA agents advising Venezuelans on how to stage a coup. The U.S. embassy responded by saying the men shown in the video were not CIA agents but employees of a private U.S. security company. In an advertisement taken out in a Venezuelan newspaper, Wackenhut admitted that the video was shot on its property in Venezuela but claimed it was a video of an ordinary meeting of company officials meeting with a client.