(What would ISIS have done without the CIA?): Journalist Interrogated, Fired For Story Linking CIA And Syria Weapons Flights

Journalist Interrogated, Fired For Story Linking CIA And Syria Weapons Flights

A months-long investigation which tracked and exposed a massive covert weapons shipment network to terror groups in Syria via diplomatic flights originating in the Caucuses and Eastern Europe under the watch of the CIA and other intelligence agencies has resulted in the interrogation and firing of the Bulgarian journalist who first broke the story. This comes as the original report is finally breaking into mainstream international coverage.

Investigative reporter Dilyana Gaytandzhieva authored a bombshell report for Trud Newspaper, based in Sofia, Bulgaria, which found that an Azerbaijan state airline company was regularly transporting tons of weaponry to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Turkey under diplomatic cover as part of the CIA covert program to supply anti-Assad fighters in Syria. Those weapons, Gaytandzhieva found, ended up in the hands of ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

While it's long been understood that the US-Gulf-NATO coalition arming rebels inside iSyria facilitated the rapid rise of the Islamic State as the group had steady access to a "jihadi Wal-Mart" of weapons (in the words of one former spy and British diplomat), the Trud Newspaper report is the first to provide exhaustive documentation detailing the precise logistical chain of the weapons as they flowed from their country of origin to the battlefield in Syria and Iraq. Gaytandzhieva even traveled to Aleppo where she filmed and examined labeled weapons shipping containers held in underground jihadist storehouses.

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Below are excerpts from the original Trud report with images of select leaked documents. The original report contains dozens of downloadable leaked memos which were translated with contents summarized by Dilyana Gaytandzhieva.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-28/journalist-interrogated-fired-s...

Generally it's a good thing when a plan comes together. But NOT when our 'Intelligence' Community is involved. What confuses me is any organisation with a fuck up rate like the CIA eventually implodes upon itself. Not those guys. The just shrug their collective shoulders and start planning their next vile scheme guaranteed to cost the lives of innocents.

Too many people watch too much tv and go to too many movies that glorify these vicious bastids. And their viciousness is responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people.

350 diplomatic flights carry weapons for terrorists Azerbaijan’s Silk Way Airlines transports weapons with diplomatic clearance for Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Congo

At least 350 diplomatic Silk Way Airlines (an Azerbaijani state-run company) flights transported weapons for war conflicts across the world over the last 3 years. The state aircrafts of Azerbaijan carried on-board tens of tons of heavy weapons and ammunition headed to terrorists under the cover of diplomatic flights.

Documents implicating Silk Way Airlines in arms supplies were sent to me by an anonymous twitter account – Anonymous Bulgaria.

The leaked files include correspondence between the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Azerbaijan to Bulgaria with attached documents for weapons deals and diplomatic clearance for overflight and/or landing in Bulgaria and many other European countries, USA, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, to name a few.

The leaked files include correspondence between the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Azerbaijan to Bulgaria with attached documents for weapons deals and diplomatic clearance for overflight and/or landing in Bulgaria and many other European countries, USA, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, to name a few.

According to these documents, Silk Way Airlines offered diplomatic flights to private companies and arms manufacturers from the US, Balkans, and Israel, as well as to the militaries of Saudi Arabia, UAE, and US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), and the military forces of Germany and Denmark in Afghanistan and of Sweden in Iraq. Diplomatic flights are exempt of checks, air bills, and taxes, meaning that Silk Way airplanes freely transported hundreds of tons of weapons to different locations around the world without regulation. They made technical landings with stays varying from a few hours to up to a day in intermediary locations without any logical reasons such as needing to refuel the planes.

https://trud.bg/350-diplomatic-flights-carry-weapons-for-terrorists/

There are some serious problems with anyone who 'works' for our Intelligence agencies. Not that I'm stupid enough to think that we don't need organisations to keep our country safe. But ours are indescrimunate killers of anyone that gets in the way of what the 1% wants.

We are soulless nation.

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bringing it to us. Thank you so much. Journalists like the person involved here and the whistleblowers who released documents have so much courage.

I continue to believe that at some point the CIA will be undone and brought to justice. To prevent it from being replaced by something exactly like it under a different name will be difficult. But extremely courageous journalists are the key.

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@Linda Wood
no clue about what our rogue 'Intelligence' boys and girls are really up to. Or they think it's necessary to 'protect' ourselves.

This had to be the dumbest nation on the planet. Dumb and morally/ethically bankrupt.

We're looking at a Clockwork Orange future.

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

exactly what the CIA has ever done, or is now doing, that helps to "keep our country safe". As far as I can see, its multifarious exploits and schemes have served little if any defensive purpose for the nation. On the contrary, they have repeatedly backfired and caused a great deal of harm, far more often than they have accomplished anything even remotely worthwhile. Examples of CIA blunders, miscalculations, tomfooleries, and outright stupidities are too numerous to mention, and some of them have done serious damage -- not only to countless innocent victims, but to America's reputation and interests as well.

Whomever or whatever it is that this Agency serves, it is clearly not the American people. IMO we'd all be much better off if it were to be completely disbanded, and its personnel scattered far and wide. But is there a single DC politician who would dare to even suggest such a thing? Apparently not.

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[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU83R7rpXQY width:400 height:240]

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

@Azazello
can live with themselves. Not only them, but their myriad apologists as well.

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@native Not all of the agents are but a good many are, starting with Alan Dulles.

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sure was a nasty piece of work. Him and his protege Angleton too. Very dark stuff. & John Brennan hasn't been much better.

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first director of the CIA, was an attorney for Nazi industrial corporations, including Farben, as well as for U.S. industrial and banking giants that re-armed Germany before and during WWII. The legacy of the connection between the CIA and Fascist plunder, mass murder and oppression has been constant from the 1930's onward to today's pulverization of Yemen.

https://www.panshin.com/trogholm/secret/rightroots/dulles.html

… Early in 1933, both Dulles brothers attended a meeting in Germany where German industrialists agreed to back Hitler's bid for power in exchange for his pledge to break the German unions. A few months later, John Foster Dulles negotiated a deal with Hitler's economics minister whereby all German trade with the United States would be coordinated through a syndicate… the Union Banking Corporation increasingly became a Nazi money-laundering machine. In 1934, George Herbert Walker placed Prescott Bush on Union Bank's board of directors, and Bush and Harriman also began to use the bank as the basis for a complex and deceptive system of holding companies.

The Hamburg-Amerika shipping line, which Harriman and Walker had controlled since 1920, had a particularly high degree of Nazi involvement in its operations. In 1934, a congressional investigation revealed it to have become a front for I.G. Farben's spying, propaganda, and bribery on behalf of the German government… From 1937 on, the Dulles brothers would serve Bush and Harriman in all their covert dealings with Nazi firms. They also performed similar cloaking services for others, like the Rockefellers.

It goes without saying that Harriman, Walker, Bush, and Dulles were morally tainted by their connections with German firms like Thyssen and I.G. Farben, since they both funded and profited from Hitler's crimes against humanity. However, their entire enterprise was corrupt in a more subtle sense as well, in that its very basis was financial fraud on an unprecedented scale. That would have been true even if Hitler had never come to power. The real significance of adding the Nazis to the equation was that it upped the stakes, both increasing the potential rewards for the participants and forcing them into increasingly elaborate deceptions to conceal their frauds...

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but I'd never fully investigated the extent of their stink. These guys were absolutely rotten to the core. And they got clean away with it too... with Presott's son rising to become Director of the CIA, and POTUS, while sponsoring yet more high-level criminality. Who then dutifully passes the Presidential torch to the idiot grandson, who presides over 9/11 and becomes a famous war criminal in his own right. Talk about family values. So onward we go, boldly forward into the New American Century.

I didn't know that Angleton had repented before his death. A bit late for that I'd say, all things considered. Thanks for the excellent article, I'm just in the middle of reading it.

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Must be making a lot of money and accumulating power for The Right People... all for greed and the world well lost.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

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No sovereign nation is safe from our CIA. Their mission is to bring down a government, any government, that tries to act in their own self-interests without the approval of the 1%.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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Thanks for posting it.

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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makes waves with such an apparent scoop, you know something is rotten in the state of Denmark the US press.

Bulgarian media resources must be tiny compared to the behemoth that is the mighty MSM.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.