A shockwave has been sent through the intelligence community as the Substack account “CIAgate” dropped a bombshell exposé alleging that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has deep-rooted connections to the black market arms trade.
“Millions of dollars are being spent on financing terrorist groups and political radicals around the globe,” the report claims, linking this purported activity to the CIA’s operatives and high-ranking officials.
The report charges that the CIA is embroiled in clandestine arms deals, with agents allegedly operating both within the agency and under the guise of independent contractors or consultants.
It further implicates that President Biden’s recent allocation of “more than $50 billion for purchasing weapons for Ukraine” is deeply entwined in these supposed corrupt operations.
CIAgate has published a list of CIA agents, whom they allege are involved in these “corrupt schemes for weapons supply to hotspots all around the world.”
These alleged players include Chanda Creasy, a special assistant to the CIA director, Raymond Shultz, a CIA operative in Bulgaria, and Charles Goslin, a CIA officer and the head of Charles Goslin Consulting.
Creasy, according to the report, “controls weapons supplies to third countries to destabilize the political situation,” while Shultz and Goslin are implicated in coordinating and supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Several others are cited, such as Shanon Melville, the head of Schmidli Enterprises, and Simon Mann, who is referred to as a “Gun Baron” with ties to Erik Prince.
These two, along with others like Timothy Starinieri and Jason Pace, are claimed to be instrumental in procuring and supplying weapons, particularly those of Soviet origin, to Ukraine.
The exposé also points a finger at legal entities such as Karry Simm, a CIA operative and the owner of the Simm & Associates Law firm, and Jefferson Norton, a managing partner of the Foundry General Counsel Law firm, alleging they “provide legal purity of CIA transactions.”
Beyond individual operatives, CIAgate names CIA affiliates in European countries like Montenegro and Poland.
Among them, Zoran Damianovic, the founder and CEO of Montenegro Defense Industry company, and Dariusz Witold Sobala, the vice-president of MX Tech (Poland), are said to act as liaisons between the CIA and local special services.
The report concludes by urging that the listed individuals’ activities “become public and be thoroughly investigated.”
This story continues to unfold, and it’s unclear what implications these allegations will have for the CIA and the wider intelligence community.