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Declassified Document Shows CIA Took Part in Arms Trade Abroad Via Former Agent
Declassified Document Shows CIA Took Part in Arms Trade Abroad Via Former Agent
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The declassified document contains information gathered by security agencies about an arms dealer and former CIA officer, Samuel... 19.03.2025, Sputnik Africa
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) participated in and profited from foreign arms trafficking, according to a document released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on the order of President Donald Trump.According to the document, he was an intermediary through whom CIA actually owned the International Armament Corporation and the Interarmco companies involved in arms trading and registered in the United States, Switzerland and Canada. Cummings was able to purchase the companies with the help of a loan and arms stored in warehouses. According to the document, the "items were to remain the property of the CIA, and their cost was to be returned to the Agency after they were sold." Cummings was also used as a CIA informant with an aim to "dispose of arms," and the CIA "made a sizable profit on these transactions," the document added. Earlier in the day, Tim Naftali, a professor at Columbia University, told the New York Times that the reason for the non-disclosure of the contents of the documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination was aimed at protecting the CIA’s sources and methods. The professor added that the disclosed documents were not sensational and only confirmed already known facts. The US president signed an order to declassify files on the assassinations of Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and other documents in late January.
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Declassified Document Shows CIA Took Part in Arms Trade Abroad Via Former Agent
09:52 19.03.2025 (Updated: 14:54 20.03.2025) WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The declassified document contains information gathered by security agencies about an arms dealer and former CIA officer, Samuel Cummings, who was previously suspected of maintaining ties with the CIA even after his resignation.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) participated in and profited from foreign arms trafficking, according to a document released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on the order of President Donald Trump.
According to the document, he was an intermediary through whom CIA actually owned the International Armament Corporation and the Interarmco companies involved in arms trading and registered in the United States, Switzerland and Canada.
"In early 1958, CUMMINGS assumed sole ownership of International Armament Corp. and of Interarmco. An agency audit established the net worth of these companies as $219,000.00," the document said.
Cummings was able to purchase the companies with the help of a loan and arms stored in warehouses. According to the document, the "items were to remain the
property of the CIA, and their cost was to be returned to the Agency after they were sold."
Cummings was also used as a CIA informant with an aim to "dispose of arms," and the CIA "made a sizable profit on these transactions," the document added.
Earlier in the day, Tim Naftali, a professor at Columbia University, told the New York Times that the reason for the non-disclosure of the contents of
the documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination was aimed at protecting the CIA’s sources and methods. The professor added that the disclosed documents were not sensational and only confirmed already known facts.
The US president signed an order to declassify files on the assassinations of Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and other documents in late January.
