Given that Adelson already had a substantial security team assigned to guard him and his family at all times, the contract between UC Global and Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands was clearly the cover for a devious espionage campaign apparently overseen by the CIA. Morales had just signed on to guard Queen Miri, the $70 million yacht belonging to one of the most high profile casino tycoons in Vegas: ultra-Zionist billionaire and Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson. “The Americans will find us contracts around the world,” Morales assured his business partner. When a co-owner of UC Global asked what Morales meant, he responded that he had turned to the “dark side” – an apparent reference to US intelligence services. “From now on, we’re going to be playing in the first division,” Morales announced to his employees. UC Global CEO David Morales (left) at a 2016 security fair in Las Vegas Days later, he returned to his company’s headquarters in Jerez de Frontera, Spain with exciting news.Īh, the perks of the spook life. In 2016, Morales rushed off alone to a security fair in Las Vegas, hoping to rustle up lucrative new gigs by touting his role as the guardian of Assange. It was not long before Morales realized he had a big league opportunity on his hands. Inside the diplomatic compound, his men guarded Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, a top target of the US government who had been living in the building since Correa granted him asylum in 2012. The London embassy contract proved especially valuable to Morales, however. But by 2016, he had secured just one significant contract, to guard the children of Ecuador’s then-President Rafael Correa and his country’s embassy in the UK. A former Spanish special forces officer, Morales yearned to be the next Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder who leveraged his army-for-hire into high-level political connections across the globe.
– Mike Pompeo, College Station, Texas, April 15, 2019Īs the co-founder of a small security consulting firm called UC Global, David Morales spent years slogging through the minor leagues of the private mercenary world. Se puede leer este artículo en español aquí. The American friends’: New court files expose Sheldon Adelson’s security team in US spy operation against Julian AssangeĪn exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands played in an apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange, and exposes the Sands security staff who helped coordinate the malicious campaign. Max's report "Exclusive images from inside British court expose Assange’s un-democratic treatment, physical deterioration". Read Kevin's reporting at Follow Kevin on Twitter at Max's report "'The American friends': New court files expose Sheldon Adelson’s security team in US spy operation against Julian Assange". We discuss the major threat this case poses to the freedom of the press - yet how it is being criminally under-reported and whitewashed in the corporate media.
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Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak about the dystopian show trial going on against political prisoner Julian Assange with journalist Kevin Gosztola, who is covering the UK court hearings to potentially extradite the WikiLeaks publisher to the US. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak about the dystopian show trial going on against political prisoner Julian Assange with journalist Kevin Gosztola They remain vital to freedom, such as it is in this decomposing empire.-PG They illustrate, despite their puny resources when compared to the mainstream press, how genuine journalism is done. Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Anya Parampil deserve our deepest gratitude for their exemplary work. Editor's Note: We particularly favor the work of The Grayzone and their associates because not only are they one of the most important groups of young, independent, anti-imperialist journalists working in the anglophone sphere, unerringly going after topics of maximum urgency, but also because their underlying analysis of the current situation is spot on and systemically profound.