Sam Ross
 Sam Ross  (journalist) | |
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Wrote an article where he worried about "besmirching the reputation" of U.S. military contractors after exposure of a weapons smuggling operation. |
Sam Ross wrote an article where he worried about "besmirching the reputation" of U.S. military contractors after exposure of a weapons smuggling operation.
'Fake News'
In an August 2018 Sam Ross wrote an opinion piece entitled ‘Fake News’ Takes to the Air for International Policy Digest. The piece described Dilyana Gaytandzhieva's exposure of a covert CIA weapons transfer pipeline to Syria, a part of a "'Black PR' campaign... to besmirch the reputation of and the relationships hosted by longstanding U.S. military contractors such as Silk Way Airlines".
He quoted a February 2018 statement of the Bulgarian Civil Aviation Administration that "the Directorate General Civil Aviation Administration to the Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Bulgaria, aimed to clarify that all flights operated by Silk Way Airlines from/through the territory of Bulgaria, with special/military production on board, were performed in accordance with all National and International regulations and legal provisions, with all respective permits, certificates and documents for transportation by air of such sensitive cargo."
He claimed that the source documents stemmed from a July 2017 "hack made on the Azerbaijani Embassy of Bulgaria, undertaken by 'Anonymous Bulgaria' (with IP-address roots linked to Russia)". He cited no sources for his information and did not link to the article concerned.[1]
