Kintex organization
also: K-I-N-T-E-X, Kentex
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Boliviacountry · 6Turkeycountry · 2Libyacountry · 1Algeriacountry · 1Syriacountry · 1Secret Serviceintelligence service · 1Belgian Communist Partyorganization · 1Irancountry · 1Sofiaplace · 1Francecountry · 1
Claims (3)
Kintex member_of
Belgian Communist Party host_asserted
“And if you look up Kintex, basically what it says, it was an arm of the Bulgarian Communist Party. It was actually a company owned by the state, which in 1991, obviously, the Communist Party went away and it was still manufacturing weapons.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bulgaria @ 23:30
Kintex supplied_arms_to
Algeria host_asserted
“And then it says the first large export of weapons from Bulgaria was to Algeria. Oh, look at that. Back in 1961 and 62. That's when we already learned about that, too, that the 1961 and 1962 conflict in Algeria was.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bulgaria @ 25:01
Kintex member_of
Secret Service book_quoted
“who maintained that the country was covertly supplying so-called terrorist groups because they're the enemy. Kintex was closely tied to the Bulgarian Secret Service, thereby contributing to suspicions of arms dealing. Kintex's first post-co…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bulgaria @ 27:36
Mentions (6)
▶ 23:01
at least in that year alone, was on an annual basis over a billion dollars. And it also says at its peak could be five billion a year. So this is not chump change. This is a very big deal. There was a state-owned manufacturing trading firm …
▶ 23:30
And if you look up Kintex, basically what it says, it was an arm of the Bulgarian Communist Party. It was actually a company owned by the state, which in 1991, obviously, the Communist Party went away and it was still manufacturing weapons.…
▶ 24:01
and this is what I love the way, and I'm reading from Wikipedia the way they describe this, weapons selling to smugglers and terrorists with both right-wing and left-wing political sympathies. And some of these deals went through Turkey bec…
▶ 25:32
Algeria trying to get their freedom from France. So you see how much we've learned in such a short period of time that you can read this stuff now and understand what's going on. Kintex maintained three bases in Sofia to load smuggled goods…
▶ 26:02
which is those ports that I was trying to kind of explain to you that they have to go through. Kentex realized annual profits between $5 million and $15 million. And this is just one of many of these companies inside of Bulgaria. And it say…
▶ 27:36
who maintained that the country was covertly supplying so-called terrorist groups because they're the enemy. Kintex was closely tied to the Bulgarian Secret Service, thereby contributing to suspicions of arms dealing. Kintex's first post-co…