US authorities held a secret operation in Afghanistan, during which hundreds of their citizens were able to evacuate from the country and who worked with them the Afghan special forces through the CIA base in the country. This is reported by Politico with reference to the sources in the Presidential Administration, the Ministry of Defense and Congress.
As the interlocutors of the publication told, the operation took place for several weeks in August. It involved CIA staff, diplomats and representatives of the Command of Special Operations of the United States. They informed American and Afghans in Afghanistan from risk groups, including fighters of the Special Forces of the Country Army, about the safer Evacuation path.
So, the US citizens, as well as the Afghans helped them together with the members of their families, was invited to get to the secret base of the CIA Eagle, which was located outside Kabul, at that time already captured by the militants of the Radical Movement “Taliban” (prohibited in Russia). From there, they were delivered by the helicopters to the airport of the Afghan capital, bypassing the crowds of the local residents of the local residents at the gateway, and then exported from the country. In particular, it is known that several aircraft with evacuated flew to Germany.
The exact number of people evacuated in this way is not disclosed, however, according to Politico, it is at least a thousand Afghan special forces and their relatives. It is also known that the Base itself, Eagle on August 27 was destroyed in order to prevent the secret equipment and intelligence in the hands of the Taliban located on it.
On August 30, the head of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces (USCENTCOM) General Kenneth Mackenzie said that the United States completed the operation on the evacuation of people from Afghanistan. Later it became known that the US military concluded a secret deal with the Taliban – those escorted groups of American citizens to the “secret” goal of Kabul airport for subsequent evacuation.