Bennett has received confirmation from the Spanish embassy that "Carlos," a man who made similar claims during the Maidan protests, does not exist. Bennett tells us that, "he was posting yesterday that he was a Spanish controller in a tower that was taken over by soldiers as events unfolded. As far as I know, he was the source of the 'MH 17 tailed by two Ukrainian fighters' story. He's been quoted quite a bit on RT [the Russian state-operated propaganda network] since yesterday, and gained several thousand new Twitter followers in just a few hours."
The Spain Report posted this note on their Facebook page:
As of now, Carlos's Twitter account appears to have been removed.Full reply from Spanish embassy to The Spain Report via e-mail on the existence of "Carlos, @spainbuca, the Spanish air traffic controller" in Ukraine:
"This is not the first time we have been asked about him. This "Carlos" was also active during the Maidán revolution in Ukraine.
We have no knowledge of "Carlos" having been in Ukraine. There is no record of his passing through the Consulate, and no one from the (relatively small) Spanish colony knows him.
The airport where he supposedly worked for several years told us at the time that all of their air traffic controllers are Ukranian, and that in any case they have never employed any Spaniard for that or any other task.
Furthermore, the last information he was posting before the airline tragedy was of the same sort. He was saying, for example, that he lived in Kiev and had been threatened by radical extreme-right elements. No Spaniard or national of another country - to my knowledge - has ever been threatened in this country."
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I was waiting till the Spanish embassy opens today in the country I live.
I phoned them asking if I could get information on Spanish citizen "Mr. X" who's probably hired by company "Y" in my country.
Hmm, first there was a moment of silence and then I was told (in different words) that I must be crazy asking for such information. And there is no way I can ever obtain such one, unless I'm calling in behalf of any authorized instution. But even if in this case, such information would be granted only after evaluation of well motivated request in written.
So, I gave them the example of Mr. Bennet, who allegly received such info from Spanish embassy in Kiev. They told once again, that's not posiible... unless he was authorized.
So, I have no idea whether "Carlos" is true or fake. Na, after all, does it really matter? But I know now, that if you guys call him an "ass-et", then the author of this fake info (no matter if "authorized" or not) is the real "asset".
Therefore, I really ask you to conduct such an experiment as I did before you publish such piece of crap next time.
May 8 2014 [Link] to an article about Carlos on actualidad.rt.com. He is described as "un controlador aéreo español".
May 14/15 2015 [Link] to a thread about Carlos claim to have been denied access in Ukraine. "Llegue a kiev, martes H18:00, me retuvieron hasta el jueves 14:00 H
Expulsado del país acusado de instigador y espía, ahora esto en Alemania".
Noteworthy is that Oscar San Emeterio [Link] thought the espionage accusation was correct because Carlos had tweeted that Ukraine didn't control the air space above Crimea.
July 17, 2014 [Link] to another version of Carlos' twitter feed. The life (or not life) tweets just after the downing of 777 have already scrolled of the screen. He has 7593 followers.