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A dilapidated warehouse in Malmi is being used by the US Embassy for unknown operations after a Wikileaks release revealed its location.
The anonymous looking building on Takoraudantie is notable only for the new 427 meter perimeter fence that according to the Wikileaks' database was ordered by the US Embassy in April 2018.
Situated across the street from the main entrance of Malmi Airport, the warehouse with its 3 meter high security fence appears an unlikely location for official embassy business. Neighbouring companies include a car yard and a tyre warehouse.
Helsinki Times visited the perimeters this weekend. Security personnel, young Finns in uniforms with American flags on their arms, appeared nervous and suspicious when asked to comment on the warehouse and refused to even confirm the order of the new fence structure which now surrounds the compound. At one point a security guard appeared in a second floor window to carefully monitor this reporter's movements along Takoraudantie.
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The database displaying US embassy procurements around the world shows that tons of cargo are being distributed to Helsinki and other US embassies via regular airfreight cargo deliveries from Baghdad.
Twelve consignments, each logged at 5000 kilograms are recorded as sent to Helsinki and 23 other West European US embassies – an average of 2500 kilograms per US embassy.
The reason for such a vast volume of embassy deliveries from Baghdad is as yet unknown but this latest disclosure follows Wikileaks news that the US Consulate in Frankfurt was a purchase and postal centre for distributing spy equipment to other US embassies worldwide. Concerns are now raised that the US Embassy in Baghdad is also being used as a main distribution centre for secret operations.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday January 14 2019, @11:33PM
You have a point, however, TFA specifically references Diplomatic Mail. It makes no mention of diplomatic pouches at all. So the point actually is that if it is diplomatic mail then the U.S. has expressed an opinion that such packages are in fact searchable - something TFA fails to state. (When you say "the article" says that I assume you're referring to the State Department article I referenced. TFA doesn't say anything about diplomatic mail being searchable that I found and I invite correction.) If it is anything different than a diplomatic mail or cargo, given the invocation of TFA, it's the responsibility of the author of that to credibly allege it.
And using the same bad logic as the TFA author it is thus obvious that the government of Finland could indeed inspect whatever is there when it came into the country. It's up to the author to prove that the warehouse contains something different (such as unscreenable material). Which is another step in the, "he's making stuff up out of his ass," category. Or rather he's assembling a collection of unrelated facts and events and trying to give them a unifying theme which does not attain from the evidence the author presents. Since he's just insinuating "bad stuff could be in there" it's up to him to prove it. And he hasn't come anywhere near that, even by yellow journalism standards.
As to "bad stuff".... could the U.S. government smuggle in espionage devices, guns, sex toys, drugs, and rock-n-roll in diplomatic pouches? Surely. I'm sure some of those items are indeed transported by diplomatic pouch for clandestine purposes into every embassy in every nation. (By every nation, come to that.) But "ooh! spoooky warehouse! bad stuff inside!" is just shoddy journalism looking for a baited click.
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