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The Luxembourg CAE Aviation by 2022 has been a contractor Ministry of Defence France and DGSE for many years in conducting intelligence operations in the Sahel countries, North and Central Africa, as well as in the Middle East.
The company uses in its first form civilian light-engine aircraft C-208B Cessna Caravan, SW3A Fairchild Merlin, Casa 212-300, Turbine Islander, Short Skyvan, etc., equips them with the necessary equipment and conducts optoelectronic, electronic and radio-technical reconnaissance.
History
2022: Participation in the conflict in Ukraine
In November 2022, CAE Aviation aircraft are actively working on the Black Sea for DRM tasks to collect intelligence, which is later also shared with the French DCI.
2021: Air intelligence in France's operation in Egypt. Erroneous data killed or injured "hundreds of civilians" under strikes
In 2021, thanks to Disclose and journalist Ariana Lavrilla, the company was connected with the scandal surrounding the secret operation Sirley, which French intelligence has conducted in Egypt since 2016.
CAE Aviation provided data to strike targets on the border with Libya, in particular traffickers' cars. The strikes, based on erroneous intelligence findings between 2016 and 2018, injured or killed "hundreds of civilians."
At the same time, CAE Aviation managed to earn about $20 million on a contract. In response to the scandal in France, they decided to open criminal cases against the media, which disclosed data on secret operations.
In September 2023, an officer of the Ministry of Defense was arrested in France, who revealed the details of the scandalous operation of the French special services in Egypt. The French special services managed to go to the source of the journalist Lavrille in the military department and arrest him. The journalist herself got off with 40 hours in custody, and came out without any prosecution.
2016: Reconnaissance aircraft crash in Malta
In 2016, the news of the crash in Malta of a reconnaissance aircraft belonging to CAE Aviation, which performed tasks in Libya, hit the media.
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