"Sex Workers and a Secret Charity: The Story Of Cory Mills’s ‘F*cking Bananas’ Afghanistan Mission"

“While Mills often casts himself as key to the Afghanistan rescue—including in congressional remarks—three people familiar with the effort said the operation’s success was more in spite of Mills’s involvement than because of it.”

“…people familiar with the Afghanistan mission say Mills has never told the full story—and that if he did, the public would have a very different image of him. For one thing, three sources said Mills hired sex workers during the Afghanistan operation, on several occasions.”

“There’s no evidence Mariam’s family was “left behind” by the Biden administration, a claim Mills made in a later congressional hearing. To the contrary, State Department records released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request show the Biden administration was engaged in a frantic, coordinated effort to extract her and her children.”

Mills set the team on edge with what three people familiar with the events described as reckless and unprofessional personal behavior. This included hiring sex workers with his friend more than once, even after they were told to stop. “It was every night,” one source said.

“The sources described Mills’s behavior on the trip as not just unprofessional, but dangerous—destabilizing the focus of special ops vets preparing for a mission they believed would likely spill over into armed combat.”

“Two sources claimed at least one of the women Mills hired spoke Russian, something they said would raise red flags for any experienced operator, given Russia’s counterintelligence history and geopolitical interests in their specific mission.”

“When the time came to evacuate Mariam’s family, two sources said, Mills and his friend went rogue, going around the team’s back to execute his own plan and stage a personal PR coup.”

https://sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/sex-workers-and-a-secret-charity