Was The Daily Beast An Accessory To Murder? Part 1 of 3
The Odd Disappearance of American Gonzalo Lira
By now, most people have seen the news surrounding Taylor Lorenz and the doxing of the account Libs Of TicTok and her family members. A story about a washed up “journalist” from the Washington Post putting her address out to the masses for no other reason than to, at the minimum, silence and intimidate them and at the worst, cause violence or something worst.
Today is no different with the story of Gonzalo Lira. Lira was born in Burbank, California and is also a Chilean author and a former film director. He was traveling from Kiev to Kharkov to report on the happenings of the Russian invasion. Lira has a decent sized Youtube channel, Telegram and other socials that he was putting his reports out to and were getting picked up by prominent podcasters and influencers.
As Lira was getting more publicity, his reports were also getting picked up by corporate media outlets and the one we are going to hone in, is the Daily Beast.
Lira put out a ominous warning in this below video stating that if he disappears and not heard from in the next 12 hours the people to blame would be the Daily Beast.
"If ever you don't hear from me for over 12 hours, assume I've been picked up by Ukrainian SBU, and assume that the people most responsible are The Daily Beast."
Lira also specifically states that the group that would take him out are the SBU which are comparable to Ukraine’s secret police and their symbol is below which has a ton of similarities to Nazi style emblems. (Shocker)
From watching all the videos that Lira has put out, he was clearly against the official narrative Zelensky and the corporate media have been peddling about the Russia invasion as a whole and in no way could I find he was pro Putin as well. He was simply reporting what he was seeing on the ground and this was not ok with the powers that be. You can see below Lira was well aware of the danger he was putting himself in with the knowledge he was sharing as seen below. Sauce For Tweet
This is where the Daily Beast comes into focus. "Journalists" Mark Hay writes a 4200 word plus hit piece on Lira comparing him to Russian shills and spreading "conspiracy theories" like the Ukraine Biolabs story. The moment I see excerpts like this about the biolabs red flags immediately go up because everyone knows, who’s paying attention, the lab story is very real. This is basically one gigantic hit piece to smear Lira.
This is where the story takes a turn. The twitter account @Anabel_Villeroy writes,
Daily Beast "journo" Mark Hay @GoraLadka doxxed Gonzalo Lira by creating a hit piece and "gave" it to the Ukrainian government under the guise of "request for comment." One look at his primary beat and he can "hardly be described as a political heavyweight in journalism..."
The Daily Beast used the “reach out for comment” practice as a proxy to hand over their information on Lira and his location to the government of Ukraine which then you have to consider, this same information ended in the SBU’s hands as well. Do you see how dangerous this is? A screenshot of the communications between Daily Beast and Lira is provided below.
The other connection that we have with the Daily Beast is Michael John Cirillo now known as Sarah Ashton-Cirillo who is a trans pro-Ukraine journalist.
An article titled " This Undercover Operative Says She Recruited the Proud Boys for the GOP" written on June 3, 2021 talks how she infiltrated far right group Proud Boys and tie them to a Vegas-based GOP consultant.
"In the months leading up to the 2020 election, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a self-described progressive activist, embedded herself in GOP circles as part of her research for a book on right-wing extremism. What she found was a Republican consultant desperate to team the Proud Boys up with the Nevada GOP in order to challenge ballots and flip the presidential election."
Sounds like a fed-boi/ informant to me.
Why does this matter? Cirillo is boots on the ground in Ukraine as we speak and she was celebrating the supposed capture of Lira. Please go to Part 2 as break down Sarah and her possible involvement.