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Jeffrey S. Kaye's avatar

Fascinating, and bizarre, story! Did you know that "The Caldwell Center" submitted a FOIA request to the CIA in late July 2007 that, among other things, asked for any records on Sar Ben-Zui and Salvador Gersson Smike? See https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001500711.pdf

A few months later, in Sept. 2007, the CIA replied that it could "neither confirm or deny" the existence of any such records. A so-called Glomar Response, which is suspicious in and of itself. In my experience, it means the CIA has chosen to hide something.

See https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001500712.pdf

As for The Caldwell Center, it appears defunct now, but I can't be certain of that.

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Boltzmann Booty's avatar

Holy cow, I think I've seen this but didn't make the connection to this case, extremely extremely interesting. Ugh there's another update I need to add here too, but the sourcing I had for it got lost in my twitter DMs when my account got suspended

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Jeffrey S. Kaye's avatar

It's just crazy how what we store online can be so quickly taken from us! In the "old days," storm troopers would have to come to your house and seize your papers and books to burn them. Today's digital storm troopers can do it with the pressing of a button. I hope you can reconstitute your research and be able to make the update.

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Warren Commission Test Skull's avatar

Outstanding work, thank you

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Boltzmann Booty's avatar

Thanks for reading!

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Highlander's avatar

excellent work indeed. very mysterious case. private israeli security firms do exist, and they may be involved in espionage, even against governments, but they can also serve as fronts for other purposes.

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Nick Wimmer's avatar

Did you see this? Includes both the names in this document https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001500711.pdf

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Boltzmann Booty's avatar

yeah, CIA glomar'd them, "we cannot confirm or deny the existence of these records" blah blah https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001500712.pdf

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Norm Koerner's avatar

This article contextualizes the San Lazaro Palace "incident" in relation to Israeli support for Presidente Fox (and visa-versa). It refers to Israeli money as a secret source for Fox's campaign funds, Mexico being the principal base of Mossad's operations in Latin America,, Israeli infiltration of Mexico's intelligence agencies in its "dirty work" against Nicaragua's Sandinista government with the support of the US DEA & "The Company" & the Israeli intelligence agency's training of Mexico's FBI in various nefarious illegal activities. https://archive.org/details/ciudad-de-los-cesares-61/page/21/mode/1up?q=Sar+%22Ben-Zui%22&view=theater

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Norm Koerner's avatar

Forget to provide link, but in one of the articles I saw, it mentioned they had plastic explosives with them. Don't have time to look for that right now, sorry.

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TC's avatar

Which news database did you use to find that wire report?

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