Oscar Guerrero
Freelance Colombian journalist who met Mordecai Vanunu in Sydney and received top-secret photographs of Israel's nuclear facility.
Oscar Guerrero was a freelance journalist from Colombia. He met Mordecai Vanunu in Sydney, Australia, where Vanunu was sharing top-secret photographs of Israel's nuclear facility.1
Guerrero saw the photographs and proposed publishing them for a fee. He first approached The Sydney Morning Herald, but the photographs were rejected. His approach was, however, passed on to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) and then to the Australian Security Intelligence Service (ASIS), who informed Israel.Guerrero then tried The Age newspaper in Melbourne, and later the London papers.1
Nicholas Davies, a London Daily Mirror foreign editor and Israeli agent, stalled Guerrero by telling him the newspaper needed an expert to check his claims. Guerrero had already struck a deal with The Sunday Times to publish Vanunu's story and photographs, with Vanunu receiving a £250,000 advance on a book and Guerrero receiving a 10% cut. Guerrero approached the Mirror because he believed he was being cut out of The Sunday Times deal.1
Sources
- Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩
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