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SURPRISE: CIA LINK TO SKETCHY ISRAELI AID SCHEME  
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Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
May 26, 2025
Responsible Statecraft
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_ A former CIA officer who once headed American schemes to train
right wing contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s has been working with the
Israelis to hatch a new aid organization... To say something stinks
here is an understatement. _

Displaced Palestinians return to their homes, January 2025,

 

Call it "independent," and proceed to deploy it on the starving Gaza
population with the assistance of foreign entities and U.S. security
contractors, according to new reports.

To say something stinks here is an understatement. After the New York
Times got a whiff and started writing about
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the idea came together shortly after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks
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it was the brain child of IDF officials, Israeli tech entrepreneurs,
and ex-COGAT (state aid coordinators) and one Israel-American venture
capitalist, the CEO of the mysterious "Gaza Humanitarian
Organization" quit last night
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CEO Jack Wood is a retired U.S. Marine who was on board to lead the
fundraising for this effort. Upon his resignation he said in a
statement: “It is clear that it is not possible to implement this
plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of
humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I will not
abandon.”

This sets back plans by ex-CIA officer Phillip F. Reilly, who the NYT
describes:

As a young C.I.A. operative in the 1980s, Mr. Reilly had helped to
train the Contras, right-wing militias fighting Nicaragua’s Marxist
government, according to a 2022 podcast interview
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Two decades later, he was one of the first U.S. agents to land in
Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the interview. He
became the C.I.A. station chief in Kabul, then left to work as a
private security expert for groups including Orbis, a Virginia-based
consulting firm.

Reilly had engineered the procurement of Safe Reach Solutions, another
mysterious U.S. private security firm that has been operating in the
Gaza strip since early this year and my colleague Stavroula Pabst has
written about for RS
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risks of having private American boots on the ground — for both the
local population, and the "boots." The arrangement brings the U.S.
closer than ever to the fighting there and in a split second could
draw Washington into the conflict directly. It is not clear what
Reilly's role is in UG Solutions, the other firm mentioned in past
reports, but the New York Times mentions another U.S. based entity,
G.H.F. under his purview.

What makes it even more suspicious is Wood told NYT (before his
resignation) that these security companies work at "arms length" from
the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (by the way there are two of the same
name registered, one in the Delaware and the other in Switzerland).
But an American lawyer, James Cundiff, registered both Safe Reach
Solutions and the Delaware-based foundation and had been serving as a
spokesperson for both. Confused yet?

All of this seeming skullduggery belies the fact that no real aid is
getting to the civilians of Gaza, that the illegal siege of the
population persists, and any idea that a new system will open up
assistance this week is likely to be another gambit to force Gazans
from their homes, particularly in the north (expulsion) under the
auspices of humanitarianism.

_[KELLEY BEAUCAR VLAHOS is the Editorial Director of Responsible
Statecraft.]_

* Gaza Humanitarian Organization
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* Gaza aid
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* CIA
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* Israel
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* Palestine
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* Gaza
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* West Bank
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* Humanitarian Aid
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* United Nations
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* UNRWA
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* U.S
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* U.S.-Israel relations
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* U.S. foreign policy
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* Benjamin Netanyahu
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* Donald Trump
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* United Nations Relief and Works Agency
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