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category: "Authors & Journalists"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Nuclear
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- Israel
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summary: "Freelance Colombian journalist who met Mordecai Vanunu in Sydney and received top-secret photographs of Israel's nuclear facility."
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updated: 2026-10-15
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[[Oscar Guerrero]] was a freelance journalist from [[Colombia]]. He met [[Mordecai Vanunu]] in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]], where Vanunu was sharing top-secret photographs of [[Israel|Israel's]] nuclear facility.[^1]
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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|Australian Security Intelligence Organization]] (ASIO) and then to the [[Australian Security Intelligence Service|Australian Security Intelligence Service]] (ASIS), who informed Israel.Guerrero then tried *The Age* newspaper in [[Melbourne]], and later the [[London]] papers.[^1]
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[[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 [[The Sunday Times|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]
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A hotel register at the [[Eccleston Hotel]] in London recorded a Cheryl Hanin as a guest just before Guerrero checked in. [[Peter Hounam]] of the Sunday Times found the entry while tracing the woman who had lured Mordecai Vanunu from London. The form gave a Florida family address and the nationality "USA."[^2] She is profiled on the page for [[Cindy Hanin Bentov]].
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015).
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[^2]: Peter Hounam, _The Woman from Mossad: The Story of Mordechai Vanunu and the Israeli Nuclear Program_. Vision Paperbacks, 1999, pp. 93-94. Lending copy: https://archive.org/details/womanfrommossads0000houn
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