Ok, I did some interesting digging. Bear with me as I read a lot of the voat content you all so diligently provide and I figured it was time to contribute. Another user mentioned the new leaks on the Department of State website so I figured I would take a look. I didn't find anything too crazy in the leak from this week but I was looking at older submissions. I typed in "Podesta" and just started scrolling and reading.
Link to State Department website with Podesta Search - See page 6 of 9
The email I found is titled "Adoption Case". It was a forward of a long email chain from Stephen A. Vann to Kathleen H. Doherty.
Stephen A. Vann seems to have previously been a Consul General to the Us Embassy in Bucharest. Michele Thoren Bond is also bigger member of the thread and she was the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs under the Obama Administration.
Michele Thoren Bond - Wikipedia
Anyways, the thread seems to be discussing a raid on an orphanage in Guatemala. Its difficult to understand exactly whats going on in the thread but they seem to be discussing how the raid will be executed. they discuss a particular family who will testify and go into protective custody of the Guatemalan Government. They mention the safety of american citizens in Guatemala who are apparently living down there fostering children they will soon adopt.
From the email:
The embassy should be in contact with the PGN to determine the type of raid (i.e. arrests etc) and
when it will
be
taking place. Congressional offices are concerned about additional families that are
in Guatemala now fostering the children they hope to adopt. I've been told that many of these
families (possibly 20-30) are staying in Antigua (I am not sure of the spelling but it sounded like
that). If there is a raid and only the director of the orphanage is taken in to custody, the fear is that
others connected i.e. "henchmen" may retaliate and this situation may put additional citizens in
harms way.
Also from the email:
The name of the orphanage is "Podesta" and the director is Guillermo Bosque.
In the email, it is specifically mentioned that the Orphanage in question is called "Podesta" and the director is Guillermo Bosque. The name is strange but doing some digging on Guillermo Bosque, it appears there was a book written about missing children in Guatemala that alleges that he was involved with missing babies cases.
Book Link: Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth
From the book:
In a separate, gruesome news item, the U.S. Embassy noted in an internal memo dated December 2003, "the AG [attorney general] and the PGN are also investigating claims by at least eight Guatemalan couples that newborns were taken from them and transferred to Roosevelt Hospital in Gutemala City, where the staff claimed the babies needed emergency medical treatment and later died." One section of a five-part investigative series published by the Guatemalan newspaper Al Dia that same month detailed the kidnapping of a baby from Roosevelt Hospital in Guatemala City. Some adoption industry contacts played a key role in more than one part of the business. Guillermo Bosque, an adoption facilitator, is said to have owned a private medical clinic where women could come to give birth adjacent to a private nursery, ...
Anyways, is it a coincidence that the Orphanage in question is named "Podesta"? I may be way off on this but maybe there is more to this.
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Gothamgirl ago
I found this & it is a complaint & has the name of the agency. "Worldwide adoption agency services" also mentions Podesta it's just misspelled. http://tinarandall.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html?m=1
http://imgur.com/38LfnUt
kplusk ago
Hi, I believe it's related, But you're link: http://tinarandall.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html?m=1 opens up page w/ no blog entries.
However, I was able to read the review from your imgur link: http://imgur.com/38LfnUt.
So you might want to delete the former web link.