Day 7 of Gaza ceasefire: U.S.-manned Netzarim corridor vehicle checkpoint set to open today
The two U.S.-domiciled companies named in the effort are Jameson Govoni's UG Solutions and a secretive shell company managed by a Wyoming "generational wealth management" firm, Two Ocean Trust.
Last updated on January 25, 2025, 7:37 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. In a predictable fashion, The Washington Post was used to launder this publication’s scoop more than a day later with no credit. The new detail in The Post is that the shell company Safe Reach Solutions was founded by former CIA special activities chief Philip F. Reilly.
According to the appendix text of the six-week Gaza ceasefire agreement begun last Sunday, a vehicle inspection checkpoint along the Israeli-controlled Netzarim corridor is set to open today, allowing “unarmed internally displaced” non-pedestrians to return north towards Gaza City.
Section 7 of the appendix states: “On day 7, vehicles and any non-pedestrian traffic will be allowed to return north of Netzarim corridor after vehicle inspection which will be performed by a private company which will be determined by the mediators in sync with the Israeli side, based on an agreed upon mechanism.” As first reported by The New York Times and Axios on Thursday, two relatively obscure American-domiciled companies will be involved in the checkpoint effort, Safe Reach Solutions and UG Solutions. Safe Reach was reported by Axios to have “drafted the operational plan for the checkpoint.”
After the author exclusively published details yesterday on the two companies, including that Safe Reach Solutions is an anonymous shell company legally controlled by the Wyoming-based “generational wealth management” firm Two Ocean Trust, an apparent spokesperson for UG Solutions called to speak at length. It was also separately determined through source code forensics, and then directly confirmed, that the website for Safe Reach was developed by the Democratic Party-aligned web development firm Landslide Digital.
The apparent spokesperson for UG Solutions, who had intimate knowledge of the operations of the company and its affiliates, Sentinel Foundation and Alcohol Armor, asked to speak on background after calling late into Friday night and provided a name which could not be publicly verified, promising to provide proof of affiliation with the company over the following days by email. While not contesting the accuracy of yesterday’s report on UG Solutions, the spokesperson asserted that their founder Jameson Govoni’s co-creation of the hangover prevention company Alcohol Armor “wasn’t relevant.”
In an apparent reference to quoted statements from the “origin story” of Alcohol Armor published to YouTube, the caller admitted that the company was “a little broey” and stated that: “Jameson is our CEO and you did not capture him well. He's an entrepreneur and doing good work around the world and we're not saints and we're not perfect. I don't think your story captured him well and it could be better and it could be more targeted to the issue at hand.”
The caller further stated that the “undercover” operations in Nicaragua conducted by Mr. Govoni and his co-founder, Glenn Devitt, were through their counter sex-trafficking organization Sentinel Foundation and not through the U.S. Army. He also stated that UG Solutions was a for-profit spin-out of Sentinel Foundation: “We would do work around the world for free for governments and help them to do [Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance] and investigations both online and in person and hunt down child traffickers and human traffickers.” He continued that “the for-profit can make money and donate to the nonprofit. That made it easier for us to fund it ourselves. So that was why we started UG [Solutions], to do high-threat work, investigative work, executive protection on a for profit basis. Sentinel's work is extremely specific on child and sex trafficking and human trafficking.”
When repeatedly asked who was behind the “Safe Reach Solutions” shell company, the caller continually insisted that it wasn’t “a good use of your resources” to investigate the matter, and that it would be better to cover today’s release of four female hostages. (Alongside the ceasefire agreement dictating the opening of the vehicle inspection checkpoint across the Netzarim corridor on day 7, it also resulted in the release of four female Israeli soldiers earlier today.)
The caller continued that: “We are a tiny, tiny, tiny microcosm of a much, much broader international coalition. We're just helping people get from the south to the north.”
One clue towards uncovering the identity of Safe Reach Solutions was revealed through the HTML source code of the company’s privacy policy, which included an. apparently outdated link to the developer of the website, “https://team-srs.landsli.dev/privacy-policy/,” revealing the developer as the small, Democratic Party-aligned web development firm Landslide Digital. A source with direct knowledge confirmed that this was the case, though the company refused to provide comment or to discuss who hired them for the job.
With advertised clients ranging from ‘End Citizens United’ to Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, public corporate records from the states of Virginia and Nevada reveal the three controllers of the small firm to be the Virginia-based Jeffrey Parra Apel (through Adept Ventures, LLC), Las Vegas-based Nicholas V. Cerminara (through Gazelle Eats Lion Ventures, LLC), and the shell company Anonymous Ferret, which is run by Lee Moran, according to a source with direct knowledge.
Mr. Moran is also publicly listed as a partner at Landslide Digital, and previously worked at the Republican Party-aligned marketing firm Harris Media, whose homepage boasts of building “the first-ever AI-generated and AI-operated chatbot in presidential political history” alongside a picture of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as having “created the first native Twitter video attack ad.”
Nicholas Cerminara and Jeffrey Apel did not respond to requests for comment by phone.
January 25, 2025, 9:17 p.m.: References to the relationship with a company run by Mr. Moran's ex-wife were removed to balance privacy with transparency.
It's crazy how little attention this sort of things.
We are witnessing a very fast swapping out of corporations for governments across the board. Already governments are basically a giant virtue signal cover for ruthless profiteering, they're just making sure it gets even more ... efficient.
Maybe just me but Regan Opal & Lee Moran look like the same person with different hair.