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Sam Vaknin, the Fake Prisoner



Sam Vaknin claims to have done time in prison in 1995-6. We checked the records of the courts and the prison system in Israel. It is true. He was first put in Eyal, now a closed prison camp, mostly for white-collar criminals. There he worked in the library of the prison (the books were for the students at the warden school nearby). Nadav Nackan, the convicted hitman, was also working there with him.
Then, after he verbally attacked during his appeal process the all-powerful Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak and gave an interview on the radio against the Israeli court system, he was expelled from Eyal and put in a much worse and more dangerous prison in Ramla, among murderers, rapists, Arab terrorists, and armed robbers. He described this setting in one of his short stories, “Write Me a Letter”.

During this period that he was supposed to be in a maximum security facility, he was giving lectures in the Tel-Aviv University Law Faculty with Prof. Shlomo Giora Shoham. Even accoding to his own CV, he worked in “Namer Tikshoret”, publisher of “Namer shel Neyar” (a fax to subscribers about the advertising industry). We verified this with the owner at the time, Yuval.

How is this possible and why was he released after only 11 months out of a verdict of 36 months?
Again, during these 11 months supposedly in prison, he wrote his bestselling book, “Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited” (430 dense pages in English in the first edition in 1999) as well as 5 other manuscripts, including his book of short stories, “Requesting My Loved One”, which won a prestigious prize from the Council of Culture and Art in 1997!

How can anyone write so many works in prison, with the terrible conditions in Ramla?

We found evidence that Vaknin was cooperating with Dov Raviv, the Arrow missile engineer who got bribes from a supplier while he was working in the Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) and was in prison the same time as Vaknin. Vaknin got money from Raviv days after he left prison. What were these two working on? No one knows or no one wants to talk.

Was Sam Vaknin really in prison or was it a cover for some secret mission or job? My investigators become more and more convinced that Vaknin was sent to prison to build up some important part of his future story, biography.

By who? The Mossad?

Ex Mossad agents we talked to said that the Mossad do not use tactics like this. Some of them pointed the finger and us at a completely different angle and direction: a private, secret, global organization of ex senior intelligence officers. It is known only as “The Organization”.

As far as we could ascertain, the Organization was run via a now down website, International Analyst Network. Vaknin is listed there, together with all the most senior “who is who” of the espionage world. We also came across this mind blowing email correspondence with Clive Prince and Lynn Picknett, the authors of bestseller books about conspiracies.

We wanted to know with all urgency what is the truth behind this incredible story. So, we involved colleagues in the Balkans to begin the hunt for the Real Sam Vaknin: to find out everything about his assassinated (?) partner, Gideon Sandel, and about his shadow work in Serbia breaking the embargo imposed by the West on the Milosevic regime (together with then Industry Minister Dusko Matkovic and via the MKS conglomerate and its accounts in Cyprus and Lebanon), and, later, in  Macedonia with Nikola Gruevski, the Prime Minister until a year ago. 

To be continued.

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