Tag: Phillipines

Cinema Film Review: ‘Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story’

1 h 5m | Documentary | 2015   You don’t see a lot of narrative films that cover the many lesser-known battles in the Pacific Theater during World War II. But fortunately, there are some great documentaries out there, such as 2015’s “Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story,” that shed some light on…


Hawaii Woman Pleads Guilty to Mishandling Classified National Defense Information

A Honolulu woman pleaded guilty on July 20 to knowingly removing and retaining classified national defense information from the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines. Asia Janay Lavarello, 31, admitted to removing documents classified at the secret level from the U.S. Embassy in Manila in March last year, according to a press release from the Department…