Dig on Sayoc's Philippines connection:
Sayoc’s mother is from Brooklyn and his father, Cesar Sayoc Sr., was from the Philippines. The Miami Herald reports that his father was an immigrant from that country and “was naturalized in 1970 in North Miami Beach.”
The immigration record says the father, who spelled his name Ceasar Sayoc, came from Manila and was living in North Miami Beach. He arrived in the United States in 1956, the record states.
https://heavy.com/news/2018/10/cesar-sayoc-family-wife-a-photo/
His grandfather was Col. Baltazar Zook Sayoc, a martial arts practitioner who developed his own style of fighting, Sayoc Kali. The style was allegedly used to fight the Communist Party of the Philippines.
https://globintel.com/usa/cesar-sayoc-bio-wiki-age-wife-family-net-worth-career-occupation-republican-facebook-twitter-bomb-threats/
Manila As a CIA Main Station
Manila for a long time has been the main station, if not the regional headquarters, of the Central Intelligence Agency) for Southeast Asia. This is perhaps because the Philippines has always been regarded as a stronghold of U.S. imperial power in Asia. Americanized Filipinos are easy to recruit, perhaps unaware that they are committing treason against their own people and country. And from the beginning of the 20th century to 1992, there were the U.S. military bases in the Philippines, mighty symbols and infrastructures of American military power overseas.
The CIA by the way, has a long history of collaboration with anti-communist warlords and drug lords in Asia, which operate transnational organized crime syndicates. (Valentine, 2013) American social historian Alfred McCoy has done excellent studies documenting this CIA-narcotics connection. McCoy writes that the CIA worked with drug lords because, "Their mission was to stop communism and, in pursuit of that mission, they would ally with anyone and do anything to fight communism." (McCoy, 2003)
The CIA in the Philippines has engaged in countless covert operations and dirty tricks. The U.S. diplomatic mission, especially the political section, is a favorite cover for many CIA operatives. CIA front companies also provide an additional but convenient layer of cover for operatives assigned overseas. In general, wherever you find U.S. big business interests like Coca Cola, Ford, Citicorp, United Fruit, Nike, etc., you also find a very active CIA. But the covers often used are diversified.
The CIA's success in crushing the Huk rebellion in the 1950s made this operation the model for future counterinsurgency operations in Vietnam and Latin America. Colonel Lansdale and his Filipino side-kick, Col. Napoleon Valeriano, later used their counter-guerrilla experience in the Philippines for training covert operatives in Vietnam and in the U.S.-administered School of the Americas, which trained counter-guerrilla assassins for Latin America. Thus, the Philippines became the CIA's prototype in successful covert operations and psychological warfare.
http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/a-brief-look-at-the-cia-in-the-philippines
still digging for a direct connection between his grandfather/father and the C_A