THE IMPOSSIBLE CONTRADICTION
On June 16, 2025, the U.S. State Department created a Welfare and Whereabouts case summary designating Army Sergeant Kelvin Blas as “fictitious”—the supposed subject of a “long-term romance scam” targeting his advocate, David Burger.
Five months later, on November 11, 2025, embassy security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Lomé, Togo physically assaulted Kelvin Blas. The assault was witnessed by six people.
You cannot assault a fictitious person.
Either Kelvin Blas—exists in which case the State Department’s Welfare and Whereabouts case is fraudulent—or he doesn’t exist, in which case embassy guards assaulted a phantom.
Both cannot be true. The guards met someone real. But the bureaucratic record says he’s fake.
This investigation reveals how the State Department was caught manufacturing evidence, fabricating documentation with the wrong name, wrong age, wrong letterhead, and blank activity logs—then using administrative tricks to bury the fraud when challenged.
THE DISCOVERY
The fabrication came to light through forensic analysis of documents provided in response to FOIA F-2025-28917, filed September 17, 2025.
The request sought internal communications and case files related to Kelvin Blas, stranded in Togo since 2020 despite being a U.S. citizen and Army combat veteran.
What the State Department provided instead was a four-page Welfare and Whereabouts Service Summary with a critical tell: the file metadata.
Document Generation Date: November 25, 2025 (just 8 days before delivery)
Service Create Date (document content): June 16, 2025
FOIA Delivery Date: December 3, 2025
The document was created eight days before it was delivered—and six days after the FOIA was closed as “complete.”
THE EIGHT INDICATORS OF FABRICATION
1. WRONG NAME
The document identifies the subject as “Blas, Kelvin Bill”
Kelvin Blas has no middle name. His correct legal name is Kelvin Blas, as confirmed by:
- Department of Defense service records
- U.S. passport documentation
- Army discharge paperwork
- Five years of correspondence with State Department officials
The name was conveniently redacted in the FOIA response using (b)(6) privacy exemption—hiding the fabrication.
2. WRONG AGE
The document lists the subject’s age as “30 (est.)”
Kelvin Blas was born August 1983. As of June 2025 (the alleged case creation date), he was 41 years old, turning 42 that August. He was not 30 years old in 2025 – he would have been 30 in 2013.
This is not a typo. This is a 12-year error that suggests the document creator didn’t know the actual person.
3. WRONG LETTERHEAD
The document bears the header: “United States Department of State / Bureau of Consular Affairs”
If this were a legitimate Welfare & Whereabouts case for someone in Togo, it should be on U.S. Embassy Lomé letterhead.
Welfare and Whereabouts cases are managed by the consular section of the embassy where the person is located—not by Bureau of Consular Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The use of DC headquarters letterhead suggests:
- Embassy Lomé never created an actual W/W case
- DC fabricated the document without post involvement
- This was a desk exercise to pad the FOIA response, not actual field work
4. BLANK ACTIVITY LOG
The W/W summary includes a section titled “Activity Log” with column headers:
- Name
- Type
- Source
- Created By
- Create Date
- Due Date
- Complete Date
Every field is blank.
If State Department officials conducted any actual welfare checks on Kelvin Blas between March 2020 and November 2025—nearly six years during which he lived on the streets, battled malaria, and was ultimately assaulted at the embassy—there would be entries in this log.
There are none. Zero activities. No welfare checks. No status inquiries. Nothing.
The Activity Log proves this case existed only on paper.
5. NEVER UPDATED
Service Create Date: 16-Jun-2025
Date Last Edited: 16-Jun-2025
The case was created and last edited on the same day – June 16, 2025.
For five months, through multiple documented events, the case was never updated:
* July 2025: Living on streets, battling malaria
* August 2025: Living in parking lot, malaria episodes
* September 2025: OIG complaint filed
* October 2025: 14 embassy visits documented to date
* November 11, 2025: Physical assault at embassy by guards
None of these events triggered an update to the W/W case. The “Last Edited” date remained June 16, 2025.
6. NOVEMBER 25 CREATION
The document footer shows: “Generated: 25-Nov-2025”
This is eight days before the FOIA delivery date (December 3, 2025) and six days after the FOIA was closed as “complete” (November 27, 2025).
The timeline proves:
- The FOIA was closed before the document was finalized
- The document was generated specifically for FOIA delivery
- The State Department backdated the “Service Create Date” to June 16 to make it appear the case had existed for months
7. NEVER REQUESTED
The original FOIA F-2025-28917 requested:
- Internal emails and communications
- Case file notes and entries
- Correspondence with other agencies
- Reports and incident logs
8. System ID Contains Third Conflicting Date
The document displays System ID: LOM20250702369587
Breaking down this identifier reveals another fabrication layer:
- LOM = U.S. Embassy Lomé code
- 20250702 = July 2, 2025 (date stamp)
- 369587 = Record/user identifier
This creates a third conflicting date in the same fabricated document:
- Claimed creation date: June 16, 2025 (shown in document content)
- System ID embedded date: July 2, 2025 (embedded in the identifier)
- Actual generation date: November 25, 2025 (file metadata)
If the case was genuinely created on June 16, 2025, why does the system ID contain a July 2, 2025 date stamp? If legitimate Welfare & Whereabouts cases receive system IDs at creation, this July 2 date contradicts the June 16 backstory.
The State Department must now explain why a case allegedly created June 16 has a system identifier stamped July 2, but file metadata showing November 25 generation.
Three dates. None of them match. All in the same fabricated document.
It did not request a Welfare & Whereabouts summary.
The State Department manufactured a W/W case to pad the response and create the appearance of a “thorough search”—while avoiding production of the internal communications that were actually requested.