A handout image released by Compassion international, a U.S.-based non-profit organization which utilizes local churches to assist children in poor communities around the world, showing exchanges between late former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and a young boy in the Philippines whom Bush secretly sponsored for ten years through the organization in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, issued on Dec. 19, 2018. The sponsorship was kept secret and Bush used the pseudonym George Walker but while details in the letters did hint at his real identity such as a photo and name of the former president's dog and other info, his real identity was never discovered. Reports indicate the former president's office has confirmed the validity of the letters. (Photo/Agencies)
A handout image released by Compassion international, a U.S.-based non-profit organization which utilizes local churches to assist children in poor communities around the world, showing exchanges between late former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and a young boy in the Philippines whom Bush secretly sponsored for ten years through the organization in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, issued on Dec. 19, 2018. The sponsorship was kept secret and Bush used the pseudonym George Walker but while details in the letters did hint at his real identity such as a photo and name of the former president's dog and other info, his real identity was never discovered. Reports indicate the former president's office has confirmed the validity of the letters. (Photo/Agencies)
A handout image released by Compassion international, a U.S.-based non-profit organization which utilizes local churches to assist children in poor communities around the world, showing exchanges between late former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and a young boy in the Philippines whom Bush secretly sponsored for ten years through the organization in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, issued on Dec. 19, 2018. The sponsorship was kept secret and Bush used the pseudonym George Walker but while details in the letters did hint at his real identity such as a photo and name of the former president's dog and other info, his real identity was never discovered. Reports indicate the former president's office has confirmed the validity of the letters. (Photo/Agencies)
A handout image released by Compassion international, a U.S.-based non-profit organization which utilizes local churches to assist children in poor communities around the world, showing exchanges between late former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and a young boy in the Philippines whom Bush secretly sponsored for ten years through the organization in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, issued on Dec. 19, 2018. The sponsorship was kept secret and Bush used the pseudonym George Walker but while details in the letters did hint at his real identity such as a photo and name of the former president's dog and other info, his real identity was never discovered. Reports indicate the former president's office has confirmed the validity of the letters. (Photo/Agencies)
