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| Amdocs exec questioned in industrial espionage affair source: Globes.co.il |  |
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| Amdocs exec questioned in industrial espionage affair source: Globes.co.il | |
| The police say they have enough evidence to indict the private investigators who have been arrested. Noam Sharvit 31 May 05 13:11 This morning, Aryeh Zeiff, CEO of cigarette company Dubek, filed a complaint at the fraud division of the Israel Police Tel Aviv district, claiming that his company had fallen victim to monitoring by an unknown party. Zeiff had a computer with him, on which he said Trojan Horse spyware had been installed. He said the investigators had asked him to bring the computer for inspection. The march of people giving testimony to the fraud division, both complainants and those being questioned, will continue today. Managers of several companies suspected of commissioning industrial espionage were due to present themselves to the police this morning. A senior manager with responsibility for security at Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), Eitan Shiron, has been questioned under caution. Amdocs is suspected of spying on "Globes" journalist Gitit Pincas, who used to cover the company. Yesterday, Amdocs confirmed that it hired a private investigation agency to help it stop leaks of information to outside organizations, but the company denied that it had infiltrated computers at "Globes", and claimed that it had explicitly instructed the investigation agency that it must act within the law. Last night, the police took away the computer used by Pincas at Globes, after a Trojan horse was found on it. It is suspected that Pincas's home computer was also infiltrated, but because its hard disk had recently been re-formatted, no Trojan horse was found on it. The police investigators believe that Pincas came under surveillance when she covered Wall Street at "Ha'aretz's" business section "The Marker". Certain articles Pincas published about Amdocs apparently aroused the company's ire, and it started a comprehensive internal investigation to find her sources. Amdocs warned its employees about leaking information, and even forced some managers to undergo polygraph tests. The threats and polygraph tests failed to reveal anything. It is alleged that Amdocs then tried other methods to uncover Pincas's sources. About a year ago, Pincas left The Marker to work at Globes, and the surveillance of her continued until last week. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=919329&fid=942 Amdocs received the warning on the morning of 9-11. |
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| Amdocs competitor computer infiltration case, The Age |
| Amdocs man grilled in Israel spy case Jerusalem June 1, 2005 -
10:25AM
Related Fears that Israel spy scandal could hit investment 18 in Israel accused of high-tech spying Israeli hackers appear in British court Israeli hacking suspect held in London Israeli police have questioned an executive from Amdocs, one of Israel's largest companies, in connection with a growing corporate espionage case that has shaken the country's business world. At least 19 people have been arrested in the affair, in which business executives and private investigators allegedly used sophisticated software to infiltrate competitors' computers. The investigation has implicated a car importer, two mobile phone providers and the country's main satellite television company, and police say they expect the investigation to widen. Earlier this week, Israel's central bank chief, Stanley Fischer, warned the affair could harm investment in the country. Police officials said an Amdocs executive was questioned "under caution" on Tuesday. The executive was identified by Israeli media as Eitan Shiron, a security manager at the company. The company, which makes customer-management software, confirmed it had used one of the private investigators arrested in the case, but said it instructed the agency to act in "full compliance" with the law. Advertisement Advertisement"Amdocs is a law-abiding company that operates according to and in the spirit of the highest legal and ethical standards," a company statement said. It said it had hired the investigator to help "prevent confidential and proprietary information from leaking to persons and organisations outside the company." The Israeli business daily Globes said Amdocs was suspected of spying on a journalist at the newspaper who used to cover the company. Amdocs, whose shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange, maintains its global headquarters in Chesterfield, Missouri, but roughly half of its 10,000-strong workforce is based in Israel.
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| Free Republic excerpt, Amdocs |
| The second round of the investigation touched on Israeli companies providing administrative services for American companies, which would conceal information. It was aimed at the manufacturer of Amdocs software, placed on Wall Street, which lists, for the 25 major telephone companies of the United States, all the calls coming into and originating from American territory, as well as the companies Nice and Comverse Infosys, the latter providing the data-processing programs to American law enforcement agencies authorized to eavesdrop on private phone conversations. Comverse is suspected of having introduced into its systems of the catch gates in order to intercept, record and store these wire-taps. This hardware would render the listener himself listened to. Question to Cameron: Are there reasons to believe the Israeli government is implicated?Answer: No, none, but a classified top-secret investigation is underway |
| DEA wiretaps by Amdocs? |
| WhatReallyHappened Mother of All Scandals |
| 2001 It is discovered that US drug agents’ communications have been
penetrated. Suspicion falls on two companies, AMDOCS and Comverse
Infosys, both owned by Israelis. AMDOCS generates billing data for most
US phone companies and is able to provide detailed logs of who is
talking to whom. Comverse Infosys builds the tapping equipment used by
law enforcement to eavesdrop on all American telephone calls, but
suspicion forms that Comverse, which gets half of its research and
development budget from the Israeli government, has built a back door
into the system that is being exploited by Israeli intelligence and that
the information gleaned on US drug interdiction efforts is finding its
way to drug smugglers. The investigation by the FBI leads to the
exposure of the largest foreign spy ring ever uncovered inside the
United States, operated by Israel. Half of the suspected spies have been
arrested when 9-11 happens. On 9-11, 5 Israelis are arrested for dancing
and cheering while the World Trade Towers collapse. Supposedly employed
by Urban Moving Systems, the Israelis are caught with multiple passports
and a lot of cash. Two of them are later revealed to be Mossad. As
witness reports track the activity of the Israelis, it emerges that they
were seen at Liberty Park at the time of the first impact, suggesting a
foreknowledge of what was to come. The Israelis are interrogated, and
then eventually sent back to Israel. The owner of the moving company
used as a cover by the Mossad agents abandons his business and flees to
Israel. The United States Government then classifies all of the evidence
related to the Israeli agents and their connections to 9-11. All of this
is reported to the public via a four part story on Fox News by Carl
Cameron. Pressure from Jewish groups, primarily AIPAC, forces Fox News
to remove the story from their website. Two hours prior to the 9-11
attacks, Odigo, an Israeli company with offices just a few blocks from
the World Trade Towers, receives an advance warning via the internet.
The manager of the New York Office provides the FBI with the IP address
of the sender of the message, but the FBI does not follow up.
2001 The FBI is investigating 5 Israeli moving companies as possible fronts for Israeli intelligence. 2001 JDL’s Irv Rubin arrested for planning to bomb a US Congressman. He dies before he can be brought to trial. 2002 The DEA issues a report that Israeli spies, posing as art students, have been trying to penetrate US Government offices. 2002 police near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in southern Washington State stop a suspicious truck and detain two Israelis, one of whom is illegally in the United States. The two men were driving at high speed in a Ryder rental truck, which they claimed had been used to "deliver furniture." The next day, police discovered traces of TNT and RDX military-grade plastic explosives inside the passenger cabin and on the steering wheel of the vehicle. The FBI then announces that the tests that showed explosives were “false positived” by cigarette smoke, a claim test experts say is ridiculous. Based on an alibi provided by a woman, the case is closed and the Israelis are handed over to INS to be sent back to Israel. One week later, the woman who provided the alibi vanishes. 2003 The Police Chief of Cloudcroft stops a truck speeding through a school zone. The drivers turn out to be Israelis with expired passports. Claiming to be movers, the truck contains junk furniture and several boxes. The Israelis are handed over to immigration. The contents of the boxers are not revealed to the public.
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| To: Lurker Bellow is not meant to be antisemitic. In fact, WACO
and Ruby Ridge nuts you defend were quite antisemitic. My point is
only that Israel spies a lot on the US. Just because we consider
them an ally, doesn't mean that there interests and ours are
identical and that our security isn't hurt by it. You alway question
so called MSM but accept without question a Jerusalem post article
Because it fits your agenda. FBI makes mistakes. Sometimes screws
up. Sometimes badly. Mostly honest people out there every day trying
to prevent another 9-11. Say thank you, don't ridicule. ::
It is undoubtedly the largest case of Israeli spying in the United States that has been made public since 1986. In June 2001, an investigative report detailed the activities of more than one-hundred Israeli agents, some presenting themselves as fine arts students, others tied to Israeli high-tech companies. All were challenged by the authorities, were questioned, and a dozen of them are still imprisoned. One of their tasks was to track the Al-Qaida terrorists on American territory; without informing the federal authorities. Elements of this investigation, taken up by American television Fox News, reinforce this thesis: that Israel did not transmit to the United States all the evidence in its possession on the preparation of the September 11 attacks. The latest issue of the Online Intelligence Letter, a publication specializing in questions of information, has revealed that a vast Israeli spy network operating on American territory was dismantled. It is the biggest affair involving the Mossad (the Israel's external security agency) in activity against the United States since Jonathan Pollard, an employee of the US Navy, was condemned to life in prison, in 1986, for spying for Israel's benefit. Which was the real scale of this network? The facts evoked by an American investigative report do not indicate if the network obtained the information it was after, or if the authorities dismantled it in its initial phase. According to the chief editor of Online Intelligence, Guillaume Dasquié, this "vast network of Israeli intelligence agents was neutralized by the counter-espionage services of the Department of Justice." The Americans "would have apprehended or expelled close to 120 Israeli nationals. M. Dasquié gives a report on a 61-page review article from June 2001, given to the American justice department by a task force made up of agents of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) and some INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) agents "who were associated with the FBI and the office of investigation of the US Air Force. Questioned by Le Monde, Will Glaspy, of the Public Affairs department of the DEA, authenticated this report, and said the DEA "holds a copy.This is not the first time that information relating to Israeli espionage appeared in the United States since the Pollard affair. In June 1999, the review Insight had described, at length, an investigation by division 5 of the FBI regarding Israeli phone-tapping targeting the White House, the State Department and the National Security Council. After the attacks of September 11, very little detailed information had come out about the arrest of some sixty Israelis. Finally, from the 11th to the 14th of December 2001, the Fox News television channel aired an investigation in four parts into Israeli espionage in the United States, in the broadcast Carl Cameron Investigates The Israeli embassy in Washington immediately responded by stating that it did not contain anything true American Jewish organizations such JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs), AIPAC (America-Israel Political Action Committee) and others, denounced the report as a machination. Fox withdrew from its Internet site, one day and half after its posting, all the material related to this investigation. Le Monde requested three times with Fox News to provide a tape of the broadcast. It was never done. On February 26, Fox told our correspondent in New York that sending it posed a problem, without being specific. Le Monde, however took note of the whole script in this investigation. Carl Cameron evokes a vast secret investigation held there relating to 140 Israelis made to pass for students of the University of Jerusalem or Betzalel Academy of Arts [which have] unceasingly sought to come into contact with civil servants and, according to a document, targeted and penetrated military bases, dozens of buildings of the DEA, FBI, and others. His investigation focused on two aspects. Firstly, could the Israelis have had preliminary knowledge of the September 11 attacks and not informed the Americans? His sources, explains Carl Cameron, tell him: The principal question is how they could they have not known? On the screen, his editor-in-chief tells him thus: Certain reports confirm that the Mossad sent representatives to the United States to warn them, before September 11, of the imminence of a major terrorist attack. That does not go in the direction of an absence of warning. Cameron's response: The problem is not the absence of warning, but the absence of useful details compared to those which American services suspect Israel of having held.The second round of the investigation touched on Israeli companies providing administrative services for American companies, which would conceal information. It was aimed at the manufacturer of Amdocs software, placed on Wall Street, which lists, for the 25 major telephone companies of the United States, all the calls coming into and originating from American territory, as well as the companies Nice and Comverse Infosys, the latter providing the data-processing programs to American law enforcement agencies authorized to eavesdrop on private phone conversations. Comverse is suspected of having introduced into its systems of the catch gates in order to intercept, record and store these wire-taps. This hardware would render the listener himself listened to. Question to Cameron: Are there reasons to believe the Israeli government is implicated?Answer: No, none, but a classified top-secret investigation is underway. The broadcast had been shown beforehand to the highest persons in charge of the CIA, the FBI, the NSA (the agency in charge of phone-taps), the DEA and the American Justice Department, none of which objected to its airing. The report submitted to the American Justice Department, to which Le Monde had access, shows that many of the "fine-arts students" suspected of illicit activity have a military past in Israeli information or advanced technology units. Some entered and left the United States on several occasions, remaining each time for short periods. Several are related to the hi-tech Israeli companies of Amdocs, Nice and Retalix. Challenged, a coed saw her guarantee of $10,000 paid by an Israeli working at Amdocs. Questioned, two others admitted being employed by Retalix.Le Monde obtained other information not contained in this report. Six of the intercepted "students" had a cellular telephone bought by an Israeli ex-vice-consul in the United States. Two others, at an unspecified time, arrived in Miami by direct flight from Hamburg, and went to the residence of an FBI agent, to try to sell him artwork, left again for the Chicago airport to go to the residence of an agent of the justice department, then again took a plane directly for Toronto all in one day. More than a third of these students who, according to the report, moved in at least 42 American cities, stated they resided in Florida. Five at least were intercepted in Hollywood, and two in Fort Lauderdale. Hollywood is a town of 25,000 inhabitants to the north of Miami, close to Fort Lauderdale. At least 10 of the 19 terrorists of 9/11 were residing in Florida.Four of the five members of the group that diverted American Airlines flight number 11 Mohammed Atta, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Walid and Waïl Al-Shehri, as well as one of the five terrorists of United flight 175, Marwan Al-Shehhi resided all at various times in... Hollywood, Florida. As for Ahmed Fayez, Ahmed and Hamza Al-Ghamdi and Mohand Al-Shehri, who took over United flight 75, like Saïd Al-Ghamdi, Ahmed Al-Haznawi and Ahmed Al-Nami, of United flight 93 which crashed September 11 in Pennsylvania, and Nawaq Al-Hamzi, of AA flight 77 (crashed into the Pentagon), they all at one time resided at Delray Beach, in the north of Fort Lauderdale. This convergence is, inter alia, the origin of the American conviction that one of the tasks of the Israeli students would have been to track the Al-Qaida terrorists on their territory, without informing the federal authorities of the existence of the plot.Two enigmas remain. Why was the Israeli network a priority of drug enforcement agents? An assumption: the DEA is the main American agency inquiring into the money laundering. A network such as Al-Qaida used dirty [funding], and the Talibans Afghanistan was the primary exporter of opium in the world. Why this astonishing cover of false students canvassers for poor artwork? The Israeli network seemed to hold lists of names. Its members knew at which office or which private residence to go. The objective was apparently to make contact, even for a short time. According to an Israeli specialist in espionage, this story is a ridiculous joke, and is not serious. Contacted, the services of the Israeli Prime Minister still had not, as of Monday evening March 4, answered our questions. The American Justice Department indicated to us that a dozen of these students would still be imprisoned indefinitely, and all the others had been released or deported. The FBI indicated to us that it will not make any comment at this stage.The CIA, the FBI, the DEA, the INS, the NSA, the Justice Department and the Pentagon have all designated an investigator on this file.
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