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Pollard is hardly the only Israeli spy operating in the United States. He
just had the misfortune to get caught. Here are just a few examples of the
Israeli spy operations that have been detected.
1947. Information collected by the ADL in its spy operations on US citizens
is used by the House Select Committee on Unamerican Activities. Subcommittee
Chair Clare Hoffman dismisses the ADL’s reports on suspected communists as
“hearsay."
1950 John Davitt, former chief of the Justice Department's internal security
section notes that the Israeli intelligence service is the second most active in
the United States after the Soviets.
1954 A hidden microphone planted by the Israelis is discovered in the Office
of the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv.
1956 Telephone taps are found connected to two telephones in the residence of
the US military attaché in Tel Aviv.
1954 "The Lavon Affair". Israeli agents recruit Egyptian citizens of Jewish
descent to bomb Western targets in Egypt, and plant evidence to frame Arabs, in
an apparent attempt to upset US-Egyptian relations. Israeli defense minister
Pinchas Lavon is eventually removed from office, though many think real
responsibility lay with David Ben-Gurion.
1965 Israel apparently illegally obtains enriched uranium from NUMEC
Corporation. (Washington Post, 6/5/86, Charles R. Babcock, "US an Intelligence
Target of the Israelis, Officials Say.")
1967 Israel attacks the USS Liberty, an intelligence gathering vessel flying
a US flag, killing 34 crew members. See "Assault on the Liberty," by James M.
Ennes, Jr. (Random House). In 2004, Captain Ward Boston, Senior Legal Counsel
for the Navy’s Court of Inquiry into the attack swears under oath that President
Lyndon Johnson ordered the investigation to conclude accident, even though the
evidence indicates the attack was deliberate. Given the use by Israel of
unmarked boats and planes, and the machine-gunning of USS Liberty’s lifeboats,
the most likely explanation is that USS Liberty was to be sunk with all hands,
with evidence left to frame Egypt for the sinking. This would have dragged the
US into the war on Israel’s side.
1970 While working for Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Richard Perle is caught
by the FBI giving classified information to Israel. Nothing is done.
1978, Stephen Bryen, then a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer, is
overheard in a DC hotel offering confidential documents to top Israeli military
officials. Bryen obtains a lawyer, Nathan Lewin, and the case heads for the
grand jury, but is mysteriously dropped. Bryen later goes to work for Richard
Perle.
1979 Shin Beth [the Israeli internal security agency] tries to penetrate the
US Consulate General in Jerusalem through a “Honey Trap”, using a clerical
employee who was having an affair with a Jerusalem girl.
1985 The New York Times reports the FBI is aware of at least a dozen
incidents in which American officials transferred classified information to the
Israelis, quoting [former Assistant Director of the F.B.I.] Mr. [Raymond]
Wannal. The Justice Department does not prosecute.
1985 Richard Smyth, the owner of MILCO, is indicted on charges of smuggling
nuclear timing devices to Israel (Washington Post, 10/31/86).
1987 April 24 Wall Street Journal headline: "Role of Israel in Iran-Contra
Scandal Won't be Explored in Detail by Panels"
1992 The Wall Street Journal reports that Israeli agents apparently tried to
steal Recon Optical Inc's top-secret airborne spy-camera system.
1992 Stephen Bryen, caught offering confidential documents to Israel in 1978,
is serving on board of the pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs while continuing as a paid consultant -- with security clearance -- on
exports of sensitive US technology.
1992 "The Samson Option," by Seymour M. Hersh reports, “Illicitly obtained
intelligence was flying so voluminously from LAKAM into Israeli intelligence
that a special code name, JUMBO, was added to the security markings already on
the documents. There were strict orders, Ari Ben-Menashe recalled: "Anything
marked JUMBO was not supposed to be discussed with your American counterparts."
1993. The ADL is caught operating a massive spying operation on critics of
Israel, Arab-Americans, the San Francisco Labor Council, ILWU Local 10, Oakland
Educational Association, NAACP, Irish Northern Aid, International Indian Treaty
Council, the Asian Law Caucus and the San Francisco police. Data collected was
sent to Israel and in some cases to South Africa. Pressure from Jewish
organizations forces the city to drop the criminal case, but the ADL settles a
civil lawsuit for an undisclosed sum of cash.
1995 The Defense Investigative Service circulates a memo warning US military
contractors that "Israel aggressively collects [US] military and industrial
technology." The report stated that Israel obtains information using "ethnic
targeting, financial aggrandizement, and identification and exploitation of
individual frailties" of US citizens.
1996 A General Accounting Office report "Defense Industrial Security:
Weaknesses in US Security Arrangements With Foreign-Owned Defense Contractors"
found that according to intelligence sources "Country A" (identified by
intelligence sources as Israel, Washington Times, 2/22/96) "conducts the most
aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any US ally." The
Jerusalem Post (8/30/96) quoted the report, "Classified military information and
sensitive military technologies are high-priority targets for the intelligence
agencies of this country." The report described "An espionage operation run by
the intelligence organization responsible for collecting scientific and
technologic information for [Israel] paid a US government employee to obtain US
classified military intelligence documents." The Washington Report on Middle
East Affairs (Shawn L. Twing, April 1996) noted that this was "a reference to
the 1985 arrest of Jonathan Pollard, a civilian US naval intelligence analyst
who provided Israel's LAKAM [Office of Special Tasks] espionage agency an
estimated 800,000 pages of classified US intelligence information."
The GAO report also noted that "Several citizens of [Israel] were caught in
the United States stealing sensitive technology used in manufacturing artillery
gun tubes."
1996 An Office of Naval Intelligence document, "Worldwide Challenges to Naval
Strike Warfare" reported that "US technology has been acquired [by China]
through Israel in the form of the Lavi fighter and possibly SAM [surface-to-air]
missile technology." Jane's Defense Weekly (2/28/96) noted that "until now, the
intelligence community has not openly confirmed the transfer of US technology
[via Israel] to China." The report noted that this "represents a dramatic step
forward for Chinese military aviation." (Flight International, 3/13/96)
1997 An Army mechanical engineer, David A. Tenenbaum, "inadvertently" gives
classified military information on missile systems and armored vehicles to
Israeli officials (New York Times, 2/20/97).
1997 The Washington Post reports US intelligence has intercepted a
conversation in which two Israeli officials had discussed the possibility of
getting a confidential letter that then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher
had written to Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. One of the Israelis, identified
only as “Dov”, had commented that they may get the letter from "Mega”, the code
name for Israel’s top agent inside the United States.
1997 US ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, complains privately to the
Israeli government about heavy-handed surveillance by Israeli intelligence
agents.
1997 Israeli agents place a tap on Monica Lewinsky’s phone at the Watergate
and record phone sex sessions between her and President Bill Clinton. The Ken
Starr report confirms that Clinton warned Lewinsky their conversations were
being taped and ended the affair. At the same time, the FBI’s hunt for “Mega” is
called off.
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.
2003 Israel deploys assassination squads into other countries, including the
United States. The US Government does not protest.
2004 Police near the Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Tennessee stop a truck
after a three mile chase, during which the driver throws a bottle containing a
strange liquid from the cab. The drivers turn out to be Israelis using fake Ids.
The FBI refuses to investigate and the Israelis are released.
2004 Two Israelis try to enter Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, home to eight
Trident submarines. The truck tests positive for explosives.
This brings us to the present scandal. Two years into an investigation of
AIPAC’s possible role as a spy front for Israel, Larry Franklin, a mid-level
Pentagon Analyst is observed by the FBI giving classified information to two
officials of AIPAC suspected of being Israeli spies. AIPAC hires lawyer Nathan
Lewin to handle their legal defense, the same lawyer who defended suspected
Israeli spy Stephen Bryen in 1978.
Larry Franklin worked in the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, run by Richard
Perle, at the time Perle (who was caught giving classified information to Israel
back in 1970) was insisting that Iraq was crawling with weapons of mass
destruction requiring the United States to invade and conquer Iraq. There were
no WMDs, of course, and Perle has dumped the blame for the “bad intelligence” on
George Tenet. But what is known is that the Pentagon Office of Special Plans was
coordinating with a similar group in Israel, in Ariel Sharon’s office.
With two suspected Israeli spies (at least) inside the office from which the
lies that launched the war in Iraq originated, it appears that the people of the
United States are the victims of a deadly hoax, a hoax that started a war.
The leaking of the investigation of AIPAC to the media on August 28th, 2004
gave advance warning to other spies working with Franklin. The damage to the
FBI’s investigation was completed when United States Attorney General John
Ashcroft ordered the FBI to stop all arrests in the case. Like the Stephen Bryen
case and the hunt for “Mega”, this latest spy scandal seems destined by
officials who have their own secret allegiances to protect, barring a massive
public outcry.
The organization at the heart of the latest spy investigation, AIPAC, wields
tremendous influence over the US Congress. Through its members and affiliated
PACs, AIPAC directs a huge flow of campaign cash in favor of, and occasionally
against, Senators and Representatives solely on the basis of their willingness
to support Israel. As an example, in 2002, U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham
received so much help from pro-Israeli pacs that 76% of his campaign budget came
from OUTSIDE the state of Alabama, mostly from New York.
Let me repeat that. A Congressman AIPAC wanted elected received more money
from pro-Israel groups outside his state than from his own constituents inside
his state. Who is that Congressman going to be thinking of when he votes in
Congress?
So here is the mother of all scandals.
For two years, the FBI has suspected AIPAC of spying for a foreign country,
and for those two years (and for decades before) that group suspected of spying
for Israel has been reshaping the US Congress for the benefit of a foreign
government.
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