| THE INFAMOUSLY CENSORED FOX NEWS CARL CAMERON FOUR-PART REPORT:
Then, in 2001, there is the mysterious three paragraph article from
the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about Robert Philip Hanssen, an American
FBI agent turned Russian spy who represented "one of the worst cases of
espionage in the history of the United States." The Haaretz headline
proclaimed Israeli Angle in U.S. Spy Case Causes Worry in Jerusalem, and
then noted that "the recent confrontation between the United States and
Russia over the serious espionage case involving FBI agent Robert Philip
Hanssen has an Israel angle. This has been the subject of concern at the
highest political and security echelons in Jerusalem in the past few
days." [BENN, A., 4-4-01] The article explains nothing else at all about
the dimensions of this "Israeli angle," nor has any other media source
ever taken up the story.
Fox News had addressed the subject of Israeli spies in America after
the September 11 terrorist attacks:
"Since September 11, more than 60 Israelis have been arrested or
detained, either under the new patriot anti-terrorist law, or for
immigration violations. A handful of active Israeli military were among
those detained, according to investigators, who say some of the
detainees also failed polygraph questions when asked about alleged
surveillance activities against and in the United States. There is no
indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9/11 attacks, but
investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered intelligence
about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed
investigatorsaid there are 'tie-ins' ... Numerous classified documents
obtained by Fox News indicate that even prior to September 11, as many
as 140 other Israelis had been deatined or arrested in a secretive and
sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by Israelis in the
United States." [CAMERON, C., pt. 1, 12-14-01]
What about the aforementioned CIA head John Deutch (and perhaps
others in his circle) as a very strong candidate for the Jewish-Israeli
"Mega" club? In 2000, a troubling story about him began to hit the
newsstands, revolving around an incident that happened as he was leaving
his CIA post in 1996. Deutch, who became Director of the CIA after
leaving his position as Deputy Secretary of Defense, was caught with
1,700 pages of CIA documents -- many secret, and classified -- on his
home computer, one that had also been a visitor to "high-risk" Internet
pornography sites. Members in Congress were not informed of Deutch's
security lapses until 1998 and not until the year 2000 did all this come
under public scrutiny. And he was afforded top-level Pentagon security
clearance until late 1999.
Deutch was known to be a problem earlier in his career when it came
to secret information. "According to a knowledgeable official who asked
not be identified," noted the (New Jersey) Record, "while Deutch was
serving as a senior Defense Department official [the number two in
command] in the early 1990s, he failed a polygraph test about his
handling of classified materials. The official said Pentagon security
officers were concerned because Deutch took highly classified material
home with him, but his security clearances were not revoked or
downgraded." [THE RECORD, 2-5-2000, p. A6]
An investigation of Deutch's information cache was undertaken by the
CIA Inspector General. The IG report, noted the New York Times,
"disclosed that just three days after Mr. Deutch learned that his
computer practices were under review, he deleted more than 1,000
classified files from his personal computers. The report also says that
Mr. Deutch declined to be interviewed by the CIA's security officials."
[RISEN, J., 2-12-2000] Deutch had been taking secret CIA information
home for years. As the Times notes, "according to the IG report, "Mr.
Deutch used unclassified MacIntosh computers for classified work through
his tenure as director. He chose not to conduct sensitive work on the
classified computer system at the CIA because he said he was afraid the
other CIA officials would see what he was writing, according to the
report." [RISEN, J., 2-12-2000]
"This is strange behavior, very suspicious," remarked the chair of
the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Shelby, about Deutch's
actions, "It's unprecedented, to my knowledge." [THE RECORD, 2-5-2000]
The CIA investigators, noted a European paper, "became so frustrated
at the limits imposed on them that they concluded senior [CIA] officials
were protecting Mr. Deutch and wanted to wash their hands of the case."
[BRANSON, L., 2-2-2000, p. 12] "Mr. Deutch," said the New York Times,
"refused to be interviewed by the security staff and senior CIA
officials allowed him to avoid being questioned." [RISEN, J.] A number
of media members began calling Deutch's case a "cover-up." The CIA
didn't report Deutch's misdeeds to the Justice Department for over a
year. The CIA's Inspector General only did so in 1998 "after an agency
employee complained to the Inspector General's office that the inquiry
had not been properly handled." [RISEN, J., 2-12-2000] The Justice
Department declined to prosecute the former Director of the CIA.
The Deutch revelation, remarked a Scottish paper, "is particularly
embarrassing in the light of the high profile case of Los Alamos
scientist Wen Ho Lee, who is being held in jail without bail. He is
suspected of transferring secrets from the nuclear research base to the
Chinese. The charges against him so far are for exactly what Mr. Deutch
did: transferring files from work to his home computer." [BRANSON, L.,
2-2-2000, p. 12] Like Deutch, there was no hard evidence that Lee passed
along information to a foreign government, but Lee languished in
solitary confinement 23 hours a day as a suspected spy (imprisoned for
taken classified work home), while Deutch merely had his clearances to
enter CIA and Pentagon databases taken away.
It was even discovered that Deutch had helped a CIA official, Nora
Slatkin, get a job as a vice-president at CITIBANK while she was working
on the investigation of his breach of security case. [RISEN, J.,
2-12-2000, p. A10] In recent years Deutch has been a professor at MIT
and an adviser to weapons companies. He was paid over $240,000, for
example, in 1998-99 as a non-employee director at Raytheon and member of
that company's board of governors. [MCLAUGHLIN, T., 3-30-2000, p. 25] As
Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001, Clinton granted Deutch a full
pardon, surprising the CIA even as it continued its investigation.
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In 1999, Iran tersely rejected the formal protests lodged by the
French minister of France "that the arrest [of 13 Iranian] Jews [on
accusations of spying for Israel] was intolerable." The ambassador
"summoned the Iranian ambassador [in France] to express France's anger."
[INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, 6-22-99, p. 4] This small item meriting
international attention and formal French "outrage" bears further
scrutiny. Most such news reports on the subject neither itemized the
charges against the Jews, nor evidence for or against them. As always,
the reportage of such an occasion, with no context whatsoever, merely
encourages the reader to absorb between the lines evidence of yet
another case of endemic, irrational anti-Semitism. This time from Iran.
Yet there are strong historical contexts and precedents for such
accusation. Israel's Mossad was long prominent in the former Iranian
Shah's secret police network (See later chapter). As recently as March
1998 too, three Mossad agents made the news after trying to bug a Muslim
activist's home in London. Only a few days later another four Israeli
spy members were arrested in Switzerland after bugging another Lebanese
Muslim's home. These incidents, and the failed attempt to assassinate an
anti-Israel Hamas official in Jordan, forced the head of Mossad, Danny
Yatom, to resign. [MAHNAIMI, U., 1998]
And there has always been widespread Israeli spying on Arab
countries, using Israeli Jews who originally came from those very lands.
Take for example, Israel's original spying unit on Arabs called Shin Mem
18, [BLACK/MORRIS, p. 43] created for the "infiltration and implantation
of Israeli agents in Arab countries." [BLACK/MORRIS, p. 43]
Or take for example the case of Yolande Harmer, "born in Egypt to a
Turkish-Jewish mother," who" posed as a journalist in her home country
and took "on a succession of lovers, some of them simultaneously, mostly
from Egypt's rich and powerful and from the foreign diplomatic corps in
Cairo." [BLACK/MORRIS, p. 61]
In 1998, the Times of London noted the profoundly ruthless and
dedicated degree that Israeli espionage can go. In a newly-discovered
story, the paper revealed that "members of an Israeli undercover unit in
the 1950s went so far as to marry Muslim women and have children by them
to ward off suspicion ... The unit was designed for long-term espionage.
Its members, Sephardim from a variety of Arab countries, were taught to
speak in Palestinian accents ... Ironically, because they had been so
rigorously taught the Koran, some became teachers, which gave them
perfect cover for spying." [WALKER, C., 9-30-98] (So, when seemingly
ridiculous Polish communist-era "antisemitic and anti-Zionist
propaganda" proclaimed that "Jews had been instructed by their 'world
center' command post to marry Polish girls in order to gain influence
over the population and thus be able to pursue their subversive and
espionage activities more effectively," what are we to reasonably think
of it? [CHEMCINSKI, M., 1982, p. 217]
Other Israeli spying units (later blending into today's Mossad) using
indigenous Arab-speaking Jews included Shai (the Arab Division of the
Jewish Agency political department) and Palmach's "Arab Platoon." In the
1950s an Israeli spy, Major Avraham Dar, "recruited a group of Egyptian
Jewish youngsters and set up underground [Zionist] cells in Cairo and
Alexandria." [BLACK/MORRIS, p. 108] In 1954 "the [Jewish] Egyptian
network embarked on its bombing spree ... [However] a bomb went off
prematurely in the pocket of one of the group, Philip Natanson, as he
was about to enter the Rio Cinema in Alexandria. Natanson was arrested
and that night the Egyptian security police arrested the rest of the
network: Dr. Moshe Marzuk, Shmuel Azzar, Marcelle Ninio, Victor Levi,
Robert Dassa, Meir Za'afran, Meir Meynhas, Eli Ya'akov, and Azzar
Cohen." [BLACK/MORRIS, p. 111]
Quite possibly echoing the recent Jewish-Iranian spy accusation,
Israeli intelligence "activated a wide range of European contacts to try
to improve the treatment or obtain the release of the Cairo defendants.
Among those approached were French parliamentarians such as Coure de
Marville and Daniel Maier and leading British and French lawyers."
[BLACK/MORRIS, p. 113] The West German government was even persuaded to
act on behalf of one of the Israeli spies, Max Binnet, recognizing his
questionable German citizenship. "After his death," note Ian Black and
Benny Morris, "in a rare piece of inter-Arab intelligence cooperation,
the Iraqis informed Cairo that Binnet ... had been mentioned in the 1951
Mossad ring trial in Baghdad [regarding] the extensive spy network that
had operated in Iraq and Iran." [BLACK/MORRIS, p. 113] In 1965, in
another situation, Eli Cohn, born and raised in Egypt, was the "first
Israeli spy caught and executed as an Israeli." [BLACK/MORRIS, p. 48]
In Morocco, in the 1950s "hundreds of Jewish volunteers were
mobilized in a Mossad-led Jewish self-defense organization."
[BLACK/MORRIS, p. 176] "Over 100 [Jewish Moroccans] went abroad --
mostly to Israel -- for military training, though some were trained in
Morocco itself: cells and 'units' were organized in the main towns
(eventually there were twelve local units); arms were bought and
dispensed in underground caches ... The members were trained in the uses
of pistols, sub-machine guns and knives. At its height [the Jewish
Moroccan secret cell] had 600 members (and in Algeria and Tunisia,
another 600 altogether)." [MORRIS/BLACK, p. 176]
Zionist intrigue in Eastern Europe? From the early years of the
Israeli state, note Ian Black and Benny Morris, "new Jewish immigrants
[to Israel] from behind the Iron Curtain, Israeli diplomatic missions,
and Jewish communities in Eastern Europe all served as valuable sources
of intelligence." [BLACK/MORRIS, p. 136]
In response to French parliamentary speaker Laurent Fabius' recent
call to release the imprisoned Iranian Jews before a trial, Iran's
Tehran Times responded, saying that "Mr. Fabius is probably under the
influence of Zionists." [AGENCE PRESSE FRANCE, 7-3-99] Fabius too is of
Jewish heritage.
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1999's White House coddling of the Jewish lobbying empire and
international Zionist spy networks included the Islamic nation of Iran.
The (Jewish) Forward noted that "At last weekends G-7 talks in Germany,
President Clinton asked the Japanese government to refrain from
approving their third loan installment of $820 million to Iran until the
13 [Jewish] prisoners are freed." [SPENCE] These 13 Iranian Jews,
arrested and accused by Iran of spying for Israel (7 non-Jews arrested
in the alleged ring are rarely mentioned in the Western press), had not
even been yet been brought to trial to prove their guilt or innocence,
yet the American president was an active lobbyist for Jewish/Israeli
interests to ignore Iranian sovereignty and demand, pre-trial, all the
suspects' categorical freedom. Jewish American National Security Adviser
Sandy Berger wrote a formal letter to the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organizations assuring them that the President
planned to "seek international assistance" in freeing the 13. The
Jerusalem Post noted the dimensions of international Jewish activism
about the issue, noting that an Israeli "Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
said Israel had approached practically every country with which it had
diplomatic relations and asked help for seeking the release of the
Iranian Jews." [KUTTLER, 6-18-99]
Iranian officials even revealed that some of the accused Jewish
prisoners had confessed that they spied for Israel. Nonetheless, U.S.
Secretary or State Madeline Albright announced that "We have made this
very clear that this is an unacceptable trial. There is absolutely no
reason for them to brought up on espionage charges." A prominent Iranian
religious leader, Mohammed Emami Kashani, responded to Albright, saying,
"You are a political leader, not a judicial official ... There are
international laws. Relations between the countries are based on laws
... Woman, you who are Secretary of State, on what logic have you based
your remarks? On what basis?" [AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, 10-22-99]
Years earlier, as context for understanding such an international
Jewish pressure campaign, we may look to Morocco. In 1960 an
Israeli-sponsored "underground military cell" (as two Jewish scholars
describe it), consisting of about 600 people, was exposed among Jews in
that Arab land. Many were arrested. Israel then "foreswore secret
diplomacy," notes Ian Black and Benny Morris, "and launched a widespread
public campaign on behalf of Moroccan Jewry. U.S. President John Kennedy
sent a personal message to King Muhammad; a group of American
Congressmen threatened to table a bill to stop U.S. aid to Morocco
unless the "persecution" stopped. French President Charles de Gaulle was
also mobilized to exert pressure on [Morocco's capital] Rabat."
[BLACK/MORRIS, p. 179] The imprisoned Jews were eventually released. The
head of Israel's Mossad, Isser Harel, wrote at the time that "there is
no doubt that the [Moroccan] King's and the interior minister's latest
steps are a result of our actions and our information campaign around
the world." [BLACK/MORRIS, p. 179]
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A discussion of the large number of Jewish spies for Soviet communism,
and Jewish dominance of that movement, may be found HERE.
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The above excerpts are from various chapters in : When Victims Rule.
A Critique of Jewish Pre-eminence in America.
The bibliography for the above may be found HERE.
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The Jonathan Jay Pollard Spy Case, by Denise Noe, Crime Library
Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly, sidneyreillyinfo
"The man best known as Sidney George Reilly-although he used many
names-spent his life in the shadows of international intrigue and
counted among his legion of allies, accomplices and victims the likes of
Winston Churchill, the mysterious Basil Zaharoff and Boris Savinkov.
Usually portrayed as a master spy, Reilly's real exploits exceeded
anything credited to Fleming's fictional Bond. The son of a Polish
Jewish family in Imperial Russia, he early embarked on an amazing,
daring and often bewildering career which led him to assume the personas
of an Anglo-Irish gentleman, an international arms-merchant and a
Bolshevik commissar among many others. He was a slightly different
person to every man who knew him and every woman who loved him. But
Reilly was as much a cunning master criminal as secret agent, amassing a
fortune by the ruthless bartering of influence and information. He was
used and feared by capitalists and commissars alike. Was he a dedicated
anti-communist, the Soviet's first "mole," or simply a bold and
unscrupulous con man?"
Double trouble, by Yossi Melman, Ha'aretz (Israel), January 22, 2003
"In Israel, too, all the units that run agents - in the Shin Bet
security service, in the intelligence wing of the Israel Defense Forces
and in the Mossad - also try to observe this secrecy rigorously.
However, in recent years, discipline has been growing lax and the names
of a number of agents have become public knowledge. This began at the
end of the 1980s, with hints that Rafat Ali al-Gamal, an Egyptian
citizen who pretended to be a Jew and immigrated to Israel at the behest
of Egyptian intelligence, was exposed by the Shin Bet, became a double
agent and turned into one of the best operatives in the intelligence
community. Later it was revealed that King Hussein of Jordan had met
secretly with then prime minister Golda Meir at the end of September,
1973, and warned her of the approaching war with Egypt and Syria.
Hussein was not an Israeli agent (in his youth, during the 1950s and the
1960s, he was a paid agent of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, as
were other leaders of Third World countries). His secret meetings with
Israeli leaders sprang from his understanding of his own interests and
those of his kingdom. But he definitely was a 'source,' an 'intelligence
asset' and what is called in professional jargon 'an agent of
influence.' Later on, following the assassination of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin in November, 1995, there were those who leaked that
Avishai Raviv was a Shin Bet agent and also revealed his code name
"Champagne," which his runners used in the missions to aid him in
infiltrating the coteries of the extreme right. Now for the first time,
the Egyptian media, a month ago, has revealed what it calls one of the
most important assets the Mossad had in Egypt: the source who confirmed
in October, 1973 that a war was in the offing. A month ago, newspapers
in Egypt raised the question of whether Dr. Ashraf Marwan, a businessman
who is the son-in-law of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was an Israeli
agent. In Israel, the name of the agent has never been exposed and, in
the discussion surrounding his activities, he is referred to as a
'senior agent' operated by the Mossad in Egypt, who supplied Israel with
important information including that regarding the outbreak of the Yom
Kippur War. The person behind the debate is Dr. Ahron (Roni) Bregman,
who has been living in Britain for many years and was involved several
years ago in the production of a BBC television series to mark Israel's
Jubilee ... Dr. Ashraf Marwan was born in 1944, the son of a respected
Egyptian family who studied in England and married Muna, Nasser's third
daughter, in the 1960s. The marriage brought him close to the
president's innermost circle. He was given the status and title of
roving ambassador, and set out on delicate diplomatic missions around
the world. In the media of the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the
1970s, he was mentioned as having served as bureau chief for the
presidency, and sometimes it was even noted that he was the coordinator
on behalf of the president with the Egyptian intelligence services.
According to these same sources, the senior agent was recruited by
Israel apparently in 1969. The surprising thing is that the agent
volunteered his services. One day, he walked into the Israeli Embassy in
Kensington in London and offered to provide information. The mission of
running him, according to these sources, was given to the Mossad. It is
possible to assume that a thorough background check of him was
conducted. ... ... The Mossad ... believed that the agent was not a
double agent, and that before the Yom Kippur war, he delivered the goods
for which he was recruited and run."
Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly, sidneyreillyinfo
"The man best known as Sidney George Reilly-although he used many
names-spent his life in the shadows of international intrigue and
counted among his legion of allies, accomplices and victims the likes of
Winston Churchill, the mysterious Basil Zaharoff and Boris Savinkov.
Usually portrayed as a master spy, Reilly's real exploits exceeded
anything credited to Fleming's fictional Bond. The son of a Polish
Jewish family in Imperial Russia, he early embarked on an amazing,
daring and often bewildering career which led him to assume the personas
of an Anglo-Irish gentleman, an international arms-merchant and a
Bolshevik commissar among many others. He was a slightly different
person to every man who knew him and every woman who loved him. But
Reilly was as much a cunning master criminal as secret agent, amassing a
fortune by the ruthless bartering of influence and information. He was
used and feared by capitalists and commissars alike. Was he a dedicated
anti-communist, the Soviet's first "mole," or simply a bold and
unscrupulous con man?"
Mossad, Mossad – Coming soon to a town near you!, Baloochistan Post
(Pakistan), May 13, 2002 "In a fascinating plot, full of intrigue and
betrayal, Mossad, RAW and Israeli-Russian-Ukrainian drug mafia seem to
have joined hands to catch the ultimate prize: The Entire World. The
whole story may never be available but we have put together enough
pieces to give you a fair idea of what may be in store for all of us ...
What the [Mossad] statement and the poster omit to mention is that the
newly recruited case officers will be assigned to Central Asia,
Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Recruitment drive for case officers was
a part of a larger campaign run by Mossad between April 2001 and July
2001. During this period, Mossad sought to recruit case officers,
communication specialists, linguists, electronics and computer
specialists and entry level operatives (age 22-28) ... During last
couple of years it has begun paying special attention to Pakistan, Iran
and Central Asia ... In April 2001, the Mossad published a 'help wanted'
ad in the Israeli press seeking electronics engineers and computer
scientists for the Mossad technology unit. Since most Mossad operatives
come from hi tech fields, they do the most natural thing when they leave
Mossad i.e. they launch a start up company in IT, communications,
computers and other related fields. The 'Or' of this story launched a
successful company after leaving Mossad and his company is now reputedly
worth US $ 15 million and employs more than 70 highly qualified
personnel. Such persons usually move their operations to foreign
countries and besides making tons of money, continue serving their
motherland in hi tech fashion. Since most former operatives of Mossad
are hi tech specialists, it is not difficult for them to launch a start
up company and make it successful on its merit alone. While spreading
out into Central Asia, Pakistan and Iran, these operatives are likely to
arrive with proposals for companies which deal with IT solutions,
software engineering, computer and electronics hardware expertise,
communications and other related fields ... Janes information group, the
world's foremost source on intelligence information, reported in July
2001 that 'The Indian spy agency RAW and the Israeli spy agency Mossad
have created 'four new agencies' to infiltrate Pakistan to target
important religious and military personalities, journalists, judges,
lawyers and bureaucrats. In addition, bombs would be exploded in trains,
railway stations, bridges, bus stations, cinemas, hotels and mosques of
rival Islamic sects to incite sectarianism. Pakistani intelligence
agencies also said that RAW had constituted a plan to lure Pakistani men
between 20 and 30 years of age to visit India so that they could be
entrapped 'in cases of fake currency and subversion' and then be coerced
to spy for India' ... What is clear right now is that Indian RAW and
Israeli Mossad are collaborating extensively to curb the freedom
movement of Kashmir and destabilize Pakistan ... Under the euphemism of
'counter-terrorism', India is allowing Israel to establish a huge spy
establishment in India which will, interalia, unearth and monitor
'Islamic fundamentalist' individuals and groups for elimination by extra
judicial process or by cold-blooded murder and kidnapping ... One of the
greatest abilities of Mossad is that it can mobilize US resources
anywhere to protect Israeli interests. Now when Pakistan has already
allowed US forces to use its soil, air and intelligence, is not it
possible that Mossad’s clever brains workout a scenario and push the
American troops to do what the Mossad would like to do in Pakistan?
Think about it."
Mossad's chief gets agency set for action, Washington Times, February
10, 2003 "The Mossad, Israel's shadowy counterintelligence agency, is
revving up for a relentless campaign against what its tough-minded
chief, Meir Dagan, regards as the most serious threats to the Jewish
state — large-scale terrorism perpetrated by regional extremists, and
danger they may acquire weapons of mass destruction. The campaign will
be waged by means of state-of-the-art intelligence-gathering equipment,
including space satellites, which have been launched independently by
Israel, as well as shrewdly executed operations by agents able to avoid
compromising themselves or implicating their handlers. Mr. Dagan's
strategy has filtered beyond Mossad's top-secret headquarters, but the
precise tactics may never become known. Even if they are deduced,
described or revealed by parties at the scenes of impact, Israeli
officials will neither confirm them nor accept responsibility. Like his
political patron and wartime commander — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon —
Mr. Dagan, who was born Meir Huberman in 1945, is relatively fond of
using biblical writ, partly because Hebrew is his native language and
because his generation was taught to identify with the ancient
Israelites. ... Amir Oren, military and intelligence analyst for the
daily Ha'aretz, said, "Twelve years ago, after the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait, then-Capt. Dagan ... initiated far-reaching operations deep
inside Iraq' ... By the late 1990s, when he served as Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's adviser on counterterrorism, Mr. Dagan implemented
Israel's 'targeted killings' of suspected terrorists by hand-held
weapons, air-to-ground missiles, explosive charges set off by
remote-control devices and other lethal means ... Israel's adventures in
Lebanon are almost as much a trauma for Mr. Dagan as they have been for
Mr. Sharon. Their frustrating experiences there are cited by Ha'aretz's
Mr. Oren. 'Mr. Sharon expects Mr. Dagan to infuse the Mossad with heavy
doses of aggressiveness, duplicity and fiendishness,' he wrote in
Ha'aretz. 'These have been Mr. Dagan's personal characteristics
throughout his career.'"
Soviet Mata Hari. That was she who stole US nuclear secrets, Pravda
(Russisa), February 12, 2003 "Yelizaveta Zarubina realized dozens of
fruitful operations [as a Russian spy], recruited hundreds of sources.
She new 6 languages, and was a person of great culture and simply a
beautiful women who attracted men. At the same time she was modest, even
shy. In the USSR, she was the only foreigner who rose to the rank of KGB
colonel. The name of Yelizaveta Zarubina became known after World War
II, when the US press published some unclassified archive documents. At
the same time, some versions appeared which disclosed sensational
details of the Soviet intelligence operations in the US during WW II. In
the 1990s, when memoirs of some intelligence workers were published, the
role of Yelizaveta Zarubina in obtaining US nuclear bomb secrets became
known. In particular, she established contacts with Robert Oppenheimer,
before he became the leader of the Manhattan Project. Today, Russian
intelligence still cannot declassify the original file of Yelizaveta
Zarubina: her activity was really very large-scale. Though, in the
museum of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, there is an exposure of
Yelizaveta Zarubina. In official publications, some details of her
biography are either inexact, or they are absent at all. Information
about her is kept in closed party archives. So, who was Yelizaveta
Zarubina (Rosenzweig), called in our story Soviet Mata Hari? She was
born in North Bukovina, which was a part of Austrian-Hungarian Empire
and belonged after WW II to Romania. She was philologist and fluently
spoke Romanian, Russian, English, French, and German. Among her
relatives, there were prominent political and military figures who
suffered from Stalin’s repressive measures because of their independent
views or Jewish origin. Liza started to work for intelligence since
1919. She worked for some time in the secretariat of Soviet intelligence
founder Felix Dzerzinski. Her first husband was famous Blumkin, who
worked for Russian Special Commission and participated in annihilation
of German ambassador Mirbach in 1918. Moreover, Blumkin was a key figure
in the conspiracy of the Socialist-Revolutionist Party (SR) against
Vladimir Lenin. Later Blumkin came cap in hand to Dzerzinski, was
excused, and started to work for the Special Commission (ChK). In 1929,
Blumkin was the head of an illegal intelligence group in Turkey.
Fulfilling the Soviet government orders, he sold Hasid [Jewish
ultra-Orthodox] books from special funds of Lenin State Library. The
money was aimed for creation of a diversion terrorist unit to fight
against Great Britain in the Middle East. Blumkin kept some part of
money and handed it over to Lev Trotsky. Moreover, he was a kind of
messenger between him and his supporters in the USSR. When Liza learned
these facts, she reported them to the ChK leadership, and Blumkin was
arrested. Now Liza was single again. A charming girl, she easily
established contacts in different circles and gathered necessary
information. For her service purposes, she often changed her appearance.
Several years after her divorce, she married Vasily Zarubin,
professional secret service man. Since 1929, the couple started to
prepare for illegal work in France, where they lived as the Kocheks,
Czech merchants. The couple became legal in Denmark, then they go to
France. Some of their French contacts are still not opened, and some of
them are probably still actual. Some contacts, for example that ones in
German diplomatic corps in Paris, were actively used later, when fascist
came to power. Since December 1933, the Zarubins acted in the Hitler
Reich. That were they who recruited the Gestapo worker, Willy Lehman
(nick 'Breinbach'), who became a Soviet intelligence agent ... The
legendary Soviet spy woman died in 1987 as an aged woman, as a result of
an accident."
Israeli Spies Aided Feds In Readying 'Jihad' Case Mossad Key On
Al-Arian, [Jewish] Forward, February 28, 2003 "Intelligence supplied by
Israel played a key role in the indictment last week of University of
South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian on charges that he is a leader of
the Islamic Jihad Palestinian terrorist group, the Forward has learned.
An FBI delegation traveled to Israel late last year to collect
intelligence obtained by Israel during the mid-1990s, a former top
counterterrorist official said on condition of anonymity. 'The evidence
the U.S. government has is intelligence, much of it from the Israeli
government, relating to 1994 — when the Mossad had a penetration of
[Islamic Jihad] headquarters in Damascus,' the official said. 'Much of
the intelligence was turned over to the FBI on a recent visit to
Israel.' The FBI and the Justice Department would not comment. Jonathan
Peled, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, acknowledged that
Israel was cooperating with American authorities, although he said he
did not have specific knowledge about the Al-Arian case or of the FBI
visit. Matthew Levitt, a former FBI official now with the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy, a pro-Israel think tank, acknowledged
that 'Israel has every reason to be very forthcoming' on Islamic Jihad
and that he had 'heard about' the FBI trip. However, he stressed that
'there was no reason to assume that the indictment was not mostly based
on U.S. intelligence and police work,' essentially phone and fax
wiretaps started in 1994. Al-Arian, a tenured computer engineering
professor at the University of South Florida, was charged with
racketeering along with seven other people. In a 50-count indictment
unsealed last Thursday in Tampa, prosecutors accused the eight men of
conspiring since 1984 to support Islamic Jihad by helping finance and
organize suicide bombings in Israel. It is the first time an indictment
is centered on terrorist acts committed abroad."
[Author Neal Sher "is a Washington attorney and former director of
the Office of Special Investigations in the Justice Department. He is
also a former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee." Sher's "personal memoir" below makes it look like he was
rather tight with the Israeli spy world.] Isser Harel: A personal
memoir, by Neal M. Sher, Jewish World Review, March 5, 2003 "The people
of Israel indeed, Jews the world over have lost a genuine hero. Last
month, Isser Harel, the world-renowned spymaster and one of the founders
of the Mossad, died in Tel Aviv. Best known for planning and executing
the extraordinary capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960 a
feat which made the whole world take notice of Israel's ingenuity and
capabilities Harel's contribution to the security of the fledgling State
of Israel cannot be overstated. As anyone who knew him or worked with
him will attest, he was, despite his diminutive size, a giant. I am
among the privileged who had an opportunity to work with or, to be
accurate, be counseled by the legendary Harel. In 1985, as the director
of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, I headed
the US team charged with searching for the infamous Josef Mengele (in
concert with the Israelis and Germans.) My first order of business was
to seek the advice of the man who had orchestrated the most daring of
Nazi hunts ... I MADE a point of meeting with Harel whenever I visited
Israel; he was as interested in the work of OSI as I was to soak up his
insights on the current state of affairs. During our regular lunches at
the Triana restaurant in Tel Aviv, I realized that I was in the company
of a larger-than-life hero of our people ... Rest in peace, my friend.
You have served your nation and people well."
Israel quietly playing key spy role, New York Daily News, March 29,
2003 "From a spy satellite orbiting overhead to clandestine operations
in western Iraq, Israel is a strong ally in the U.S.-led war against
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. But it's mostly a silent partnership
because the Bush administration doesn't want to advertise Israel's help,
fearing a backlash among Arab nations - particularly key allies like
Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Behind the scenes, however, the Israelis
are heavily engaged. Their sophisticated Amos 4 satellite routinely
beams data to U.S. intelligence, and Israeli agents in Baghdad have
provided extremely sensitive intelligence, sources told the Daily News.
Israel has been particularly aggressive in the desert of western Iraq,
where its Sayeret Matkal commando force, in tandem with U.S. and
Australian special forces, has run covert operations hunting for Scud
missile launch sites."
Subject: Saddam is Alive, by Gordon Thomas,
yourmailinglistprovider.com (from globe-intel.net) "If [Saddam is]
alive, then Bush wants him to face justice in either an American
controlled court in Iraq – or a trial in the United States. Paul
Wolfowitz, US deputy secretary of defence, has indicated 'this is
personal for George – and he wants Saddam to face American justice for
his part in 9/11'. Helping Bush achieve that are the hardmen of the
intelligence world – Mossad’s spies. Not only have they been the only
spies on the ground during the Saddam regime – but they have also played
a vital role in the run up to, and during, the war with Iraq. It was
their intelligence which enabled Coalition troops to storm up into
Baghdad in record time. No other agency is so well-entrenched in the
Arab capitals of the region. Now, those agents, under the direction of
Mossad chief Meir Dagan, have reinforced the Mossad men already in Iraq.
They are part of an operation squad, codenamed Caesarea. Many are Iraqi
Jews. 'They can track as well as any Bedouin. They speak the desert
dialects. They eat, sleep and behave in every way like an Arab. That is
what makes them so unique', one of Dagan’s staff said. Years ago, Mossad
had an agent inside the inner circle of Syria’s leadership. The man, Eli
Cohen, time and again gave Tel Aviv vital forewarning of a Syrian
threat. Rafi Eitan, the former Operations Chief with Mossad, secreted a
spy into King Hussein of Jordan’s palace. 'Our man gave us information
that no other service had – not the CIA or MI6. Not anybody', Eitan
said. Unknown to Saddam, Mossad had an agent within the top echelon of
the Iraqi leadership. Last week, the spy managed to plant a homing
device in the briefcase of one of Saddam’s top aides when they met for a
dinner meeting at the al-Saa restaurant, in Baghdad’s Mansour district.
Over thirty of Iraq’s Special Security Organisation and senior military
intelligence officers had gathered in the expensive restaurant to hear
Saddam speak ... But, with that sixth sense for which he was renowned,
Saddam for as yet an unexplained reason became suspicious. He left the
restaurant – but ordered everybody else to remain present. Four minutes
later, 300,000 feet above the restaurant, US weapons officer Lt-Col Fred
Swan programmed the coordinates in his BI bomber."
[Defending Jewish spies:] A scary story of militants, FBI bungling,
Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 8, 2003 "Imagine you are a Jewish woman
living in the United States with your husband and children. On Friday
night, you and your family have a traditional Shabbat dinner. On
Saturday morning, you rise and don a chador, the black baglike garment
worn by many Muslim women in the Middle East. Under your clothing, you
have taped a small recording device to your skin. Your husband drops you
off a few blocks from your destination. At the door of a mosque, or
perhaps a convention center, you become an Arabic-speaking Muslim. It's
in your accent, your mannerisms, the thoughts you express. Then you walk
into the hall where people are calling for the murder of Jews, and you
turn on your recorder. This is what the anonymous author of 'Terrorist
Hunter' does routinely. Her book, part memoir, part investigative
reporting, can be breathless and disjointed, and its writing sometimes
amateurish. That shouldn't stop any would-be readers; its contents are
chilling. Born into a well-off Iraqi Jewish family, the author enjoyed
an idyllic childhood until one day shortly after Saddam Hussein's Baath
party seized power in 1968. Government henchmen broke down their door
and hauled her father off to prison, where they accused him of spying
for Israel. He was held and tortured for a year. His pregnant wife was
tortured in the next room so that he could hear her screams. A kangaroo
court found him guilty, and he was hanged in a public square along with
eight other Jews to the cheers of a half-million spectators. The author
fled with her family to neighboring Iran and then to Israel, where she
grew up and got married. Eventually, she, her husband and their children
moved to the United States, and the restless young housewife answered an
ad for employment at a research institute. Fast-forward a few months,
and Anonymous is deep into the infiltration of militant Islamic
organizations for her employer, which supplies intelligence to the U.S.
government. This is white-knuckle reading, as she tells of perspiration
loosening the tape holding her recorder in place, of slip-ups in
conversation, of having to sit passively while a Muslim scholar tells
his audience that Israelis make ashtrays from the skulls of Muslim
fetuses. But perhaps scarier than the hate spewed by these fanatics (who
seem far more numerous than most of us might suspect) is the downright
ineptitude, arrogance and grandstanding with which she says the FBI has
conducted its investigations of these groups and their activities. Not
only did they regularly ignore her reports and refuse to cooperate with
other government agencies, they began to investigate her. Anonymous'
anger at the FBI is not personal. It's the outrage of a nation,
expressed in one woman's voice, for every day that passes as the tangled
web of organized terrorists comes closer to accomplishing its goals,
while a bunch of bungling, bickering federal agents allow it to happen.
Is all of this exaggerated, or even untrue? It's impossible to say. The
author's anonymity might raise questions of credibility, yet by writing
her account, she risks reprisals by terrorist organizations and further
FBI investigation."
[More Jewish tears for traitor Jonathan Pollard, the American
imprisoned as a spy for Israel.] OpEd: The Saddest Jew (Pollard), By
Charley J. Levine, Independent Media Review Analysis, August 8, 2003 "To
an extent not fathomed, Jonathan Pollard is a litmus test about the real
values commitments and actual sovereignty of the State of Israel... If
the government of Israel were to tell President Bush that nothing is
going to move forward on the "Roadmap" until this one man comes home, he
would be home tomorrow..." The saddest Jew in the world yesterday on the
" Esther has been pounding the Israeli pavement for far too many years,
hearing the same thing from dozens of powerbrokers. They all echo Libai
in promising the sky, affirming their support, tossing out possible
actions to be taken. And then they fade away, and Pollard remains in
prison. I visited Jonathan in jail, in 1996, in Butner, North Carolina.
My wife and I came to comfort, but it was he who comforted us. He was in
command, robust, focused, bloodied but unbowed. My most recent
conversation, via cell phone while sitting with Esther in Rimon Cafe
several months ago, was far more disconcerting. Jonathan sounded
terribly down. No wonder. He could have made the Guiness Book of World
Records for spending more time in prison than any other American citizen
in history convicted of the crime for which he was tried. (And they say
anti-Semitism has nothing to do with it.) I was shocked and frightened
for his well-being as never before. And yet, still helpless. Jonathan
resurfaced recently, as he occasionally does in between long, damning
spells of benign neglect. 112 Members of Knesset signed a petition [to
free him from prison] on his behalf-they should be doing much more than
that, but certainly a positive initiative ... In a recent Israel opinion
poll, the two issues that absolutely topped the list in terms of
weeping, 95%+ support, were the continued unity of Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel and the proposition that Jonathan Pollard should be
freed. Something is fundamentally wrong when political leaders race to
affirm Jerusalem's status, yet shy away from expressing Israel's firm
resolve on the Pollard matter."
Pollard to get a day in court in latest twist of famous spy case, By
Edwin Black, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Aug. 12, 2003 "Sept. 2, 2003 is
going to be a big day for Jonathan Pollard: The American Jewish spy is
going to get another day in court. Pollard´s lawyers will have 40
minutes in a federal courtroom to explain why they should be permitted
to continue efforts to rescind the life sentence he received 18 years
ago for committing espionage for Israel. Years of tenacious motions by
attorneys Jacques Semmelman and Eliot Lauer either have been vigorously
opposed by government attorneys or allowed to languish in the court. Now
U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan has granted Pollard and his
attorneys - who are working on the case pro bono - a hearing. Semmelman
and Lauer will get 30 minutes to argue why they should be permitted to
appeal, the government can take a half hour to respond, and then
Pollard´s attorneys will be granted 10 minutes for the last word. So
pivotal is the hearing that the judge has ordered federal prison
officials in Butner, N.C., to shuttle Pollard to the U.S. District Court
in Washington for the event. Prison officials said they are uncertain
whether U.S. marshals would fly Pollard to the nation´s capital or
drive. "Normally, we drive them for a mere six-hour trip," a prison
spokesman said, "but a high-profile prisoner like Pollard might be
flown." He added that arrangements would be made for Pollard´s kosher
meals."
Israeli Outlaws in America.The Case of Rafi Eitan, By KURT NIMMO,
Counterpunch, August 25, 2003 "Is Rafi Eitan in the United States and if
so why hasn't the FBI arrested him? Eitan is the former chief of Mossad
operations in Europe and the man who recruited the U.S. Navy
counter-intelligence specialist Jonathan Pollard to spy on the United
States. As well, Eitan once headed the top-secret science and technology
spy unit known as Leshkat Kesher Madao, or Lekem (supposedly dismantled
following Pollard's bust). According to Richard Sale (Pollard Recruiter
Resurfaces in U.S., UPI, July 31, 2003) and federal law enforcement
officials, "Eitan has, for the last year or so, been traveling to the
United States on an Israeli passport, but using an alias." Eitan
apparently landed at Columbus, Ohio, and then moved around the Midwest
on a prolonged road trip. Eitan "the stinker" has been photographed in
the company of "known dealers who belong to a ring dealing in the drug
ecstasy," one federal law enforcement official told Sale. Last year two
major Israeli Ecstasy traffickers were extradited to the United States,
much to the displeasure of the Israeli government. The DEA claims
"Israeli organized crime figures" control around 70 percent of the
worldwide market in Ecstasy. "The FBI is looking for evidence that Eitan
is, or has been engaging, in questionable activities related to this
ring," a federal law enforcement official told UPI. For his part in the
Pollard spy scandal, Rafi Eitan was promoted to a senior position with
the largest state-owned business enterprise in Israel -- the Israel
Chemicals Company. He received the job based on the recommendation of
Ariel Sharon. "It's generally agreed that Eitan was to take the brunt of
blame for the [Pollard] mess," a former official close to confidential
details of the case told UPI. "In return for his silence, Sharon would
make sure he got a good job." In 1987, Eitan boasted to an Israeli
newspaper that all of his actions had been undertaken with the knowledge
of his Israeli superiors. But Eitan was not the only Israeli to be
rewarded for snooping on America. Aviem Sella, an Israeli Air Force
expert in nuclear targeting and delivery of airborne nuclear weapons,
was Pollard's handler. When Pollard was arrested for passing satellite
photographs and weapon systems data to the Israelis, Sella hurried back
to Israel, and was soon promoted to Brig. Gen. in Israel's Air Force.
"This raised such an outcry of protest in the United States that Sella
was quietly moved to the Israeli Defense Force Defense College," writes
Sale. Apparently, spying on the United States is relatively easy for the
Israelis. According to a 1979 CIA report (quoted by Michael Saba,
Pollard in Perspective): "The Israeli intelligence service depends
heavily on the various Jewish communities and organizations abroad for
recruiting agents and eliciting general information ... Israeli agents
usually operate discreetly within Jewish communities and are under
instructions to handle their missions with utmost tact to avoid
embarrassment to Israel." Pollard, who studied politics at the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University after graduating from
Stanford University, was one such "asset" in the American Jewish
community. Is it possible Eitan is working "discreetly within Jewish
communities" in regard to drug dealing as well -- or did the FBI simply
hallucinate the whole thing? And if the FBI indeed knows the whereabouts
of Eitan, why haven't they arrested him? He is, after all, a wanted man
in America. According to Carl Cameron of Fox News -- in a series of
reports that have subsequently disappeared from the Fox News website --
in 1997 the Israelis organized "cocaine and ecstasy trafficking, and
sophisticated white-collar credit card and computer fraud... the bad
guys had the cops beepers, cell phones, even home phones under
surveillance. Some who did get caught admitted to having hundreds of
numbers and using them to avoid arrest." An investigation revealed the
Israeli crime network possessed "extensive access to database systems to
identify pertinent personal and biographical information" of law
enforcement officers. How did a network of drug dealers get this
sensitive information? "When investigators tried to find out where the
information might have come from, they looked at Amdocs, a publicly
traded firm based in Israel," Cameron reported. "Amdocs generates
billing data for virtually every call in America, and they do credit
checks." But it seems Amdocs was not only involved with Israeli drug
dealers. "More than two dozen U.S. intelligence, counterintelligence,
law-enforcement and other officials have told Insight [magazine] that
the FBI believes Israel has intercepted telephone and modem
communications on some of the most sensitive lines of the U.S.
government on an ongoing basis," write J. Michael Waller and Paul
Rodriguez. "The worst penetrations are believed to be in the State
Department. But others say the supposedly secure telephone systems in
the White House, Defense Department and Justice Department may have been
compromised as well. The problem for FBI agents in the famed Division 5,
however, isn't just what they have uncovered, which is substantial, but
what they don't know yet." Amdocs "helped Bell Atlantic install new
telephone lines in the White House in 1997... [and] a senior-level
employee of Amdocs had a separate T1 data phone line installed from his
base outside of St. Louis that was connected directly to Israel...
investigators are looking into whether the owner of the T1 line had a
'real time' capacity to intercept phone calls from both the White House
and other government offices around Washington, and sustained the line
for some time, sources said. Sources familiar with the investigation say
FBI agents on the case sought an arrest warrant for the St. Louis
employee but [Clinton] Justice Department officials quashed it." Waller
and Rodriguez quoted one senior government official as saying: "It is a
politically sensitive matter. I can't comment on it beyond telling you
that anything involving Israel on this particular matter is off-limits.
It's that hot." Apparently, the Justice Department and the FBI have a
lot to hide, if we are to believe Jeffrey Steinberg and Edward Spannaus.
According to these two journalists, the Israelis are behind a "massive
ecstasy trafficking operation, delivering hundreds of millions of
dollars in illegal drugs, manufactured in the Netherlands, to cities
across the United States. The drug trafficking operation is also engaged
in black market diamond smuggling, using Hassidic Jews as couriers...
Portions of the funds garnered from the illegal operations, according to
sources, are funneled to offshore bank accounts of Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon. Some of these dirty funds were reportedly
diverted to Sharon's election campaigns. This Israeli mafia apparatus
receives technical support via a number of Israeli communications firms,
that subcontract with major American telephone companies and government
law enforcement agencies..."
[Note: the author of this piece, Gordon Thomas, has his own web site
and has written many books, some about Mossad.] Sleeper Agents
Mobilizing for 9-11. Anniversary Israel is secretly mobilizing its
sleeper agents in the United States in the run-up to the anniversary of
the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, by Gordon Thomas, American Free
Press "In an unprecedented move, Israel has secretly mobilized its
estimated 15,000 sleeper agents —known as sayanim—across America. For
the past month, in the utmost secrecy, they have been briefed by former
Mossad operations director, Raphael (Rafi) Eitan, on how to update the
defense systems of synagogues, Jewish religious schools, Jewish banks,
and other Jewish-owned institutions. Many of the sayanim—the name comes
from the Hebrew “to help”—have received weapons training during their
military service. Others have worked in U.S. military intelligence. A
number are currently employed by police forces across the country.
“While their allegiance to their birth country cannot be doubted, each
sayan recognizes a greater loyalty: the mystical one to Israel and a
need to help protect it from its enemies,” Meir Amit, a former Mossad
chief, has said. He created the secret force of sayanim. Known as
Israel’s “invisible army,” all its members are vetted by professional
Mossad intelligence officers, called katsas, before being recruited.
Sayanim reported that the FBI has identified 240 individuals living in
the United States—mostly Saudis and Syrians—who are openly sympathetic
to al Qaeda ... To protect its massive multiple interests in the United
States, Israel has decided to act alone. It will be seen by Homeland
Security and the FBI as a vote of no confidence in their ability to
protect Jewish interests. The information of a possible attack came from
two U.S.-based katsas (Mossad agents). Each made a similar report to
Mossad chief, Meir Dagan. Both reports stated al Qaeda terrorists in
Canada are preparing to launch an attack in the United States. No date
or target was provided. The decision to send Eitan—the Mossad spy chief
who persuaded Jonathan Pollard to betray all of America’s most important
defense secrets to Israel—was made by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Eitan
is traveling on an Israeli diplomatic passport throughout the United
States—and requests to question him about his activities have been
rejected. In order to avoid creating a political problem with Israel,
FBI Director Robert Mueller is said to have been ordered by Attorney
General John Ashcroft not to question Eitan. A high-level administration
source said: “In the end, we are both on the same side. We need to keep
Sharon reading the road map to peace—even if it is in tatters right
now.” On a recent fishing trip to Ireland, Mueller made plain his
feelings along the banks of one of Ireland’s finest salmon rivers. A
source close to Mueller said: “Once more the Israelis are trying to run
their own show. Eitan appears to have mobilized a private army within
the United States which will ultimately only be answerable to Israel.”
Pollard's Lawyers Seek His Early Release, Earthlink (from Associated
Press), September 2, 2003. "Jonathan Pollard, given a life sentence for
selling military secrets to Israel, appeared in public for the first
time in 16 years Tuesday as his lawyers tried to help him win early
release. Pollard looked heavier and grayer than the man who stood in the
same courthouse and admitted espionage in 1987. The bearded Pollard wore
a yarmulke and a green shirt stamped "Arlington County Jail." He nodded
hello to his wife in the courtroom's front row, and then sat with hands
folded and did not speak as his lawyers argued the government should be
forced to turn over secret files that could help his request for
clemency. "Jonathan Pollard is sitting here in court today. He asks only
for justice and a fair sentencing, as guaranteed by our Constitution,"
attorney Jacques Semmelman said. "He has not had that." Jewish religious
leaders and other supporters filled several rows of the courtroom.
Pollard's 89-year-old father, from whom he is estranged, sat separately
in the back row. Government lawyers argued that another judge was right
to reject Pollard's claims and he should not be allowed to press the
case further ... He was not paid when his spying began in 1984, but
acknowledged that Israel later began paying him a few thousand dollars a
month. Pollard was caught in November 1985 and arrested after
unsuccessfully seeking refuge at the Israeli embassy. Pollard initially
denied he worked for Israel but later acknowledged it. He claims
prosecutors reneged on a promise to seek a lesser sentence in return for
his cooperation. His case has been a sticking point in U.S.-Israeli
relations. The Israeli government, which granted Pollard citizenship,
repeatedly has pressed for his release. A 1998 U.S.-brokered peace
accord between Israel and the Palestinians nearly foundered when
then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly linked his
agreement to the deal with clemency for Pollard. Then-President Clinton
said he had promised only to review the case. During deliberations on
clemency, CIA Director George Tenet had told Clinton he would quit if
Pollard were freed. Pollard's case was reviewed by federal officials in
2000 but he was left off the list of those granted clemency just before
Clinton left office. The Israeli government has continued to press the
issue with the Bush administration. "We are using all our efforts to get
him released," Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon, said Tuesday."
["This article was pulled by the Ottawa Sun for unknown reasons
within hours of posting" -- also reposted here.] Nine Israelis face
deportation.Spy agency suspects they may be foreign agents, By JOHN
STEINBACHS and ANDREW SEYMOUR, Cryptome (from Ottawa Sun - Canada),
September 19, 2003 "Nine Israeli nationals -- who[m] CSIS suspects are
possible foreign agents -- were arrested by Immigration and Ottawa
police tactical officers last Friday, blocks from Parliament Hill. The
nine have all been charged by Immigration for working in Canada
illegally. All are in their 20s and were apparently selling art in
Ottawa. The arrests follow similar takedowns of Israelis in Toronto and
Calgary over the past few weeks. An Ottawa police source said police
were told members of the group were possible agents from Mossad,
Israel's spy agency, but given no further information by CSIS. CSIS
declined to comment yesterday. All nine have since been released and are
staying in several rooms at a Lisgar St. apartment-hotel. Citizenship
and Immigration spokesman Rejean Cantlon confirmed that nine Israelis
were arrested last Friday for working in Canada without a permit.
Immigration hearings were held Wednesday and nine exclusion orders were
issued. No weapons Ienav Sofer, Amit Yedudai, Rani Rahuhim Katsov, Roy
Laniado, Shulamit Gorelik and Anatoly Belnik received exclusion orders
for two years for working without authorization and misrepresentation.
Koby Cole, Sharon Moskovitz and Yafit Avram were issued exclusion orders
for one year. All will be deported as soon as paperwork is ready, likely
within the next few weeks, Cantlon said. They were arrested with the
help of tactical and patrol officers Friday between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. No
weapons were found in their rooms. Yesterday, eight were found walking
down Lisgar St., but offered no comment when asked if they were Israeli
art students. This is not the first time students selling art in Ottawa
have caused concern with law enforcement. In 2001, Centrepointe
residents complained of foreign students selling paintings in their
neighourhood that turned out to be fakes. "We're outraged" The story of
Israeli art students peddling paintings in foreign countries has been
reported in the media and on the Internet in the past."
More Evidence Mossad Killed JFK Over Israeli Nukes. The Missing Link,
rense.com, September 28, 2003 "Note - The second item below is a letter
from JFK to Israeli Prime Minister Eshkol which makes it crystal clear
JFK did NOT want the Jewish state to develop nuclear weapons and that he
was demanding regular US inspections of the Dimona Nuclear
facility...which, as we now know, was/is used to develop Israel's
enormous inventory of atomic and thermonuclear weapons. The US Air Force
white paper regarding past and ongoing Israeli thermonuclear blackmail
of the US is a stunning look at how Zionism has exerted such staggering
domination over the US for decades. -ed)"
Russia: An Israeli tried to steal secrets, Washington Times, Oct. 14,
2003 "Russian officials say they seized a computer diskette from an
Israeli man at the Novosibirsk airport that contained information on
secret research. The Novosti news agency said the unidentified man was
not detained after the disk was confiscated Tuesday as he prepared to
board a flight to Israel. The diskette allegedly contained information
on unidentified Russian scientific developments. Officials said the
diskette was sent to Moscow for examination."
Ex-envoy suspects Israel broke spy vow to Canada. 'False flag'
controversy: Secret agents allegedly pretended they were Canadian, by
Stewart Bell, National Post (Canada), November 6, 2003 "Canada's former
ambassador to Tel Aviv said yesterday he believes Israeli undercover
agents may have posed as Canadians during a deadly covert operation last
year, breaking a pledge made in 1997. Michael Bell, who retired from the
foreign service in August, suspects members of the Israeli Shin Beit
security service may have adopted fake Canadian identities as part of a
terrorist-assassination mission in Gaza. The Israelis deny their agents
used Canada as a "false flag" but Mr. Bell, a Middle East expert, said
he is not convinced. "It showed all the signs of traditional
intelligence tradecraft," he told the National Post in an interview. The
ambassador said when the false flag allegation came to Canada's
attention in August, 2002, the Department of Foreign Affairs opted not
to make an issue of it, but he believes that may have been the wrong
decision. "My concern in this is that the Canadian identity -- whether
it's the simple fact of being a Canadian citizen or being a Canadian
passport holder -- provides a certain level of positive recognition," he
said. "And when that identity or those documents are compromised, then
it calls into question the integrity of those documents in future cases
or the integrity of that citizenship" ... [L]ast August a Palestinian
named Akram Zatmeh went public with a detailed account of how he was
coerced into becoming an Israeli informant by undercover agents who
convinced him they were Canadians. He said he was recruited by three
agents who promised to help him immigrate to Canada, brought him to the
Canadian embassy in Tel Aviv and then blackmailed him by producing
doctored photos that showed him in sexual encounters. Mr. Zatmeh said
the agents told him they would distribute the photos unless he agreed to
spy for them in Gaza and provide the names of Palestinians who were
shooting at Jewish settlements and Israeli military command posts. On
July 23, 2002, Mr. Zatmeh helped Israeli agents pinpoint the location of
Sheik Salah Shehadeh, a Hamas leader. Twenty minutes later, an Israeli
F-16 fighter jet fired a one-tonne missile at his apartment. The bomb
killed not only the sheik but also more than a dozen bystanders, nine of
them children. Mr. Zatmeh, 22, was arrested by Palestinian security
forces as a collaborator and is facing the death sentence."
[The ADL is corrupt. It is a Thought Police. It is a Jewish spy
organization, in this case against Blacks. For the ADL, the mass media
is to be milked for its Jewish reporters, who are apparently trusted to
explictly JEWISH spying. Here, a Jewish reporter drops the ball in the
ADL spy-journalist network.] Jew Gotta Be Kidding, by Howard Altman,
City Paper (Philadeolphia), November 13, 19, 2003 "Barry Morrison,
executive director of the Philadelphia branch of the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL), is on the line, reminding me about the time when a guy
suggested that someone slit my throat, like they did to Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Oh yeah. The guy who called me a "Jew
spy" for reporting where Dick Cheney hides. After a few minutes of
chitchat about old times, Morrison segues into a discussion about a
group that believes in "reparations" -- payments to blacks as
compensation for the ills imposed on African slaves. Reparations? The
ADL wants to know from reparations? Well, sort of. Morrison asks me if I
know about the reparations conference being held in Philly over the
weekend. I tell him I do. He asks if I am going. Probably not, I answer.
Why? And here comes the punch line to this story. With the
reparationistas in town, Morrison asks me how I would like to spy on
them for him. The invitation, let me tell you, shocks and offends. If I
didn't spy for the FBI when they asked me to lure an espionage suspect
into a sting, why would I spy for Morrison and the ADL? He is dismayed a
bit when I tell him I won't do it. There will be some anti-Semitic
nutballs in town to discuss whether the United States should pay
reparations, he argues. People like Dr. Leonard Jeffries, the CUNY
professor who once referred to Jews as "skunks." The ADL wants to know
what they are up to, but they can't get anyone in. "Can you or one of
your reporters give us some information?" Morrison asks. I am not a big
fan of reparations. Then again, I don't want any money from the families
of Nazis. But regardless of what I think about reparations, and
regardless that I feel that Morrison's outfit does important work, there
is no way I am going to give any information to the ADL. Or anyone else
... I have friends and sources in every community. Blacks, whites,
Asians, Latinos, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Arabs, LGBT, everybody. Who
would talk to me if I were a font of intel for the ADL? It's hard enough
getting people to trust the media, Barry. I hope I am not the only one
to turn you down."
Israel recruited Dutch UN officers for espionage, by Arjan El Fassed,
The Electronic Intifada, November 12, 2003 "Between 1956 and 2003,
Israel has recruited Dutch UN officers to spy in Syria, Jordan and
Lebanon. This happened during the peaks of the Dutch-Israeli friendship.
In its recruitment of Dutch officers for intelligence gathering, Israel
regularly used blackmail. Arthur ten Cate, a researcher affiliated with
the Dutch Institute for Military History in The Hague, recently
published a book "Waarnemers op heilige grond" [lit. "Observers on holy
ground"], Dutch officers with UNTSO 1956-2003, in which he named two
Israeli crimps and Dutch officers who were involved in intelligence
gathering for Israel. Outside the public eye, the Netherlands contribute
army officers from the ground, air and naval forces to the United
Nations Truce Supervision Organization in the Middle East. UNTSO was
established in 1948 ... During their missions, Dutch officers were
eyewitnesses of the Israeli-Arab conflict. They were in the region
during the Suez crisis, at the frontlines of the 1967 June War, the 1973
October War and were present during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and
the Gulf War. Ten Cate's book describes the various wars and the
conflict in the Middle East from the perspective of these Dutch
officers. He describes what they observed and what they reported to the
Security Council in New York and how they contributed to the attempts by
the international community to contain this conflict. Between 1956 and
today, around 500 officers of the Dutch airforce, ground forces and navy
operated in UNTSO. He described how a one-sided, pro-Israeli group of
officers shifted to a more neutral position. When they returned back to
the Netherlands, people did not believe their stories. Often they were
branded as "anti-Israeli" or even "anti-semitic". Even though a number
of Dutch officers were actively involved in espionage for Israel, the
majority of Dutch officers with UNTSO changed their opinion based on
what they observed themselves. Ten Cate concludes his book saying that
"much earlier than the rest of the Dutch people, the Dutch officers
learned that the Israeli-Arab conflict has two sides instead of one."
One of the Dutch UN officers named in Ten Cate's book is major G.J.
Schüssler, commander of the headquarters of UNTSO in Tiberias. He was
approached by the Israeli veterinary surgeon Uzi Ghanoch, who had
studied in Utrecht in the Netherlands. He spoke fluent Dutch and he
asked Schüssler whether he was willing to work for Israeli intelligence.
The Dutch major agreed on condition that he would not receive "any
reward". Schüssler provided Israel with intelligence on locations of
anti-aircraft artillery in Syria and on Palestinian fedayeen in Jordan.
Ten Cate wrote that every Dutch officer working in Tiberias was
approached by Ghanoch. Major Ijsbrand Smit, who was with the Dutch
airforce, also provided intelligence to Israel. He was married with an
agent of the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. Smit was actively
engaged in the recruitment of new spies. Later, when he worked at the
NATO headquarters in Bergen and at the Foreign Intelligence Service in
The Hague, he continued working for Israel. In 1983 he was exposed.
Behind closed doors he appeared before the council of war. The court
accepted his defense saying that the co-operation between Israeli and
Dutch intelligence was strong and that information would anyway be
shared between the two agencies. He was finally released due to "lack of
evidence". The Mossad had special interest to recruit UN officers, who
observed the truce between Israel and its neighbours. Ten Cate described
how married soldiers would be approached by attractive women. They could
choose to co-operate or explain to their wives what had happened. When
they just started their mission with UNTSO, most Dutch officers were
pro-Israel, writes Ten Cate. For some this attitude and position changed
over time. The first commander of UNTSO, the Swedish major-general Carl
von Horn wrote in his memoires that as well as the Jordanian
intelligence as the Israeli intelligence were keeping control over the
observers, however, he was most concerned with the approach of the
Israeli intelligence. They tapped communications, but also bribed UN
personnel or blackmailed them. Von Horn tried to clean his organisation
and established a counter-espionage service. The Dutch officers felt
isolated, writes Ten Cate. Back home, nobody wanted to hear cases of
violations of the ceasefire. The Dutch public only wanted to hear heroic
stories of the "brave Jewish pioneers".
Blitz editor arrested on sedition charges, News from Bangladesh
"Police arrested Salahuddin Shoeb Chowdhury, editor of a newly-published
fortnightly English news magazine Blitz and former managing director of
the proposed Inquilab Television (ITV), a satellite television channel
yet to air programmes, from Zia International Airport (ZIA) on Saturday.
Police said they had evidences of Shoeb’s involvement in ‘seditious’
activities. Top-ranking police sources said Shoeb was on his way to
Israel and was offloaded from a Biman flight (BG-084) scheduled to leave
for Bangkok and Singapore from ZIA at 10:41am on Saturday. Police said
they had also recovered some anti-state documents from his possession.
Police also raided Shoeb’s Uttara residence in Dhaka and seized some
documents and his personal computer. Shoeb was scheduled to fly to Tel
Aviv in Israel where he was supposed to present a paper at a conference
there on December 1. His paper contained anti-state statement, police
sources said. According to sources, Shoeb had earlier visited Tel Aviv
last month and submitted a similar paper at a seminar there. He
reportedly described in the paper that global extremist al-Qaeda network
existed in Bangladesh and got training in the mosques. It is the second
time that Shoeb has been arrested on charge of anti-state activities in
the last five years."
Female Bond with a story to sell Nima Zamar, a trained killer for
Mossad, believed that she was eliminating ‘real filth’. And that is
exactly what she writes in her book, although Israel would like to call
her a fantasist. CHARLES BREMNER reports, Becoming a Teacher (from Times
of London, September 2003 "A POWERFUL handshake is probably standard for
professional killers who dispatch victims with their bare hands. Yet the
vigorous grip is a surprise when you meet Nima Zamar, a 33-year-old
French woman who has just gone public with an account of life as an
agent with a licence to kill for the Israeli secret service, Mossad.
Though tall and muscular, Zamar has soft eyes, a quiet voice and trim
black hair. She laughs easily, but has a fragile air about her. She
could almost be any fit young French woman as she chats in a Left Bank
room with her 18-month-old daughter playing nearby. However, average
Parisiennes do not usually tell you about strangling, knifing and
shooting people or how they cope with torture. "Even when you have no
barrier of conscience because you are defending yourself or killing real
filth" she says "you notice that the moment that every human being dies,
they have an instant of realisation, a sort of childlike flash. "At that
moment you understand that life is beautiful. Something very precious.
But that doesn’t stop you trying to save your own life." The tale of
Zamar -- which is not her real name -- is the stuff of nightmares or the
darkest of thrillers. To exorcise demons, she has just recounted her
life in a book, Je Devais Aussi Tuer (I Also Had to Kill). The work is
making a splash in Paris, but it is so grim that some media are calling
it fiction. Others are taking her at her word, as well as that of Albin
Michel, her highly respectable publishers. Thierry Pfister, her editor
and a prominent figure on the literary scene, is vouching for the truth
of her account. He has known Zamar, whose family were Romanian-Jewish
immigrants, since she was a small child. Zamar claims that after
emigrating to Israel at 22 with a computing degree, she volunteered for
military service. She was coerced by a branch of Mossad into two years
of training which included Arabic, killing techniques and conditioning
for life under cover and torture. She then spent six years in the guise
of a Swiss-reared Palestinian deep in the dirty war in the ranks of the
the terrorist organisation Hezbollah. On undercover missions to bug
Syrian military computers in Lebanon, she was often called upon to kill,
in self defence and sometimes in cold blood. She committed her first
murder at a Hezbollah camp in Libya. She was ordered by the officers to
kill Yasmina, a fellow trainee with whom she had sympathised. This was a
standard test to forge obedience and dehumanise recruits. She kills
Yasmina without compunction, telling herself that every dead terrorist
meant Israeli lives saved. "Slowly, I move behind her, hit her in the
throat with a violent blow of the forearm and then strangle her. She
lies dead in my arms. I put her on the ground," she writes. What does it
take for a woman to put another so calmly to death, one wonders. "They
had prepared me intensely and warned me that there would be this kind of
test," she says quietly. "I did what I had to do. It was always a case
of life and death and saving my skin. It’s like war must have been 1,000
years ago. There’s someone opposite you and there will only be one
winner, the one who kills." In the book, she describes her many other
victims in similar terms, noting details such as cleaning the flesh off
a "useful" foldable knife after the murder of a terrorist official.
Women are, she says are perhaps better killers than men because they are
less dominated by ego and more willing to serve humbly in the shadows
without glory or recognition ... Disillusioned by the rigid and
over-demanding methods of Mossad, Zamar says that she left for France in
early 2001, escaping a murder attempt with a syringe by a fellow agent
at Istanbul airport. He does not survive. Her book, she says, is a way
to bear witness and leave an account for her daughter, whose father was
a comrade killed on a mission in Iran. She renounces none of her acts
nor her love of Israel. "What I wanted to show is the workings of a
creaking, archaic system and how someone with determination could
extract themselves from it, both mentally and physically without giving
up their ideals or their values," she says. Zamar, who masks her face
for photographs and television, says that her former masters have let
her go. They initially approved the idea of her book but sent back a
censored version of the manuscript, reduced to a bare outline. "They
were fine as long as I didn’t talk about training or missions and that I
was a bit more positive about Israel," she said. She published anyway,
although with many details "sterilised". Israel is now trying to
discredit her by depicting her as a fantasy- land Mata Hari. How could
she have emerged so apparently unscathed from such brutality? "Who says
unscathed?" she says, talking of her continuing headaches, damaged body
and the post-traumatic stress syndrome that was not averted despite the
post-mission work with psychiatrists. The violence has not dehumanised
her, as it does for terrorists, she says, because she was helped by the
psychiatrists and the knowledge that her cause was just ... However,
such an extraordinary, and unprovable, story leaves many with a strong
suspicion that it may all be fiction."
[There is no moral degredation limit to protect racist Israel. Fraud
is endemic to the pro-Israel movement. And, ho! Look, it gets results.
Constantly "monitored" anti-war groups are increasingly sensitized to --
and bend toward -- Jewish fraud.] Antiwar Group Exposes Undercover
Activist, By DANIEL J. HEMEL, Harvard Crimson, January 12, 2--4 "An
outspoken member of Harvard Students for Israel went undercover in what
he says was a quest to gauge anti-Semitism in a campus anti-war group.
Members of the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ)
discovered last week that mysterious anti-Semitic posts on the group’s
web log were written by Eric R. Trager ’05, who posted them under an
assumed name. Trager said yesterday that he was responsible for the
posts in question, but said they were part of his larger effort to
monitor anti-Semitism on campus. Trager, who is secretary of Harvard
Students for Israel (HSI), had previously accused HIPJ of being too
tolerant of anti-Semitic sentiments expressed over its e-mail lists. In
a November interview, Trager said that anti-Semitic e-mails sent last
spring over the now-defunct HIPJ-Open list “came without any rebuke or
organizational distancing from HIPJ.” To determine whether HIPJ would
still tolerate anti-Semitism in its midst, Trager said he created the
persona of Fabian Cooper, who identified himself as a Boston University
graduate student who had taken a year off from his studies to work as a
substitute teacher and get involved with local Marxist groups. Trager
said the language he used in the posts was modeled after messages
previously sent over HIPJ lists. One post signed by Cooper referred to
Israel as the “AshkeNAZI state,” playing off the Hebrew name for Jews of
Eastern European descent, and called suicide bombers “Palestinian
freedom fighters.” A second post attributed to Cooper, written after
Saddam Hussein’s capture, claimed that “only a great leader like Saddam
Hussein would have had the guts to hit the Zionist imperial colonists
with the scud missiles necessary to set the Zionist entity on edge.”
According to HIPJ member Amee Chew ’04, the group removed both posts
from its website within minutes of their appearance. Trager, a
government concentrator in Kirkland House, said HIPJ’s quick response to
the Cooper posts signaled a positive trend in relations between
pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activists on campus. “I was very pleased
that they did erase it,” Trager said. “It indicates the progress that
HSI and HIPJ have made in discussions. HIPJ is making an apparent effort
to fight anti-Semitism on campus.” But HSI President Joshua Suskewicz
’05 said the incident did not involve the group. “This has nothing to do
with HSI,” he said. Trager said he hopes the Fabian Cooper incident
“will throw a little bit of humor” into talks between HIPJ and HSI ...
Others in the [HIPJ] group, however, said they were not amused by
Trager’s antics. Chew said she was “shocked that [Trager] would stoop to
this” and termed his posts “reckless.” “I don’t think that Harvard
should be a place where people practice to become FBI or CIA agents,”
said HIPJ member Daniel DiMaggio ’04. “I think that this type of
behavior deserves the utmost censure on the part of the student body and
all members of the Harvard community.” “Members of [HSI] and HIPJ have
been working behind the scenes to promote a more positive dialogue on
campus,” Suskewicz said. “I hope that this doesn’t interfere in any
way.”
Bangladeshi editor charged with sedition for links with Israel,
tarnishing country's image, Highmark Funds (from Associated Press),
January 25, 2004 "A Bangladeshi magazine editor arrested for suspected
links with an Israeli literary group has been charged with sedition for
allegedly trying to tarnish the country's image aboard, a police
official said Sunday. Bangladesh, a moderate Muslim country, bars its
citizens from formal contact - such as business dealings or cultural
exchanges - with Israelis. Traveling to Israel is also restricted.
Police detained Salauddin Shoib Chowdhury, the editor of entertainment
magazine Blitz, on Nov. 29 as he was boarding a flight in Dhaka for
Bangkok. He allegedly was planning to travel to Tel Aviv. Immigration
officials found in Chowdhury's possession an invitation to a literary
conference organized by the Hebrew Writers Association in Tel Aviv on
Dec. 1. They also seized a paper - containing remarks calling Bangladesh
and its people Muslim fundamentalists - that Chowdhury was to present at
the conference, police said. Police said they also confiscated fax and
e-mail messages and computer disks from his residence and office,
including a project proposal seeking 120 million takas (US$2 million)
from a Jewish group to publish three newspapers. Police did not name the
group or say what type of newspapers they were. On Saturday, police
filed a case under a sedition law accusing Chowdhury of anti-state
activities for having contacts with Israelis and trying to tarnish the
country's image abroad, said Mohammed Abdul Hanif, a police official.
Chowdhury, who has denied all charges, could be jailed for life if found
guilty. The police investigation proved "beyond doubt that he was trying
to tarnish the image of Bangladesh, so he should be charged with
anti-state activities," the police said in the case filed with the Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate. Chowdhury was also charged with hurting the
religious sentiments of Bangladeshis, which carries a maximum two-year
jail term and a fine. He remains in custody after being denied bail in
early December. Chowdhury was recently named as head of the Bangladeshi
branch of the Israel-based International Forum for Literature and
Culture for Peace, which links writers campaigning for an end to
violence, the group said earlier in a statement. Forum president Ada
Aharoni called the arrest an unwarranted attack on an advocate of
dialogue between Muslims and Jews. Bangladesh, which strongly supports a
Palestinian state, has no official, political or economic ties with
Israel."
[Famous Mossad network living in Orlando, Florida:] The spy - and the
man she busted. Using womanly skills, a young Israeli agent snares a
whistleblower. Now, his pending release revives the notorious case, By
SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN, St. Petersburg Times (FL), March 21, 2004 ----"She
drives a red Cutlass convertible and lives in a gated community. Like
thousands of others, she worked in that quintessential Florida
profession - selling real estate. At 44, Cheryl Hanin leads an
unremarkable life. It is a far cry from the past, when she was known as
"Cindy" and had a very different career: Spying for the Mossad, Israel's
crack intelligence service. In 1986, Hanin was an undercover agent when
a British newspaper published a sensational story about Israel's vast
and secretive nuclear weapons program. Posing as an American tourist,
"Cindy" lured the whistle-blower - a former nuclear technician named
Mordechai Vanunu - from London to Rome. There, other agents drugged him,
chained him and shipped him back to Israel to stand trial. Vanunu was
convicted of treason and espionage. After 18 years in prison, he is due
for release next month - raising a fresh storm of controversy about
Israel's nuclear program and one of the most notorious cases in modern
spy history. To many, Hanin was a hero who helped bring a turncoat to
justice. Without her, they say, Vanunu might have continued to spill
secrets that threatened Israel's national security. "His reputation is
very bad," says Yossi Melman, who covers security issues for the Israeli
daily Ha'aretz. "He is considered by many as a traitor." But to his
legion of supporters in the United States and elsewhere, Vanunu is the
true hero, a peace-loving man who thought the world had a right to know
about the huge nuclear arsenal Israel was developing. His admirers - who
repeatedly have nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize - charge he was
illegally seized on foreign soil by a spy agency that knows no bounds.
"This woman destroyed Mordechai's life," says Peter Hounam, the reporter
who first interviewed Vanunu in 1986. "He trusted her, she deliberately
placed him in a position where his defenses were down. He was lonely,
and she and her Mossad team took advantage of that. I have nothing but
contempt for what she did." Neither Hanin nor Vanunu has ever spoken
publicly about the case. That has sparked the inevitable questions: Does
Vanunu still have warm feelings for Cindy? And is Cindy still working
for the Mossad? "A woman has skills' Born in 1960, Cheryl Hanin grew up
in Pennsylvania and Orlando in a Jewish family that owed its affluence
to tires. Her father, Stanley Hanin, founded Allied Discount Tires, a
chain of stores best known for its shrill ads with a tipsy pitchman:
"Tahrs ain't pretty, but you gotta have them!" ... As her parents went
through a bitter divorce, Hanin had her own life-changing experience:
She spent a semester in Israel, studying Hebrew and Jewish history. She
was so captivated by the country that upon graduation in 1978, she
joined the Israeli armyv ... As a Mossad recruit, Hanin would have gone
through a regimen designed to test an agent's mettle under the most
challenging of circumstances ... The woman called herself "Cindy" and
said she was a beautician on vacation from America. She suggested they
meet the next day at the Tate Gallery; Vanunu, pleased she shared his
interest in the arts, agreed. Although he did not realize it, Vanunu had
fallen into a classic "honey trap." The Mossad, familiar with his
desires and weaknesses, knew exactly how to lure him. ... It is probable
that Cheryl was not the only Mossad Mata Hari lurking around and
flashing her eyes in Morde's direction. ... After Vanunu's capture,
Hounam tracked Cheryl Hanin to Netanya, a city on Israel's Mediterranean
coast ... In 1997, another Sunday Times reporter found Hanin back home
in Orlando, in a "secluded villa." Again, she said little except to
voice concern that any story about her should not "harm her position in
America." According to the paper, the couple also had a villa in Israel,
in an area that is home to many security officials. Hanin "continues to
work for Mossad, according to her Israeli neighbors," the Sunday Times
said. "She and her husband, they believe, have rented out their house,
while she is engaged in an overseas assignment, and are expected some
day to return." Today, Hanin and Ben Tov, parents of two daughters, seem
firmly rooted in Central Florida. They live in Alaqua, which bills
itself as "Seminole County's most exclusive estate home community."
Their 4,000-square-foot golf course home - purchased in Hanin's name in
1998 and assessed at $528,000 - is among the more modest in a place
where custom residences sell in the millions. Now 50, Ben Tov is a
trainee appraiser for one of Orlando's largest real estate appraisal
firms. Among the company's clients have been military bases and local
governments. The burly Ben Tov, dressed in khakis and a maroon knit
shirt, declined a request for an interview when a reporter visited the
firm's headquarters in downtown Orlando. "So long, see you later," he
said, and quickly retreated to his office. Hanin's brother and his wife,
Cindy - from whom Hanin got her Mossad cover name - also declined to
talk about Hanin, as did her mother. All live in the Orlando area. Until
recently, state records showed Hanin had an active real estate sales
license and was employed by CFI Sales & Marketing of Orlando. But CFI,
whose Westgate Resorts is one of the world's largest timeshare
companies, said Hanin was terminated in 1997, the same year the Sunday
Times found her in Orlando. CFI president David A. Siegel said Hanin
likely was fired because she did not meet sales goals. He said he had
heard about the Vanunu controversy, but had no idea Hanin was involved.
"We had someone like that working for us?" he asked. After the St.
Petersburg Times began looking into Hanin's background, state records
were changed to show her license is inactive, with no reference to CFI.
Officials could not say who requested the change: CFI says it did not.
Could Hanin still be working for the Mossad? "No way," says Melman of
Ha'aretz. "She was burned - her identity was revealed and she was too
prominent." But Hounam, the former Sunday Times reporter who became one
of Vanunu's staunchest supporters, is not so sure. "I think she probably
is still doing some stuff for the Mossad . . . because once you train
someone to do a job like this, you don't want to lose them. . . . The
only satisfaction I've had in 18 years is being able to track her down
and expose her identity, which means her future career was damaged," he
said. "Indeed, she was not able to travel to the (United Kingdom) again
in case the British authorities might have tried to arrest her." And
what did Hanin have to say, reached by phone at home one morning? "I
have no interest in talking," a brusque voice replied. Click."
Old damning News, but always worth another look: The famous CENSORED
Fox News Carl Cameron report on massive Israeli spying in the United
States, here in both text and videotape form. Information Clearinghouse
A cartoonist and a spy, by JOHN CHERIAN, Frontline (India's National
Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU), Volume 21 - Issue 08, April
10 - 23, 2004 "RANAN LURIE'S cartoons have graced the columns of leading
newspapers and magazines of the world. They have been hard-hitting,
though his right-wing political bias comes through frequently. During
his heyday in international journalism, Lurie could pick up the
telephone and speak to many leading Western statesmen and international
personalities. Few of them knew that Lurie was a "double agent", working
for the Israeli secret agency Mossad and the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) of the United States. The Guinness Book of Records has described
Lurie as the world's most popular caricaturist whose works have appeared
continuously for 20 straight years on a regular basis in more than a
thousand papers in 103 countries. His political cartoons have appeared
in publications like Time, Newsweek, Foreign Affairs, Asahi Shimbun and
Die Welt. According to articles that have appeared in the Israeli media,
Lurie has admitted that he was recruited at an early age by the Israeli
security agencies. Mossad realised that the talented young cartoonist
could be launched into the international media scene, where he could
turn out to be a useful asset. Mossad provided the springboard into
international journalism for the young Lurie by purchasing a weekly
magazine in Israel. Lurie was given a prominent profile in the magazine.
Its circulation was artificially boosted by Mossad, which purchased its
copies in bulk. The Israeli authorities saw to it that the soaring
circulation of the magazine was attributed mainly to the journalistic
skills of Lurie. If reports appearing in the Israeli media are to be
believed, Lurie's earlier exploits for the Israeli security services
before he became a media star had made him a prized asset. Lurie, posing
as an Australian journalist, had gained access to the Egyptian Navy's
flagship "Domiat". His assignment was to find out whether the Egyptians
had begun to use the naval radar supplied by the Soviet Union. Lurie
successfully accomplished the mission ... The CIA soon found out about
Lurie's secret life as an Israeli agent embedded in the upper crust of
American society. Mossad was left with no choice but to share its prized
asset with the CIA. Lurie continued in international journalism, happily
supplying information to two masters at the same time. Lurie is now busy
writing a book about his duplicitous career. In interviews to the
Israeli media, he has expressed no regrets. His story will add
credibility to the widespread belief that Western and Israeli security
services have infiltrated key sectors of the media in many countries,
including developing ones."
[More "anti-Semitism," this time from New Zealand. If these Jewish
Mossad crooks don't just sneak out of New Zealand, Israel will mount
pressure on the U.S. government through the world Jewish Lobby and
American pressure on New Zealand will ultimately free them. One way or
the other, these criminals fly.] Foreign spy charges whip up top-level
security storm, By BRIDGET CARTER, TONY STICKLEY AND EUGENE BINGHAM, New
Zealand Herald, April 17, 2004 "Two men believed by senior Government
figures to be Israeli secret service agents have been arrested in
Auckland trying to obtain a false New Zealand passport. The case has set
off alarm bells that Mossad spies may be masquerading as harmless New
Zealand travellers abroad. Prime Minister Helen Clark said last night
she would not comment while the case was before the court, but confirmed
the Government had raised the matter directly with the Israeli
Government. "There will be a strong and public response to this matter
once the court action has concluded," she told the Weekend Herald.
Officials, lawyers, police and Helen Clark's spokesman refused to
confirm or deny the Mossad link. The acting Israeli Ambassador, Orna
Sagiv, last night refused to comment. The case is the first known
example of foreign agents appearing in a New Zealand court since the
1985 arrest of two French agents who blew up the Greenpeace ship Rainbow
Warrior in Auckland harbour, killing one crewmember. It is understood
the Israeli Government wanted the case kept out of the New Zealand court
system, and this issue is likely to have been a point of diplomatic
friction. But the case has proceeded, indicating the Government has not
bowed to pressure from Tel Aviv. International security concerns are at
an all-time high and New Zealand views the clandestine Israeli secret
service activities here with grave concern. Weekend Herald
investigations into the case were stonewalled by New Zealand officials
until the men appeared in the Auckland District Court yesterday. Urie
Zoshe Kelman, 30, and Eli Cara, 50, have denied three joint charges
including attempting to obtain a New Zealand passport and participating
in an organised crime group to obtain a false passport. Details that
emerged in court revealed two other men were involved. Zev William
Barkan, 37, has fled the country and authorities concede they would not
know where to find him. A fourth man is believed to be here but police
say the others refuse to identify him. The group had been in and out of
the country since last November. Cara, who says he is a Sydney-based
travel agent, has travelled in and out 24 times since October 2000. The
court heard the visits since last year were allegedly for the purpose of
obtaining a false New Zealand identity for one of the men. They
allegedly made a passport application using a birth certificate of a
cerebral palsy sufferer who authorities say was an innocent victim of
the scam. After being tipped off by Internal Affairs, detectives mounted
a surveillance operation on March 23, dispatching a package meant to
resemble the passport and watching to see who would pick it up. In the
meantime, Cara and Kelman were allegedly carrying out their own
surveillance of the package. Cara was approached by police as he sat in
a cafe across the road from one drop-off point. Kelman was arrested
after he was seen walking away from another point, throwing a cellphone
into bushes. Kelman and Cara first appeared in court late last month. At
yesterday's appearance their case was fast-tracked in highly unusual
circumstances. They were committed for trial by consent of the defence,
although they did not admit there was a prima facie case. The men were
granted bail by Judge Chris Field who imposed reporting and curfew
conditions after rejecting police applications to keep them in custody
because of flight risk. Police were represented by Auckland-based
prosecutor Fletcher Pilditch, though Wellington has taken a clear
interest in the case and the office of the Solicitor-General, Terence
Arnold, QC, has also been involved. Outside court, Cara denied being a
member of the Israeli secret service. Asked if there had been a
misunderstanding, he said, "I think so." ... Kelman has been staying at
the Kiwi Hotel in Queen St and the Duxton Hotel. He has Israeli and
Canadian passports. Internationally, there have been cases of Mossad
agents being discovered trying to pass themselves off as nationals of
neutral countries. In 1997, Mossad agents were caught using Canadian
passports during a failed assassination attempt on an Islamic official
in Jordan. In 2000, a Mossad operative was handed a suspended sentence
after being accused of espionage and repeated use of false identity
documents in Switzerland. New Zealand passports have become increasingly
sought-after on the black market, not just for spies but for terrorists
and drug couriers. Four years ago, a member of an al Qaeda cell that
plotted to bomb Los Angeles at the turn of the millennium was uncovered
travelling on a stolen New Zealand passport. It is understood the
Government is concerned that revelations that Mossad agents may be using
New Zealand travel documents could put New Zealanders at risk. Helen
Clark said last night: "The Government takes seriously any action which
challenges the integrity of the New Zealand passport system."
Israeli gets 3.5 years for people smuggling in New Zealand, By DPA,
Haaretz (Israel), April 6, 2004 "A 34-year-old Israeli was jailed for
three-and-a-half years on Tuesday, after failing to convince a judge he
should only be fined for trying to smuggle three Ukrainians into New
Zealand. Rejecting Victor Chechelnitski's offer to pay a fine of 10,000
New Zealand dollars (about 6,600 U.S. dollars), the Auckland High Court
judge said that would be seen by people smugglers as a business expense.
Police said Chechelnitski was arrested in February when he flew from
Bangkok into Auckland with three Ukrainians he had given false Israeli
passports. He was the first person convicted under tough new people
smuggling laws passed in 2002, which carry a maximum prison sentence of
20 years. The judge said that Chechelnitski was not the organizer of the
immigrant-smuggling racket but more of a courier, and noted that the
trio had been brought to New Zealand on a plane, not a leaky boat, Radio
New Zealand reported. The three Ukrainians, named by police as Serhiy
Manyk, Iryna Manyk and Anatoliy Hushul, were said to have paid 7,800
U.S. dollars in Kiev to reach New Zealand. They have been charged with
possessing false passports."
ASIO hunts Israeli cell, By Lincoln Wright, News.com.au (Australia -
from Sunday Herald Sun), April 18, 2004 "The nation's spy-catchers are
investigating a suspected Israeli spy ring in Australia. The Australian
Security Intelligence Organisation has been investigating the suspected
cell for up to a month. Two Israeli citizens appeared in an Auckland
court on Friday charged with passport fraud. One of them, Eli Cara,
claimed to be a Sydney travel agent. He has travelled to New Zealand 24
times since October 2000. Cara, 50, and Zoshe Kelman, 30, faced three
charges after being arrested in a police sting operation late last
March. Another Israeli, Zev William Barkan, 37, escaped from NZ. A
fourth man is believed to be in hiding. The men are suspected of being
Mossad agents, who allegedly were gathering fake NZ passports. Fake
passports are used by intelligence bodies to help their agents travel
undercover. Mossad, the Israeli secret service, has been accused
previously of illegally using Canadian passports. A spokesman for
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock confirmed yesterday that ASIO had been
investigating the matter. He said ASIO had been in touch with its NZ
counterparts. He said the two Israelis had applied for a passport using
the birth certificate of a person with cerebral palsy. NZ police staged
a surveillance operation of the site where the passport was sent on
March 23. The two Israelis were also staking out the site, but were then
arrested. Cara was sitting in a cafe, while Kelman was arrested walking
away after throwing his mobile phone into a bush. After the pair was
released on bail, Cara denied being a Mossad agent when asked about his
arrest. Intelligence sources told the Sunday Herald Sun that the NZ
arrests would have set off alarm bells at ASIO headquarters in Canberra.
If Israel had gone to the trouble of setting up a genuine business in
Sydney as a front for spying, then that would be an extraordinary step,
a source said. ASIO would not be investigating the case unless they
suspected the pair was undeclared spies, the source said. Israel (as
with other countries) could declare its spies to ASIO, and the security
service would know who was who at the country's embassy in Canberra.
"But some countries have undeclared spies, which is seen as pretty
sneaky - and snaky," another source said. The time and expense of
running a genuine business front would indicate a deep commitment to an
operation in Sydney or the South Pacific. NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark
has refused to confirm whether the arrested men were Mossad agents. But
she has contacted the Israeli government about the case. In the late
1970s, Israel was rumoured to have set up a spy ring in Melbourne to
keep an eye on anti-Israeli activists. Israel's acting ambassador to NZ
and Australia, Orna Sagiv, said yesterday she would not comment until
the court proceedings had been completed. "There are two Israeli
citizens there before the justice system, but it's better to wait before
coming to conclusions," she said. A former Israeli Defence Force officer
expressed surprise at the clumsiness of the operation, but added
authorities could not be sure the charged men's names were real if they
were Mossad agents. "Israel has spies everywhere, but Mossad is usually
more professional than that," the IDF officer said. Mossad generally was
quite careful about whom it sent undercover, preferring people with
links to the country they were spying upon. "The aim is to blend into
the local community," the officer said. "These agents have layers and
layers of false identities."
The unseen negotiator, by Mark Perry, The Palestine Report, April 14,
2004 "In the months of negotiations leading up to the signing of the
Oslo Accords in 1993 the Israeli team was informed of each Palestinian
position through reports given them by a senior PLO diplomat. The spy,
later uncovered by the PLO, gave the Israelis an inside view of
Palestinian thinking - and a clear advantage in the Oslo talks. Did the
spy help? "Please, this is a rhetorical question," Shimon Peres said in
Washington just prior to the September 1993 signing of the agreement.
"It was like we were negotiating with ourselves." History has now
repeated itself, though the Israelis have no need for a Palestinian spy.
Over a period of 60 days, since Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
announced his plan to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza, Israeli and US
officials have been negotiating an exchange of letters that will give US
blessing to the Israeli initiative and set a baseline for future
political initiatives. The only difference between 1993 and now, of
course, is that the Palestinians are nowhere to be seen - and Israel is
not about to engage in negotiations with a government that it claims is
supporting terrorism."
Axis Of Spies, TomPaine.Comnon sense, September 1, 2004 "Here's the
axis we should be worried about: The Axis of Spies made up by the
American Enterprise Institute, AIPAC and the Embassy of Israel.If the
FBI weren’t so busy trying to catch nonexistent Al Qaeda suspects, they
might consider devoting a few more resources to tracking down this
expanding Israeli nest of spies. (Oh, and The New Republic is very quiet
on the Larry Franklin spy scandal so far. Very quiet. Too quiet.) The
Jerusalem Post reports, at least, the FBI has seized computer files from
AIPAC’s Steve Rosen, a good start: FBI agents on Friday copied the
computer hard drive of a senior staffer at the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee who has been questioned in relation to the case of a
Pentagon official suspected of turning over a classified document either
directly to Israel, or via the pro-Israel lobby group. That same
article, which you can read here , notes that members of Congress are
rallying (predictably) around AIPAC. Welcome to the nest of spies,
Congressman Hoyer. Haaretz reports that Abraham Foxman of the ADL is
huffing and puffing, demanding that a special commission be appointed to
investigate the person who leaked the probe. That’s dangerous, Mr.
Foxman, because the person who leaked it did so, it is now obvious, in
order to stop the investigation, since Franklin was cooperating with the
FBI to help them get deeper into the nest of spies. So if we find out
who leaked it in the first place, it won’t make Foxman happy ... Both
Steve Rosen, and another AIPAC spy (okay, alleged spy) Keith Weissman,
are named as part of the FBI’s investigation, according to the Jewish
Telegraph Agency and the Los Angeles Times. Neither Rosen nor Weissman
have emerged to defend themselves. “You mean us? Spies?” According to
the New York Times, both have been interviewed by the FBI, and are being
defended by (who else?) Abbe Lowell. The Times also quotes the Israeli
ambassador, Danny Ayalon, saying that the investigation is “fizzling out
because there's nothing there.” Besides, we shredded all that. Meanwhile
Jim Lobe, bane of neocons, writing for Inter Press Service, has a
wonderful piece reminding us that Larry Franklin, the hapless Pentagon
apparatchik and official Stooge of Feith, who wandered into an AIPAC-Israeli
embassy meeting that was being monitored by the FBI, is just the tip of
the iceberg. As Lobe points out, many of the principals in the U.S.
Israeli lobby have been caught up in spy probes going back 25 years,
including Steve Bryen and Doug Feith himself. Also under investigation
have been Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen and Paul Wolfowitz, as Lobe
reports, citing a book by Stephen Green, Taking Sides: America's Secret
Relations with a Militant Israel: Perle, Ledeen, and Wolfowitz have also
been the subject of FBI inquiries, according to Green's account. In
1970, one year after he was hired by Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, an
FBI wiretap authorized for the Israeli Embassy picked up Perle
discussing classified information with an embassy official, while
Wolfowitz was investigated in 1978 for providing a classified document
on the proposed sale of a U.S. weapons system to an Arab government to
an Israeli official via an AIPAC staffer."
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