American Free Press September 1, 2003
Banned Spymaster Back in U.S.
Despite having been ordered to never again enter the United States, a notorious Israeli spy boss is here again - and FBI agents are unable to touch him.
By Gordon Thomas
Israel's legendary spymaster, Rafi Eitan, has made several secret trips to the United States in the past month. But FBI agents tracking him admit they are unable to question Eitan - the former Mossad chief who "ran" Jonathan Pollard - because he travels on an Israeli diplomatic passport.
Pollard is now serving a life sentence in a federal prison for stealing "every worthwhile intelligence secret this country had," CIA Director George Tenet has said.
Eitan's most spectacular operation in the United States was the theft of the highly sophisticated software known as Promis from Inslaw, the specialist computer company based in Washington.
It involved Eitan assuming a false identity and traveling on a diplomatic passport to ensure his untroubled transit through U.S. airports.
Eitan had Israeli experts deconstruct the Inslaw version of Promis and insert a "trapdoor." This enabled Israel to monitor all those who purchased its version of Promis.
Through Eitan, the super snooping software was sld worldwide, including to a number of select intelligence services.
Enraged U.S. intelligence chiefs finally forced the Israeli government to allow Eitan to be questioned in Tel Aviv on his activities.
"He talked his way out of trouble," recalled on of his interrogators. "But he was warned not to step foot into the United States again.
On his recent trips to the United States, Eitan has traveled in his capacity as "adviser on security and counter terrorism" to Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon.
Each time Eitan has flown into the Columbus, Ohio airport. From there, FBI agents have fallowed him to various cities, including New York and Los Angeles.
Eitan has remained a close friend of Sharon.
After leaving Mossad, where he was director of operations, Eitan founded the Israeli Bureau of scientific Liaison, known by its Hebrew acronym as LAKAM. Its mandate remains the same: to penetrate classified U.S. defense programs and obtain top-secret technologies.
In 1986, Eitan created a special unit to increase Israel's penetration of U.S. economic, scientific and technology data. It was code-named "AL" - Hebrew for "above" - and its brief was to prowl through California's Silicon Valley and Boston's Route 128 for high-tech secrets.
In the past month, Eitan is reported to have visited both areas. AL is still operating. But even more alarming to his FBI trackers is that Eitan has also visited the Los Alamos area - home of America's cutting-edge nuclear technology.
In 1985, Eitan arranged to sell to Los Alamos's Sandia Laboratories a copy of the Israeli version of the Promis software. The program's "trapdoor" enabled LAKAM to learn about Sandia's top-secret work in providing U.S. nuclear submarines with the latest advanced computer technology.
At one recent meeting in Washington, Eitan met Earl Brian.
The former head of Hadron - the specialist computer software company Brian founded - had recently ben released from prison after serving part of a five-year sentence for fraud.
In a remarkable document, another former Israeli agent, Juval Aviv, who now runs a world-wide international security and investigations firm based in Manhattan, claims that Eitan has "obtained a copy of the latest version of Promis that Inslaw has created."
The document bears Aviv's company name, Interfor, and is dated Aug.8, 2003.
In it he claims that Eitan is "in the United States right now, traveling to Las Vegas, L.S., Los Alamos and then back to Columbus."
Details of his travels have been sent to FBI headquarters in Washington. No one knows what happened to the report, but a credible intelligence source said that "given the good relationship between the U.S. and Israel, it is likely Eitan's travel will result in no action.
Aviv, who signs himself as president and CEO of Interfor - the company claims to have offices in 23 countries - has refused to take calls to discuss his document. Hit is best known for his claims to have been a Mossad agent and a "consultant" to the FBI for over 10 years on "anti-terrorism matters."
Aviv was also employed by Pan-Am to investigate the Lockerbie bombing. His 27-page report made remarkable claims about the downing of Flight 103 in the air over Scotland.
In mid August Libya settled $7.5 million on each family who had lost relations in the crash.
Aviv had accused U.S. intelligence agents of allowing Flight 103 to be used as a heroin-smuggling route into the U.S. - through Frankfurt and Heathrow airports - in return for the smugglers' help in freeing American hostages held in Beirut by the Hezbollah in the 1980s.
The U.S. government denied the allegations. Support for these denials came from Mossad - which has constantly denied that Aviv ever worked for them.
The FBI is also trying to establish what links Eitan has with a Midwest company, Comverse Infosys, a subsidiary of an Israeli-owned telecommunications company, headquartered outside Tel Aviv.
Washington intelligence sources say converse provides all the wiretapping equipment and software for U.S. law enforcement.
"Custom computers and software made by Comverse are used to intercept, record and store wiretapped calls," confirmed an FBI source.
Such equipment was used recently to track the British arms dealer caught red-handed trying to sell a Russian state-of-the-art guided missile to an FBI agent posing as an Islamic terrorist in New Jersey.
The FBI is currently trying to establish if the Comverse parent company in Israel has links to what the FBI source will only call "former Israeli military and intelligence officials."
The source said: "Any espionage by a state considered to be friendly, like Israel, may be politically embarrassing, but it could be another disaster with the potential to wreak havoc on our security.
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