-Caveat Lector- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:46:11 +0100 From: Mario Profaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[Spy News]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Spy News] French media say spies were operating in U.S.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/719589.asp?cp1=1 Reports: U.S. busts Israeli spy ring French media say spies were operating in U.S. PARIS, March 5 — The United States has broken up a huge Israeli spy ring that may have trailed suspected al-Qaida members in the United States without informing federal authorities, the French newspaper Le Monde reported on Tuesday. A SECRET U.S. government report outlining spying activities by Israelis contained “elements (that) support the theory that Israel did not give the U.S. all the information it had about the planning for the Sept. 11 attacks,” it wrote. Le Monde said the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had confirmed to it the existence of the secret study, which says the Israelis posed as graphic arts students and tried to enter buildings belonging to the DEA and other federal agencies. Intelligence Online, a Paris-based newsletter that reported on the study on Monday, said some 120 Israeli spies had been arrested or expelled and inquiries were continuing. An FBI spokesman on Monday called the Intelligence Online report a “bogus story. ... There wasn’t a spy ring.” In Israel on Monday, a spokesman told Reuters: “The prime minister’s office declines to comment on this matter.” VAST ISRAELI ESPIONAGE But Le Monde on Tuesday reported Intelligence Online’s findings and added elements it said its reporters had uncovered. “A vast Israeli espionage network operating on American territory has been broken up,” Le Monde wrote. It called the case the biggest Israeli spy case in the United States to be made public since 1986, a reference to the life sentence given Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew who passed U.S. military secrets to Israel. Advertisement The Pollard affair strained relations between the United States and Israel, two traditionally close allies. Guillaume Dasquie, editor of Intelligence Online, said Monday’s report did not specify exactly what information the alleged agents were seeking. “The report shows the clandestine network was engaged in several intelligence operations. It was a long-term project, not a one-off coup,” he said. Le Monde published what it said were excerpts from the introduction of the June 2001 report, including a comment that the women in the spy ring were “usually very attractive.” LINK TO AL-QAIDA? Le Monde said more than one third of the suspected Israeli spies had lived in Florida, where at least 10 of the 19 Arabs involved in the Sept. 11 airplane attacks on New York’s World Trade Center also lived. At least five of them resided in Hollywood, Fla., where alleged hijack mastermind Mohammad Atta and four accomplices in the World Trade Center attacks also lived. The United States holds Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. Two Israelis lived in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., near Delray Beach, where hijackers in the planes that crashed into the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania resided temporarily, it added. “This concordance could be the source of the American view that one of the missions of the Israeli ‘students’ could have been to track al-Qaida terrorists on (U.S.) territory without informing federal authorities,” Le Monde wrote. Le Monde said Fox News television reported in December that Israeli agents were sent to the United States before Sept. 11 to warn Washington about a threat, but the agents did not have enough useful information for U.S. officials to act on. • A look at the 22 suspects Le Monde, which said it had seen a copy of the secret report, said it also had learned that six suspected spies had used portable telephones bought by a former Israeli vice-consul in the United States. Le Monde said several suspected spies had frequently entered and left the United States after only short stays. TECH CONNECTIONS Intelligence Online said the DEA also had confirmed the existence of the report drawn up for the Justice Department by the DEA, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Air Force. Intelligence Online said the suspects, all between 22 and 30, had recently finished their Israeli military service and one was related to a two-star Israeli general. It named several of the Israelis it said had been arrested. The inquiry began in February 2001 and is still continuing, the newsletter quoted the report as saying. “The network targeted some of the most sensitive sites in the United States,” the twice-monthly newsletter said, citing an Air Force base near Oklahoma City and unnamed federal offices buildings where the Israelis tried to sell artwork. Intelligence Online said the suspected agents also had cultivated contacts with Israeli information technology companies based in the United States and serving as regular suppliers to various U.S. federal agencies. © 2002 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4. No Minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/BgmYkB/VovDAA/ySSFAA/TySplB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> =============================================================== SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html =============================================================== *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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