A TIME TO CONFRONT OUR ENEMIES AT HOME --- Jonathan Pollard is an American of Jewish descent, born in Galveston Texas, who established a career as an intelligence analyst for the US Navy. There have been many theories offered as to why Pollard decided to betray his country of birth to the Jewish state, but that Pollard did betray his country of birth to Israel is beyond all doubt. Pollard’s defense was that he did not spy so much against the United States, only that he spied for Israel, sending them documents that in his opinion the US should have shared with Israel anyway.
That it was never Pollards job to decide what documents Israel should have was apparently irrelevant. Pollard arrogated that authority to himself. >From his position of trust within the US Navy, Pollard delivered over 1000 classified documents to Israel for which he was well paid. Included in those documents were the names of over 150 US agents in the Mideast, who were eventually “turned” into agents for Israel. But by far the most egregious damage done by Pollard was to steal classified documents relating to the US Nuclear Deterrent relative to the USSR and send them to Israel. According to sources in the US State Department, Israel then turned around and traded those stolen nuclear secrets to the USSR in exchange for increased emigration quotas from the USSR to Israel. Other information that found its way from the US to Israel to the USSR resulted in the loss of American agents operating inside the USSR. Casper Weinberger, in his affidavit opposing a reduced sentence for Pollard, described the damage done to the United States thus, "[It is] difficult to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by... Pollard's treasonous behavior." This should end the suggestion that Israel’s spies are harmless. They are not. The United States’ nuclear deterrent cost an estimated five trillion taxpayer dollars during the 50s and 60s to build and maintain, and less than $100,000 for Pollard to undermine. Israel waited 13 years to admit Pollard had been spying for them, and now lobbies for his release, having granted him Israeli citizenship. Pollard is hardly the only Israeli spy operating in the United States. He just had the misfortune to get caught. Here are just a few examples of the Israeli spy operations that have been detected. 1947. Information collected by the ADL in its spy operations on US citizens is used by the House Select Committee on Unamerican Activities. Subcommittee Chair Clare Hoffman dismisses the ADL’s reports on suspected communists as “hearsay." 1950 John Davitt, former chief of the Justice Department's internal security section notes that the Israeli intelligence service is the second most active in the United States after the Soviets. 1954 A hidden microphone planted by the Israelis is discovered in the Office of the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv. 1956 Telephone taps are found connected to two telephones in the residence of the US military attach� in Tel Aviv. 1954 "The Lavon Affair". Israeli agents recruit Egyptian citizens of Jewish descent to bomb Western targets in Egypt, and plant evidence to frame Arabs, in an apparent attempt to upset US-Egyptian relations. Israeli defense minister Pinchas Lavon is eventually removed from office, though many think real responsibility lay with David Ben-Gurion. 1965 Israel apparently illegally obtains enriched uranium from NUMEC Corporation. (Washington Post, 6/5/86, Charles R. Babcock, "US an Intelligence Target of the Israelis, Officials Say.") 1967 Israel attacks the USS Liberty, an intelligence gathering vessel flying a US flag, killing 34 crew members. See "Assault on the Liberty," by James M. Ennes, Jr. (Random House). In 2004, Captain Ward Boston, Senior Legal Counsel for the Navy’s Court of Inquiry into the attack swears under oath that President Lyndon Johnson ordered the investigation to conclude accident, even though the evidence indicates the attack was deliberate. Given the use by Israel of unmarked boats and planes, and the machine-gunning of USS Liberty’s lifeboats, the most likely explanation is that USS Liberty was to be sunk with all hands, with evidence left to frame Egypt for the sinking. This would have dragged the US into the war on Israel’s side. 1970 While working for Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Richard Perle is caught by the FBI giving classified information to Israel. Nothing is done. 1978, Stephen Bryen, then a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer, is overheard in a DC hotel offering confidential documents to top Israeli military officials. Bryen obtains a lawyer, Nathan Lewin, and the case heads for the grand jury, but is mysteriously dropped. Bryen later goes to work for Richard Perle. 1979 Shin Beth [the Israeli internal security agency] tries to penetrate the US Consulate General in Jerusalem through a “Honey Trap”, using a clerical employee who was having an affair with a Jerusalem girl. 1985 The New York Times reports the FBI is aware of at least a dozen incidents in which American officials transferred classified information to the Israelis, quoting [former Assistant Director of the F.B.I.] Mr. [Raymond] Wannal. The Justice Department does not prosecute. 1985 Richard Smyth, the owner of MILCO, is indicted on charges of smuggling nuclear timing devices to Israel (Washington Post, 10/31/86). 1987 April 24 Wall Street Journal headline: "Role of Israel in Iran-Contra Scandal Won't be Explored in Detail by Panels" 1992 The Wall Street Journal reports that Israeli agents apparently tried to steal Recon Optical Inc's top-secret airborne spy-camera system. 1992 Stephen Bryen, caught offering confidential documents to Israel in 1978, is serving on board of the pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs while continuing as a paid consultant -- with security clearance -- on exports of sensitive US technology. 1992 "The Samson Option," by Seymour M. Hersh reports, “Illicitly obtained intelligence was flying so voluminously from LAKAM into Israeli intelligence that a special code name, JUMBO, was added to the security markings already on the documents. There were strict orders, Ari Ben-Menashe recalled: "Anything marked JUMBO was not supposed to be discussed with your American counterparts." 1993. The ADL is caught operating a massive spying operation on critics of Israel, Arab-Americans, the San Francisco Labor Council, ILWU Local 10, Oakland Educational Association, NAACP, Irish Northern Aid, International Indian Treaty Council, the Asian Law Caucus and the San Francisco police. Data collected was sent to Israel and in some cases to South Africa. Pressure from Jewish organizations forces the city to drop the criminal case, but the ADL settles a civil lawsuit for an undisclosed sum of cash. 1995 The Defense Investigative Service circulates a memo warning US military contractors that "Israel aggressively collects [US] military and industrial technology." The report stated that Israel obtains information using "ethnic targeting, financial aggrandizement, and identification and exploitation of individual frailties" of US citizens. 1996 A General Accounting Office report "Defense Industrial Security: Weaknesses in US Security Arrangements With Foreign-Owned Defense Contractors" found that according to intelligence sources "Country A" (identified by intelligence sources as Israel, Washington Times, 2/22/96) "conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any US ally." The Jerusalem Post (8/30/96) quoted the report, "Classified military information and sensitive military technologies are high-priority targets for the intelligence agencies of this country." The report described "An espionage operation run by the intelligence organization responsible for collecting scientific and technologic information for [Israel] paid a US government employee to obtain US classified military intelligence documents." The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Shawn L. Twing, April 1996) noted that this was "a reference to the 1985 arrest of Jonathan Pollard, a civilian US naval intelligence analyst who provided Israel's LAKAM [Office of Special Tasks] espionage agency an estimated 800,000 pages of classified US intelligence information." The GAO report also noted that "Several citizens of [Israel] were caught in the United States stealing sensitive technology used in manufacturing artillery gun tubes." 1996 An Office of Naval Intelligence document, "Worldwide Challenges to Naval Strike Warfare" reported that "US technology has been acquired [by China] through Israel in the form of the Lavi fighter and possibly SAM [surface-to-air] missile technology." Jane's Defense Weekly (2/28/96) noted that "until now, the intelligence community has not openly confirmed the transfer of US technology [via Israel] to China." The report noted that this "represents a dramatic step forward for Chinese military aviation." (Flight International, 3/13/96) 1997 An Army mechanical engineer, David A. Tenenbaum, "inadvertently" gives classified military information on missile systems and armored vehicles to Israeli officials (New York Times, 2/20/97). 1997 The Washington Post reports US intelligence has intercepted a conversation in which two Israeli officials had discussed the possibility of getting a confidential letter that then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher had written to Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. One of the Israelis, identified only as “Dov”, had commented that they may get the letter from "Mega”, the code name for Israel’s top agent inside the United States. 1997 US ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, complains privately to the Israeli government about heavy-handed surveillance by Israeli intelligence agents. 1997 Israeli agents place a tap on Monica Lewinsky’s phone at the Watergate and record phone sex sessions between her and President Bill Clinton. The Ken Starr report confirms that Clinton warned Lewinsky their conversations were being taped and ended the affair. At the same time, the FBI’s hunt for “Mega” is called off. 2001 It is discovered that US drug agents’ communications have been penetrated. Suspicion falls on two companies, AMDOCS and Comverse Infosys, both owned by Israelis. AMDOCS generates billing data for most US phone companies and is able to provide detailed logs of who is talking to whom. Comverse Infosys builds the tapping equipment used by law enforcement to eavesdrop on all American telephone calls, but suspicion forms that Comverse, which gets half of its research and development budget from the Israeli government, has built a back door into the system that is being exploited by Israeli intelligence and that the information gleaned on US drug interdiction efforts is finding its way to drug smugglers. The investigation by the FBI leads to the exposure of the largest foreign spy ring ever uncovered inside the United States, operated by Israel. Half of the suspected spies have been arrested when 9-11 happens. On 9-11, 5 Israelis are arrested for dancing and cheering while the World Trade Towers collapse. Supposedly employed by Urban Moving Systems, the Israelis are caught with multiple passports and a lot of cash. Two of them are later revealed to be Mossad. As witness reports track the activity of the Israelis, it emerges that they were seen at Liberty Park at the time of the first impact, suggesting a foreknowledge of what was to come. The Israelis are interrogated, and then eventually sent back to Israel. The owner of the moving company used as a cover by the Mossad agents abandons his business and flees to Israel. The United States Government then classifies all of the evidence related to the Israeli agents and their connections to 9-11. All of this is reported to the public via a four part story on Fox News by Carl Cameron. Pressure from Jewish groups, primarily AIPAC, forces Fox News to remove the story from their website. Two hours prior to the 9-11 attacks, Odigo, an Israeli company with offices just a few blocks from the World Trade Towers, receives an advance warning via the internet. The manager of the New York Office provides the FBI with the IP address of the sender of the message, but the FBI does not follow up. 2001 The FBI is investigating 5 Israeli moving companies as possible fronts for Israeli intelligence. 2001 JDL’s Irv Rubin arrested for planning to bomb a US Congressman. He dies before he can be brought to trial. 2002 The DEA issues a report that Israeli spies, posing as art students, have been trying to penetrate US Government offices. 2002 police near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in southern Washington State stop a suspicious truck and detain two Israelis, one of whom is illegally in the United States. The two men were driving at high speed in a Ryder rental truck, which they claimed had been used to "deliver furniture." The next day, police discovered traces of TNT and RDX military-grade plastic explosives inside the passenger cabin and on the steering wheel of the vehicle. The FBI then announces that the tests that showed explosives were “false positived” by cigarette smoke, a claim test experts say is ridiculous. Based on an alibi provided by a woman, the case is closed and the Israelis are handed over to INS to be sent back to Israel. One week later, the woman who provided the alibi vanishes. 2003 The Police Chief of Cloudcroft stops a truck speeding through a school zone. The drivers turn out to be Israelis with expired passports. Claiming to be movers, the truck contains junk furniture and several boxes. The Israelis are handed over to immigration. The contents of the boxers are not revealed to the public. 2003 Israel deploys assassination squads into other countries, including the United States. The US Government does not protest. 2004 Police near the Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Tennessee stop a truck after a three mile chase, during which the driver throws a bottle containing a strange liquid from the cab. The drivers turn out to be Israelis using fake Ids. The FBI refuses to investigate and the Israelis are released. 2004 Two Israelis try to enter Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, home to eight Trident submarines. The truck tests positive for explosives. This brings us to the present scandal. Two years into an investigation of AIPAC’s possible role as a spy front for Israel, Larry Franklin, a mid-level Pentagon Analyst is observed by the FBI giving classified information to two officials of AIPAC suspected of being Israeli spies. AIPAC hires lawyer Nathan Lewin to handle their legal defense, the same lawyer who defended suspected Israeli spy Stephen Bryen in 1978. Larry Franklin worked in the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, run by Richard Perle, at the time Perle (who was caught giving classified information to Israel back in 1970) was insisting that Iraq was crawling with weapons of mass destruction requiring the United States to invade and conquer Iraq. There were no WMDs, of course, and Perle has dumped the blame for the “bad intelligence” on George Tenet. But what is known is that the Pentagon Office of Special Plans was coordinating with a similar group in Israel, in Ariel Sharon’s office. With two suspected Israeli spies (at least) inside the office from which the lies that launched the war in Iraq originated, it appears that the people of the United States are the victims of a deadly hoax, a hoax that started a war. The leaking of the investigation of AIPAC to the media on August 28th, 2004 gave advance warning to other spies working with Franklin. The damage to the FBI’s investigation was completed when United States Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered the FBI to stop all arrests in the case. Like the Stephen Bryen case and the hunt for “Mega”, this latest spy scandal seems destined to be buried by officials who have their own secret allegiances to protect, barring a massive public outcry. The organization at the heart of the latest spy investigation, AIPAC, wields tremendous influence over the US Congress. Through its members and affiliated PACs, AIPAC directs a huge flow of campaign cash in favor of, and occasionally against, Senators and Representatives solely on the basis of their willingness to support Israel. As an example, in 2002, U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham received so much help from pro-Israeli pacs that 76% of his campaign budget came from OUTSIDE the state of Alabama, mostly from New York. Let me repeat that. A Congressman AIPAC wanted elected received more money from pro-Israel groups outside his state than from his own constituents inside his state. Who is that Congressman going to be thinking of when he votes in Congress? Read more: whatreallyhappened.com <http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/motherofallscandals.php#ixzz3gdldbb00> http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/motherofallscandals.php#ixzz3gdldbb00 --- Israeli Spies in the US by Jeff McConnell <http://www.merip.org/author/jeff-mcconnell> published in MER138 <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138> November 21, 1985, was a remarkable day. FBI agents arrested a civilian terrorism analyst working for the US Navy, Jonathan Jay Pollard, outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, where he had gone seeking political asylum. Six days later, Pollard was arraigned in federal district court on several counts of espionage against the United States as a paid agent for the government of Israel. The Pollard affair took Washington and Tel Aviv by surprise. Wolf Blitzer, Washington correspondent for the*Jerusalem Post*, in a book published just several weeks before Pollard’s arrest, wrote that there is no real fear in the US government that American Jews are leaking information to the Mossad, the Israeli equivalent of the CIA. “Experienced US intelligence officials readily acknowledge that the degree of cooperation between the CIA and the Mossad is already so close that the two organizations do not really have to spy on each other. Despite infractions on both sides,” Blitzer explained, “US and Israeli intelligence organizations have maintained a discreet arrangement since the 1950s, banning covert operations against each other.” [1] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_1_> Another reading of this record, though, shows that Pollard’s activities fit a pattern of Israeli espionage efforts. As John Davitt, a 30-year veteran of the Justice Department who resigned in 1980, told the *New York Times*: “When the Pollard case broke, the general media and public perception was that this was the first time this had ever happened. No, that’s not true at all. The Israeli intelligence service, when I was in the Justice Department, was the second most active in the United States, to the Soviets.” [2] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_2_> In 1978, two Congressional committees studied Washington’s posture toward the activities of “friendly” intelligence services in the United States. Both found that the FBI did not aggressively search out illegal activities, as it did in the case of “hostile” intelligence services, but only reacted to specific complaints; that information developed by the FBI rarely reached Justice Department prosecutors; and that both the CIA and the State Department discouraged penalties against “friendly” services or their agents, in part out of concern for American personnel abroad. [3] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_3_> What accounts for the willingness of the US government to prosecute and to make a public issue of Israel’s espionage activities? Probably it represents a combination of two factors: One is the Reagan administration’s campaign to whip up public support for measures against “security risks”; the other is the differences within the US national security establishment, especially the military services, over Israel’s role in US Middle East policy. Pollard is only the second American citizen ever to be formally accused of passing classified information to the Israeli government. Prior to Israel’s creation in 1948, a Zionist underground existed in the US for the purpose of smuggling war materials to Palestine, in violation of the Truman administration’s embargo on such shipments. Although FBI investigations resulted in several convictions, all but one of those convicted escaped going to prison. [4] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_4_> It was out of this underground that the Israeli intelligence network in the United States originated. Operations were supervised by a four-member board, consisting of an American citizen, two Israeli diplomats and an Israeli troubleshooter who traveled frequently between the two countries. The FBI reportedly learned of at least 12 incidents in which American citizens passed classified information to the Israelis, but there were no prosecutions. [5] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_5_> Besides those probed by the FBI, there were certainly others, including high government officials, who were also helpful to the new Jewish state. On October 29, 1948, Secretary of State George Marshall telegrammed Washington from a United Nations meeting in Paris to complain that the Israelis knew what President Truman’s instructions had been on a key vote “almost as soon as [the Americans] had received the relevant telegram.” Israeli delegate Abba Eban attributed his delegation’s information to an “unimpeachable source.” These sources apparently never came to the FBI’s attention. [6] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_6_> The Herzog Affair As far as we can determine, it was not until 1954 that the US government made any effort to punish an American citizen for passing classified information to Israel, apparently as the result of a broader FBI investigation into espionage activities of the Israeli embassy in Washington. At least one aspect of this investigation involved Chaim Herzog, now president of Israel. Herzog was head of Israel’s military intelligence service before coming to Washington in 1950 as its defense attache. In October or November of 1953, he allegedly sought information on the Jordanian military from a soldier stationed at the Jordanian embassy. Herzog recently acknowledged meeting with a Jordanian officer who offered information about his country, but he denied recruiting him as an agent. According to a 1954 sworn affidavit by Wilbur Crane Eveland, an Army intelligence officer assigned to the case, Herzog told the State Department desk officer for Israel and Jordan that he “turned the matter over” to an Israeli “security officer.” Israeli sources recently expressed the belief that this “security officer” recruited the soldier. The State Department desk officer was Fred Waller. The FBI took note of Waller when he began making inquiries, apparently regarded as improper, into what the US government knew of Herzog’s activities. According to the 1954 affidavit, the FBI specifically requested that Waller be excluded from receiving information on the Bureau’s investigation into Herzog’s activities. The affidavit goes on to allege that, despite this, Waller learned of the probe and started to draft “an answer to a White House suggestion, based on an FBI report, to the effect that Colonel Herzog be declared persona non grata by the Department of State.” Later, there were allegations of other Israeli recruiting and other indiscretions on Waller’s part. An FBI memo of January 1954 notes an account by Eveland of a discussion at Waller’s home between Waller and Esther Herlitz, first secretary of the Israeli Embassy: *Of important interest...to the Bureau was a conversation between Waller and Esther Herlitz in which, according to Eveland, Waller mentioned that during his tour as American consul in Haifa he came to know that at least two of his employees were on the Israeli payroll. He then referred to Mr. [Omar] Dajany (an official in the Jordanian Legation [to Washington]) and laughingly professed to know that he was in the pay of the Israeli Government. Miss Herlitz acknowledged that Dajany had been a paid agent of the Israeli Government prior to his assignment to the US and for at least a year thereafter. Waller then began to discuss the matter of Colonel Herzog’s attempt to obtain information from an Arab Legion soldier stationed in Washington. Miss Herlitz appeared to be completely familiar with the subject.* [7] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_7_> Although Eveland mentioned that Washington was considering declaring him persona non grata, Herzog did not leave Washington until September 1954, apparently after his normal tour of duty had ended and with a letter of appreciation from John Foster Dulles. [8] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_8_> At about this same time, Fred Waller appeared before a State Department board of review for various “indiscretions” and was marked for dismissal. He successfully appealed the charges against him, however, and resigned. [9] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_9_> Don Bergus, Waller’s successor at the Israel-Jordan desk, attributes the FBI investigation and the actions against Waller to Sen. Joe McCarthy’s hysterical campaign over government security. [10] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_10_> Another ingredient may have been tensions with Israel over Dulles’ suspension of American economic aid in September 1953 (due to Israel’s failure to comply with requests by United Nations truce observers), and over the State Department’s October 18 condemnation of the Israeli massacre of 53 civilians in the Jordanian village of Qibya. This occurred less than two weeks before the investigation involving Herzog and Waller began. There was an apparent escalation of espionage by the two countries against each other during this period. In the Lavon affair, [11] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_11_> Israeli agents tried to poison US-Egyptian relations by bombing American buildings in Cairo and Alexandria. US officials discovered a microphone and two taps in the embassy in Tel Aviv between 1954 and 1956. And Shinbet (Israel’s internal security service) tried to blackmail and recruit a clerical employee of the US consulate in Jerusalem. [12] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_12_> Blitzer reports similar US intelligence activities against Israel. [13] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_13_> Intelligence Pact It seems that, as Blitzer contends, Washington and Tel Aviv made a deliberate effort in the mid-1950s to put an end to these covert operations against one another. Most observers assign responsibility for this to top CIA official James Angleton. Since the early 1950s (how early is a matter of dispute), Angleton had exercised formal authority over CIA liaison with Israel, stemming from his wartime contacts with Jewish intelligence agents while stationed in Italy, a major transit point for refugees traveling to Palestine. In contrast to the usual geographical organization of CIA operations, the Israel desk had been placed under Angleton’s counterintelligence staff rather than under the Middle East section. Angleton reportedly saw the pipeline of Soviet Jewish emigrants to Israel as a source of potential KGB infiltration of the Middle East, but also of valuable contacts inside the Soviet Union. Israel agreed to make its emigrants and contacts available to the CIA. [14] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_14_> According to several accounts, through these contacts Angleton was able to obtain Khruschev’s famous 1956 speech to the Soviet Communist Party Congress denouncing Stalin. [15] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_15_> The CIA, for its part, provided Israel with about $70 million between 1956 and 1976 to buy influence among black African nations. [16] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_16_> By one account, the CIA also agreed to swap information on Arab countries, excluding only material that fell into the highest security categories. [17] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_17_> It appears that this was part of the agreement by Israel and the US to cut back on spy operations against each other. [18] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_18_> This apparent agreement may have simply made it easier for the Israelis to get what they had always wanted -- now with the help, instead of the hindrance, of the American intelligence community. Sharing information on Arab countries may have been one example of this. Another may have been assistance in getting nuclear weapons for Israel. According to Seymour Hersh, “sources close to” Angleton told former*New York Times* reporter Tad Szulc that the CIA helped the Israelis obtain technical nuclear information in the late 1950s. “This fits in with something I had been told by a high-level CIA official,” Seymour Hersh added in 1978, “that Angleton, then in charge of CIA liaison with Israeli intelligence, gave the Israelis similar technical information in the mid-1960s.” [19] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_19_> During this period, enriched uranium was vanishing from an American atomic energy company with close ties to the Israeli government. [20] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_20_> In 1957, the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) was set up in Apollo, Pennsylvania, to process and reprocess nuclear fuel, among other things. In the mid-1960s, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) discovered that NUMEC could not account for all the enriched uranium that was supposed to be in its possession. NUMEC’s records were said to be very sloppy. The AEC had issued warnings about loose security practices that allowed foreign visitors possible unauthorized access to highly classified material. Once, NUMEC was warned that its practices could violate espionage laws. Especially suspect was the company’s relationship with Israel. Early on, NUMEC had signed a consulting and procurement agreement with Israel. In 1965, it established a subsidiary in Israel of which the Israeli government was half-owner. At least one FBI source believed that packages from the US to the Israeli subsidiary, supposedly containing material for agricultural research, were capable of holding the missing uranium. The FBI put NUMEC’s president, Zalman Shapiro, under surveillance and wiretapped his phone, only to discover that Shapiro used an encoded phone device to communicate directly to the Israeli consulate in New York. There were never any indictments. For quite a while, the AEC actually continued business as usual, awarding NUMEC a large government contract for reprocessing plutonium about a year after the first major AEC investigation into the missing uranium had begun. After the National Security Council reviewed the NUMEC matter in May 1969, the case was dropped, although Shapiro was stripped of his security clearance. One White House aide who reviewed the CIA and FBI evidence against NUMEC in 1970 told Seymour Hersh that it was “very circumstantial,” but the aide also gave another reason for discontinuing the investigation: “You don't mess with the Israelis.” [21] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_21_> Targeting Arab-Americans A similar pattern of information sharing probably made it easier for the Israelis to obtain information about Palestinians living in the United States. Between 1968 and 1974, the CIA and the FBI carried out Operation CHAOS, a spy operation against political activists living in the US. CHAOS was coordinated through Angleton’s counterintelligence staff. Washington frequently exchanged data on targeted individuals with “friendly” intelligence services. It also requested clandestine operations against them. One such target was Abdeen Jabara, a Detroit lawyer and Arab-American activist. In November 1971, after receiving information about him from the CIA, the FBI requested the National Security Agency to monitor his international communications. Jabara, during a subsequent lawsuit against the US government, learned that the FBI had directly supplied confidential, non-criminal information about him to three foreign governments. The FBI promised, as part of a recent settlement of the case, to attempt to retrieve that information. Washington denied that the FBI exchanged information about Jabara with Israel, but Jabara and others suspect that there were information exchanges, if not through the FBI then at least through the CIA. In 1978, the FBI briefed the Senate Judiciary Committee in executive session on the case of Sami Esmail, a US citizen then attending Michigan State University and Jabara’s client. Esmail had been arrested and imprisoned shortly after arriving in Israel to visit his dying father. He was eventually charged with, and convicted of, membership in a Palestinian organization outlawed in Israel. Based on his own experience, Jabara suspected that, even though Esmail had done nothing illegal in the US, the FBI had transmitted information about Esmail to Mossad. Jabara contacted Sen. James Abourezk, who arranged a closed hearing. There, Abourezk recalls, Justice Department officials confirmed Jabara’s suspicions. The FBI, says Abourezk, “had information that [Esmail] was on his way” to Israel and “gave it to the Israelis.” Abourezk emphasized that the FBI volunteered the information; Mossad did not even need to ask for it. A similar pattern of cooperation between US and Israeli intelligence agencies exists in the area of military procurement. “Israelis were caught in the Pentagon with unauthorized documents,” one US official told former Congressman Paul Findley, “sometimes scooping up the contents of ‘inboxes’ on desk tops.” This official recalled that a number of Israelis were very quietly asked to leave the US as a result of such activities; no formal charges were ever filed against them. Several US officials told Findley that the Israelis would submit orders for military items they were not supposed to have or even to know about -- using top-secret code numbers and sometimes precise specifications. Presumably they obtained the information from friendly executive branch contacts, but no official efforts were undertaken to discover the sources of the leaks. [22] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_22_> Two such leaks seem to have come from former Congressional aides now holding high-level Pentagon positions. Richard Perle, assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, was overheard on an FBI wiretap of the Israeli embassy in Washington in 1970 discussing classified information supplied to him by someone on the National Security Council. [23] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_23_> At the time Perle was a foreign policy aide to Sen. Henry Jackson. No action was taken against Perle. Perle brought in his close friend Stephen Bryen as his Pentagon deputy. In March 1978, Bryen, then an aide to Sen. Clifford Case, was allegedly overheard offering Israeli officials a classified document on Saudi air bases. After a lengthy investigation, John Davitt, then chief of the Justice Department’s Internal Security Section, urged in January 1979 that the case be brought before an investigative grand jury. “Some of the unresolved questions thus far,” he wrote Philip Heymann, his immediate superior, “suggest that Bryen is (a) gathering classified information for the Israelis, (b) acting as their unregistered agent, and (c) lying about it.” But the case was never taken before a grand jury. In 1981, Bryen was able to get a high security clearance despite the material in his file. [24] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_24_> Davitt recently told the *New York Times* that he found it “difficult to understand how anyone reading [Bryen’s] file could conclude, ‘Well, this matter was investigated and he was given a clean bill of health and all the allegations were resolved in his favor.’” [25] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_25_> The Krytron Caper Pollard was not the only American arrested in 1985 for breaches of security involving Israel. In May, Richard Kelly Smyth, a NATO consultant with a high-level security clearance, was indicted for illegally shipping krytrons to Israel -- devices which can, among other uses, trigger nuclear weapons. Smyth’s company, Milco Incorporated of Huntington Beach, California, acted as the American agent for the deal on behalf of Heli Corporation, an Israeli trading company owned by Arnon Milchan, an international businessman and the producer of such movies as Martin Scorcese’s *The King of Comedy*. US officials went out of their way to take the focus off Israel. They emphasized that the indictment against Smyth resulted from a Customs Service investigation designed to block the illegal flow of military and high-tech goods out of the US. The State Department stressed that the charges did not implicate any Israelis; the Israelis denied any intention to use the krytrons to trigger nuclear weapons. [26] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_26_> The State Department asserted that Israel had been very cooperative in the investigation, but this public stance was in contrast to a *New York Times* report that the Israelis had initially provided an unsatisfactory account of their acquisition of the krytrons. The *Times* also reported a deliberate effort to keep the case out of the public eye. [27] <http://www.merip.org/mer/mer138/israeli-spies-us#_27_> Smyth disappeared before he was scheduled to stand trial in August. FBI officials have reportedly been searching for him since then but have declined to comment on what success they have had. This pattern of Israeli espionage in the United States, and the generally nonchalant stance of the US government is not completely unique. South Korea and Taiwan enjoyed similar “privileges” in the past. What makes the Pollard case unique is Pollard’s arrest and the intense publicity which surrounded it. But already the old patterns are returning. It appears that the US will try to get a guilty plea from Pollard in exchange for a promise to avoid further public questions about Pollard’s past Israeli connections and about other Israeli intelligence operations in the US. Pollard bragged years ago at Stanford about how Mossad prepared him to infiltrate the US government. Both Israel and the US would be embarrassed for the story behind his bragging to come out in court. And the network of offices of LEKEM, the scientific intelligence unit that ran Pollard, indicates that the Pollard case was likely not an isolated one. LEKEM was headed, after all, by Rafi Eitan, the Israeli master spy. A promise of silence about the operations of LEKEM and other units of Israeli intelligence may have been the price for Israeli cooperation in the Pollard affair. Endnotes [1] Wolf Blitzer, *Between Washington and Jerusalem* (New York, 1985), pp. 95-96. [2] *New York Times*, December 22, 1985. [3] Senate Intelligence Committee, Activities of “Friendly” Intelligence Services in the United States: A Case Study, June 22, 1978; Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Activities of Certain Foreign Intelligence Services in the United States, unpublished typescript, pp. 69-97. [4] Leonard Slater, *The Pledge* (New York, 1970), pp. 319-320. [5] *New York Times*, December 22, 1985. [6] Wilbur Eveland, *Middle East International*, January 10, 1986. [7] FBI memo, V. P. Keay to A. H. Belmont, January 13, 1954. [8] Letter, John Foster Dulles to Abba Eban, September 14, 1954. (National Archives 601.84A.il/9-1454.) [9] The Herzog-Waller story is discussed by Richard Higgins and Jeff McConnell in the *Boston Globe*, December 15, 1985. [10] Paul Findley, *They Dare to Speak Out* (Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill, 1985), p. 147. [11] Aviezer Golan, *Operation Susannah* (New York, 1978), p. 57. [12] CIA, “Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services,” reprinted in *CounterSpy*, May-June 1982, p. 47. [13] Blitzer, p. 96. [14] David Martin, *Wilderness of Mirrors* (New York, 1980), p. 20. [15] Thomas Powers, *The Man Who Kept the Secrets* (New York, 1981), pp. 100, 413-414. [16] Findley, p. 153. [17] Stewart Steven, *The Spymasters of Israel* (New York, 1980), pp. 97-98. [18] Ibid., p. 98; Findley, p. 148.< br /> [19] Seymour M. Hersh, “The Angleton Story,” *New York Times Magazine*, June 25, 1978. [20] On NUMEC, see Stephen Green, *Taking Sides* (London, 1984), chapter 7. [21] Seymour M. Hersh, *The Price of Power* (New York, 1983), p. 85. [22] Findley, pp. 141-143. [23] Hersh, *The Price of Power*, p. 322. [24] Michael Saba, *The Armageddon Network* (Brattleboro, VT, 1984). [25] *New York Times*, December 22, 1985. [26] *Los Angeles Times*, May 29, 1985; May 17, 1985. [27] *New York Times*, May 16, 1985. On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 7:34:22 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259518/time-confront-our-enemies-home-david-horowitz > > > > *A Time To Confront Our Enemies At Home* > > "This is not the first attack, and won't be the last." > > July 20, 2015 > > *David Horowitz* <http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/david-horowitz>, *Daniel > Greenfield* <http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/daniel-greenfield> > > > > The killing of five unarmed military servicemen at two military recruiting > centers is an omen and a warning: The “war on terror” has come home. > > Thanks to Obama’s retreat from Iraq and the Middle East, the *jihad* > waged by Islamic terrorists is now being fought on American soil, instead > of on a battlefront in Fallujah and Anbar. Thanks to the borders Obama has > destroyed and the tens of thousands of legal immigrants the White House has > decided to import from terrorist regions, the enemy is among us. Thanks to > Obama’s denial that we are at war at all, the Islamic *jihad* is now > being waged in Chattanooga and Fort Hood, the fly over country that > liberals and progressives have always despised. > > This is not the first time that a military recruiting office in the South > was attacked by a Muslim terrorist. In 2009 – Obama’s first year in office > - Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad opened fire on a military recruiting office > in Little Rock, Arkansas, under orders from Al Qaeda in Yemen, and killed > Private William Long. > > It was the shot that should have been heard around the country but wasn’t, > because America’s Commander-in-Chief told us that Muhammad was a lone > crazed assassin, not a vanguard Islamic soldier. According to Obama, there > was no war with Islamic fanatics. The fanatic himself rejected the lie. > "This is not the first attack, and won't be the last," Muhammad warned. > “I'm just one Muhammad. There are millions of Muhammads out there. And I > hope and pray the next one will be more deadlier than Muhammad Atta!” > > The next one—the attack this time-- was certainly deadlier than his. > Mohammad Youssduf Adulazeer’s attack in Chattanooga copied Muhammad’s > tactic of opening fire from a car on a recruiting center before driving on > to the next target. In 2009 Abdulhakim Muhammad was not charged with > terrorism. The Commander-in-Chief called him “a lone gunman” and a pliant > media dutifully dismissed his military mission as a product of personal > depression and mental instability rather than an act of service to Allah’s > war. > > Barack Obama’s first year in office was also the year of the Fort Hood > massacre, when a self-declared Islamist warrior, shouting “Allahu Ahkbar,” > gunned down 13 American soldiers - also unarmed by order of their > government. The Obama administration officially labeled his act of war > “workplace violence” and refused to identify the enemy or take steps to > defend his targets. > > Four unarmed Marines and an unarmed sailor died this week because of the > refusal of our Commander-in-Chief to learn from the 2009 attacks or prepare > for the next. Instead he covered it up with psychobabble, and continued to > deny our servicemen the weapons that could have saved their lives. Obama’s > strategy in this war to destroy us, target by target, is to lull Americans > into believing that there is no war, that Islamic terrorists are “not > Islamic,” and that “the future must not belong to those who slander the > Prophet of Islam.” The result of Obama’s denial is that the war has come > home and we are fighting blind in our own country with our hands tied > behind our backs. > > Every Muslim attack in the last decades has been made possible because the > apologists for terrorism among us have done everything they could to deny > the plain and obvious, to tie the hands of our first responders, and to > make the tasks of our would be destroyers that much easier. While the > Muhammads and Mohammads kill Americans in a holy war for Allah, the liberal > apologists for Islamic fanatics wage a holy war against their critics. They > have been doing this since 9/11, beginning with President Bush. For eight > years the Bush administration kept our Islamic enemies on the run in > Afghanistan and Iraq but thanks to the appeasement of Obama and the > Democrats, they have finally succeeded in shifting the terror front from > Tikrit to Tennessee. > > Our military cannot defend our shores against the Islamic holy war when > their commander-in-chief will not allow it. By withdrawing from Iraq and > tying the military’s hands, Obama has allowed the homeland to become a > target. By abandoning the Iraqis to the mercies of the mullahs, he has > created chaos and a vacuum in the region that stretches from Afghanistan to > the Levant. The results are horrific: hundreds of thousands of Christians > and Muslims slaughtered by ISIS with barely a mention from the Obama White > House, let alone a response; two million Christian and Muslim refugees > driven from their homes by fear of crucifixion and beheading, murder and > rape; ISIS savagery instantiated in an “Islamic State.” Obama’s response? > “The Islamic State is not Islamic.” > > Obama is the leader of America’s fifth column – the domestic abettors of > America’s destroyers. The column itself is the danger we face. Even as the > ashes of 9/11 smoldered, Saudis and Kuwaitis were rushing to buy up > American law firms and PR outfits to defend the killers and transform them > into victims; longstanding anti-American parties like the ACLU got to work > persuading hundreds of American cities to make pledges of non-cooperation > with Homeland Security the Patriot Act; Democrat run “sanctuary” cities > sprang up to provide safe havens for criminal aliens seeking a base in the > American homeland; a coalition of civil rights groups set out to sabotage > America’s defenses, claiming that a totalitarian state was around the > corner if Americans dared to confront terrorism with beefed up security. > With the imprimatur of the White House, the Muslim Brotherhood and its > fronts manufactured a crisis of Islamic “persecution” and worked to expunge > the words “Islamist” and “jihad” from the manuals and pronouncements of the > federal government. Their goal? To handcuff law enforcement’s first > responders as they dealt with the terrorist threat. With the connivance of > the White House they reached the goal. > > So where do we stand? The holy war against Americans – against atheists > and believers, against Christians and Jews - grows more dangerous by the > hour while the president and his followers find every excuse to promote a > nation’s denial and make it more and more difficult to defend itself. > Defense of America is condemned as “Islamophobia” – and this by liberals at > the Center for American Progress and the New America Foundation as well as > by agents of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is actually responsible for > inventing the term. > > The battle flag of our internal attackers is green and red. The green side > of the unholy alliance is the political arm of the Islamic jihad, the > Brotherhood and its offshoots. The red side is the political left > encompassing the spectrum from liberal to progressive (but excluding > patriots like senators Lieberman and Menendez). The apex of this unholy > collaboration is in Washington D.C. where the president finds ever more > innovative ways of promoting Islam as the victim and denying the obvious > threat. He withdraws our military ground forces from frontline battlefields > safely distant from America’s shores. He wags his finger at Christians, > drawing diagrams of moral equivalence between Islamic fanatics and their > infidel victims. He turns his back on allies in Israel and Egypt, while > offering his political support to the Brotherhood in Cairo and the > Islamists in Teheran. The Democrats have become a party of collaborators > and their leader the Petain of a Vichy America that provides a stealth > cover to the enemy’s attempts to destroy us. > > It is time to stop pretending that Obama and his minions really care when > Christians are slaughtered without mercy or Jews are threatened with > extinction. What is being done to stop these genocides? > > When the Commander-in-Chief occasionally drones a terrorist leader this is > not an act of war or reprisal but a feint to draw attention away from the > fact that he is disarming America, degrading our military even as the > threat to our citizenry grows and grows. > > It is time to recognize that Obama does not love America enough to > confront our enemies and defend our shores. > > It is time for the patriots among us to wake up and step forward. It is > time to call the actors by their right names. Islamist are Islamists and > terrorists are terrorists. 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