On this issue, Plain Ol' and I are in lockstep! --- I'm glad to see you say this. to be certain ... I don't want any more harm to come to israelis than I do for pals or iranians. peace is the objective.
This den of thieves, rogues and bandits are damn sure no James Bond, and have absolutely no sympathy from me! Jonathan Pollard (Spying for Israel), Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, Harold Nicholson, Edwin Pitts, and Glenn Shriver (Russia/Soviet Union) and Jeff Carney, (Former East Germany) are all assholes who were motivated for profit rather than national loyalty. In Pollard's case, he's just an asshole. --- he is not just an asshole ... he's an israeli spy that will put the interests of israel ahead of America's ... and there's a shitload of other neocons and zionists in our government who will do the same. The neocons for oil and weapon profits and power and the zionists for israel's security. On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 12:31:44 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: > > On this issue, Plain Ol' and I are in lockstep! > > This den of thieves, rogues and bandits are damn sure no James Bond, and > have absolutely no sympathy from me! > > Jonathan Pollard (Spying for Israel), Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, Harold > Nicholson, Edwin Pitts, and Glenn Shriver (Russia/Soviet Union) and Jeff > Carney, (Former East Germany) are all assholes who were motivated for > profit rather than national loyalty. In Pollard's case, he's just an > asshole. > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:59 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > 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 th > > ... -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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