------ Forwarded Message > From: "dasg...@aol.com" <dasg...@aol.com> > Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 23:25:29 EST > To: Robert Millegan <ramille...@aol.com> > Cc: <ema...@aol.com>, <j...@aol.com>, <jim6...@cwnet.com> > Subject: How 'unwitting' were the 'dual nationals' whose passports were used > by Mossad? >
>> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayanim >> >> Sayanim (plural; singular Sayan; Hebrew >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_(language)> : "helpers," "assistants") >> refers to [non-Israeli] Jews who provide assistance to the Mossad >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad> . >> >> Generally-speaking, these <Zionist> volunteers are asked to engage in >> <technically> legal activities that will not bring them into trouble with >> the authorities. There are exceptions, however -- as for example in the >> case of Jonathan Pollard <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard> , >> the U.S. Naval intelligence employee who engaged in espionage on behalf of >> Israel's intelligence agencies and whose exposure by the FBI >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI> strained relations between the U.S. and >> Israel. >> >> Victor Ostrovsky <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ostrovsky> , a former >> Mossad katsa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsa> turned author, has written >> extensively about the activities of sayanim, as has Gordon Thomas. >> According to Ostrovsky and Thomas, sayanim provide [tactical support >> services] to Mossad officers operating abroad in their countries. This >> support can include facilitating medical care, money, logistics, and even >> overt intelligence gathering. They [are usually chosen from among] Judges, >> Court Clerks, Expert Witnesses, Child Protective Service Workers, Assistant >> District Attorneys, Police Officers, or anyone with sufficient power [to >> intervene] in other people's lives, and [in that role] they [are sworn to] >> do anything for the State of Israel >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Israel> against its enemies or those >> perceived to be unfavorable to Israeli policy. Sayanim are supposedly not >> directly involved in intelligence operations, and are only paid for their >> expenses. >> >> Sayanim must be 100% Jewish. They live abroad and are not Israeli citizens >> <although granted dual citizenship>, but many are reached through their >> relatives in Israel. Katsas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsa> are [the >> case officers] in charge of the sayanim, and most active sayanim will be >> visited by a katsa once every three months or so, which for the katsa means >> two to four face-to-face meetings a day, along with numerous conversations >> by telephone. >> >> The sayanim system allows the Mossad to work with a skeleton crew. That's >> why, for example, a CIA station would employ about 100 people while a >> comparable Mossad station would need only six or seven. The existence of so >> many 'volunteers' allows intelligence to be gathered cheaply. >> >> http://theinfounderground.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5384 >> <http://theinfounderground.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5384> >> >> Hundreds of Thousands of 'Sayanim' in the United States >> >> Israel has one million sayanim worldwide, according to Gordon Thomas who >> wrote "Gideon's Spies, The Secret History of the Mossad" (the Israeli >> intelligence service.) Mr Thomas has also written books on the CIA and MI5 >> and MI6. The word sayanim comes from the Hebrew word "to help." In an >> interview Gordon Thomas said these one million "helpers" were recruited by >> the Mossad primarily to gather information around the world. Mr Thomas said >> they feed information daily to their nearest Israeli consulate. Israel has >> an army of translators who translate information which is then assembled by >> the Mossad. >> >> The Mossad only has 1,500 agents, They could not operate without their >> million sayanim or helpers. >> >> If we assume that one-third of all Jews in the world live in America, we >> could reasonably infer that there are approximately 350,000 sayanim, or >> Mossad agents, in the United States. >> >> In a previous interview published at Jeff Rense's website Gordon Thomas said >> there were 15,000 sayanim in America with military training who were called >> upon by former Mossad Operations Director Rafael (Rafi) Eitan during an >> alert on the anniversary of 9-11 in 2003. Mr Thomas said many of these men >> had police duties and hence powers in either federal or local agencies. I >> would conclude that the 15,000 sayanim in America only refers to armed >> agents with military training. The other 335,000, not part of the domestic >> Zionist paramilitary force, are just SPIES. > ================ > > How 'unwitting' were the British Israelis? > The dual nationals linked to Al Mabhouh's assassination aren't necessarily as > innocent as people think they are ... > > * By Linda S. Heard > * Gulf News, March 2, 2010 > * > http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/how-unwitting-were-the-british-israeli > s-1.590561 > At last, a team of detectives from Britain's Serious Organised Crimes Agency > is in Israel with the intent of interviewing British-Israeli dual nationals > whose passports were cloned by Mahmoud Al Mabhouh's assassins. > Reports in the international media widely assume that the 12 Britons named > unwittingly handed over their British passports to Israeli airport immigration > authorities. The general belief is that the dual-nationals concerned are > innocent victims of those behind the plot to kill the Hamas commander. They > may well be. However, given certain anomalies, I can only trust that their > "interviews" will be more than a softly-softly chat over tea and cucumber > sandwiches. > > Firstly, Philip Carr whose name appears on the second list of six British > dual-nationals issued by Dubai Police has confirmed a point I mentioned in > last week's column; that Israeli citizens must enter and depart Israel on > their Israeli passports. "I don't think I ever presented the passport to > anyone in Israel because I left and came back to Israel on my Israeli passport > in accordance with Israeli law," Carr said. In that case, Carr would have > certainly remembered being asked by Israeli immigration to hand over his > British travel documents. Alternatively, Carr could be attempting to get > Israeli immigration off the hook. Carr says the whole matter is "more > interesting than annoying". > > The main mystery is: how did an intelligence agency gain sight of Carr's > passport along with all the others? If they had been stolen, then that would > have been reported. There is the possibility that they could have been > intercepted by Israeli postal authorities or had been requested by Israeli > government agencies for whatever purpose. These are questions that are, no > doubt, being asked by British police. > > Secondly, the British police should profile the dual-nationals and try to > discover a pattern. What is it that they have in common, if anything? > > About those named on the second list, little is known. Most have either gone > to ground or have refused newspaper interviews. An Israeli news site, Ynet, > reports that one female Israeli resident named denies holding a foreign > passport, while within hours of the new list's publication "the names of > suspects' Philip Carr and Daniel Marc Schnur magically' disappeared from the > 144 phone directory website". > > There is, however, a smattering of information about the six whose names were > initially revealed. At least three live and work on kibbutzim. These are: > > Paul John Keeley, a convert to Judaism who has lived on Kibbutz Nahsholim for > 15 years and says he hasn't left Israel since 2008 when he visited Turkey on a > trip organised by his kibbutz. > > Michael Lawrence Barney, who immigrated to Israel in the 1970s to work on the > kibbutz of Beit HaEmek; he was followed by his brother during the 1973 > Arab-Israeli War. A kibbutz spokesperson has revealed that in the early days > the kibbutz was home to people connected with security, who used to regularly > disappear for a week or more. Today, young Beit HaEmek kibbutzniks voluntarily > add a year to their mandatory national service. The name of Barney's daughter > Gabriella, who lives on the same kibbutz, appears on the second list. > > James Leonard Clarke moved to Israel several years ago when he worked for the > Israeli military as a bomb disposal expert. He is now a resident of a kibbutz > called Givat HaShlosha that once hid weapons caches for the Haganah, a Jewish > terrorist network which became the core of the Israeli army in 1948. > > The others originally named are: > > Stephen Daniel Hodes, who moved to Israel a decade ago followed by his > parents. Today he works as a physiotherapist for the Hadassah Hospital in > Occupied Jerusalem that was founded by the Women's Zionist Organisation of > America. > > Melvyn Adam Mildiner, who immigrated to Israel on September 11, 2001, and who > says he feels more at home there than anywhere else. > > Jonathan Lewis Graham, who immigrated to Israel with his parents and family > three years ago; all said to be "devoutly religious and community-minded". > > The message I'm getting is that all six are Zionist and/or religious > ideologues. Moreover, a named Australian dual-national, Joshua Daniel Bruce, > is in Israel to study Judaism, while Michael Bodenheimer, whose name appears > on a forged German passport, lives in the ultra-orthodox city of Bnei Brak and > studies in a yeshiva (Jewish seminary). > > None of them, as far as I can divine, has lashed out at the Israeli government > or at the Mossad for placing them in peril. Coincidentally', none of the 12 > Britons named was outside Israel at the time of the hit. > > Most ordinary young Israelis, today, are not ideologues, so it may be that > these people were specifically chosen for their patriotic fervour. It's not > therefore inconceivable that they willingly handed over their passports to > Mossad agents and agreed not to travel during a specified period. That's for > British investigators to find out. I only hope that they are backed by enough > political will to launch a vigorous probe befitting the seriousness of this > crime. > > Concurrently, the US should investigate Payoneer, the New-York based company > that distributed credit cards to several of the assassins. Payoneer's founder > and CEO Yuval Tal is a former member of Israel's Special Forces. > > But don't hold your breath! > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message