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Arash
October 7, 2005
Israel Has Long Spied On America
Israel has a long rich history of espionage activities against the United States. In
1997 media reports revealed that the U.S. intelligence had intercepted a conversation
in which two Israeli officials had planned getting a confidential letter, written by
the then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher to the Palestinian leader Yaser
Arafat, for an Israeli agent within the U.S. government.
But of course the Israeli officials at that time claimed that they do not spy on the
U.S. and the matter didn,t get much attention of the world media. Israel Foreign
Minister David Levy told the Washington Post that year that "Our diplomats all over
the world, and of course specifically in the U.S., don't deal with such a thing," and
Prime Minister Netanyahu's office declared: "Israel does not use intelligence agents
in the United States".
These are samples of Israel's record of espionage on the U.S.:
The Time magazine reported on May 19, 1997 that the Martin Indyk, the U.S. ambassador
to Israel, "complained privately to the Israeli government about heavy-handed
surveillance by Israeli intelligence agents, who had been following American-embassy
employees in Tel Aviv and searching the hotel rooms of visiting U.S. officials".
In 1996, three relevant documents were made public;
1) A General Accounting Office report "Defense Industrial Security: "Weaknesses in
U.S. Security Arrangements With Foreign-Owned Defense Contractors" found that Israel
"conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any
U.S. ally". And that "classified military information and sensitive military
technologies are high-priority targets for the intelligence agencies of this
country".
The GAO report described "An espionage operation run by the intelligence organization
responsible for collecting scientific and technologic information for [Israel] paid a
U.S. government employee to obtain U.S. classified military intelligence documents."
Apparently the report was referring to "the 1985 arrest of Jonathan Pollard, a
civilian U.S. naval intelligence analyst who provided Israel's LAKAM [Office of
Special Tasks] espionage agency classified U.S. intelligence information," according
to The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
The report also stated that "Several citizens of [Israel] were caught in the United
States stealing sensitive technology used in manufacturing artillery gun tubes".
2) An Office of Naval Intelligence document, "Worldwide Challenges to Naval Strike
Warfare" stated that "the U.S. technology has been acquired [by China] through Israel
in the form of the Lavi fighter and possibly SAM [surface-to-air] missile
technology." And that this "represents a dramatic step forward for Chinese military
aviation", (Flight International, 3/13/96)
3) In late 1995, Defense Investigative Service circulated a memo warning that "Israel
aggressively collects U.S. military and industrial technology." It also revealed that
Israel obtains information using "ethnic targeting, financial aggrandizement, and
identification and exploitation of individual frailties" of U.S. citizens.
(Washington Post) (The report aroused controversy for implying that American Jews
were particularly suspect.)
In 1985, The New York Times stated that many American officials are aware that
Israel, on a routine basis, obtains sensitive information about the U.S.,s secret
weapons, advanced technology and internal policy deliberations.
Former Assistant Director of the FBI, Mr. Raymond Wannal said that the FBI knew of at
least a dozen incidents in which American officials passed classified information to
the Israelis.
"When the Pollard case broke, the general media and public perception was that this
was the first time this had ever happen," said John Davitt, former chief of the
Justice Department's internal security section. "No, that's not true at all. The
Israeli intelligence service, when I was in the Justice Department, [1950-1980] was
the second most active in the United States, to the Soviets".
The "Samson Option : Israel's Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy", by Seymour
Hersh states that:
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 [Menashe Amir]
recalled: "Anything marked JUMBO was not supposed to be discussed with your American
counterparts". ("Samson Option", page 295)
Seymour Hersh provided evidence that the the Israeli leadership knew about it;
A former Israeli intelligence official said that Peres and Rabin, both very
sophisticated in the handling of intelligence, were quick to ask, as the official put
it, "Where are we getting this stuff?" They were told, the Israeli added, that
Israeli intelligence 'has a penetration into the U.S. intelligence community'. Both
men let it go. No one said: 'Stop it here and now' ". ("Samson Option" page 296)
The information Pollard passed on to the Israelis were then transferred to the
Soviets. Pollard's information helped Israel threaten the Soviet Union, and the U.S.,
with nuclear war if they didn't get their way in developments in the Middel East.
Also passing the information to the Soviets allowed them track down U.S. agents:
An American intelligence official stated that there have been distinct losses of
human and technical intelligence collection ability inside the Soviet Union that have
been attributed to Pollard;
"The Israeli objective [in the handling of Pollard] was to gather what they
could and let the Soviets know that they have a strategic capability--for their
survival [the threat of a nuclear strike against the Soviets] and to get their people
out [of the Soviet Union]", according to a former CIA official. "Where it hurts us is
our agents being rolled up and our ability to collect technical intelligence being
shut down. When the Soviets found out what'sbeing passed"--in the documents supplied
by Pollard to the Israelis--"they shut down the source". ("Samson Option" page 300)
In 1979, a CIA report "Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services" (The
Nation 1985) stated:
"In one instance Shin Beth [the Israeli internal security agency] tried to
penetrate the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem through a clerical employee who was
having an affair with a Jerusalem girl. They rigged a fake abortion case against the
employee in an unsuccessful effort to recruit him. Before this attempt at blackmail,
they had tried to get the Israeli girl to elicit information from her boyfriend".
Another two important targets for Israel were the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and United
Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) with headquarters in Jerusalem. There
have been two or three attempts to recruit Marine guards for monetary reward.
In 1954, a microphone planted by the Israeli spies was discovered in the Office of
the U.S. Ambassador in the Israeli capital. The telephone taps were connected to two
telephones in the residence of the U.S. military attache.
In 1978, Stephen Bryen, then a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer, was
overheard in a Washington hotel, offering classified documents to senior Israeli
military officials.
Bryen admitted he obtained those documents and he was forced to quit his job, but was
never indicted. He was later appointed as a deputy to Reagan Administration Assistant
Secretary Richard Pearle at the Defense Department, where he was in charge of such
matters as overseeing technology transfers in the Mideast.
In 1992, Stephen Bryen was serving on board of the pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs while continuing as a paid consultant on exports of
sensitive U.S. technology. (Wall Street Journal, Edward T. Pound and David Rogers)
* "The Lavon Affair"; In 1954, Israelis attacked Western targets in Egypt with the
aim of disturbing the U.S.-Egyptian relations. Israeli defense minister Pinchas Lavon
was removed from office.
* In 1965, Israel illegally obtained enriched uranium from NUMEC Corporation.
(Washington Post, 1986)
* In 1967, Israel attacked the USS Liberty, an intelligence gathering vessel, killing
34 crew members.
* In 1985, Richard Smyth, the owner of MILCO was found guilty of smuggling nuclear
timing devices to Israel.
* In 1992, a report by Wall Street Journal stated that Israeli agents tried to steal
Recon Optical Inc's top-secret airborne spy-camera system.
* In 1997, David A. Tenenbaum, an Army mechanical engineer, revealed that classified
military information on missile systems and armored vehicles was passed on to Israeli
officials.
* The "Samson Option : Israel's Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy", Seymour
M. Hersh, 1991
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394570065
Ever since the early 1950s, Israel has had one military eye firmly fixed on atomic
weapons as a means of salvation, using them primarily as a military threat for both
offensive and defensive purposes. Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize winner, expounds on
the steady but quiet growth of an Israeli nuclear industry that proved so successful
that Israel was able to coerce several U.S. administrations into doing its bidding.
He also explores in depth Israeli access to U.S. intelligence satellite technologies
that resulted from inattention by Washington leaders as well as from the four years
of insider spying by Jonathan Jay Pollard. He reveals that the Soviet Union has been
targeted by Israeli nuclear warheads since the mid-1980s. Unlike several other recent
expos es of Israeli intelligence apparatus (Ian Black and Benny Morris's Israel's
Secret Wars , LJ 8/91, and Andrew and Leslie Cockburn's Dangerous Liaison , LJ
6/15/91), Hersh follows the threads of a specific intelligence focus while
highlighting U.S. policies that ultimately ignore the very real presence of the
Israeli nuclear arsenal.
* I spy, you spy, we all spy (Beat the Devil), The Nation magazine, December 14,
1985; by Alexander Cockburn: http://www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v241i0020_03.htm
This article is based on "Israeli Spying on the U.S.: a Long History" by Sam Hussein,
published by counterpunch on August 30, 2004:
http://www.counterpunch.org/husseini08302004.html
http://www.rense.com/general67/sisspy.htm
Israeli Intelligence Agencies
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/israel/index.html
Wikipedia encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad
The Lavon Affair (Operation Suzannah)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair
USS Liberty
http://www.ussliberty.org
Mother of all scandals
http://www.rbnlive.com/scandals.html
With Friends Like This...
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1286/8612006.html
Israel-Hollywood nuclear connection
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/606092.asp?cp1=1
Richard Kelly Smyth held in arms trade inquiry
http://www.radioislam.org/islam/english/jewishp/usa/milchansmuggling.htm
The Great Krytron Caper
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/071585/850715006.html
Richard Kelly Smyth shipped 100 Krytrons nuclear weapons triggers to Israel
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cac/pr2002/070.html
Terrorists & The Talmud
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/03-30-05/discussion.cgi.27.html
Israeli Spying: The Mother of all Scandals
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/motherofallscandals.html
Israel Blackmailing America
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blackmail.html
Two Israelis arrested with bombs in the Mexican Congress
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/mex.html
United Nations accuses Israel of using torture on children
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1672786.stm
Israel is in violation of the Geneva Accords. The American media is "persuaded" not
to make a big deal of this story.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,688959,00.html
Not content with the phones of ordinary citizens in the United States, evidence has
surfaced that Israel compromised the telephone systems at the highest levels of the
US Government
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/062000/0006006.html
Massive Jewish Spy Ring Linked to 9/11
http://www.americanfreepress.net/03_10_02/Massive_Spy_Ring/massive_spy_ring.html
Five dancing Israelis arrested on 9/11
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html
Israel is spying in and on the U.S.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6480.htm
Et tu, Israel?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j121401.html
FBI probed Israeli White House espionage
http://www.rense.com/general18/esp.htm
Israeli spies: MEGA was not an agent; MEGA was the boss
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2833mega_spy.html
Jewish Defense League in a plot to bomb a U.S. congressman
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40693,00.html
Head of AIPAC boasted about his control of American politicians
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/AIPACClinton.html
U.S. financial aid to Israel - figures, facts and impact
http://www.rense.com/general31/rege.htm
U.S. has vetoed 35 UN resolutions related to the middle east
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/USveto.html
If this doesn't prove that the U.S. Government is controlled by Israel, nothing will.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/briefing.html
U.S. role in Israel's arms industry
http://www.ameu.org/printer.asp?iid=158&aid=202
The U.S. and Israel in Iraq: 1948-2005
http://www.ameu.org/page.asp?iid=263&aid=551&pg=1
Bush's secret war plan sent to Tony Bliar
http://dispatches.phoblacht.net/archive/dispatch268.htm