Mossad 'had Clinton telephone sex with Lewinsky on tape': ET
Bill Nalty
London Telegaph
ISSUE 1378
Thursday 4 March 1999
Mossad 'had Clinton telephone sex with Lewinsky on tape'
By Hugo Gurdon and Hugh Davies in Washington
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MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence agency, taped President Clinton's phone
sex sessions with Monica Lewinsky and used them to prevent the FBI
investigating a Tel Aviv mole inside the White House, according to a new
book.
Just before Miss Lewinsky's television interview in America and the
publication of Andrew Morton's biography Monica's Story, the book claims
Mr Clinton's illicit fling compromised American security, and the
Israeli agent - codenamed Mega - is still in the White House.
Gordon Thomas, author of Gideon's Spies - the Secret History of the
Mossad, says a senior Israeli intelligence officer explicitly told him
that the spy agency had recordings of the President and Miss Lewinsky
talking erotically on the telephone between the White House and her home
in the Watergate building.
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Monica Lewinsky talks to Jon Snow for Channel 4's Dispatches, tonight at
9.30pm GMT. See Feature
Mr Thomas, a Welshman living in Dublin, said yesterday that the Israelis
let the FBI know about the tapes. In his report to Congress, Kenneth
Starr, the independent counsel, suggests that Mr Clinton was aware of
the phone tapping. Mr Starr wrote: "According to Ms Lewinsky, she and
the President had a lengthy conversation that day. He told her that he
suspected that a foreign embassy (he did not specify which one) was
tapping his telephones, and proposed cover stories. If ever questioned,
she should say that the two of them were just friends. If anyone ever
asked about phone sex, she should say that they knew their calls were
being monitored all along, and the phone sex was just a put on."
Mossad could not bug the White House, which is electronically secure, so
when it received a tip-off about the Clinton-Lewinsky telephone fling,
it tapped her home phone instead, Mr Thomas says. Some in Mossad "saw
the recordings as a potent weapon to be used if Israel found itself with
its back to the wall in the Middle East and unable to count on Clinton's
support."
Early in 1997, when the President's affair with Miss Lewinsky was still
going on, Israel demanded to see letters written by the former secretary
of state Warren Christopher to Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, in
case they contained US commitments which Jerusalem opposed.
On Jan 16, the day Mr Clinton was giving his deposition in the Paula
Jones sexual harassment case, the National Security Agency, America's
top-secret intelligence arm known as the Puzzle Palace, intercepted a
brief conversation between Mossad's Washington station chief and his
immediate superior in Tel Aviv. The station chief said: "The ambassador
wants me to go to Mega to get a copy of this letter". The reply was:
"This is not something we use Mega for". The tone seemed to indicate
that Mega was a US official spying for the Israelis and prompted an
investigation by FBI agents.
The NSA leaked the Mega story to the Washington Post on May 7, the day
veteran US negotiator Dennis Ross was meeting Benjamin Netanyahu, the
Israeli Prime Minister, in Jerusalem. Observers believe that Washington
wanted to send a message to Mr Netanyahu that he should be pliable.
Mr Thomas says Israel concocted cover stories about Mega , saying for
example that it was a mistranslation of the Hebrew slang, Elga, which
was Mossad's long-standing nickname for the CIA. Then the phone sex
tapes landed in Mossad's lap.
Mr Thomas, who has been writing about espionage for 25 years, said:
"They may have told their counterparts in the CIA and the CIA may have
passed it on. It's very normal procedure." Only two weeks after
Washington showed that it knew about Mega, Mr Clinton broke off his
relationship with Miss Lewinsky.
Israeli-American relations deteriorated badly during 1997, and in
November Mr Clinton snubbed Mr Netanyahu by refusing to meet him at the
White House. This was months after the President warned Miss Lewinsky
that a foreign embassy was taping their phone sessions. The Lewinsky
scandal broke the day before Mr Arafat was welcomed by Mr Clinton in the
White House Rose Garden.
Miss Lewinsky had an abortion during her affair with Bill Clinton,
according to her biography by Andrew Morton, of which an excerpt is
published in the Mirror today. The baby was not Mr Clinton's. Miss
Lewinsky's only sexual relations with the President were oral, says the
excerpt.
The father was identified only as Thomas. He was a senior official at
the Pentagon, where Miss Lewinsky worked after being ousted from the
White House in the spring of 1996.
Miss Lewinsky decided to have the abortion because she did not want to
be a single mother. But a friend told the author: "It was a very
difficult time emotionally for her. She wants kids so desperately."
Her psychiatrist left the Virginia clinic at which she sought help
before her mental problems were resolved and she "hurtled down a spiral
of lonely despair". Even though Miss Lewinsky had a three-month affair
with Thomas, she still thought mainly about Mr Clinton, who had broken
off their affair but was later to resume it, Mr Morton discloses.
"Even when she had a regular boyfriend," he writes, "she always kept one
eye on the clock, like Cinderella racing to get home before midnight
just in case Prince Charming might call."
In an interview accompanying the serialisation, the Mirror quotes Miss
Lewinksy saying it is time Mrs Clinton stopped blaming her for the
affair and started blaming her husband. "I was jealous of her," says
Miss Lewinsky, of the First Lady, "envious because she was the wife of
the man I was in love with."
Š Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 1999.
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