The Israeli "art student" mystery
Arther Miller
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/05/07/students/index_np.html?x
For almost two years, hundreds of young Israelis falsely claiming to
be art students haunted federal offices -- in particular, the DEA.
No one knows why -- and no one seems to want to find out.
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By Christopher Ketcham
May 7, 2002 | In January 2001, the security branch of the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Agency began to receive a number of peculiar reports from
DEA field offices across the country.
According to the reports, young Israelis claiming to be art students
and offering artwork for sale had been attempting to penetrate DEA
offices for over a year. The Israelis had also attempted to penetrate
the offices of other law enforcement and Department of Defense
agencies. Strangest of all, the "students" had visited the homes of
numerous DEA
officers and other senior federal officials.
As a pattern slowly emerged, the DEA appeared to have been targeted
in what it called an "organized intelligence gathering activity."
But to what end, and for whom, no one knew. Reports of the mysterious
Israelis with an inexplicable interest in peddling art to G-men
came in from more than 40 U.S. cities and continued throughout the
first six months of 2001. Agents of the DEA, ATF, Air Force,
Secret Service, FBI, and U.S. Marshals Service documented some
130 separate incidents of "art student" encounters. Some of the
Israelis were observed diagramming the inside of federal buildings.
Some were found carrying photographs they had taken of federal agents.
One was discovered with a computer printout in his luggage that
referred to "DEA groups." In some cases, the Israelis visited
locations
not known to the public -- areas without street addresses, for
example,
or DEA offices not identified as such -- leading authorities to
suspect that information had been gathered from prior surveillance
or perhaps electronically, from credit cards and other sources.
One Israeli was discovered holding banking receipts for substantial
sums of money, close to $180,000 in withdrawals and deposits over a
two-month period. A number of the Israelis resided for a period of
time in Hollywood, Fla. -- the small city where Mohammed Atta and
three terrorist comrades lived for a time before Sept. 11.
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Henry
groups.
It is pure bullshit.
Arther Miller wrote:
--
And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Francis Scott Key
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I saw one of those "students" at my place of work. I work at a
building in DC that has a substantial federal presence. I don't know
what she was doing, but her art was shit, though she was kind of cute.
Now, Henry, I don't know what she was doing. I can guess, but only
guess. That there were a bunch of these people is funny, really
funny. That Israel spies on the U.S. is one those things that the
anyone who is well informed would call a certainty. Before you launch
into to one of those infantile tirades about how I must be an
antisemite (maybe a holocaust denier!), I think it is just as assured
that the U.K., France, Germany, Canada, and Ireland spy on the US.
It's called an act of self-interest.
On Wed, 08 May 2002 09:49:26 -0400, Henry <her...@mindspring.com>
wrote: