[Shadow_Group] Fw: THE MOTHER OF ALL SCANDALS

Mon Dec 13 16:53:42 PST 2004

FYI 

THE MOTHER OF ALL SCANDALS

 Once again, Israel has been caught with spies at the highest levels of
the US Government.  
Once again Israel denies wrongdoing, or faced with incontrovertible
evidence (in this case one of the spies has reportedly cooperated with
the FBI) dismisses the spying with the claim that such spying is
harmless, because Israel and the United States are such good friends.  

Well, let us take a closer look at that idea of "harmless espionage" by
recalling Israel's most famous failed spy, Jonathan Pollard.  

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 attaché 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. 

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