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A Rose By Another Other Name - The Bush Administration's Dual Loyalties  12/13/2002 Counterpunch: "Many of today's neo-cons, including Perle, are the intellectual progeny of the late Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a strong defense hawk and one of Israel's most strident congressional supporters in the 1970s."

Next Door to Mohammed Atta  10/14/2002 Die Zeit: "Die Zeit has learned that a few weeks before the attacks, Israeli intelligence gave US authorities a list with names of suspects who were staying in the US for the purpose of preparing attacks. Apparently not until shortly before September 11 did the CIA recognize that al-Midhar was dangerous and asked law enforcement agencies to look for him."

9/11: WHAT DID ISRAEL KNOW? – and when did they tell us?  10/4/2002 Antiwar.com 

Mossad-Agenten waren Atta auf der Spur  10/4/2002 der Spiegel: published 10/1/02, quoted in Raimondo piece today. Use google or other language tools to translate - "Nearly door at door Mossad agents lived in the USA with the terror pilot Mohammed Atta"

Tödliche Fehler  10/4/2002 Die Zeit: Use language tools in Google.com to translate - "Der israelische Geheimdienst Mossad übergibt seinem amerikanischen Partnerdienst eine Liste mit Namen von Terroristen, die sich in den USA aufhalten und voraussichtlich in absehbarer Zeit einen Anschlag verüben werden. Nach Dokumenten, die der ZEIT vorliegen, haben Mossad-Agenten in den USA zumindest vier der 19 Attentäter aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach überwacht, darunter auch al-Midhar."

Israeli official denies report that Mossad followed 9/11 terrorists  10/4/2002 Haaretz, Israel: "Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Danny Ayalon on Thursday rejected a report published by the German newspaper Die Zeit, according to which Israeli Mossad agents tracked the perpetrators of the September 11 terror attacks for an extended period of time, and passed over information on them to the CIA and the U.S. administration. Ayalon said in an interview on Army Radio that there were no Mossad agents operating in the United States." Indeed.

Report details US 'intelligence failures'  10/2/2002 BBC: "The paper [Die Zeit] has uncovered details of a major Israeli spy ring involving some a 120 agents for the intelligence service Mossad operating across America and some masquerading as arts students. The ring was reportedly hard on the heels of at least four members of the hijack gang, including its leader Mohammed Atta."

Israeli spies accused of posing as Canadians  9/5/2002 National Post, Canada: "Ottawa investigating: Mossad has history of using counterfeit Canadian documents"

Germany holds up Israeli military shipment said headed for Iran  8/28/2002 Yahoo: Iran-Contra, again.

FBI Employee Blows Whistle on Suspicious Activities by Coworker  8/22/2002 Memory Hole 

Senators Criticize FBI, Justice Whistle-Blower's Allegations Ignored, Lawmakers Say  8/14/2002 Washington Post: "Edmonds sued the Justice Department last month, alleging that she was fired for reporting the behavior of her Washington field office colleague. Edmonds alleged that Dickerson tried to recruit her to join the target group that was under investigation by FBI counterintelligence agents. She also alleged that Dickerson threatened her life and the lives of her relatives overseas. Yesterday, attorneys for Edmonds filed a motion in U.S. District Court seeking to compel the deposition testimony of Dickerson and her husband, U.S. Air Force Maj. Douglas Dickerson. The lawyers said they are seeking expedited depositions because the Dickersons are set to leave the country on Sept. 6. Though Dickerson has voluntarily left the FBI, Assistant General Counsel Betsy Levensohn said the bureau opposes the deposition because the couple are protected by law enforcement, state secret and attorney-client privileges."

Israeli intelligence: Narco-terror profits funded Sept. 11 attack  7/26/2002 World Tribune: "Profits from drugs shipped by Afghanistan were used by Al Qaida in carrying out the September 11 attacks, according to a classified report by Israel's police intelligence service.' And what were Israel's spies doing dogging the DEA?

Israeli intelligence: Narco-terror profits funded Sept. 11 attack  7/26/2002 World Tribune: "Profits from drugs shipped by Afghanistan were used by Al Qaida in carrying out the September 11 attacks, according to a classified report by Israel's police intelligence service.' And what were Israel's spies doing dogging the DEA?

Verint Spying Products by Comverse Infosys  7/7/2002 Cryptome: "These documents describe Comverse Infosys and its products, a long-time producer of spying, surveillance and interception products. Comverse Infosys is a predecessor to Verint: http://www.verint.com Comverse Infosys is one of the companies (with Amdocs Ltd.) reported by Fox News to be spying for Israel through the telecommunication products its sells and systems it operates and services. Its products are widely used by the US telecommunications industry and government agencies."

CONFLICTING COMMENTS REKINDLE LIBERTY DISPUTE - KEY INVESTIGATORS EXPRESS BELIEF THAT ISRAEL DELIBERATELY ATTACKED U.S. SHIP  7/7/2002 Navy Times: "Thirty-five years after Israeli air and naval forces attacked a lightly armed U.S. Navy spy ship during the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the CIA director at the time and the legal counsel to the Navy's court of inquiry say the attack was deliberate."

US arrests 200 young Israelis in spying investigation  7/3/2002 Telegraph 

FBI hunting suspected terrorists with Israeli passports  6/28/2002 Haaretz: "The six were arrested over the weekend in a state in the Midwest while traveling in two cars, and were found to have photographs and information about a Florida nuclear reactor and the Alaska pipeline, the news agency reported. There are three nuclear reactors in Florida. They also had "suspicious equipment," including box-cutter knives similar to those used by the hijackers on September 11, Knight-Ridder said."

BABA WAWA'S WHITEWASH - Israeli spies cheer as WTC burns – not that there's anything wrong with that, says Barbara Walters  6/24/2002 Antiwar.com: "There they might have read this astonishing story that appeared in the [September 12, 2001] Bergen Record, which describes the 5 Israeli detainees picked up 8 hours after the WTC attack as "carrying maps linking them to the blasts": "[S]ources close to the investigation said they found other evidence linking the men to the bombing plot. 'There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted,' the source said. ‘It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park.’"

The White Van - Were Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 Spies?  6/21/2002 ABC News: "The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. What struck Maria were the expressions on the men's faces. "They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange," she said. She found the behavior so suspicious that she wrote down the license plate number of the van and called the police. Before long, the FBI was also on the scene, and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van."

TREASON IS THE REASON - Mystery spies outed by FBI whistleblower  6/21/2002 Antiwar.com: Israeli penetration of the FBI

Israeli policy dominates Black Southern contests  6/19/2002 SF Bay View 

2 FBI Whistle-Blowers Allege Lax Security, Possible Espionage  6/19/2002 Washington Post: FBI penetrated - "In an interview, she said she became particularly alarmed when she discovered that a recently hired FBI translator was saying that she belonged to the Middle Eastern organization whose taped conversations she had been translating for FBI counterintelligence agents. Officials asked that the name of the target group not be revealed for national security reasons." The only "Middle Eastern" group the US would so protect is Israeli. See Mystery spies outed by FBI whistleblower.

'No one ever apologized'  6/6/2002 Greece Post: "Because of the anniversary of the attack, Hrankowski said he's been deluged with requests for interviews from the local and national media, including MSNBC and CNN."

USS Liberty  6/6/2002 ussliberty.org: site run by survivors of the Israeli attack on an NSA ship in 1967.

Mossad: Coming soon to a town near you  5/25/2002 Ummah News: "Since most Mossad operatives come from hi tech fields, they do the most natural thing when they leave Mossad, i.e., they launch a start up company in IT, communications, computers and other related fields. The 'Or' of this story launched a successful company after leaving Mossad and his company is now reputedly worth US $15 million and employs more than 70 highly qualified personnel. Such persons usually move their operations to foreign countries and besides making heaps of money, continue serving their motherland in hi tech fashion."

Israeli's Alibi has a few problems  5/20/2002 Mad Cow: "The MadCowMorningNews has learned that the elderly woman who (supposedly) provided the two Israelis arrested in Oak Harbor Washington with their alibi has—just one week later—moved, or disappeared, and cannot be found to corroborate her account." Kind of like the 2 Israelis arrested attempting to attack the Mexican Senate, another non-story.

Officials Told of 'Major Assault' Plans  5/17/2002 LA Times: is this story from 9/20/01 a smoking gun? "FBI and CIA officials were advised in August that as many as 200 terrorists were slipping into this country and planning "a major assault on the United States," a high-ranking law enforcement official said Wednesday. The advisory was passed on by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. It cautioned that it had picked up indications of a "large-scale target" in the United States and that Americans would be "very vulnerable," the official said." Interesting story never heard from again. Does this warning have something to do with the work of the "Israeli Art Students" who were frequently located right next to the hijackers?

Penetrating the Defenses at Defense – and State  5/16/2002 They Dare to Speak Out: The diplomat offers an example from his own experience. “I received a call from a friend of mine in the Jewish community who wanted to warn me, as a friend, that all details of a lengthy document on Middle East policy that I had just dispatched overseas were ‘out.’” The document was classified “top secret,” the diplomat recalls. “I didn’t believe what he said, so my friend read me every word of it over the phone.”

Mystery of ‘Israeli spies’ in America: the ecstasy factor  5/14/2002 Daily Star, Lebanon: "US authorities believe Tuito has been seeking to form alliances with US crime families, but in an equally sinister development the United Nations Narcotics Control Board reported in February that Colombian drug cartels were now shipping cocaine to Europe to exchange it for ecstasy which was smuggled into the US through Latin America. Israel has a long history of involvement with the Colombian and other cartels in Latin America. Former Israeli Army and intelligence officers supplied the drug barons with weapons and trained their private armies, including special assassination squads, throughout the 1980s. One of the more notorious of these Israelis, a lieutenant colonel in the army reserve named Yair Klein, was convicted by an Israeli court in 1991 for illegally exporting arms to the Colombian cartels. He was fined $40,000. In 1998, Klein, a balding ex-paratrooper, was indicted in Bogota on charges of training Colombian paramilitaries in terrorist tactics in the 1987-89. He was allegedly one of four Israelis hired by Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, one of the Medellin cartel’s most violent bosses, who was later assassinated…. His current whereabouts are unknown, but Israeli arms dealers are still working with Colombian paramilitaries. On May 7, Nicaraguan and Panamanian authorities launched an investigation into how 3,000 AK-47 assault rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition shipped from Nicaragua by two Israeli-owned arms companies to Colombia on Nov. 10, 2001, and wound up in the hands of the United Defense Forces of Colombia, a group the US government has branded as terrorist… In the 1980s, with Israelis deeply involved in Latin America’s political turmoil, US and British investigations found that New York’s Hassidic community was being used to launder as much as $200 million a year in drug cartel profits. One such operation was linked to David Marcus Katz, who controlled much of Israel’s arms dealings in Central America from his base in Mexico City throughout the 1970s and 1980s. A 1992 report by Yediot Ahronot, based in part on FBI documentation, said Israeli intelligence organizations were directing a US-based money laundering network, including those run by Hassidic Jews, and using some of the profits to finance clandestine operations." And today in Venezuela, we have a similar tale with another dealer in Israeli arms, Isaac Perez Recao, who was implicated in supporting the recent coup for which he supplied arms.

Mystery of ‘Israeli spies’ in America: the ecstasy factor  5/14/2002 Daily Star, Lebanon: "US authorities believe Tuito has been seeking to form alliances with US crime families, but in an equally sinister development the United Nations Narcotics Control Board reported in February that Colombian drug cartels were now shipping cocaine to Europe to exchange it for ecstasy which was smuggled into the US through Latin America. Israel has a long history of involvement with the Colombian and other cartels in Latin America. Former Israeli Army and intelligence officers supplied the drug barons with weapons and trained their private armies, including special assassination squads, throughout the 1980s. One of the more notorious of these Israelis, a lieutenant colonel in the army reserve named Yair Klein, was convicted by an Israeli court in 1991 for illegally exporting arms to the Colombian cartels. He was fined $40,000. In 1998, Klein, a balding ex-paratrooper, was indicted in Bogota on charges of training Colombian paramilitaries in terrorist tactics in the 1987-89. He was allegedly one of four Israelis hired by Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, one of the Medellin cartel’s most violent bosses, who was later assassinated…. His current whereabouts are unknown, but Israeli arms dealers are still working with Colombian paramilitaries. On May 7, Nicaraguan and Panamanian authorities launched an investigation into how 3,000 AK-47 assault rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition shipped from Nicaragua by two Israeli-owned arms companies to Colombia on Nov. 10, 2001, and wound up in the hands of the United Defense Forces of Colombia, a group the US government has branded as terrorist… In the 1980s, with Israelis deeply involved in Latin America’s political turmoil, US and British investigations found that New York’s Hassidic community was being used to launder as much as $200 million a year in drug cartel profits. One such operation was linked to David Marcus Katz, who controlled much of Israel’s arms dealings in Central America from his base in Mexico City throughout the 1970s and 1980s. A 1992 report by Yediot Ahronot, based in part on FBI documentation, said Israeli intelligence organizations were directing a US-based money laundering network, including those run by Hassidic Jews, and using some of the profits to finance clandestine operations." And today in Venezuela, we have a similar tale with another dealer in Israeli arms, Isaac Perez Recao, who was implicated in supporting the recent coup for which he supplied arms.

Spies, or students?  5/13/2002 Haaretz: "As far as Israel is concerned, this is the only explanation for the affair, and anything more is just a fabrication based on the original reports, which in itself is based on the paranoia of one government official." As anyone who peruses the DEA reports knows, this is a compendium of the work of many investigators.

SOUTH AMERICA: MYSTERIOUS ARMS CACHE APPEARS IN COLUMBIA  5/10/2002 Pravda: "The cache containing 3,000 AK-47 assault rifles and five million rounds of ammunition appeared last month in a Panamanian ship sailing from Nicaragua, which was supposedly part of an exchange deal between the Columbian and Nicaraguan police forces, involving a shipment of 100 Israeli Uzi sub-machine guns and 450 Jericho pistols for the Nicaraguans."

MEXICO: Fox Campaign was Illegally Funded by U.S. Interests  5/8/2002 Aztlan: "The principal architect of Vicente Fox's campaign victory turns out to be Mexican Jewish Mogul Lino Korrodi, a former Coca Cola kingpin and boss of Fox when both were with Coca Cola in Monterrey, Mexico. Lino Korrodi was the National Finance Manager for the Fox Campaign and funneler of U.S. funds to the campaign. Both Fox and Korrodi studied business at Harvard University in Massachusetts. Lino Korrodi also studied and majored in Economics at the Tec de Monterrey, a Jewish stronghold in Mexico. While at the Tec de Monterrey, Korrodi made strong connections with the Saúl Martínez and the Zacarías Hinojosa families, both very powerful and wealthy Jewish families in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Lino Korrodi engineered a very sophisticated scheme to funnel vast amounts of funds from U.S business and Zionist interests to the "Alianza por el Cambio" (Alliance for Change) and "Amigos de Fox" (Friends of Fox) campaign organizations. The scheme involved U.S. corporations and Zionist political action committees to make deposits in U.S. banks that included, among others, Citibank of New York and US/Mexico border banks such as the Laredo National Bank and the Bank of West El Paso."

The Israeli "art student" mystery  5/7/2002 Salon: "Yet for the most part the targeted agents weren’t spooks in the strictest sense: They were DEA -- cops who bust drug dealers. And that leads us into Theory No. 1, also known as the Art Student/Drug Dealer Conspiracy. This theory has a piece of evidence to support it: the link, mentioned in the leaked DEA memo, between an Ecstasy investigation and the telephone numbers provided by an Israeli detained in Orlando. There are "problems" with Israeli nationals involved in the Ecstasy business, according to Israeli Embassy spokesman Reguev. "Israeli authorities and the DEA are working together on that issue," he said. In a statement before Congress in 2000, officials with the U.S. Customs Service, which intercepted some 7 million Ecstasy tablets last year, noted that "Israeli organized-crime elements appear to be in control" of the multibillion-dollar U.S. Ecstasy trade, "from production through the international smuggling phase. Couriers associated with Israeli organized crime have been arrested around the world, including ... locations in the U.S. such as Florida, New Jersey, New York and California." Miami was cited as one of the main entry points of Ecstasy into the United States and was specified as one of the central "headquarters for the criminal organizations that smuggle Ecstasy"; Houston was also cited for large Ecstasy seizures -- an interesting nexus, given the large number of "art students" who congregated both in the Miami and Ft. Lauderdale area and in Houston. "Israeli nationals in the Ecstasy trade have been very sophisticated in their operations," says a U.S. Customs officer who has investigated the groups. "Some of these individuals have been skilled at counterintelligence and in concealing their communications and movements from law enforcement." It would thus seem that Israeli organized crime has at least the capacity to pull off a widespread surveillance and intelligence operation. The drug connection would also explain the sizable reserves of cash one Tampa student was handling. One DEA agent named in the "art student" report told Salon that the best possible explanation for the affair –- and he admitted to being utterly baffled by it -- was that drug dealers were involved. "Why us if not because of the DEA's mission?" the agent asked. "I mean, what would Israeli intel want with us? Here's another avenue of inquiry to take: Israeli organized crime is the now the biggest dealer of Ecstasy in the United States." The author then goes on to poopoo the theory in what some would call a "blow smoke in their faces" routine, since this seems to be getting a little too close to the truth…

The Israeli "art student" mystery  5/7/2002 Salon: "Yet for the most part the targeted agents weren’t spooks in the strictest sense: They were DEA -- cops who bust drug dealers. And that leads us into Theory No. 1, also known as the Art Student/Drug Dealer Conspiracy. This theory has a piece of evidence to support it: the link, mentioned in the leaked DEA memo, between an Ecstasy investigation and the telephone numbers provided by an Israeli detained in Orlando. There are "problems" with Israeli nationals involved in the Ecstasy business, according to Israeli Embassy spokesman Reguev. "Israeli authorities and the DEA are working together on that issue," he said. In a statement before Congress in 2000, officials with the U.S. Customs Service, which intercepted some 7 million Ecstasy tablets last year, noted that "Israeli organized-crime elements appear to be in control" of the multibillion-dollar U.S. Ecstasy trade, "from production through the international smuggling phase. Couriers associated with Israeli organized crime have been arrested around the world, including ... locations in the U.S. such as Florida, New Jersey, New York and California." Miami was cited as one of the main entry points of Ecstasy into the United States and was specified as one of the central "headquarters for the criminal organizations that smuggle Ecstasy"; Houston was also cited for large Ecstasy seizures -- an interesting nexus, given the large number of "art students" who congregated both in the Miami and Ft. Lauderdale area and in Houston. "Israeli nationals in the Ecstasy trade have been very sophisticated in their operations," says a U.S. Customs officer who has investigated the groups. "Some of these individuals have been skilled at counterintelligence and in concealing their communications and movements from law enforcement." It would thus seem that Israeli organized crime has at least the capacity to pull off a widespread surveillance and intelligence operation. The drug connection would also explain the sizable reserves of cash one Tampa student was handling. One DEA agent named in the "art student" report told Salon that the best possible explanation for the affair –- and he admitted to being utterly baffled by it -- was that drug dealers were involved. "Why us if not because of the DEA's mission?" the agent asked. "I mean, what would Israeli intel want with us? Here's another avenue of inquiry to take: Israeli organized crime is the now the biggest dealer of Ecstasy in the United States." The author then goes on to poopoo the theory in what some would call a "blow smoke in their faces" routine, since this seems to be getting a little too close to the truth…

Jewish organisation spied on US citizens and stole FBI files  5/1/2002 Ummah News 

Prison sentence for scientist over export of potential nuclear triggers to Israel  4/30/2002 AP: "A physicist has been sentenced to 40 months in federal prison and fined $20,000 for illegally exporting to Israel tiny electronic components that could be used as triggers for nuclear weapons." Compare this to 15 yrs, 19yrs, and life sentences for Cuban "spies" tracking Miami Mafia terrorists.

Colombia - Arms for the AUC paramilitary: several governments implicated  4/30/2002 IndyMedia: "The arms were bought from the Nicaraguan police, by Israeli arms merchants working out of Guatemala, who say they were contracted by the Panamanian government to buy them."

International Weapons Smuggling Scandal Revealed  4/26/2002 World Press Review: "Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso has assured journalists that "the police never arranged to acquire these arms." But the Israeli arms dealers, Oris Zoller and Uzi Kisslevich, who---acting as co-owners of the Guatemalan company Grupo Internacional de Representaciones (GIR, S.A.), allegedly on Panama's behalf---bought the weapons that eventually made it to Colombia, insist that the import license by which they acquired the weapons was authorized by Panama's Minister of Government and Justice, Alex Vergara. "We had an understanding that the document pertained to the Panamanian police," Zoller told Guatemala City’s independent Siglo XXI (April 24)."

Israeli Spies Exposed  4/22/2002 Weekly Planet, Tampa 

Israeli Spies Exposed  4/22/2002 Weekly Planet, Tampa, FL: Now we know why the DEA was a primary target: "The document also links the Israelis to possible drug investigations. The report states: "DEA Orlando has developed the first drug nexus to this group. Telephone numbers obtained from an Israeli Art Student encountered at the Orlando (district office) have been linked to several ongoing DEA MDMA (Ecstasy) investigations in Florida, California, Texas, and New York." It is well known that Israeli gangsters control worldwide Ecstasy distribution. This raises the spectre of situations similar to Coca Contra and the numerous documented CIA collaborations with narcoterrorists.

Israeli Spies Exposed  4/22/2002 Weekly Planet, Tampa, FL: Now we know why the DEA was a primary target: "The document also links the Israelis to possible drug investigations. The report states: "DEA Orlando has developed the first drug nexus to this group. Telephone numbers obtained from an Israeli Art Student encountered at the Orlando (district office) have been linked to several ongoing DEA MDMA (Ecstasy) investigations in Florida, California, Texas, and New York." It is well known that Israeli gangsters control worldwide Ecstasy distribution. This raises the spectre of situations similar to Coca Contra and the numerous documented CIA collaborations with narcoterrorists.

Adversaries go inside ADL's spying operation  4/1/2002 San Francisco Examiner 

Spy-guy Bullock wove web of intrigue  4/1/2002 San Francisco Examiner 

Report On Israeli Spy Ring (Audio)  3/29/2002 Real Impact 

Urban myth, my ass!  3/27/2002 Creative Loafing: reactions to Israeli spying in the US 

THE TRUTH, AT LAST - Leaked gov't report exposes Israeli spy ring  3/22/2002 Antiwar.com: good summary

DEA Report on Israeli Spying in the US  3/21/2002 Antiwar.com 

The ‘Israeli Art Student’ Papers  3/21/2002 Antiwar.com 

Extract from DEA report on Israeli Spies in the US  3/20/2002 AfroCubaWeb: "At the same time, American intelligence services were increasingly worried by the dominance of many highly sensitive areas of telecommunications by Israeli companies. Comverse Infosys (now called Verint) provides U.S. lawmen with computer equipment for wiretapping. Speculation is that "catch gates" in the system allowed listeners to be listened to. Software made by another Israeli outfit, Amdocs, provided extensive records of virtually all calls placed by the 25 largest U.S. telephone companies. The relationship of those companies to the detained Israelis is detailed in the 60-page document."

Update: The spies who came in from the art sale  3/20/2002 Creative Loafing: the story finally hits the US, with link to section of DEA report. Does the targeting of DEA have to do with Israeli gangster's worldwide control of Ecstasy distribution?

The Spies Who Came in From the Art Sale  3/20/2002 Weekly Planet, Tampa, FL: has portions of the 60 page DEA report online.

Israeli espionage case skirted public's radar  3/17/2002 Pittsburgh Tribune Review 

FBI Probe Defuses Israeli Spying Rumors  3/15/2002 Forward, US 

Spy Rumors Fly on Gusts of Truth  3/15/2002 Forward, US 

THE 'URBAN MYTH' GAMBIT - Apologists 'spin' Israel's spy operation in the US  3/13/2002 AntiWar.com 

Allies and espionage  3/13/2002 Jane's, UK: "It is rather strange that the US media seems to be ignoring what may well be the most explosive story since the 11 September attacks — the alleged break-up of a major Israeli espionage operation in the USA"

Intelligence Agents Or Art Students?  3/11/2002 Insight, US: As you might have guessed from some of the organized crime ramifications of this ongoing story, DEA suspects one here: "Despite the students' claims that they had themselves produced the artwork or paintings they were offering for sale, "information has been received which indicates the art is actually produced in China."… "The nature of the individuals' conduct, combined with intelligence information and historical information regarding past incidents involving Israeli organized crime, leads IS [DEA's Internal Security division] to believe the incidents may well be an organized intelligence-gathering activity," a classified document euphemizes.

An Israeli spy network in the United States?  3/11/2002 Jewish World Review: by the rabid author of "Islamism is fascism"

Israeli spy-ring uncovered in US  3/7/2002 Al Ahram 

Fox News Series on Israeli Spying in the US - December 2001  3/7/2002 Fox News 

Israeli art students suspected of spying  3/7/2002 Sun Sentinel: Israeli spies intent on penetrating US security get sent home, Cuban spies monitoring Cuban American terrorism get long jail terms.

Web site threatens to publish Israeli spy ring report  3/6/2002 AFP 

Israelis 'spied on al-Qa'ida in America'  3/6/2002 Independent, UK 

U.S. Deports Israelis Amid Warnings of Espionage Activities  3/5/2002 AP: see Israeli Spying in the US

US Deports Israeli Spy Suspects  3/5/2002 AP 

THE TEXAS PART OF THE ISRAELI SPY RING  3/5/2002 Intelligence Online 

Israeli Spy Network Dismantled in the United States  3/5/2002 Le Monde in English: "More than a third of these "students," who, according to the report, moved in at least 42 American cities, stated to reside in Florida. Five at least were intercepted in Hollywood, and two in Fort Lauderdale. Hollywood is a town of 25,000 inhabitants to the north of Miami, close to Fort Lauderdale. However, at least 10 of the 19 terrorists from September 11 were residing in Florida." Along with resettled elements of the Israeli Mafia who moved en masse to South Florida several decades back to join Meyer Lanski's associates.

Un réseau d'espionnage israélien a été démantelé aux Etats-Unis  3/5/2002 Le Monde, France: "Le Monde a demandé à trois reprises à Fox News de lui fournir une cassette de l'émission. Ce ne fut jamais fait. Le 26 février, Fox a répondu à notre correspondant à New York que l'envoi posait "un problème", sans autre précision."

Israeli official denies report of spy network  3/5/2002 Miami Herald: "FBI Spokesman Bill Carter said he could not discuss the Israeli students ''because no one has been charged publicly'' with espionage." OK.

French Reports: U.S. Busts Big Israeli Spy Ring  3/5/2002 Reuters: Le Monde is France's equivalent of the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Evangelist Blames Jews on 1972 Tape  3/1/2002 AP 

Surveillance update: European spycams, Israel's Xacct, Japan, more  3/1/2002 Politechbot: "A closer look at Xacct's technology reveals some startling implications and opportunities for abuse. Promoted as a comprehensive, real-time data collection, correlation, aggregation and account provisioning solution, Xacct's technology uses "smart agents" to record information and transmit data to a central event manager, storing the usage data in a commercial database. Direct access to servers is not required, and Xacct claims that more data often can be gathered by interrogating traffic near the device than what the device itself provides."

How Americans are blackmailed by Israel  2/25/2002 Arab News, Saudi Arabia 

The ADL Spying Case Is Over, But The Struggle Continues  2/25/2002 Counterpunch 

The Israeli Spy Flap Will Fade Away, But At What Cost?  2/7/2002 GOP USA: "Reports that investigating Israeli intelligence operations in the US is the kiss of death for one's career was the most disturbing part of the original FOX story. It rings all too true to observers and members of the law enforcement and intelligence communities."

'What tiger?'  1/30/2002 Al Ahram: "Claudia Wright's words 16 years ago are even more relevant today: "Eight weeks after Pollard's arrest, the US media was preoccupied with Arab terrorism, not Israeli espionage, against America. The investigative reporters of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and other newspapers were reassigned, their stories unwritten or unpublished." … Espionage? What espionage? "

Book Has 'Explosive Implications' for U.S.-Israeli Ties  1/28/2002 NewsMaax: "There's a lot of talk about an Israeli role" in Chinese spying during the Clinton administration at Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory, revealed in Gordon Thomas' new book, "Seeds of Fire," United Press International reported today.

Spying on America  1/16/2002 NewsMax: ""We have seen the Fox News segments that aired several weeks ago on this topic and found some inaccuracies with it. Because they are sensitive issues, I do not have the luxury of discussing what precisely was accurate and what was inaccurate about their reporting," stated Paul Bresson, spokesman for the FBI." Ther stories may have come down from the Fox web site, but the FBI is taking it seriously. How competent will they be?

Are Congress people dumb about Israel, or just faking it?  1/5/2002 Ummah News: "I asked what he thought about the four-part series that Fox cable news had aired about this round-up of Israelis as detainees. He did not know anything about it."

Shoe bomber Richard Reid and the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades  12/31/2001 Debka, Israel: "The shoe bomb case has also sent ripples through US-Israeli relations. DEBKAfile’s sources report the angry tone taken by US officials with Israeli security officers and Sharon himself over the Reid affair. They believe Israeli intelligence services knew six months ago about Reid’s suspected involvement in terrorist activities as well as the real purpose of his Gaza visit – but said nothing. Had Israel spoken up, or at least dropped some hint about Reid, he never would have been allowed to board the American Airlines plane. Washington would have tipped off French authorities, which would have picked Reid up immediately on his arrival in Paris. To make the situation worse, a private security company called ICTS, owned by an Israeli, Ezra Harel, and registered in the Netherlands, was employed at Charles de Gaulle airport to screen passengers boarding US planes. Most of its personnel are ex-Shin Bet officers. The company covers security at Boston’s Logan airport, where the American Airlines plane came down after flight attendants and passengers overpowered Reid. The Americans believe someone at ICTS must have known that Reid planned to take that flight and passed it on to Israel, which withheld information that could have prevented a major air disaster. The Israeli response to US allegations is no less harsh. They admit letting Reid board an El Al flight from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv in July, although an armed sky marshal was ordered to sit next to him. This was a calculated risk in order to find out who Reid’s contacts were in Israel and the Palestinian territories and the only way to cover his movements effectively."

Fox claims Israel knew of Sept. 11 attacks in advance  12/28/2001 Arab News: "The report, ignored by mainstream American media, has put Fox News in the unusual situation of having to defend itself against charges of anti-Israeli bias. The irony here is that Fox News, owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is viewed as pro-Israeli by many pro-Israel activists."

Fox News: Israel Spying on the US  12/28/2001 Israel National News: Interesting reading of the Fox articles in Israel: "The report stresses repeatedly that US officials are not concerned that Israeli is making wrongful use of the data against the United States, but is very concerned the data could fall into the wrong hands." So, it's OK what Pollard & co. did? Now if they were Cubans…

U.S. man admits nuke-linked sale to Israel  12/28/2001 UPI: "At the time the 30-count indictment was issued, the Israeli government maintained that it had purchased the krytrons sent by Smyth's Orange County firm from Heli Trading Corp., an Israeli vendor, for purely conventional research purposes and not for use in nuclear weapons. Tel Aviv also said it was not aware of U.S. export restrictions, however U.S. prosecutors said Smyth had been well aware of them. The Los Angeles Times said Friday that the plea agreement requires Smyth to answer any lingering questions U.S. investigators may have about his dealings in krytrons." The Tweety Bird said so.

Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act CALEA Implementation Section  12/26/2001 CALEA: CALEA is the US federal wiretap system supported by Comverse Infosys, an Israeli firm

Comverse SEC Complaint, 2001  12/25/2001 SEC 

Yanked Fox News Reports on Israeli US Spying  12/24/2001 Cryptome: All 4 Fox News stories on this issue, with some interesting links

"I'm Not a Spy, I'm a Rabbi"  12/23/2001 CubaNet: According to this Miami Mafia site, when Cuba detains a rabbi on suspicions of spying, it's a big deal, but their news outlet does not say a word about the up to 140 Israelis in US detention for suspicion of spying. Come to think of it, the US media has ignored the story and the one to break it, Fox News, has pulled it from their site!

Now You See It, Now You Don't  12/22/2001 Antiwar.com: The links to the Cameron stories on the massive Israeli spying in the US have been updated to the back up site on Free Republic: "Israel's amen corner in the US is vocal, well-organized, and not averse to censorship when it advances their agenda, and so outside pressure on Fox News to pull the series cannot be ruled out."

THE SECRET WAR  12/21/2001 Antiwar.com: "Starting in the third week of January, reports began to pour in to the National Counterintelligence Center (NCC) about "suspicious visitors to federal facilities." The NCC's bimonthly report for March 2001 states: "In the past six weeks, employees in federal office buildings located throughout the United States have reported suspicious activities connected with individuals representing themselves as foreign students selling or delivering artwork. Employees have observed both males and females attempting to bypass facility security and enter federal buildings."

Fox claims of Israeli spy ring in U.S. unproven and tendentious  12/21/2001 Israeli Insider: Specious counterarguments on Israeli spying in the US, which is what you expect from this right wing Israeli publication. The technique is to cite the stories and quote denials from the Israeli government and the companies involved as some kind of 'proof'! Please… As to the charge that Fox was "trying to tie together many unconnected loose ends and suggest that they offered proof for Israeli spying in the United States," at least they started to enumerate the issues that have surfaced, which is more than the 'liberal' US press has done, for whatever reasons.

Trapped in the Land of the Free  12/21/2001 Jewsweek: "Feldmann says that the word "terror" never came up. But the agents asked them bluntly "if they worked for the Mossad." Eventually Feldmann and his friend agreed to undergo polygraph tests -- which they did not pass."

Trade Center Attack Reveals Drug Ring  12/20/2001 ABC News: A glimpse into Israeli gangsters in the shadow of 9-11. The details - ecstasy worth $1.25 MM, guns - remind you of the Comverse linked Israeli gang in LA. Scroll down to get to the story.

Trade Center Attack Reveals Drug Ring  12/20/2001 ABC News: A glimpse into Israeli gangsters in the shadow of 9-11. The details - ecstasy worth $1.25 MM, guns - remind you of the Comverse linked Israeli gang in LA. Scroll down to get to the story.

Israeli-based drug gang nabbed near WTC  12/20/2001 Jerusalem Post 

Israeli-based drug gang nabbed near WTC  12/20/2001 Jerusalem Post 

Jews worry that ‘baseless´ report on 9/11 could be a blow to Israel  12/20/2001 JTA, US: JTA, Marty Petez, Edgar Bronfman, et al, weigh in on the Israeli spying: "American Jewish leaders and Israeli officials said they are holding conversations with Fox News representatives, but refused to elaborate." So does Fox news talk with other foreign governments when their stories are critical of them? The ThoughtPol swings into action!

Flashback: FBI Probes Espionage at Clinton White House  12/19/2001 Insight: Insight is related to the moony inspired Washington Times…

U.S. Police and Intelligence Hit by Spy Network  12/19/2001 NewsMax: Why only in the conservative media?

U.S. Police and Intelligence Hit by Spy Network  12/19/2001 NewsMax 

Taqua Systems And Comverse Infosys Collaborate To Offer Calea Electronic Surveillance Solution To Telecommunications Service Providers  12/18/2001 Comverse: This is one of the Israeli related companies at the heart of the developing spy scandal.

Detained  12/17/2001 Alternet: The sad lot of Israelis detained in the US - once again, no mention of extensive Israeli spying which would lead to such suspicions!

9/11 – WHAT WAS ISRAEL'S ROLE?  12/17/2001 AntiWar.com 

Part 4: Carl Cameron Investigates  12/17/2001 Fox News: This story was pulled by Fox News from www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40981,00.html on around 12/21! Does Israeli intelligence have similar relationships with its narcoterrorists as the CIA does with its crews? "Los Angeles, 1997, a major local, state and federal drug investigating sours. The suspects: Israeli organized crime with operations in New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Canada, Israel and Egypt. The allegations: cocaine and ecstasy trafficking, and sophisticated white-collar credit card and computer fraud. The problem: according to classified law enforcement documents obtained by Fox News, the bad guys had the cops’ beepers, cell phones, even home phones under surveillance. Some who did get caught admitted to having hundreds of numbers and using them to avoid arrest."

Part 4: Carl Cameron Investigates  12/17/2001 Fox News: This story was pulled by Fox News from www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40981,00.html on around 12/21! Does Israeli intelligence have similar relationships with its narcoterrorists as the CIA does with its crews? "Los Angeles, 1997, a major local, state and federal drug investigating sours. The suspects: Israeli organized crime with operations in New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Canada, Israel and Egypt. The allegations: cocaine and ecstasy trafficking, and sophisticated white-collar credit card and computer fraud. The problem: according to classified law enforcement documents obtained by Fox News, the bad guys had the cops’ beepers, cell phones, even home phones under surveillance. Some who did get caught admitted to having hundreds of numbers and using them to avoid arrest."

Jonathan Pollard Demands Apology from PM Sharon  12/17/2001 Jonathan Pollard: "Mr. Sharon, I have no illusions about your intentions for me. Our mutual friend, the late Rechavam Ze'evi z"l, never recovered from the shock after you made it clear to him last Passover, that rather than expend any effort to seek my release, you prefer that I die in prison."

ET TU, ISRAEL?  12/14/2001 AntiWar.com 

Detainees Asked if They Were Spies  12/14/2001 AP: AP appears to be the first media org outside of Fox News to pick up on this, but does so in a way that minimizes and ignores all of the Fox News reporting.

Cached thread on Israeli spying story deleted by conservative Free Republic forum  12/14/2001 DayPOP 

Carl Cameron Investigates Part 3: Another Israeli linked company at the heart of the US law enforcement phone tapping system  12/14/2001 Fox News: This story was pulled by Fox News from www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40824,00.html! The thread on this story at the conservative forum Free Republic forum, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/590077/posts?page=1, has been deleted. From the article, which only Fox is reporting: "Adding to the suspicions is the fact that in Israel, Comverse works closely with the Israeli government, and under special programs, gets reimbursed for up to 50 percent of its research and development costs by the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade. But investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying through Comverse is considered career suicide."

Carl Cameron Investigates Part 2: Israeli Spies in the US have access to all phone records  12/13/2001 Fox News: This story was pulled by Fox News from www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40747,00.html about 12/21! The power of the Israeli Lobby?

Carl Cameron Investigates Part 1  12/11/2001 Fox News: Pulled by Fox News from www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40684,00.html on 12/21! New link now in place. This raises interesting issues: "Fox News has learned that one group of Israelis, spotted in North Carolina recently, is suspected of keeping an apartment in California to spy on a group of Arabs who the United States is also investigating for links to terrorism. Numerous classified documents obtained by Fox News indicate that even prior to September 11, as many as 140 other Israelis had been detained or arrested in a secretive and sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by Israelis in the United States."

Mossad Agents Arrested In Attempt To Bomb Mexican Congress  11/26/2001 Rense 

60 Israelis on Tourist Visas Detained Since Sept. 11  11/23/2001 Washington Post: "Government Calls Several Cases 'of Special Interest,' Meaning Related to Post-Attacks Investigation… A number of them had served in counterterrorist units in Israel, a close U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism."

60 Israelis on Tourist Visas Detained Since Sept. 11  11/23/2001 Washington Post 

A man who loved his country  10/18/2001 Jerusalem Post: Trace of slain right wing tourism minister Ze'evi's organized crime contacts - "In August 1977, Ze'evi filed a libel suit against MK Ehud Olmert, who had been leading a crusade against organized crime and had alleged Ze'evi had underworld connections. Ze'evi denied any business links with wealthy contractor and hotelier Bezalel Mizrahi, who had sued the Ha'aretz newspaper for calling him the leader of organized crime in Israel."

Two Israelis arrested with bombs in the Mexican Congress!  10/15/2001 What Really Happened 

Federal Buildings Could Be In Jeopardy - In Houston and Nationally  10/1/2001 KHOU TV, Houston 

Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack  9/28/2001 FPP: Odigo was apprently implicated in the Israeli telecom spying affair in the US.

Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)  9/21/2001 FCC: CALEA is the US federal wiretap system supported by Comverse Infosys, an Israeli firm

NJ Locations Searched In Connection With Terror Attacks; Airport Shut Down Again  9/14/2001 ABC News 

Israeli Hacker Gets Community Service  9/1/2001 NACIC: while a cuban who translates the base newspaper in Florida gets a life sentence!

Israel reveals its fear of war crimes trials  7/27/2001 Guardian 

"Ecstasy" Kingpin Jacob Orgad Pleads Guilty - - Largest Mdma Trafficker to Be Convicted in the United States  7/27/2001 US DOJ 

FBI Probes Espionage at Clinton White House  5/29/2001 Insight:  More than two dozen U.S. intelligence, counterintelligence, law-enforcement and other officials have told Insight that the FBI believes Israel has intercepted telephone and modem communications on some of the most sensitive lines of the U.S. government on an ongoing basis. The worst penetrations are believed to be in the State Department. But others say the supposedly secure telephone systems in the White House, Defense Department and Justice Department may have been compromised as well."

Ecstasy/MDMA  4/17/2001 US State Department: The Russian connection: "In recent years, Israeli organized crime syndicates, some composed of Russian emigres associated with Russian organized crime syndicates, have forged relationships with Western European traffickers and gained control over a significant share of the European market."

Suspicious Visitors to Federal Facilities  3/1/2001 National Counterintelligence Center: "If challenged, the individuals state that they are delivering artwork from a studio in Miami, Florida, called Universal Art, Inc, or that they are art students and are looking for opinions regarding their work. These individuals have been described as aggressive. They attempt to engage employees in conversation rather than giving a sales pitch. Federal police officers have arrested two of these individuals for trespassing and discovered that the suspects possessed counterfeit work visas and green cards. These individuals have also gone to the private residences of senior federal officials under the guise of selling art."

Odigo, Inc., The Leading Instant Messaging Solutions Provider, Secures $15.35 Million In Private Placement  1/9/2001 Comverse 

Increase in Use of "Club Drug" Ecstasy Poses Growing Risk  7/27/2000 US State Department: "Most MDMA is manufactured in small, clandestine "kitchen labs" in the Netherlands or Belgium, and is then shipped to various U.S. ports of entry via couriers and mail carriers like DHL, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service. Despite its European manufacture, Israeli organized crime syndicates ship most of the MDMA available in the US, according to the DEA."

Increase in Use of "Club Drug" Ecstasy Poses Growing Risk  7/27/2000 US State Department: "Most MDMA is manufactured in small, clandestine "kitchen labs" in the Netherlands or Belgium, and is then shipped to various U.S. ports of entry via couriers and mail carriers like DHL, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service. Despite its European manufacture, Israeli organized crime syndicates ship most of the MDMA available in the US, according to the DEA."

Report of Israeli Eavesdropping on White House Telephones Gets Varying Media Treatment  7/1/2000 Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs: Down the Memory Hole: "In fact, the different media handling accorded the article in the U.S., European, and Israeli press is a story in itself. The U.S. media, like U.S. government officials, clearly consider Israel “radioactive.” Just as an American government official knows that expressing any interest in Israel, unless it is extremely positive, is a career-breaker, U.S. editors know that in journalism it can have the same effect, and also can result in extensive, concerted loss of advertising—whether the publication’s advertisers are national or local… There were reports similar to that of Ha’aretz in the other major Israeli dailies, all longer than anything that appeared in any U.S. daily. The only Israeli editorial comment the reports drew did not question the validity of the Insight report, but only its timing. It is interesting to note that every Israeli editor feels free to inform his readers about stories of great interest in both Israel and the U.S. But nearly all American editors—in a form of “voluntary censorship” identical to that practiced in countries where there is no freedom of the press— choose to withhold those same stories from American readers."

ANOTHER ISRAELI SPY SCANDAL IN WASHINGTON? by Srdja Trifkovic  6/1/2000 Rockford Institute: The Rockford Institute is a right wing christian conservative think tank approved by Pat Buchanan - "Albright's selection probably owed more to her candidates' post-national, globalist-liberal world outlook than to their ethnic origins, but some observers could be forgiven for concluding that never before in this nation's history had there been so many Americans with actual or at least potential dual loyalties working at the highest levels of the U.S. government. In view of another key ingredient - the ownership structure and editorial control of most of the liberal establishment media in the United States - it is hardly surprising that the law enforcement agencies and potential whistle-blowers regard any allegations of Israeli spying as politically explosive. Insight quotes a former U.S. intelligence officer as saying that "when it has anything to do with Israel, it's something you just never want to poke your nose into."

FBI Probes Espionage at Clinton White House  6/1/2000 Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs: "Israel has been caught spying in Washington again, this time on the White House and other sensitive telephone systems. But Americans have to look and listen very hard to learn the details. The damage could be as great as that sustained during spy-for-pay Jonathan Jay Pollard’s blatant military codes, plans and secret-stealing rampage of the 1980s. And probably greater than Israel’s stealing not only of U.S. nuclear secrets in the 1960s, but even of American enriched uranium via an Israel-controlled contracting firm in Apollo, Pennsylvania."

Another Ukrainian Jew makes good  4/10/2000 New Yorker: "Robert I. Friedman describes another Ukrainian Jew who made it into the big time — Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg, until recently the ringleader of the "Russian" Mafiya in South Florida."

Jewish Group, Activists Argue Over Surveillance Files  1/10/1998 Refuse and Resist 

Who killed Broward hotel owner?  7/7/1997 Miami Herald: They must have felt at home with the Miami Mafia, with whom they likely continued the Meyer Lansky - Santo Trafficante relationship - "...a famous list of 11 top Israeli organized crime figures. The list, leaked to newspapers in 1977 by the Israeli national police, became a news event of Watergate proportions in Israel. Many of those with ties to the list, all proclaiming their innocence, left the country and settled here. [South Florida]"

Pollard Revisited: Is Mr. X Spying Again in Washington?  5/18/1997 JonathanPollard.org 

Israel denies CIA charges of anti-U.S. industrial spying  8/23/1996 Jewish Telegraphic Agency 

Bronfman and the Mafia Sells Out the United States to Russia  7/2/1996 David Icke: entertaining…by the man who brought you the theory of underground reptiles ruling the earth!

Similarities between the 1967 sinking of the USS Liberty and the 1996 shelling of the UN refugee camp  6/5/1996 Phoenix Gazette: rescued from the lost site, www.ussliberty.org, which has gone down the Memory Hole: it has even been erased from www.archive.org!

Did Israel’s Armed Forces Commit One War Crime to Hide Another?  5/1/1996 Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs: on a site by ex-State Department people, no less

Economic Espionage: Information on Threat from U.S. Allies  2/28/1996 GAO: Long list of country A (Israel) espionage transgressions in the US. Ignored by US media…

DEFENSE MEMO WARNED OF ISRAELI SPYING ETHNIC TIES' CHARGE DRAWS ADL REBUKE  1/30/1996 Centre for Counterintelligence: From the folks who bring you SpyCruise, a cruise with former intelligence professionals.

ADL Pays Up Again for Stealing Police Files and Spying on U.S. Citizens  1/10/1996 Washington Report on Middle Easter Affairs 

The TATUM INTERVIEWS  1/7/1996 Conspiracy Nation: "GENE TATUM: They [coolers containing 100 kg of cocaine] got re-sealed real quick after we saw what they were. We gave them to the C-130 pilot. I asked him what his destination was and who he intended on passing these off to. He told me that his manifest showed that the coolers went to a "Dr. Harari" in Panama. Now "Dr. Harari" is Mike Harari. He's a Mossad agent who was assigned to General Manuel Noriega as one of his counselors."

The Jewish Laundry of Drug Money  2/9/1994 Maariv 

The Jewish Laundry of Drug Money  2/9/1994 Maariv 

Secret Files on Arab Americans Sold by U.S. Police Officer to Israel  1/3/1993 Washington Report on Middle Easter Affairs: Israel keeps good company: "The governments of Israel and South Africa have reportedly paid tens of thousands of dollars to a retired San Francisco police officer in exchange for classified information on Arab-American and anti-apartheid groups operating within the city." Said officer was also a contract agent for CIA and FBI and handed over files from national law enforcement

Israel, the CIA, Central America, and Dictatorships  1/1/1991 Mideast Facts: Selection from the book Dangerous Liaison, 1991 by Andrew & Leslie Cockburn: ""In Central America, Israel is the 'dirty work' contractor for the U.S." -- General Matityahu Peled, (p.218)"

What You Won't Read About Michael Harari, Noriega Is Israeli Adviser Who Got Away  2/1/1990 Washington Report on the Middle East Affairs: "Despite the early warning to Israelis in Panama, however, Noriega didn't escape. US special operations troops disabled hidden planes and boats that would have been used, but at a cost in American lives. In the words of the Washington Times of Jan. 4: "Of the 23 soldiers killed in combat, I I were special operations forces. Military experts considered this a high casualty count for special forces." In other words, a lot of young American servicemen died at the hands of Panamanian elite units who apparently knew they were coming, possibly because of the action of one or more informants in the US government. Americans won't read much serious media speculation about who those informants might be. The numbers of people within the US government who can find reasons not to pursue any investigation that may lead to Israel literally have reached critical mass."