Update: The spies who came in from the art sale
Creative Loafing has obtained a report detailing alleged Israeli spy activity in the United States.
by John F. Sugg
A major international espionage saga is unfolding across the United States, with some of its roots right here in the Atlanta area. It's been pretty hush-hush so far, largely because the implications could be a major embarrassment for the government.
The spy story is even more touchy because it isn't Saddam, Fidel, Osama or even what passes nowadays for the KGB spying on America -- but our "friend" in the war against "evil," Israel.
The basis of the spy allegations is a 60-page document -- a compilation of field reports by Drug Enforcement Administration agents and other U.S. law enforcement officials.
Creative Loafing last week obtained a copy of the report from intelligence sources with long-term contacts among both Israeli and American agencies. The government has attempted to deflect attention from earlier leaks about the spy scandal. However, while declining to confirm or deny the authenticity of the document, a spokesman for the DEA, William Glaspy, did acknowledge that the agency had received many reports of the nature described in the 60 pages.
A source familiar with the creation of the document has told CL that the 60-page memo was a draft intended as the base for a 250-page report. The larger report has not been produced because of the volatile nature of suggesting that Israel spies on America's deepest secrets.
Another DEA spokesperson, Rogene Waite, told Associated Press a draft document had been compiled and forwarded to other agencies.
The validity of the scenarios described in the document is attested to in at least one official mention. The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, in a March 2001 summary, reported on "suspicious visitors to federal facilities" and noted the type of "aggressive" activity recounted in the document obtained by the Planet.
The nation's most prominent Jewish newspaper, the New York-based Forward, also has confirmed portions of the vast spying network -- although stating that the Israelis were monitoring Arabs in the United States, not trying to access U.S. secrets. Referring to the arrest of five Israeli employees of a New Jersey moving company who were arrested and held for two months after the Sept. 11 attack, Forward on March 15 stated: "According to one former high-ranking American intelligence official, who asked not to be named, the FBI came to the conclusion at the end of its investigation that the five Israelis ... were conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as a front."
Forward also reported that a counterintelligence probe concluded two of the men were operatives of Mossad, Israel's spy service.
Reports of the spying were first made public in December broadcasts by Fox News reporter Carl Cameron. It isn't clear whether he had the 60-page document or was only told its contents. A French online news service has obtained the report, and Le Monde in Paris has advanced the story. However, in the United States, the media ignored the original Fox broadcast, and only a handful of publications. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution hasn't reported the story although another Cox-owned paper, The Palm Beach Post has.
The absence of reporting hasn't gone unnoticed. The authoritative British intelligence and military analysis service, Jane's Information Group, on March 13 chided: "It is rather strange that the U.S. media ... seem to be ignoring what may well prove to be the most explosive story since the 11 September attack, the alleged breakup of a major Israeli espionage operation in the United States which aimed to infiltrate both the Justice and Defense departments and which may also have been tracking al-Qaida terrorists before the aircraft hijackings took place."
In flat language and sometimes excruciating bureaucratic detail, the document relates scores of encounters between federal agents and Israelis describing themselves as art students. The implication is that the seemingly innocuous cover was used to gain access to sensitive U.S. offices and military installations. For example, Paragraph 82 of the document states that MacDill Air Force Base intelligence officers were warned in March 2001 of the art students' efforts. A month later, a special alert was issued about a "possible intelligence collection effort" at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. Among other activities, the base houses AWACS surveillance planes and repairs B-1 bombers.
The author of the document is not identified. However, many DEA and other law enforcement agents are named. CL has contacted some of the named agents, and three federal employees have confirmed the incidents described in the report. None disputed the authenticity of the report. One senior DEA official, when read paragraphs that mentioned him, said: "Absolutely, that's my report," adding, however, that he didn't think the incidents were sufficient to prove an ongoing spy operation. All of the federal employees said they could not be quoted by name.
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WHO DO YOU THINK PAID FOR THE HOLOCAUST GAS CHAMBERS........THE JEWISH BANKERS DID,AS OTHERWISE THE 11,000,000 EUROPEAN JEWS WHO WANTED TO GO TO ISRAEL WOULD HAVE CAUSED A HUMAN CATASTROPHE IN ISRAEL WHICH DID NOT HAVE WATER,FOOD,OR HOUSING TO PUT UP 11,000,000 SURPLUS JEWS. THAT IS WHY THEY CALLED IT THE FINAL SOLUTION......THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF WHAT HAPPENS IN ISRAEL IF 11,000,000 ........IMAGINE THEY WERE ALL MEXICANS FLOODING OUT OF MEXICO INTO SANTA BARBARA CALIFORNIA..........IMAGINE 11,000,000 GERMANS TRYING TO SQEEZE INTO PARIS FRANCE..........IMAGINE 11,000,000 OF ANY NASTY BUNCH OF PEOPLE FLOODING INTO YOUR STATE ALL AT ONCE..........THE FINAL SOLUTION IS TO KILL THEM ALL IN SECRET CAMPS IN POLAND AND RUSSIA.......THE FINAL WAY TO FIX A BIG PROBLEM,,THEN OF COURSE GET THE JEWS THEMSELVES TO "EXPLAIN" TO THE WORLD HOW BAD OUR LEADER WAS WHEN HE TOOK THEIR MONEY TO HELP THEM OUT OF A JAM. PIPELINE "H",BUILT BY THE BRITISH,AND NOT USED SINCE THE ARAB/ISRAELI WAR OF 1948,IS BEING REBUILT WITH AMERICAN TAXPAYER MONEY AND PROTECTED BY THE AMERICAN ARMY SUFFERING THOUSANDS OF CASUALTIES,AS THE IRAQI PEOPLE ARE WATCHING THE THEFT OF THEIR OIL. THIS PIPELINE RUNS FROM KIRKUK AND MOSUL IN IRAQ'S OIL FIELDS THROUGH TO HAIFA IN ISRAEL. WHEN PUMPING AT CAPACITY,AND BEING REFINED BY THE ISRAELIS IN HAIFA,IT WILL THEN BE EXPORTED FROM THE PORT OF HAIFA TO THE UNITED STATES..REMOVING CONTROL OF THIS HUGE OIL AND GASOLINE SUPPLY FROM BEING CONTROLLED BY ANY MUSLIM ARAB NATION. WHAT A SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE SAUDIS,WHOSE OIL RESERVES ARE RUNNING OUT! WHAT A BENEFIT FOR THE ISRAELIS,WHO USE OUR MONEY,OUR WEAPONS AND OUR SOLDIERS LIVES TO COMMIT UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES AGAINST THEIR NEIGHBORS-ALL OF THEIR NEIGHBORS,ALL OF THE TIME.THEY USE CLUSTER BOMBS WE OUTLAWED IN VIETNAM,THEY USE CHEMICAL WEAPONS TO KILL OLD MEN,HELPLESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,AND THEN THEY BLAME ALL OF THEIR CRIMES ALWAYS ON SOME ONE ELSE. HOW ELSE WOULD YOU REACT IF YOU WATCHED THE CHINESE ARMY DEFENDING THE PLUNDERING OF THE JOBS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES BEING TAKEN AWAY AND DONE IN CHINA? HOW WOULD YOU REACT IF THE MEXICAN ARMY WAS SENT TO DEFEND THE ILLEGAL ALIENS IN THIS COUNTRY FROM BEING SENT HOME BY THE BORDER PATROL? WOULD YOU STAND BY AND TAKE NO ACTION IF THE ISRAELI ARMY STORMED INTO THIS COUNTRY AND TOOK YOUR MONEY OUT OF YOUR BANK? WOULD YOU NOT GET ANGRY AND DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS OF FREEDOM AND YOUR RIGHT TO BE DEFENDED BY THE AMERICAN ARMY,INSTEAD OF IT BEING OFF IN IRAQ MURDERING FOR THE PROFIT OF BUSH,CHENEY AND THE ISRAELIS WHO TELL THEM WHAT TO DO!
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YOUR STORY SOUNDS LIKE A BUNCH OF B.S....IF YOU REALLY HAVE THIS INFO THEN WHY NOT PUBLISH IT??ANY TIME I HEAR UNNAMED SOURCES I TEND TO GET VERY SUSPICIOUS OF THE PERSON TELLING THIS BULL...I HAVE UNNAMED SOURCES THAT SAY CL IS JUST A BUNCH OF ITDIOTS IS IT TRUE??I WILL GET BACK TO YOU WHEN I SPEAK TO MY OTHER UNNAMED SOURCES,WHO HAVE OTHER UNNAMED SOURCES, AND SO ON & SO ON....
Just in case this story is read in the future -- I originally published it almost five years ago -- the comment made above by EYE is totally off base. The article relied very little on anonymous sources -- and not at all for the key information, which was contained in a 60 page report compiled by DEA and FBI agents. More on this story, by me and others, can be found at www.antiwar.com. Look at the left side of the page for the button tagged Israeli Art Students.
I hope to god all of this (Israeli connection to 911) is not true. It is too horrible and terrifying to contemplate. I'm simply stunned. I lost a good friend who died in tower one. She had loved her job there and used to drag me downtown from my job to show off the towers and her office. She loved life. Her two small children are being raised by her elderly mom.
"..the alleged breakup of a major Israeli espionage operation in the United States which aimed to infiltrate both the Justice and Defense departments and which may also have been tracking al-Qaida terrorists before the aircraft hijackings took place.." So what? circumstantial evidence trying desperately to infer links between Israel and 9/11 based purely on the dates and nothing else. Dont forget to mention that the spy operation break up occured a mere 730,000 days after the Crucifiction of Christ and 250,000 days after the Black plague in Europe. Sure Makes you think, doesn't it?
Half truths,
veiled statements,
mysterious "anonymous sources"
All these are rarely investigative journalism, they are demagoguery.
There is no doubt in mind that Israeli spies are at the front-line of the global war against terror. Often along-side American, British, Saudi, Jordanian and Egyptian spies.
Israeli Art Students are usually just that.
So is Antisemitism...
Here is this artists response to the reality of the
Middle East:
http://www.digitalartprintgallery.com/0/political-pop-art.html
Mike Darnell
When you acknowledge that "the global war against terror" is just a code phrase for the U.S./Israeli/allied ruling class' drive for global domination, and that the only "terror" they're interested in combating is resistance -- violent or not -- to their massive imperialist violence, then you can say that "Israeli spies are at the front-line of the global war against terror".
Even if the 9/11 attacks weren't the work of the Mossad (together with high U.S. officials and Arab dupes/patsies), the U.S., Israel and their allies, vassals and puppets are by orders of magnitude greater terrorists than all the Arab and Muslim practitioners of violence put together.
The real, just war on terror is the global war against the U.S./Israeli-centered capitalist empire.
Good story, one which was covered in the UK press but a story none the less of no great importance compared to the threat of islamofacism and the relentless tide of Islam. I'm aware of course of all the conspiracy theories concerning western financing of the Nazi regime but it was not from Jewish money as so venomously and loudly (ALL CAPS) BY BRUCE. It was from Prescott Bush and his co conspirators YOU VILE ANTISEMETIC Islama Apologist NUMPTY. (That’s British for idiot or twat, take your pick BRUCE).
"THE FINAL SOLUTION IS TO KILL THEM ALL IN SECRET CAMPS IN POLAND AND RUSSIA.......THE FINAL WAY TO FIX A BIG PROBLEM"
Oh dear and all in caps lock. You really do have problems don’t you. I suspect that you are either a good muslim (whereby all good muslims by their creed and articles of faith (the Qur'an) hate Jews and Christians and are committed to the forceful islamification of the world), or. Are you one of those hill billy kkk hicks who thinks he's descended from king Arthur’s round table or whatever the kkk believes about white Americans of Anglo Saxon descent being somehow related to the real Jesus.
Well I'm an English man and I can trace my family name right back to the Magna Carter, and dear BRUCE, if your one of those kkk hill billy hicks I'm afraid you been sold a dodgy bill of goods son.
"THEY USE CHEMICAL WEAPONS TO KILL OLD MEN,HELPLESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,AND THEN THEY BLAME ALL OF THEIR CRIMES ALWAYS ON SOME ONE ELSE"
What drugs are you taking BRUCE? You mean like those nasty crusaders who lived under the relentless tide of Islamic blood lust for over 4 centuries before embarking on their crusades? I don’t for one minute say that they acted righteously because they did not in most cases but they were responding in kind and it was the dark ages after all. Or do you mean the Arab world who finance global jihad, mosques and Islamic schools but precious little hospitals or houses for the poor. The same Arab leaders who make the families of suicide bombers rich beyond their wildest dreams for loosing a child to the enemy instead of spending a fraction on health or real education. Imagine BRUCE if those same regimes instead of spreading the poison of Islam gave some much needed funds towards health care and education (for women too BRUCE). Imagine for one moment BRUCE if all those regimes gave a small chunk of land say south of Israel for the Palestinians?
Oh you must mean the jihadist who perpetually blame the Jews for all their ills?
You are a sad sad individual BRUCE. No worries I will pray for you. LOUDLY IF YOU LIKE.
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