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>(A wee bit left wing, but an interesting set of messages -jma)
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>1. U.S. DESTROYS ISRAELI CRIMINAL SPY NETWORK
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1287
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>2. An Enigma: Vast Israeli Spy Network Dismantled in the U.S.
>http://www.antiwar.com/rep/lemonde1.html
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>3. FOX NEWS SERIES ON ISRAELI SPYING IN THE U.S.
>http://www.firefox.1accesshost.com/cameron.html
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>4. French Reports: U.S. Busts Big Israeli Spy Ring
>http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0305-05.htm
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>5. THE ISRAELI SPY RING SCANDAL
>http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.html
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>6. Pro-Israel ADL illegally Spied on American Citizens
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1280
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>7. The ADL Spying Case is Over, But the Struggle Continues
>http://www.counterpunch.org/adlspying2.html
>- The ADL Snoops - Were the Spies "Journalists"?
>http://www.counterpunch.org/adlspies.html
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>8. U.S. Deports Israeli Spy Suspects
>http://www.reportersnotebook.com/newforum/indexforum.html
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>9. Arab-Americans Spied on by ADL Sue Three Police Departments
>http://washington-report.org/backissues/0993/9309015.html
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>10. HOW AMERICANS ARE BLACKMAILED BY ISRAEL
>http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20020224202106987
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>AN ENIGMA:
>VAST ISRAELI SPY NETWORK DISMANTLED IN THE U.S.
>http://www.antiwar.com/rep/lemonde1.html
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>by SYLVAIN CYPEL
>Le Monde
>http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3222--265330-,00.html
>Translated by MALCOLM GARRIS
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>It is undoubtedly the largest case of Israeli spying in the United
>States -- that has been made public -- since 1986. In June 2001, an
>investigative report detailed the activities of more than one-hundred
>Israeli agents, some presenting themselves as fine arts students, others
>tied to Israeli high-tech companies. All were challenged by the
>authorities, were questioned and a dozen of them are still imprisoned.
>One of their tasks was to track the Al-Qaida terrorists on American
>territory -- without informing the federal authorities. Elements of this
>investigation, taken up by American television Fox News, reinforce this
>thesis: that Israel did not transmit to the United States all the
>evidence in its possession on the preparation of the September 11
>attacks.
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>ISRAELI SPY RING UNCOVERED IN U.S.
>http://www.intelligenceonline.com
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>The latest issue of the Online Intelligence Letter, a publication
>specializing in questions of information, has revealed that a vast
>Israeli spy network operating on American territory was dismantled.
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>It is the biggest affair involving the Mossad (the Israel's external
>security agency) in activity against the United States since Jonathan
>Pollard, an employee of the U.S. Navy, was condemned to life in prison,
>in 1986, for spying for Israel's benefit. Which was the real scale of
>this network? The facts evoked by an American investigative report do
>not indicate if the network obtained the information it was after, or if
>the authorities dismantled it in its initial phase.
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>According to the Chief Editor of Online Intelligence, Guillaume Dasquie,
>this "vast network of Israeli intelligence agents was neutralized by the
>counter-espionage services of the Department of Justice." The Americans
>"would have apprehended or expelled close to 120 Israeli nationals."
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>M. Dasquie gives a report on a "61-page review article" from June 2001,
>given to the American justice department by a "task force" made up of
>agents of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) and some INS
>(Immigration and Naturalization Service) agents "who were associated
>with the FBI and the office of investigation of the U.S. Air Force."
>Questioned by Le Monde, Will Glaspy, of the Public Affairs department of
>the DEA, authenticated this report, and said the DEA "holds a copy."
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>This is not the first time that information relating to Israeli
>espionage appeared in the United States since the Pollard affair. In
>June 1999, the review Insight had described, at length, a "secret"
>investigation by division 5 of the FBI regarding Israeli phone-tapping
>targeting the White House, the State Department and the National
>Security Council.
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>FOX NEWS SERIES ON ISRAELI SPYING IN THE U.S.
>http://www.firefox.1accesshost.com/cameron.html
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>After the attacks of September 11, very little detailed information had
>come out about the arrest of some sixty Israelis. Finally, from the 11th
>to the 14th of December 2001, the Fox News television channel aired an
>investigation in four parts into Israeli espionage in the United States,
>in the broadcast "Carl Cameron Investigates." The Israeli Embassy in
>Washington immediately responded by stating that it did not contain
>"anything true." American Jewish organizations such JINSA (Jewish
>Institute for National Security Affairs), AIPAC (America-Israel
>Political Action Committee) and others denounced the report as a
>"machination." Fox withdrew from its Internet site, one day and half
>after its posting, all the material related to this investigation.
>
>Le Monde requested three times with Fox News to provide a tape of the
>broadcast. It was never done. On February 26, Fox told our correspondent
>in New York that sending it posed "a problem," without being specific.
>Le Monde, however took note of the whole script in this investigation.
>Carl Cameron evokes "a vast secret investigation held there" relating to
>"140 Israelis made to pass for students of the University of Jerusalem
>or Betzalel Academy of Arts [which have] unceasingly sought to come into
>contact with civil servants and, according to a document, targeted and
>penetrated military bases, dozens of buildings of the DEA, FBI and
>others."
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>His investigation focused on two aspects. Firstly, could the Israelis
>have had preliminary knowledge of the September 11 attacks and not
>informed the Americans? His sources, explains Carl Cameron, tell him:
>"The principal question is 'how they could they have not known?'" On the
>screen, his Editor-in-Chief tells him thus: "Certain reports confirm
>that the Mossad sent representatives to the United States to warn them,
>before September 11, of the imminence of a major terrorist attack. That
>does not go in the direction of an absence of warning." Cameron's
>response: "The problem is not the absence of warning, but the absence of
>useful details" compared to those which American services suspect Israel
>of having held.
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>The second round of the investigation touched on Israeli companies
>providing administrative services for American companies, which would
>conceal information. It was aimed at the manufacturer of Amdocs
>software, placed on Wall Street, which lists, for the 25 major telephone
>companies of the United States, all the calls coming into and
>originating from American territory, as well as the companies Nice and
>Comverse Infosys, the latter providing the data-processing programs to
>American law enforcement agencies authorized to eavesdrop on private
>phone conversations. Comverse is suspected of having introduced into its
>systems of the "catch gates" in order to "intercept, record and store"
>these wire-taps. This hardware would render the "listener" himself
>"listened to."
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>Question to Cameron: "Are there reasons to believe the Israeli
>government is implicated?" Answer: "No, none, but a classified
>top-secret investigation is underway." The broadcast had been shown
>beforehand to the highest persons in charge of the CIA, the FBI, the NSA
>(the agency in charge of phone-taps), the DEA and the American Justice
>Department, none of which objected to its airing.
>
>The report submitted to the American Justice Department, to which Le
>Monde had access, shows that many of the "fine-arts students" suspected
>of illicit activity have a military past in Israeli information or
>advanced technology units. Some entered and left the United States on
>several occasions, remaining each time for short periods. Several are
>related to the hi-tech Israeli companies of Amdocs, Nice and Retalix.
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>Challenged, a "coed" saw her guarantee of $10,000 paid by an Israeli
>working at Amdocs. Questioned, two others admitted being employed by
>Retalix.
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>Le Monde obtained other information not contained in this report. Six of
>the intercepted "students" had a cellular telephone bought by an Israeli
>ex-Vice-Consul in the United States. Two others, at an unspecified time,
>arrived in Miami by direct flight from Hamburg, and went to the
>residence of an FBI agent, to try to sell him artwork, left again for
>the Chicago airport to go to the residence of an agent of the Justice
>Department, then again took a plane directly for Toronto -- all in one
>day.
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>More than a third of these "students," who, according to the report,
>moved in at least 42 American cities, stated they resided 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. At least 10 of the 19 terrorists of 9/11 were
>residing in Florida.
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>Four of the five members of the group that diverted American Airlines
>flight number 11 -- Mohammed Atta, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Walid and Wail
>Al-Shehri, as well as one of the five terrorists of United flight 175,
>Marwan Al-Shehhi -- resided all at various times in... Hollywood,
>Florida. As for Ahmed Fayez, Ahmed and Hamza Al-Ghamdi and Mohand
>Al-Shehri, who took over United flight 75, like Said Al-Ghamdi, Ahmed
>Al-Haznawi and Ahmed Al-Nami, of United flight 93 which crashed
>September 11 in Pennsylvania, and Nawaq Al-Hamzi, of AA flight 77
>(crashed into the Pentagon), they all at one time resided at Delray
>Beach, in the north of Fort Lauderdale.
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>This convergence is, inter alia, the origin of the American conviction
>that one of the tasks of the Israeli "students" would have been to track
>the Al-Qaida terrorists on their territory, without informing the
>federal authorities of the existence of the plot.
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>Two enigmas remain. Why was the Israeli network a priority of drug
>enforcement agents? An assumption: the DEA is the main American agency
>inquiring into the money laundering. A network such as Al-Qaida used
>"dirty" [funding], and the Taliban's Afghanistan was the primary
>exporter of opium in the world. Why this astonishing "cover" of false
>students canvassers for poor artwork? The Israeli network seemed to hold
>lists of names. Its members knew at which office or which private
>residence to go. The objective was apparently to make contact, even for
>a short time.
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>According to an Israeli specialist in espionage, "this story is a
>ridiculous joke, and is not serious." Contacted, the services of the
>Israeli Prime Minister [Ariel Sharon] still had not, as of Monday
>evening March 4, answered our questions. The American Justice Department
>indicated to us that "a dozen" of these "students" would still be
>imprisoned indefinitely, and all the others had been released or
>deported. The FBI indicated to us that it will not make "any comment at
>this stage." The CIA, the FBI, the DEA, the INS, the NSA, the Justice
>Department and the Pentagon have all designated an investigator on this
>file.
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