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Israel Conducts Massive Spying Operation in U.S.
You read it here first. The FBI believes Israel had advance knowledge about the impending September 11 terrorist attacks and failed to inform the United States.
Exclusive To American Free Press
By Michael Collins Piper
American Free Press was first to expose the “big secret” that the major media has been suppressing: that 60 Israeli Jews—many of whom are still in the military or intelligence—were taken into custody following the terrorist attacks and being held because the FBI suspects they have material knowledge about the attacks.
For publishing that story, critics angrily denounced AFP for spreading “ridiculous conspiracy theories.”
However, on Dec. 12 Fox News with Brit Hume, featuring reporter Carl Cameron, carried an eye-opening story that echoed precisely what AFP first reported. According to Cameron:
Where is no indication the Israelis were involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, but investigators suspect that they may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance and not shared it. A highly-placed investigator told Fox News there are “tie-ins,” but when asked for details flatly refused to describe them. “Evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information.”
During the broadcast segment, Hume asked Cameron: “What about this question of advance knowledge of what was going to happen on 9-11? How clear are investigators that some Israeli agents may have known something?”
Cameron responded: “It’s very explosive information, obviously, and there’s a great deal of evidence that they say they have collected. None of it necessarily conclusive. It’s more when they put it all together. A bigger question, they say, is ‘How could they not have known?’ [That is] almost a direct quote [from the investigators].”
Although Fox reported the Israeli embassy in Washington offered “categorical denials,” Fox indicated that it has been 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 U.S. authorities are investigating for links to terrorism.”
The Fox report revealed that federal investigators have said that some of the Israelis “failed polygraph questions inquiring about alleged surveillance activities against and in the United States,” echoing precisely what AFP said.
Fox confirms that AFP was on the mark only 10 days after the attacks when asking: “Did Israelis Have Fore knowledge?” and pointed out numerous odd items that suggested America’s reputed “ally” may have known in advance of the impending attack.
AFP’s story, a media exclusive by Christopher Bollyn, focused in particular on what had already been reported in Israel: that numerous Israelis had been picked up in the United States and were suspected by the FBI of being Israeli intelligence operatives. AFP went further than the Israeli news reports, reporting that evidence suggested the Israeli operatives had foreknowledge of the attack.
In the meantime, AFP has learned that on Oct. 17, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury reported that “two men whom police described as Middle Eastern” were detained in the Pottstown area (just northwest of Philadelphia) after being found with “de tailed video footage of the Sears Tower in Chicago”—the tallest building in the world, widely mentioned as a possible terrorist target
The Mercury did not identify the men’s nationality, but their names were Moshe Elmakias and Ron Katar.
“Moshe” is a Hebrew name which is not likely to have been bestowed on a Muslim or an Arab.
A woman named Ayelet Reisler, in their company, was also detained. She had a German passport in her name and medication in a different name.
The two men worked for a company known as “Moving Systems Incorporated”—which is intriguing because AFP’s report of Oct. 1 revealed several suspected Israeli intelligence operatives seized by the FBI in the New York area after filming the World Trade Center disaster from at least two venues also purportedly worked for moving companies.
Supporters of Israel suggest that it is “just a coincidence” that several different groups of Israelis in the United States—some of whom are definitively connected to Israeli intelligence—would be working for moving companies and also have detailed videos of the WTC disaster and the Sears Tower, a potential terrorist target.
What is additionally damaging—from an Israeli perspective— is that, according to Fox, even prior to Sept. 11 as many as 140 other Israelis had been detained or arrested in what Fox described as “a secretive and sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by Israelis in the United States.”
According to Fox reporter Cameron:
Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a working group that has been compiling evidence in the case since the mid-1990s. These documents detail hundreds of incidents and cities and towns across the country that investigators say “may well be organized intelligence-gathering activities.”
Investigators are focusing part of their efforts on Israelis who said they are art students from the University of Jerusalem or Bezalel Academy and repeatedly made contact with U.S. government personnel by saying they wanted to sell cheap art or handiwork.
Documents say they “targeted” and penetrated military bases, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, dozens of government facilities and even secret offices and unlisted private homes of law enforcement and intelligence personnel.
The Fox report said federal investigators believe that dozens of Israelis working at kiosks in American malls, where they were selling toys called “Puzzlecar” and “Zoomcopter,” were suspected of being “fronts” for Israeli intelligence activity.
Many malls are fronts for Israeli interests.
For the benefit of shocked listeners who might be surprised to learn that America’s ally would be spying illegally on the United States, Fox explained that:
A General Accounting Office investigation referred to Israel as Country A and said, “According to a U.S. intelligence agency, the government of country A conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the U.S. of any U.S. ally.”
Fox also cited a Defense Intelligence Report which said Israel has “a voracious appetite for information,” asserting that:
The Israelis are motivated by strong survival instincts which dictate every facet of their political and economic policies. It aggressively collects military and industrial technology and the U.S. is a high priority target. Israel possesses the resources and technical capability to achieve its collection objectives.
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