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And, indeed, Elyashar’s memoirs, To Live with Jews, are replete with
nostalgia for the good old days, before the Ashkenazi took over the country,
destroying the beautiful coexistence between Sephardi nobility and local
Palestinians.
Of course, by the 1980s, when these memoirs were written, the Elyashars were so
deeply intertwined with other Israeli ruling families, Ashkenazi as well as
Sephardi, that the ethnic line sounded a bit hollow.
The Moialles themselves were linked to Israel Rokach, who, when acting as
Interior Minister in Sharet’s government,
nominated his cousin, Aharon Moialle, as his general manager. Yossef Kookia,
whose family was Jerusalem’s biggest landlord in the 1930s and the
Recanati’s first big depositor, became General Manager of the Justice Ministry
during the Austerity period. The Shlush family had intimate business links with
the Carassos, Recanati’s partners in Discount, as well as with the
Saharovs with whom they also intermarried.
...
Like many of its contemporaries, the Saharov family started its career in
the wood business, from which it ventured into new areas such as insurance,
banking, weaponry and, of course, public service.
Their eldest son, Yekhezkel, was Chaim Weitzman’s bodyguard and
Israel’s first chief-of-police.
His deputy in the force was Amos Ben-Gurion, who was nominated for the post
while his father, David Ben-Gurion, was Prime Minister. In their infinite
wisdom, both Chief Saharov and Deputy Ben-Gurion were hectically mixing public
duty with private business, and eventually, after dozens of scandals, were
forced to quit their posts. Both were given a second chance.
Amos Ben-Gurion was made manager of Israel’s largest clothing company, Ata,
which belonged to Swiss
financier Tibor Rosenbaum, and whose Israeli representative at the time was
Amos Manor, former head of Shin Beit (Israel’s internal security service). When
Rosenbaum’s Banque de Crédit Internationale collapsed with much fanfare in
the mid-1970s, Ata was passed on to Saul Eisenberg, who
replaced Amos Ben-Gurion with Yossef Hermelin, another former head of the Shin
Beit.
Yekhezkel Saharov didn’t fare any better. After leaving the police he
became Israel’s ambassador to Austria, but was ousted on convictions of false
testimony; later, he also got entangled in scandalous land deals in the West
Bank. His brother, Liberal Party controller Israel Saharov, had a less
illustrious but perhaps more productive career. When Ezer Weitzman became
Minister of Defence in Begin’s government, he nominated him to manage the
state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries, the country’s largest industrial
company. As it turned out, his main job was less to manage and more to privatise,
a task to which he devoted himself with much zeal. The news of his success
spread quickly, and when Yigal Hurwitz, Weitzman’s second cousin, became
Minister of Industry and Trade, he moved Saharov to the helm of another
government-owned firm, Israel Chemical Industries, for much the same purpose.
Incidentally, the earlier nomination to Israel Aircraft Industries was also
motivated by Weitzman’s own business dealings.
As it turns out, Saharov’s daughter was married to a family friend of the
Begins, David Koolitz, who, together with Ezer Weitzman and Michael Albin of the
Eisenber group, were among the first Israelis to deal openly in arms. Their
company, Elul Technologies, represented the U.S.-based General Dynamics.
When American weapon shipments started flowing into the region during the 1970s,
the three partners were making commission on every F-16
fighter jet delivered to the IDF.
...
NSA releases data about
Israel obtaining "YellowCake" from Argentina after French supply dried
up
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb432/
The Israel-Argentina Yellowcake Connection
Previously Secret Documents Show That Canadian Intelligence Discovered
That Israel Purchased Yellowcake from Argentines during 1963-1964
Information Later Shared with British and Americans, Who Accepted It after
Hesitation
U.S. State Department Insisted that Uranium Sales Required
Safeguards to Assure Peaceful Use but Israel Was Uncooperative and Evasive About
the Yellowcake's Ultimate Use
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 432
Posted - June 25, 2013
...
That Argentina made the yellowcake sale to Israel has already
been disclosed in declassified U.S. intelligence estimates, but how and
when Washington learned about the sale and how it reacted to it can now be
learned from largely untapped archival sources. Among the disclosures
in today's publication:
•French restrictions on Israel's supply of uranium in 1963 made
U.S. and British officials suspect that Israel would attempt to acquire
yellowcake from other sources without any tangible restrictions to
sustain its nuclear weapons program
• A Canadian intelligence report from March 1964 asserted Israel had
all of the "prerequisites for commencing a modest nuclear weapons
development project."
•When the Canadians discovered the Argentine-Israeli deal they
were initially reluctant to share the intelligence with Washington because the United
States had refused to provide them with information on a recent U.S. inspection
visit by U.S. scientists to Dimona.
•U.S. and British intelligence were skeptical of the Canadian finding until
September 1964 when U.S. Embassy sources in Argentina confirmed the sale to
Israel.
•The Israelis evaded answering questions about the transaction.
When U.S. scientists visited the Dimona facility in March 1966 as
part of the August 1963 secret agreement between President Kennedy and
Prime Minister Eshkol, they asked about the yellowcake but their
Israeli hosts said that question was for "higher officials."
•In 1964 U.S. officials tried to persuade the Argentines to
apply strong safeguards to future uranium exports but had little traction for
securing agreement.
•In 1965, while the CIA and the State Department were investigating
the Argentine yellowcake sale, Washington pursued rumors that the French
uranium mining company in Gabon had sought permission to sell
yellowcake to Israel.
Ever since late 1960, when the CIA learned that the Israelis had been
constructing, with French assistance, a major nuclear facility near Dimona in
the Negev Desert, the United States and its close allies, Canada and
the United Kingdom , and even its Soviet adversary, suspected that Israel had a
nuclear weapons program under way.[1] Closely monitoring Israeli nuclear
activities Canadian intelligence discovered the yellocake sale sometime in the
spring of 1964 and soon shared this sensitive information with the British
...
Israel's interest in uranium is as old as the state itself. As
early as 1949-50, Israel started with a geological survey of the Negev to
determine whether and to what extent uranium could be extracted from
the phosphates deposits there. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s Israel
explored the viability of the phosphates option, some pilots plants were built,
but finally it was determined that it would be too costly. Israel,
therefore, had to find uranium from overseas sources.
For the Dimona project the Israelis initially had gotten uranium from
France, but in the early 1960s Paris began to restrict the supply and
Israel sought to diversify its sources by securing uranium from Argentina, South
Africa and elsewhere.[2] Conversely, because the United States was worried about
the Israeli nuclear program and its implications for stability in the region, it
made efforts to monitor closely Israeli purchases of nuclear material and
investigated the Argentine-Israeli deal. While Washington was then exploring
ways to establish a global safeguards system to regulate nuclear supplies
through the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), nothing yet was available
with any teeth, such as the future Nuclear Suppliers Group, to check such sales,
much less restrict the Israeli nuclear program.
...
The documents in today's publication are from the U.S. and the British National
Archives. All of the U.S. documents were declassified in the mid-1990s
but have lingered in a relatively obscure folder in the State Department's
central foreign policy files at the U.S. National Archives. They may
never have been displayed in public before as the file appeared to be previously
untouched. A few of the British documents have been cited by other historians,
including ourselves, but the fascinating story of
British-Canadian-United States intelligence cooperation and coordination has
also been buried in relative obscurity. The juxtaposition of U.S. and
British records makes a fuller account possible, although some elements
of the story remain secret, such as the identity of the Canadian intelligence
source on the yellowcake purchase.
Only Israeli and Argentine documents, however, can provide the full
story of the yellowcake sale.
...
Alan C. Goodison (1906-2006), trained as an Arabist, worked on Israeli
nuclear matters at the British Foreign Office's Eastern Department in the
mid-1960s. He coordinated the analysis and distribution of the
sensitive Canadian intelligence report on the Argentine yellowcake sale.
Goodison is shown in 1983 when he became Ambassador to Ireland
...
Admiral Oscar A. Quihillalt [Argentina!!!]
(b. 1913), chief of the National Atomic Energy Commission,
1955-73, presided over the creation of Argentina's nuclear establishment.
In 1964, he bore the brunt of U.S. State Department inquiries about the
yellowcake sale to Israel. This image shows him in 1967 when he was
elected Chairman of the Board of Governors of the international Atomic Energy
Agency (Image courtesy of Archives, International Atomic Energy Agency).
...
Walworth Barbour (1908-82) was ambassador to Israel during 1961-73.
[ Bilderberger (see prev
post) ] He presided over the vain effort by U.S.
diplomats and CIA officers to learn what Israel had done with the yellowcake.
(Image from Still Pictures Branch, National Archives, RG 59-SO). [
i.e. he controlled the flow of information ! ]
...
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Argentine Documents on the Yellowcake Sale
Israeli documents on the yellowcake purchase from Argentina are not
available, but German researcher Dr. Gaby Weber has identified and
published significant Argentine records relating to the purchase. They include
several unclassified Argentine presidential decrees from 1960, 1962 and 1963.
The first authorized the sale of 6 tons of yellowcake to the German
firms Nukem and Metallgesellschaft in 1960;
the second (1962) the sale of 10 tons of yellowcake directly to Israel;
and
the third the 1963 sale of the100 tons of yellowcake.
In an interview with Weber, Roberto Ornstein, an official of the Argentine
Atomic Commission, acknowledged that the yellowcake in all three sales
went to Israel. The German role in the first transaction raises
questions about the Israel-West Germany nuclear connection, which Dr.
Weber explores in her publications. More needs to be learned about internal
Argentine decision-making on these transactions.
Through a FOIA request to the Department of Energy, Dr. Weber has also acquired
several U.S. documents relating to the yellowcake sales. One is a
memorandum to A.A. Wells, director of the Division of International Affairs,
dated March 5, 1962, on "sales of uranium concentrate to Israel by
Argentina." According to the report, the AEC's Acting Scientific
Representative at the Buenos Aires Liaison Office "has informed us that the
government of Argentina has recently concluded a sale of 10 metric tons of U3O8
in the form of uranium concentrates to the government of Israel."
The Argentine government made the sale public "despite a request by
the Israeli government that the transaction be kept secret." The
memo also mentioned the sale of the 6 tons in 1960 to the FRG.
http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/search-results/1/%7B%22contributor%22%3A%222246%22%7D
Oct 19 1964
Meeting with embassy officials, the chief of the National Atomic Energy
Commission Admiral Oscar A. Quihillalt informed them that Argentine
uranium sales agreements had only general safeguard provisions stipulating that
the uranium would be used peacefully, and did not require reports, inspections,
or any other independent verification that were loosely equivalent to Article
XIII of the IAEA statute.
Oct 27 1964
When embassy officers provided the aide-memoir and the paper on IAEA safeguards
to Admiral Quihillalt, the chief of the National Atomic Energy Commission, he
was more receptive to the US position than previously and was glad to
know that the US was not in touch with the Israelis about the sale.
Feb 3 1965
This airgram details a meeting with Admiral Quihillalt, director of the National
Atomic Energy Commission of Argentinia, who notes that since the deal
with Israel had been concluded before the IAEA established protocols for
safeguard measures, the Argentine government did not feel the need to include
reporting and inspection requirements. However, safeguards would be
placed on future sales. Attached is a note from the Argentine Foreign Ministry,
with an unofficial translation.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/336423-cmlte-oscar-a-quihillalt&prev=/search%3Fq%3DOscar%2BA.%2BQuihillalt%26biw%3D1104%26bih%3D902
Cmlte. Oscar A. Quihillalt
Wednesday September 19, 2001
At age 88 died on Sunday last, in this city, Rear Admiral Oscar Armando
Quihillalt retired engineer who served between October 1955 and May 1973 as
president of the National Atomic Energy Commission (Conea), during whose term
development widely that activity in our country.
Born July 4, 1913 in Buenos Aires, Quihillalt graduated as a
midshipman from the Naval Academy in 1934 and as an engineer, Faculty of
Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. It was perfected in Sweden.
With the rank of lieutenant commander was appointed in October
1955 as President of the National Atomic Energy Commission, a position he held
until 1973. During that time represented our country in various
international organizations involved in nuclear power.
Between 1956 and 1973 he was governor in the International Atomic
Energy Agency in Austria, and from 1976 to 1978 was president of that body.
Between 1961 and 1969 he held the American Nuclear Energy Commission, a
period in which he became a strong advocate of nuclear energy not only in
Argentina but also in Latin America.
For his career merited the award of the National Order of Merit in
the grade of Commander awarded by France in 1964 and the Grand
Cross of Isabel the Catholic, in October 1967. This latter
distinction received by its action in the field of peaceful uses of atomic
energy.
Just considered one of the world's most representative figures in the
field of development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, during his tenure
at the Conea RA1 was built, the first Argentine and Latin American
nuclear reactor
A business in our country and abroad, representing Argentina, joins his
work as a consultant in Iran between 1974 and 1979.
His remains were buried in the Pantheon Naval No.2 of Chacarita
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2013/07/06/israeli-lies-fueled-nuclear-weapons-program/
Israeli Lies Fueled Nuclear Weapons Program
by Richard Silverstein on July 6, 2013 · 7 comments
in Mideast Peace
Avner Cohen, the leading academic on Israel’s nuclear weapons program, has
written a riveting article about the lies which Israel’s leaders used to
obfuscate and mislead its allies about its nuclear ambition. As part of
the research for the article, Cohen has amassed 42 supporting government
documents which he’s made public as well.
France had designed and helped build the Dimona nuclear reactor
beginning in the late 1950s. But when Charles de Gaulle
came to power in the early 1960s, he exerted much greater constraint on French
involvement. He restricted the supply of uranium offered to the Israelis
and put conditions on its use [
and was the target of assassination like Kennedy ] .
This severely restricted Israel’s ambitions to build a nuclear weapon.
Publicly, Israel’s prime minister and senior cabinet ministers kept up a
front asserting the nuclear program was for peaceful purposes only.
But this wasn’t true and behind the scenes Israel pursued WMD at
breakneck speed.
In 1964, Canadian intelligence received word that Argentina had agreed
to sell 80 tons of uranium yellowcake to Israel, which replaced the fuel Israel
had expected from France. Eventually, the British told the U.S.
about the deal and the latter instructed its embassies in Israel and Argentina
to confirm the sale. Secrecy around the program in Israel was air-tight
and the U.S. embassy could uncover nothing. But the embassy in Argentina
did manage to confirm the sale.
Intelligence experts estimated that Israel could have a nuclear weapon in 18-24
months. Turns out, it had a crude device ready by the 1967 War
which served as a fail-safe in case Israel faced a cataclysmic defeat.
...
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/citroen-helps-de-gaulle-survive-assassination-attempt
On August 22, 1962, President Charles De Gaulle of France survives one
of several assassination attempts against him thanks to the superior
performance of the presidential automobile: The sleek, aerodynamic Citroen DS
19, known as "La Deesse" (The Goddess). ...
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http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/06/05/307258/israel-doomsday-nuke-base-revealed-by-us/
Israel’s secret “Doomsday” Nuke base revealed by US
A location and details of a top secret Israeli base which could be used
to launch nuclear attacks on China or North America was published last week.
Immediate moves were made to “spin” the story away.
The base, intended to house Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) built in
cooperation with India is also to include, not just a doomsday
“Fuhrer-bunker” for Netanyahu and the Zionist elites but storage for
nuclear, biological and chemical warheads as well.
According to intelligence sources in Pakistan, India is supplying Israel
with missiles capable of carrying 10 MIRV (Multiple Independent-targetable
Re-entry Vehicle) warheads each with a range of up to 11,000 miles. A
single missile from this US financed complex could knock out all major
population centers on America’s eastern seaboard.
The thermonuclear warheads and guidance systems for these advanced
weapons were made possible through espionage activities tied to AIPAC,
the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee.
Newspapers claim the underground base, one of a series being built across
Israel, is part of an air defense system. This is, of course, utterly absurd.
...
Detailed plans on the massive underground facility at Tel Shahar,
intended to be Israel’s answer to NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain fortress in
Colorado, were made public when the US published over 1000 pages of
documents, including key information on location, design and
vulnerabilities to attack
...
From SheeraFrenkel at McClatchy News, “The Obama
administration had promised to build Israel a state-of-the-art facility to house
a new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3. As with all
Defense Department projects, detailed specifications were made public so that
contractors could bid on the $25 million project. The specifications included
more than 1,000 pages of details on the facility, ranging from the
heating and cooling systems to the thickness of the walls.”
...
... advance copies of the IAEA report due to be released on Monday, June
10, 2013, show that America’s intelligence assessments indicating
Iran has no military nuclear program have been right all along.
...
Now even school children with their iPhones can read about Israel’s
underground nuclear weapons storage, about equipment for storing, protecting and
deploying nuclear weapons.
What they may not know is that the money that might have helped finance
their college education paid for this highly secret and equally highly illegal
equipment.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-leaks-israeli-arrow-3-missile-secrets/
US spills Israeli missile defense secrets
US government website reveals numerous highly sensitive details of launch site
to be built for Arrow 3 system, crucial to Israel’s
protection against nuclear threats
By Stuart Winer June 4, 2013
...
According to the tender, the complex is to be built at Tal Shahar,
midway between Jerusalem and Ashdod. The sensitive details about the
project have since been removed from the website where the tender was originally
published.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.527538
...
Jane's Defence Weekly magazine recently published a story showing how
official U.S. publications reveal plans to construct a secret Israel missile
base designated for the Arrow III. According to the story, this is part
of an Israel Air Force plan to expand an existing facility in Tel Shahar,
between Jerusalem and Ashdod, whose location has never been officially revealed.
The estimated cost of this expansion is $25 million. The report detailed the
construction plans: Four underground missile launchers, each
carrying six interceptors (Reshef model). The report said this information means
that Israel can potentially launch 24 Arrow III interceptors against a barrage
of ballistic missiles.
The report on a construction tender documents published by the U.S. government
details the type of building that will be built in Israel, which includes highly
durable concrete structures, blast doors and steel screens. A system to handle
high pressure levels will also be built inside the structures, enabling the
electrical components to be protected. According to the documents, the companies
responsible for building the basis will have to complete the work within 485
days of the moment they receive the go ahead to begin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QXAxonT64hM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511965/Arnon-Milchan-reveals-details-double-life-arms-dealer-Israeli-spy.html
'I'm proud of what I did': Hollywood producer reveals his
double life as an arms dealer and Israeli spy - and says the
late Sydney Pollack participated too
Movie tycoon Arnon
Milchan, who owns New Regency Films and produced Fight club and
Pretty Woman, opened up in a tv interview about his clandestine deals to acquire
weapons for Israel in the 70s
He says he worked to promote the country's
alleged nuclear program
Claims he convinced other Hollywood bigwigs, including the
late director Sydney Pollack, to get involved
Robert De Niro says he knew what Milchan was
doing at the time
He used a big-name actor as a lure, calling people
'star-f******'
'I did it for my country and I'm proud of it,’ says the
movie producer
Milchan's next film is Noah, a Darren Aronofsky-directed take
on the Bible, starring Russell Crowe, Emma Watson and Anthony Hopkins
By Marie-louise Olson
PUBLISHED: 13:30 EST, 22 November 2013
A major Hollywood producer is planning to spill the beans about his double life
as an arms dealer and Israeli intelligence operative in the late 1970s.
Arnon Milchan, the Israeli producer of smash hits including Fight Club and
Pretty Woman, is opening up for the first time ever in an Israeli TV show on
Monday to speak about his involvement in clandestine deals to acquire arms for
Israel and his work to promote the country's alleged nuclear program.
Russell Crowe, Robert De Niro, Ben Affleck and other major Hollywood players are
also featured in the controversial report to be aired on Israel’s Channel 2.
...
In the interview he tells her how he tried to engage Hollywood
colleagues in his work for Israel's Defense Ministry, according to
Haaretz.
He claims he managed to convince other Hollywood bigwigs, including the late
director Sydney Pollack, to get involved.
...
Pollack, who died in 2008, acquired arms and other
military equipment for Israel in the 1970s, reveals Milchan in the TV
report.
Pollack knew of the details of the deals, says Milchan, who
adds that he ‘didn't want to scare him because he's American… He could have
said "no". He said "no" many times, but he also said
"yes" many times’.
...
Two years ago, a book titled Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent
Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan, was published by authors Meir
Doron and Joseph Gelman.
The book alleged that Milchan was an operative for Israel's Bureau of
Scientific Relations, which gathered information for Israel's alleged nuclear
program.
The bureau was closed after Jonathan Pollard was arrested for spying on
behalf of Israel in 1986.
Milchan is still making movies, and his company, New Regency films, is working
on four films slated for release in 2013-14.
One of those is Noah, a Darren Aronofsky-directed take on the Biblical
flood story starring Russell Crowe, Emma Watson and Anthony Hopkins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnon_Milchan
Arnon Milchan (Hebrew: ארנון
מילצ'ן; December 6, 1944) is an Israeli
Hollywood film producer who has produced over 120 full-length motion
pictures.[2]
Mr. Milchan is also a former key Israeli intelligence operative from the
mid-1960s to the mid-1980s.[3][4]
Milchan's films include The War of the Roses, Once Upon a Time in America,
Pretty Woman, Natural Born Killers, Under Siege, The Devil's Advocate, The
Fountain, Unfaithful, L.A. Confidential and many others. He is an
Israeli citizen, and a resident of Israel.
Early Life
Milchan was born in Rehovot, British Mandate for Palestine, in 1944.
His family was Jewish.[5] His father owned a fertilizer company,[6] which
Milchan turned into a successful chemical business.[7] He also earned a
degree from the London School of Economics, before being recruited
to LAKAM, a top secret Israeli intelligence organization responsible for
obtaining technology and material for Israel's nuclear program, and other highly
secretive programs
...
Arms Dealing
Speculation about Milchan's involvement in arms dealing and intelligence
activities was sparked after "the indictment in 1985 of Richard Kelly
Smyth, an aerospace executive who had made
illegal shipments of Krytrons (nuclear triggers) through one of Milchan's
companies."
This remained hearsay until biographers Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman
confirmed in a book published July 2011, that Milchan was indeed involved in
espionage and arms-dealing. The research in Confidential - The
Life Of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon established that "at
least through the mid-1980s [Milchan] was a full-fledged operative for
Israel’s top-secret intelligence agency, Lakam.
His activities included "buying components to build and maintain
Israel’s nuclear arsenal" and supervising
"government-backed accounts and front companies that financed the special
needs of the entirety of Israel’s intelligence operations outside the
country.".[3] Interviewed regarding Milchan's intelligence activities,
Israeli President Shimon Peres stated:
"Arnon is a special man. It was I who recruited him....
When I was at the Ministry of Defense, Arnon was involved in numerous
defense-related procurement activities and intelligence operations. His strength
is in making connections at the highest levels.... His activities gave us a huge
advantage, strategically, diplomatically and technologically." (interview
dated February 8, 2010, documented in Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman's
"Confidential: Secret Agent turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan" p.
xi)
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lekem
Lekem, (also pronounced "Lakam") an acronym for ha-Lishka
le-Kishrei Mada (Hebrew: הלשכה
לקשרי מדע, Bureau of
Scientific Relations), was an Israeli intelligence agency headed by
spy-master Benjamain Blumberg (1957-1981), and by spy-master Rafi Eitan
(1981-1986). It collected scientific and technical intelligence abroad
from both open and covert sources, particularly for Israel's nuclear program. It
was disbanded in 1986 following the arrest of Jonathan Pollard for
espionage on behalf of Israel. Pollard was a United States Navy
intelligence employee in the Naval Antiterrorist Alert Center in Washington,
D.C. He was paid for delivering large amounts of classified documents to Lekem
agents. Pollard was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.[1]
The high proifile Pollard case was not the only problematic case for Lekem in
1985.
In California, a US Aerospace Engineer, Richard Kelly Smyth, the
President of a company called MILCO, was indicted that same year for smuggling
over 800 krytron switches (a component used in nuclear weapons) to Israel
without the required US State Department Munitions Export License.
Just before trial, and facing a possible 105 years in prison, Richard
Kelly Smyth and his wife suddenly disappeared. Sixteen years later they were
discovered and arrested while living as fugitives in Malaga, Spain, and
extradited back to the United States where he was convicted in the case.
The krytrons shipped by Smyth were sent to an Israeli company called
Heli-Trading Ltd. owned by notable Israeli movie producer Arnon Milchan.
Before his prominent Hollywood career, Mr, Milchan had served for decades as a
Lekem agent, under the direct command of Lekem spy-master Benjamin
Blumberg. It later became clear that the company MILCO served
as a Lekem front company for obtaining sensitive equipment,
technologies and materials for Israeli secret defense-related programs, and in
particular its nuclear program.[2]
The Israeli government asserted that the Krytron incident was a simple
mistake by the "exporter" Milco, and that the Pollard
operation was an unauthorized deviation from its policy of not
conducting espionage in the United States before an admission in 1998 of Israeli
responsibility. In 1987 the Israeli government set up a commission to
investigate the Pollard affair, which found it would be in Israel's interest to
take responsibility for the case. In 1987 following the difficult
Pollard and Milco cases, the Israeli government decided to disband Lekem,
whose functions were assigned to the Director of Security of the Defense
Establishment, adding technical and scientific intelligence to its
responsibilities which include internal investigations of the defense ministry.
http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2012/07/03/netanyahu-worked-inside-nuclear-smuggling-ring/
Netanyahu Worked Inside
Nuclear Smuggling Ring
Counterespionage debriefing reveals how Israel targeted U.S.
by Grant Smith, July 04, 2012
On June 27, 2012, the FBI partially declassified and released seven
additional pages [.pdf] from a 1985–2002 investigation into how a network of
front companies connected to the Israeli Ministry of Defense illegally smuggled
nuclear triggers out of the U.S.*
The newly released FBI files detail how Richard Kelly Smyth — who was
convicted of running a U.S. front company — met with Benjamin Netanyahu in
Israel during the smuggling operation. At that time, Netanyahu worked
at the Israeli node of the smuggling network, Heli Trading Company.
Netanyahu, who currently serves as Israel’s prime minister, recently
issued a gag order that the smuggling network’s unindicted ringleader refrain
from discussing “Project Pinto.”
...
http://www.bollyn.com/arnon-milchan-mr-israel-and-911/
In Confidential, a recent biography of Arnon Milchan, Israel's LAKAM agent
Number One, the authors reveal that Milchan and Peres are "strategic
partners" and "holders of some of Israel's most significant
secrets." Chief among these secrets would certainly be how Israeli agents
carried out 9/11.
"MR. ISRAEL" - Israel's senior LAKAM agent Arnon Milchan
(center) has long been the man bridging Israel's intelligence establishment with
each new government.
In this photo from 2005, Milchan sits between his old friends Vice Prime
Minister Shimon Peres and Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a former
employee of Milchan's chemical company,
Milchan Bros. Milchan was the essential agent in building Israel's
nuclear arsenal. So, what does he know about the Israeli-made super-thermite
that demolished the World Trade Center?
http://amconfidential.blogspot.com/2012/04/maariv-israeli-spy-master-legend.html
The first photograph of legendary Israeli spy-master Benjamin Blumberg
ever published. Blumberg created and ran Israel's super-secret LAKAM spy
agency. Image published in Israel's Maariv Newspaper 04-06-2012.
http://irmep.org/ila/krytons/
FBI investigates MILCO nuclear trigger smuggling to Israel
"...also met Benyamin Netanyahu while Netanyahu worked at Heli
Trading..."
Documents
California-based MILCO International Inc. shipped 15 orders totaling 800
krytrons to the Israeli Ministry of Defense between 1979 and 1983.
Israeli movie producer Arnon Milchan's Heli Trading Company brokered the
transactions. A krytron is a gas-filled tube used as a high speed switch.
Export from the US requires a US State Department munitions license because
krytrons can be used as triggers for nuclear weapons. The US rejected
several requests for krytron export licenses to Israel. MILCO
obtained the krytrons from EG&G Inc.
...
http://irmep.org/ila/krytons/07151992section1.pdf
Record of a phone call between a supervisory special agent in Los Angeles and a
special agent in Portland classified as "secret." The special agent
notifies LA of impending news media coverage of "an extremely successful
movie producer in Hollywood" [Arnon Milchan] noting his ties to
"Oliver Stone, Sidney Pollack, Barbara Streisand, Tom Cruise, Richar
Dreyfuss and Robert DeNiro. The subject's likely location and
wealth "close to $1 billion" and close ties to "Labor Party
officials in Israel" is noted. Milchan's arms dealing through MILCO
and ties to another American are explored in the heavily redacted file.
http://amconfidential.blogspot.com/2012/03/fbi-releases-heavily-censored-files-on.html
Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) appeal, the FBI released heavily
censored files on Arnon Milchan, files that were not scheduled for release until
2036. None-the-less, these files are revealing as to the intensity of the FBI's
focus on Mr. Milchan, including memos to the Director of the FBI, keeping him
informed of developments in the case. These memos confirm numerous facts
detailed in the book Confidential, including the US Attorney's attempt to
"flip" Richard Kelly Smyth against Mr. Milchan, an attempt that
failed. Smyth of course disappeared shortly thereafter. The sheer amount of
material that was censored in these documents is testimony to the sensitivity
placed on this entire matter, to this day.
http://www.forbes.com/profile/arnon-milchan/
Arnon Milchan
Net Worth $4.2 B As of March 2013
Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan's New Regency films, the company he
founded, produced no movies in 2012 as he worked to rebuild his
management team, but four movies are slated for release in 2013, including
"Noah," a Darron Aronofsky-directed setting of the Biblical flood
story starring Russell Crowe, Emma Watson and Anthony Hopkins.
The company recently reopened its television division, which earlier
produced "Malcolm in the Middle" and "The Bernie Mac Show."
Once a business student and professional soccer player, Milchan transformed his
family's bankrupt fertilizer company into a $125 million business with interests
in agriculture, aerospace, animal health products, plastic, fiber optics and
pharmaceuticals. An avid art collector, he has lately been doing paintings of
his own. He has seven homes around the world.
[ No mention in forbes of
him being an Israeli agent and Arms Dealer ,,, hmmm ]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EG&G
EG&G, formally known as Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc.,
was a United States national defense contractor and provider of management and
technical services. The company was involved in contracting services to the
United States government during World War II, and conducted weapons research and
development after the war. Its close involvement with some of the
government's most sensitive technologies has led to its being cited in
conspiracy theories related to Department of Defense black projects.
...
The group's high-speed photography was used to image implosion tests during the
Manhattan Project. The same skills in precisely timed high-power electrical
pulses also formed a key enabling technology for nuclear weapon triggers. After
the war, the group continued their association with the burgeoning military
nuclear effort, and formally incorporated Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier,
Inc. in 1947
...
From 1999 until 2001, EG&G was wholly owned by The Carlyle Group
http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-nuclear-free-zone-in-the-middle-east-why-israel-will-not-join-the-non-proliferation-treaty/5351738
A “Nuclear-Free Zone” in the Middle East? Why Israel will not Join
the Non-Proliferation Treaty
By Timothy Alexander Guzman
Global Research, September 27, 2013
Iran’s New President Hassan Rouhani has requested that Israel to sign
and become a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as he spoke
for a second time at the United Nation General Assembly. “As long as nuclear
weapons exist, the threat of their use exists,” Rouhani said, citing
the American bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Rouhani is
calling for “nuclear-free zone” in the Middle East. Israel is
the only country in the Middle East that had not and will not sign the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel would use nuclear weapons if it
felt it was threatened by any nation in the Middle East.
The nuclear capability of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) defensive capabilities
just reached another plateau this past April. It purchased its 5th
nuclear submarine that can be deployed anywhere in the world with first strike
capability. The Israel News Agency reported that Israel purchased
a fifth Dolphin class submarine called the “INS Rahav” from Germany.
The article headlined “Israel Launches Ninth Submarine, Ready To Strike Iran
Nuclear Weapons.” Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
said “The submarines are a strong, strategic tool for the IDF. The State of
Israel is ready to act anytime, anywhere – on land, sea and air – in order
to ensure the security of Israel’s citizens.” The submarines
are equipped with Israeli-designed Popeye missiles that are capable of carrying
nuclear warheads. It is no secret that Israel has nuclear weapons.
Some estimates suggest that Israel has between 100 and 400 nuclear weapons.
No one knows exactly how many nuclear bombs Israel possesses, but we do
know they have the capability to produce them at a moment’s notice.
...
Since Israel is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty;
the Dimona Nuclear Research center is not subject to inspections from the
international community such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
According to the Federation of American Scientists in a 2007 report,
Israel has between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads, but some estimates have their
nuclear warheads at less than 200. It is also known that Israel has the
ability to deliver them by intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a
range of 5,500 kilometers or 3,400 miles, the Jericho III missile named after
the biblical city of Jericho, various aircrafts and of course submarines.
...
By the late 1950s Shimon Peres had established LEKEM, or the
‘Science liaison Bureau’ a new intelligence service that would search for
technology, materials and equipment needed for Israel’s nuclear program.
By 1952, Hemed Gimmel was under Israel’s Ministry of Defense to become the
Division of Research and Infrastructure (EMET). By June 1952,
The Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) was established with Ernest David
Bergmann as the first chairman. Hemed Gimmel was renamed Machon 4 which
became the “chief laboratory” of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC).
France was a major partner for Israel’s nuclear program. France also
sold weapons to Israel. The France-Israel relationship was instrumental in
the development of the Dimona Nuclear Research Center. Israel signed
American President Dwight Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace, an agreement for
peaceful nuclear cooperation between the U.S. and Israel along with Turkey to
build a“small swimming pool research reactor” at Nachal Soreq.
...
In 1958, Charles de Gaulle became President of France. Almost
immediately after he assumed office, he wanted to end France’s assistance to
Israel’s nuclear program. He would only support Israel’s nuclear
program if international inspectors were allowed to inspect Dimona and
that Israel would declare that its nuclear program was for peaceful purposes and
that under no circumstances reprocess plutonium. Israeli Prime Minister
Shimon Peres negotiated with the French government allowing a window of
opportunity for French companies to continue its work until 1966 with the
Israeli government. Israel also had declared its nuclear program was
“peaceful”. [ On
August 22, 1962, President Charles De Gaulle of France survives one of several
assassination attempts against him - There were thirty serious
assassination attempts on De Gaulle's life between 1958 and 1965
]
...
The Obama administration is not seeking any negotiations with Iran unless they
stop its nuclear program which will not happen. Iran will insist that they
are signatories to the NPT and have an “inalienable right” to use nuclear
technology for peaceful purposes.
Israel will not be a
signatory to the NPT because “This
resolution is deeply flawed and hypocritical. It ignores the realities of
the Middle East and the real threats facing the region and the entire world”
according to Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
So the rest of us are idiots for
signing the NPT ...
More to follow....
(Pollard)
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e_OqB0lQeM&feature=player_embedded
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB407/
The Jonathan Pollard Spy Case: The CIA's 1987 Damage Assessment
Declassified
New Details on What Secrets Israel Asked Pollard to Steal
CIA Withholding Overturned on Appeal by National Security Archive
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 407
Posted - December 14, 2012
UPDATED January 9, 2013
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson
Washington, DC, December 14, 2012 – When Naval Investigative Service analyst
Jonathan Pollard spied for Israel in 1984 and 1985, his Israeli handlers asked
primarily for nuclear, military and technical information on the Arab states,
Pakistan, and the Soviet Union – not on the United States – according to the
newly-declassified CIA 1987 damage assessment of the Pollard case, published
today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University (http://www.nsarchive.org/).
The damage assessment includes new details on the specific subjects and
documents sought by Pollard's Israeli handlers (pages 36-43), such as Syrian
drones and central communications, Egyptian missile programs, and Soviet air
defenses. The Israelis specifically asked for a signals intelligence manual that
they needed to listen in on Soviet advisers in Syria. The document describes how
Pollard's handler, Joseph Yagur, told him to ignore a request, from Yagur's
boss, for U.S. "dirt" on senior Israeli officials and told Pollard
that gathering such information would terminate the operation (page 38).
Under the heading "What the Israelis Did Not Ask For," the assessment
remarks (page 43) that they "never expressed interest in US military
activities, plans, capabilities, or equipment."
The assessment also notes that Pollard volunteered delivery of three daily
intelligence summaries that had not been requested by his handlers, but which
proved useful to them, and ultimately handed over roughly 1,500 such messages
from the Middle East and North Africa Summary (MENAS), the Mediterranean
Littoral Intelligence Summary (MELOS), and the Indian Ocean Littoral
Intelligence Summary, in addition to the more than 800 compromised documents on
other subjects that Pollard delivered to the Israelis in suitcases.
The damage assessment also features a detailed 21-page chronology of Pollard's
personal life and professional career, including his work for the Israelis,
highlighting more than a dozen examples of unusual behavior by Pollard that the
CIA suggests should have, in retrospect, alerted his supervisors that he was a
security risk. Prominent on the list were false statements by Pollard during a
1980 assignment with Task Force 168, the naval intelligence element responsible
for HUMINT collection. Pollard is now serving a life sentence in prison for
espionage.
...
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB407/docs/Pollard%20damage%20assess%20CIA%20original%20redacted.pdf
Pollard's disclosures were alarming to U.S. officials for several reasons, some
of which were noted in their official declarations (Document 7a, Document 10)
– some of which were direct responses (Document 9) to claims and analysis made
by Pollard in his sentencing memorandums (Document 6, Document 8b). One, despite
the fact that both the U.S. and Israeli considered each other legitimate
intelligence targets, was Israel's willingness to run a human
penetration operation directed at the U.S. government.
Another, was the damage to the intelligence sharing arrangement with
Israel – since its acquisition of material from Pollard weakened the U.S.
position vis-a-vis intelligence exchanges with Israel. In addition,
there was no guarantee that such documents, revealing both sources and methods
as well as assessments, would not find their way to the Soviet Union via
a Soviet penetration of the Israeli intelligence or defense community – as had
happened with a number of other allies. Further, since Israel was a
target of U.S. intelligence collection – particularly technical collection -
operations, the documents could be used by Israeli counterintelligence
and security organizations to help Israel neutralize or degrade U.S. collection
operations.
Of all the spy cases from 1985, the Pollard case has been the one that
has had the longest life in terms of media coverage - in part because of
efforts, both by private citizens and the Israeli government to have his life
sentence commuted.
...
http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2012/06/08/why-obama-will-free-jonathan-pollard/
Why Obama Will Free Jonathan Pollard
President accepts Israel infallibility doctrine
by Grant Smith, June 09, 2012
The US Department of Justice has released new files about convicted spy Jonathan
Pollard’s bid for presidential clemency.
Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 after passing more than
a million highly classified documents to Israel while working as an intelligence
analyst for the US Navy.
Documents in the Freedom of Information Act response (PDF) reference 32 pages of
government agency deliberative communications and 37 pages of new communications
between Pardon Attorney Ronald Rogers and Pollard’s legal team — all
produced since July of 2011. While the contents have been withheld, their
existence signals that the Pollard commutation request may be nearing a
conclusion within the Obama administration. June 18 could mark the
culmination of a massive lobbying campaign for release. Obama’s dismal
record on Israeli accountability suggests Pollard will soon walk free.
Released documents reveal that the Rabbinical Assembly — claiming to represent
"1.5 million Jews worldwide" — passed a formal resolution asking
Obama to commute Pollard’s sentence.
...
Pollard’s ongoing imprisonment has uniquely and singularly defied
Israel’s doctrine of accountability. Israel’s history is replete with
demands that it should never be held accountable for any act committed anywhere
— including in the US — that is perpetrated in the name of Israel’s
national security.
...
Less widely known is that Israeli front company Telogy was caught in the
summer of 2010 illegally shipping nuclear weapons components out of California
to Israel.
When such crimes occurred in the past — such as in the case of MILCO smuggling
nuclear triggers out of California to Israel — the US at least criminally
investigated Israel’s US operatives even while carefully steering around the
true masterminds such as Arnon Milchan and high Israeli intelligence officials.
In the case of Telogy, the Obama administration simply leaked tidbits of
the export violations to friendly press, helpfully allowing Telogy to quickly
roll up its illegal US operations. Rather than raids, arrests,
publicity and prosecutions,
Israel’s only punishment for Telogy was a mild admonishment (PDF)
issued by former weapons inspector David Albright from his perch at a think
tank almost singularly devoted to analyzing Iran’s — but not Israel’s —
nuclear program in the establishment news media.
...
http://www.jspace.com/news/pollard-begins-29th-year-prison-despite-calls-release/
Pollard Begins 29th Year in Prison, Despite Calls for Release
November 21, 2013
Jonathan Pollard, the convicted American spy for Israel, began his 29th year
behind bars today.
Thursday marked the 28th anniversary of Pollard’s arrest outside the Israeli
Embassy in Washington. His time in prison has been marked by myriad protests
calling for his release, including a vocal effort in Israel.
On Wednesday, the convict’s wife, Esther, called on President Barack
Obama to commute her husband’s sentence to time served and release him from
prison.
Esther Pollard also criticized Israeli President Shimon Peres for saying the US
president has responded favorably to all Israeli requests. Last year,
Peres formally asked Obama to commute Pollard’s sentence.
Pollard, a civilian US Navy intelligence analyst who spied for Israel, was
sentenced to life in prison in 1987, despite a plea bargain in which he admitted
his guilt. Several Israeli leaders and an increasing number of US political
figures from both parties have made requests that the United States pardon
Pollard.
Pollard was made a
citizen of Israel during his imprisonment. He will be eligible for parole in two
years.
Israel will not be a signatory to the NPT because “This resolution is deeply flawed and hypocritical. It ignores the realities of the Middle East and the real threats facing the region and the entire world” according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
I never posted the
Richard Smyth extradition article (interesting AFTER 9/11/2001 ) :
Arnon Milchan had to know what was going on and the previously posted links show
that he did know.
Oh but Milchan goes on producing films in HOLYWOOD his latest:
12 years a slave and NOAH , but his name is never mentioned in promotion!.
Story
of Noah minus God - Russell Crowe - Arnon Milchan Israeli Nuke spy
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/30/local/me-krytron30
Engineer Sentenced in Nuclear Trigger Case
Weapons: Richard Kelly Smyth, extradited from Spain, admitted a 'grave
error' in shipping to Israel devices that can fire nuclear weapons.
April 30, 2002 |DAVID ROSENZWEIG | TIMES STAFF
WRITER
A Southern California engineer who fled the country in 1985 after being
indicted on charges of selling Israel electronic devices that can be used to
fire nuclear weapons was sentenced Monday to 40 months in federal
prison.
Richard Kelly Smyth, now 72 and in frail health, was discovered living
in southern Spain last year. He was arrested by local police and
extradited to the United States.
He pleaded guilty in December to violating the U.S. Arms Export Control
Act and making a false statement about the contents of one shipment of the
devices, which are known as krytrons and have a variety of
applications, from triggering nuclear warheads to operating
photocopying machines.
Despite the sentence, federal Judge Pamela A. Rymer ruled that Smyth could
immediately apply to be released on parole. She also fined him $20,000.
Israeli authorities denied having acquired the 2-inch-long krytrons for
their nuclear weapons arsenal. After Smyth's indictment, they returned
the remaining devices to U.S. authorities.
Appearing in Los Angeles federal court Monday, Smyth said he made a
"grave error" when he shipped about 800 krytrons in the early 1980s to
Heli Trading Co. in Israel without State Department approval.
Heli Trading was owned
at that time by Arnon Milchan, an Israeli-born arms trader who
later became a successful Hollywood film producer. His movies have included
"Pretty Woman" and "L.A. Confidential."
Milchan has denied involvement in the krytron deal. He told
CBS' "60 Minutes" two years ago that he had allowed the
Israeli government to use his company for trading with the United States.
In court, Smyth also apologized for fleeing the United States just before the
start of his scheduled 1985 trial before Rymer, now a federal appeals court
judge. He said he panicked after reading newspaper articles saying he could be
sentenced to up to 105 years in prison if convicted on all of the 30 criminal
counts originally lodged against him.
The 105 years represented the maximum sentence allowed by statute. Statutory
maximums are only rarely applied.
Abandoning his engineering business, Milco International Inc., and an expensive
home in Orange County, Smyth and his wife, Emelie, flew to Switzerland
and then settled in Malaga, Spain, passing themselves off as retirees.
Smyth, using his real name, was vice president of the American Club in
Malaga. He and his wife got along on Social Security and
occasional gifts from relatives.
U.S. authorities learned of Smyth's whereabouts by accident.
Last year, he opened an account at a bank in Malaga, noting in his application
that he was a U.S. citizen. A routine check by the bank with Interpol turned up
an arrest warrant issued in Los Angeles. Smyth was taken into custody by Spanish
police.
...
In sentencing Smyth, Rymer said she found it difficult to accept the notion that
he was naive about the law.
Observing that he and his wife spent "15 idyllic years in
Spain" after fleeing the United States, she questioned why he made
no effort to come back on his own to face the music.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/business/global/new-book-tells-tale-of-israeli-arms-dealer-in-hollywood.html?_r=0
New Book Recounts Tale of Israeli Agent at Home in Hollywood
Meir Doron, left, and Joseph Gelman wrote a book on Arnon Milchan, which
says he at one point sold nuclear-triggering devices.
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Published: July 17, 2011
LOS ANGELES — “Never, never tell jokes about a man with easy access to
weapons of mass destruction,” Peter Chernin, a former News Corporation
official, once light-heartedly warned of Arnon Milchan, who has long tantalized
Hollywood with his dual identity as a producer of popular movies and a
businessman tied to the arms industry.
Mr. Chernin may have been even more right than he knew.
“Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon
Milchan,” written by Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman, and set for
publication on July 30 by Gefen Books, now holds that Mr. Milchan — whose
credits include “Love and Other Drugs” and “Knight and Day” — at least
through the mid-1980s was a full-fledged operative for Israel’s top-secret
intelligence agency, Lakam. (The acronym is from the Hebrew for the
blandly named Science Liaison Bureau.)
In that capacity, according to the book, Mr. Milchan supervised
government-backed accounts and front companies that financed “the special
needs of the entirety of Israel’s intelligence operations outside the
country.”
The “special needs” serviced by Mr. Milchan, who is now 66 years
old, included buying components to build and maintain Israel’s nuclear
arsenal. But with the indictment in 1985 of Richard Kelly Smyth, an
aerospace executive who had made illegal shipments of nuclear triggers through
Milchan companies, Mr. Milchan unexpectedly found his arms-dealing in
the news even as he was wrangling with Universal Pictures over the near collapse
of a movie, “Brazil,” directed by Terry Gilliam.
Mr. Smyth became a fugitive. He was finally arrested in 2001,
convicted and imprisoned. He was released on probation in 2005.
Mr. Milchan was not accused of wrongdoing, but the case drew
scrutiny to his activities in the arms business even as he stepped up his film
career under deals first at Warner Brothers, then at 20th Century Fox, whose
parent company bought a stake in his Regency Enterprises. In the glow of
friendships with the likes of Brad Pitt and Robert De Niro, speculation about
his intrigues seemed to fade — until a pair of unlikely biographers decided to
figure out why Israel had been filtering a large part of its military budget
through Hollywood hands.
...
“I did it for my country, the money did not go to me,” Mr. Gelman
recalled Mr. Milchan explaining, when the three later met, and began a
series of sessions that went on for six months.
GOBAL WARMING "cause of cold snap"
interesting
since even in 1969 the Israelis had the bomb (maybe no icbm capability till 1970
?) but no one wanted it to be a public fact: here Nixon and
Kissinger sucessfully conspire to keep the Israel Nukes a secret -
recently DE-classified :
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb485/
Israel Crosses the Threshold II: The Nixon Administration Debates the
Emergence of the Israeli Nuclear Program
DOD's Paul Warnke Warned in Early 1969 that Israeli Nuclear Program is
"the Single Most Dangerous Phenomenon in an Area Dangerous Enough Without
Nuclear Weapons"
President Nixon Overrode Near Consensus of Senior U.S. Officials on Threat
Posed by Israeli Nuclear Program in 1969
NSSM 40 and Related Records Released in Full for First Time
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 485
Posted - September 12, 2014
Edited by William Burr and Avner Cohen
For more information contact:
William Burr - 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Avner Cohen - 831/647-6437 or 202/489-6282Â (cell); avnerc@miis.edu
Nixon, Laird, and Wheeler inside the Pentagon on Flag Day.
Standing behind Laird is his military assistant, U.S. Air Force Colonel Robert
Pursley, who played a significant role in moving forward the relevant papers on the
Israeli nuclear issue. Pursley had served as military assistant to
Secretaries of Defense Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford. (Photo source:
National Archives, Still Pictures Division, RG 342B, box 1156)
Washington, D.C., September 12, 2014 – During the spring and summer of
1969, officials at the Pentagon, the State Department, the Central
Intelligence Agency, and the White House debated and discussed the
problem of the emergence of a nuclear Israel. Believing that Israel
was moving very close to a nuclear weapons capability or even possession of
actual weapons, the Nixon administration debated whether to
apply pressure to restrain the Israelis or even delay delivery of advanced
Phantom jets whose sale had already been approved.
Recently declassified documents produced in response to a mandatory
declassification review request by the National Security Archive, and
published today by the Archive in cooperation with the Nuclear Proliferation
International History Project, show that top officials at the Pentagon were
especially supportive of applying pressure on Israel.
On 14 July 1969, Deputy Secretary of Defense (and Hewlett-Packard
co-founder) David Packard signed a truly arresting memorandum to Secretary of
Defense Melvin Laird, arguing that failure to exert such pressure "would
involve us in a conspiracy with Israel which would leave matters
dangerous to our security in their hands."
In the end, Laird and Packard and others favoring pressure lost the
debate. While National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger supported
some of their ideas, he also believed that, at the minimum, it would be sufficient
for U.S. interests if Israel kept their nuclear activities secret. As
he put on his draft memo to President Nixon on or around July 19,
"public knowledge is almost as dangerous as possession itself."
Indeed, Nixon opposed pressure and was willing to tolerate Israeli
nuclear weapons as long as they stayed secret.
...
This nonpartisan consensus highlights how at the end independent-in fact,
secretive and aloof-President Nixon was as he made his own decisions on the
matter. Thus, he ruled against using the Phantoms as pressure and in
doing so left the United States with no leverage whatsoever.
ISCAP's declassification actions take away some-but surely not all-of the
mystery surrounding NSSM 40. The details of the intelligence findings that
raised U.S. government concerns about the Israeli nuclear program remain
classified, and ISCAP upheld excisions made by the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA). The CIA used its statutory exemption to withhold
information, but it is not clear whether that was true of all of the
intelligence details that were exempted from the documents presented below.
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb485/docs/Doc%2010%207-19-69%20circa.pdf
Document 10: Memorandum from Henry Kissinger to President Nixon,
"Israeli Nuclear Program," n.d., with enclosures dated 19
July 1969, Top Secret, excised copy
Source: Richard Nixon Presidential Library, National Security Council Files, box
612, Israeli Nuclear Program
After Packard sent his memo to Laird, Kissinger assessed the discussions at the
two Senior Review Group meetings and appears to have reached somewhat parallel
conclusions. This fascinating memorandum was declassified some years
ago, after the publication of "Israel Crosses the Threshold." The file
at the Nixon Library includes no evidence about how this memorandum was used,
whether it was a working draft, a final draft, or whether some version of it
actually went to President Nixon. Kissinger may well have used it for discussion
purposes with Nixon.
...
Did I post this already ? - - - Oh Kerry's [ Kohn ] crypto dad connection ....
http://www.thenation.com/blog/202129/its-official-pentagon-finally-admitted-israel-has-nuclear-weapons-too?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow#
...
"Washington knew all along what the inspectors would find in Israel.
Furthermore, as far back as the 1960s, the US Foreign Assistance Act was amended
by concerned senators to prohibit any foreign aid for countries developing their
own nukes. Smith asserts that the exception made for Israel was a
violation of the US law but it was shrouded by the official secrecy.
Since Israel is a major recipient of US aid, American presidents had good reason
not to reveal the truth."
...
The Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, Smith said, is pushing
another FOIA request aimed at the CIA, hoping to pry open long-secret
intelligence investigations about how Israel managed to get the bomb in the
first place. The institute is seeking disclosure of a CIA study that
supposedly investigated how quantities of uranium were leaked or
allegedly smuggled by Israeli agents from a Pennsylvania defense plant to
provide seed corn for the Israel bomb
The newly released report "Critical Technological Assessment in
Israel and NATO Nations"
http://irmep.org/cfp/DoD/071987_CTAIIANN.pdf
April 1987
Further dissemination only as directed by OUSDA/IP&T The Pentagon,
Washington, DC 20301-3070; 15 July 1987, or higher
authority.
Copy 3 of 100 copies
IDA MEMORANDUM REPORT M-317
CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
IN ISRAEL AND NATO NATIONS
Edwin S. Townsley, IDA
Project Director
Clarence A. Robinson, LTI
Team Leader
April 1987
Prepared for
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
(International Programs and Technology)
INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES
180 IN. Beauregard Street, Alexandria, Virginia 223 i I
Copyright IDA/Scanned June 2007
IDA Log No. HQ 87-32;56
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb488/
China's First Nuclear Test 1964 -- 50th Anniversary
Shaul Eisenberg - Permindex - Red China Nuclear Program - JFK Assassination
Dr. Chaim Weizmann - Prez World Zionist Organization - Israel gets the bomb
QuoteEvidence suggests that "Red China's" first explosion of a nuclear device was in fact a joint venture between Israel and Red China.