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Ten Explosive U.S. Government

Secrets about Israel

Absent greater transparency, Americans should assume the worst

By Grant F. Smith

October 24, 2013 "Information Clearing House - "IRmep" - - In 1968

Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms wrote urgently to Attorney

General Ramsey Clark and President Lyndon B. Johnson that some highly

enriched uranium fueling Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor was stolen from

America. LBJ reportedly uttered, "Don't tell anyone else, even [Secretary of

State] Dean Rusk and [Defense Secretary] Robert McNamara." The FBI

immediately launched a deep investigation into the inexplicably heavy losses

at theNuclear Materials and Equipment CorporationNUMEC inPennsylvania and the highly suspicious activities and Israeli connections of

the Americans running it. The CIA was tasked to find out what was going on

in Israel, and compiled thousands of documents about the incident. (PDF)

Although CIA officials in a position to know unofficially went on record

claiming a diversion had occurred, for decades the CIA has thwarted

declassification and release of the LBJ memos. On October 18, 2013 the

only appeals panel with the power to overrule the CIAthe Interagency

Security Classification Appeals Panel ISCAPsent notification that

Americans are not yet ready to know the contents of the memos (ISCAP

decision PDF). This denial of public release of decades-old secretsconcerning U.S.-Israel relations is far from unique. Although the Obama

administration promised unprecedented transparency, it has emasculated the

public's ability to give informed consent on a wide range of key foreign

policy issues. A review of ten particularly toxic U.S. secrets about Israel

suggests stakeholders should start assuming the worst but most logical

explanation.
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In 2006 former Secretary of Defense

Donald Rumsfeld famously told

reporters at an Iraq war briefing

"There are known knowns. These

are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns. That is

to say, there are things that we know

we don't know. But there are also

unknown unknowns. There are

things we don't know we don't

know." Bush administration secrecy

and Rumsfeld's pithy quotes failed to

quell gradual public awareness that

the ill-fated invasion was launched

on purposely fabricated pretexts.

And yet the Iraq debacle could have been avoided if Americans had been

better informed over time how government truly functions through greater

access to the fourth category left unmentioned by Rumsfeld: "unknown

knowns."

"Unknown knowns" are the paradigm-shifting bits of information known

only by a select few in government but kept from their fellow American

citizens because they would reveal indefensible, secret policies and

institution-level corruption that favor a special interest. By locking

"unknown knowns" under heavy guard in document archives, covering them

in secrecy classification stamps and making an example out of

whistleblowers who release them without authorization, busy bureaucrats

with the highest security clearances maintain a vast and growing trove of

"unknown knowns." Historians and watchdog organizations are continually

thwarted in their mandate to contextualize and educate the public about

relevant past events that could deeply inform the governedand ultimately

improve governance. Senator Carl Schurz said, "My country right or wrong,

if right, to be kept right, and if wrong, to be set right." "Unknown knowns"

obliterate the public's ability to execute the latter two-thirds of that sageadvice.

Even the passage of time does not guarantee "unknown knowns" ever

become "known knowns." Under current government records preservation

guidelinesparticularly for information that researchers are not actively

seeking to declassifysome "unknown knowns" quietly become "unknown


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unknowns" as they decay, are physically destroyed, erased or "lost." Many

knowledgeable former officials take their secrets to the grave. As a product

of the ill-gotten powerand influence of the Israel lobby, the pile of

"unknown knowns" about U.S.-Israel policy is particularly large. Curious

Americans who rightfully question official narratives about the U.S.-Israel"special relationship" have often requested "unknown knowns" under the

Freedom of Information Act. Former government insiders who know

firsthand about explosive secrets often seek their public release to alert others

using the Mandatory Declassification Review, even requesting documents by

name, subject, location, author and date. After such "unknown knowns" (like

the LBJ memos) are unsuccessfully sought for decades by multiple

researchers, well-warranted suspicions arise about the reasons behind the

impermeable government wall of refusal. The following ten US-Israel policy

"unknown knowns" suggest the Israel lobby's ongoing corrupt power is the

only possible explanation for why they are still secret.

1. Henry Morgenthau

Jr's Israel policy is the

stuff of legend in

accounts about the

birth of Israel. Some

researchers claim that

FDR's former Treasury

Secretarywas present

at the original 1945

meeting of American

Zionists with Jewish

Agency executive

director David Ben-Gurion to set up the massive Haganah smuggling

network to steal, illegally buy and smuggle surplus WWII arms from the U.S.

to Jewish fighters in Palestine. (report PDF) This was the first major

broadly organized Israel lobby challenge to U.S. sovereignty. It successfully

overrode American policy enshrined in neutrality and arms export laws.

Others claim Morgenthau was also instrumental in the illicit financingIsrael's clandestine nuclear weapons program in direct opposition to policy

set by American presidents.

The FBI's dusty 10,000 page file on Morgenthau, numbered 105-HQ-188123

(the 105 code signifies "foreign counterintelligence") including intercepts to

Morgenthau from Israel, could finally clear up many of these allegations,
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3. Israeli theft of nuclear

material from NUMEC. In

2013, the CIA continues to

resist release of thousands of

files about the NUMECdiversion by referring to CIA

Deputy Director for Operations

John H. Stein's secret decision

in 1979 (2013 FOIA denial PDF). Stein claimed that release of even a few of

CIA's closely-held filesespecially if they were compared with Science

Advisor of the Interior Commission Henry Meyer'sblunt allegations (PDF)

to Congressman Morris Udall in 1979 that NUMEC was an Israeli smuggling

frontwas impossible "because of the need to have a coordinated Executive

Branch position and our desire to protect a sensitive and valuable liaison

equity." In plain English, that appears to mean Americans still cannot have

official CIA confirmation of the uranium theft because the U.S. president

would have to drop the ongoing nonsense of "strategic ambiguity" and forego

intelligence Israel is funneling to America.

4. FBI files of Israeli (but not

Russian) spies Russia's dashing

red-headed spy, Anna Chapman,

was arrested in 2010 and sent

packing back Russia. Any

interested American can now watch

Chapman's moves in surveillance

videos and read the FBI

counterintelligence files. Not so

with most of Israel's top spies who

targeted American economic,

nuclear and national defense infrastructure. America is still crawling with

Israeli spies (our "constant companion" according to intelligence expert Jeff

Stein). The 2010 revelations of nuclear equipment smuggling from Telogy

(prohibited export smuggling PDF) in California and Stewart Nozette's 1998-2008 Israel Aerospace Industries-funded penetrations of classified U.S.

information storehouses around Washington reveal that while Israeli spying

has never stopped, secret prosecution strategies now emphasize quietly

rolling up Israeli operations via industry regulators, fines and penalties or

isolating and entrapping American spies on lesser charges but steering
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around their Israeli handlers.

Unlike its treatment of information requests about Russian spies, the FBI and

Justice Department have denied every individual FOIA request for the files

of major Israeli spies. Access to Rafael Eitan's many harmful exploitsagainst U.S. targets are banned from release unless Eitan personally waives

his privacy rights (FOIA denial). The FBI claimed it can no longer find files

about deceased nuclear espionage mastermind Avraham Hermoni, even

though his name appears across many previously released NUMEC files

(FOIA denial PDF). Flooding from Hurricane Sandy is the excuse the FBI

gives for not being able to find files on spy-for-Israel Ben Ami-Kadish

(Flood FOIA denial PDF). One might argue it is merely a series of

unfortunate events that keeps Israeli spy files out of public hands, except that

the Justice Department has now issued a blanket ban on declassifying any

files about the FBI's decades-long counterintelligence tango with Israel's

Mossad. (Justice Department blanket denial PDF).

The results of the Justice Department's kid-glove approach to Israel

propagates into mandatory counterintelligence reports to Congress.

Although Israel unambiguously ranked as a top economic and national

defense intelligence threat in past

assessments of agencies like the

Office of National

Counterintelligence Executive,

because criminal prosecution

strategies toward Israel (through not

Iran, Russia or China) have been

undermined from within, Israel has

disappeared from the most current

reports.

5. Jonathan J. Pollard's most heinous crime. Israel's only American spy

ever to do serious time in jaildespite the best efforts of his many American

and Israeli supporters to spring himonce confidently claimed before he was

convicted that "...it was the established policy of the Department of Justice

not to prosecute U.S. citizens for espionage activities on behalf of Israel."

Many believe it was only Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger's classified

briefing to sentencing Judge Aubry Robinson that made Pollard the near sole

exception to that curious rule.

Some Pentagon insiders and national security reporters believe Pollard's
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sentence was so harsh because Israel used stolen U.S. intelligence as "trade

goods" with the Soviet Union to increase Russian migrs to Israel. As

Pollard's sentence draws to a close, few know exactly what Weinberger told

Robinson that caused him to deliver a life sentence. The recent partial

releases of a CIA damage assessment and a DIA video about Pollard shedlittle light.

In 2010, the Department of Defense disclaimed all ownership of the still-

classified "Weinberger declaration" passing the FOIA ball to the Justice

Department's Criminal Division (FOIA transfer PDF). In a novel approach,

the Executive Office of US Attorneys now claims that it cannot find its own

copy but that FOIA does not require EOUSA FOIA officers to travel two

blocks to the DC District Court to retrieve a sealed copy of the memorandumfor review (FOIA denial PDF) or even ask DOD for a copy. The National

Archives and Records Administration Office of Government Information

Services OGIS agrees that there is no "duty for agencies to retrieve records

that are not physically present in their own files." Although the 2008 case of

Ben-Ami Kadish proves the Pollard espionage ring was much larger than was

publicly disclosed in the late 1980s, the FBI has also not allowed release of

its Jonathan Pollard investigation files (FOIA denial PDF) for overdue public

review of how the investigation might havelike many othersbeen short-

circuited by the Department of Justice because it involved Israel.

6. Wiretap of AIPAC

pushing for a US war

on Iran. When AIPAC

executives Keith

Weissman and Steven

J. Rosen dialed up

Washington Post

reporter Glenn Kessler

in 2004, they were

determined to leverage

purloined classified

U.S. national defense

information into a story

that Iran was engaged in "total war" against the US in Iraq. FBI special

agents played audio intercepts of their pitch to AIPAC's legal counsel and

AIPAC promptly fired the pair to distance itself from activities it had long
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supported. Rosen and Weisman were later indicted under the Espionage Act,

although the case was later quashed under an intense Israel lobby pressure

campaign shortly after President Obama entered office.

What exactly did AIPAC's two officials tell the Washington Post in itsunrelenting drive to gin up a U.S. war with Iran? A decade later, the U.S.

Department of Justice doesn't believe the American public is entitled to hear

a tape long ago played to AIPAC's lawyer Nathan Lewin, even as AIPAC

continues to agitate for more wars. (MDR denial PDF)

7. Niger uranium forgery underwriters.

Although Ike may or may not have worried much

about the implications of Operation Susannah,

the Senate Foreign Relations Committee certainly

did. A secret memo touched off years of Senateand Justice Department investigations into Israel

lobbying over fears that American operatives

might engage in other overseas clandestine

provocations aimed at duping the U.S. into ill-

advised conflicts that would benefit Israel (the

short memo references the Lavon affair twice).

The Iraq war proves those fears were well-

founded.

Many have long suspected that the Niger uranium forgeries, fake documents

the Bush administration trumpeted to falsely accuse Iraq of buying uranium

from Africa for nuclear weapons, were chartered by American

neoconservatives in order to provide a pretext they desperately needed for

war. Perhaps the FBI's investigation into the matter definitively proves it.

However, despite years of requests for the 1,000 pages of that investigation,

the FBI after initially duly proceeding with a

FOIA, has now suddenly clammed up. (Niger

uranium denial PDF)

8. Israel lobbyists embedded in the Treasury

and Justice Departments. Israel lobbying

organizations have been very effective at

embedding their operatives in key positions

across the Federal government, such as Stuart

Levey in the Treasury Department's economic

warfare unit, or former AIPAC director Tom Dine
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as a contractor at the floundering US government-funded Arabic-language

broadcaster Alhurra. It used to be possible to get a phone directory or

conduct a comprehensive audit of which key political appointees (and the

people they brought in) were running critical divisions of federal agencies by

obtaining detailed Office of Personnel Management and other publicrecords. Not anymore. (FOIA response PDF) Leveraging heightened post-

911 sensitivities, the US Treasury Department now claims the same

protections against disclosure formerly enjoyed only by intelligence agency

employees.

Since the 1940s, the U.S. Department of Justice

has earned a reputation as a place where Israel

lobby criminal investigations go to die. Justice is

also where an AIPAC official like Neil Sher can

while away a few years on pet projects at taxpayer

expense before moving on to more lucrative

outside work. DOJ also routinely denies files

about its past official decisions not to pursue

criminal cases on the basis that doing so could

jeopardize privacy, ongoing investigations, or

factors underlying its coveted "prosecutorial

discretion" (e.g. charging the disenfranchised but

not powerful insiders for wrongdoing). Like

Treasury, it is now almost impossible to survey and produce an organization

chart of the Israel lobby's political appointees embedded at high and mid-

level Justice Department posts or the biographies of the staff and contractors

they bring in with them.

9. Unclassified IDA report about US charities funding the Israeli nuclear

weapons program. Sensitive reports need not be classified for the

government to hang on to them indefinitely. In 1987 the Institute for

Defense Analyses delivered an unclassified report to the Department of

Defense titled "Critical Technology Issues in Israel." The study implicates

the Israeli Weizmann Institute for Science and Technology in nuclearweapons research, raising deep questions about the group's U.S. tax-exempt

charitable fundraising and U.S. commitment to enforce the Nuclear Non-

Proliferation Treaty. The Department of Defense withheld the IDA report

from release on the basis of FOIA exemptions covering trade secrets and

"intra-agency communicationsprotected by the deliberative process
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privilege," among

others. (FOIA denial PDF)

10. Justification for

NSA funneling rawintelligence on

Americans to

Israel. If former NSA

contractor Edward Snowden

has taught Americans

anything, it is that "unknown

knowns" are usually even

worse than many might

have first imagined. Some

careful observers knew

about massive NSA

surveillance, while

others alerted the public about the danger of "backdoor" U.S. intelligence

flows to Israel. But who ever suspected the NSA was shipping wholesale

raw intercepts gathered on Americans to Israel under a secret deal struck in

2009? No government that wholly denies such relevant information can

claim legitimacy via consent of the governed. There can be little doubt why

these ten files are kept closed: it serves the Israel lobby. The means by which

this closure is sustained is also no secret. The millions of dollars that line

politician's pockets, promote media pundits and quietly spirit political

appointees into key gatekeeper positions maintain closed files and prevent

informed public debate.

Because of this, Americans should proceed assuming the worst conceivable,

most logical explanation for any given U.S.-Israel "unknown known" is

correctuntil proven otherwise. Under this guideline, it is prudent to

believe that LBJproperly warned by his intelligence services and advisors

that Israel was stealing the most precious military material on earth from

Americawas simply too marinated in Israel lobby campaign cash tofaithfully uphold his oath of office. It is similarly reasonable to believe the

Justice Department and FBI won't release Israeli spy files because Americans

would finally understand that, despite massive ongoing harm to America,

political appointees in the Justice Department thwart warranted prosecutions.

DOJ finds it much easier to stay "on message" through a long line of lobby-

approved but mostly bogus "Islamic terrorism cases" (many made via
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sketchy undercover informants goading members of targeted minority

communities into "terror" plots). According to its own records, every time it

tried to uphold the law in the 1940s the DOJ suddenly found itself internally

and externally swarmed by Israel lobbyists with inexhaustible financial warchests and legal experts working to quash warranted prosecutions in secret

coordination with Israel. The DOJ now likely believes it can never win

against Israel lobby generated media and political agitation when it moves to

prosecute, and has now simply given up.

It is logical to assume that Israel was found selling out America to the

Soviets in Pollard's case, since little else explains the unusually harsh impact

of Weinberger's secret memo. It is similarly likely that the FBI's AIPAC

wiretaps would, if released today, accurately reveal Rosen and Weissman to

be what they actually wereunregistered foreign agents operating on behalfof and in ongoing contact with the Israeli government rather than legitimate

domestic lobbyists. It is similarly more productive to assume that at least

one neoconservative operative with strong ties to the involved entities in Italy

such as Michael Ledeenserved as barker to the Italian sideshow that

disseminated forged documents.

According to documents released by Edward Snowden, the transfer of raw

NSA intercepts on American citizens to Israel was authorized under a secret

doctrine that "the survival of the state of Israel is a paramount goal of US

Middle East policy." This "prime directive" was probably a secret because itis a blank check obligating American blood and treasure to a cause American

citizens never approved via advise and consent. But why did the Obama

administrationeven as it dismissed espionage charges against AIPAC staff

in 2009so deeplybetray American privacy? Under "unknown known"

doctrine, most would assume that like LBJ before him, Obama sold out

America because his Israel lobby handlers secretly demanded and paid for it

on behalf of a foreign country. What other goodies Obama doled out to

Israel in exchange for help gaining the highest office remain to emerge.

The official process for obtaining official public disclosure of "uknownknowns"the Freedom of Information Actdoes not function when the

stakes in disclosure are high and Israeli interests are involved. Agencies (and

ISCAP) correctly perceive government credibility is at stake when there is

real openness, and that bona fide transparency would positively impact how

government behaves. Visibly corrupt federal government officials and

institutions are counting on continued secrecy to accumulate illegitimate
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DrS 5 days ago

Israel is not America's ally

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or friend.

Israel is not a friend of theEU either.

There are Israeli nukespointed at Arab cities andEuropean capitals.

It is all aboutBLACKMAIL.

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NSA WillFall 5 days ago

I knew about this nukeplant getting ripped off byIsrael, when it happened.My father was so madabout this incident, hetalked about it for years.The Liberty was what keptIsrael in my mind, for therest of my life...

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alexandra 5 days ago

facebook denied myattempt to put this on myfb site. Is this a policy -prevent Israel comments?

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gerry o. 5 days ago

with such control over USpolicy , I would not be

surprised if Israel did nothave a weapon in thiscountry for use asblackmail. We knownothing about theirnuclear program, or theamount of weapons theyhave. To quote some ofmy "friends" the only wayto stop a bad guy withgun is a good guy with a

gun. So nucleardeterrence, or parity,should be the order in themid- east.

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frank scott 5 days ago

if only half of this weretrue it would still beoutrageously dangerousnot only to our pretense ofdemocracy but to our verylives..

given the potential fornuclear weapons use byfanatics who sincerelybelieve the world has

them surrounded andwants to wipe them out...as ever...

this is also, sadly, part ofwhat persuadesseemingly intelligent ,thoughtful people to
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accept the most fantasticconspiratorial plots behindthe 911 attacks...

"unknown knowns" offer

control to power sourceswhich threaten all of usand lucrative marketingcareers for those far lesspowerful if possibly moreimaginative who may befar less threatening topower but are allowed tooperate for that reason.

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Joe 5 days ago

Israel runs America andcares little that America isbeing run into the ground.

Empires rise and Empires

fall -- whilst theAshekenazi just pack uptheir bags, and carry ontheir business in a newlocation.

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Bob Reynolds 4 days

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How can any discussionof Israel criminal conductnotinclude the attack on theUSS Liberty?


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Flummoxed 4 days ago

Two interesting newsitems today:

One from the AP... thatSnowden released somepapers( THEY THINK : ) )There's that fantasythinking again! .... Said

papers per AP couldcompromise "somewestern diplomats..." wellwho the hell isthat..AP??????

Must be something aboutIsrael and as we have nofree press or any of thebig 10 amendments,perhaps we will never

know.

The trouble with LACK oftransparency is that youleave the people withnothing but theirimaginations and honestlystrange government,those imaginations can bemore powerful anddamaging than the truth.

That's why "Honesty isthe best policy" is atruism.

The other was re: theSaudis are losing trust inthe US because it hasn'tbombed Syria and isn't
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( at the moment) bombingIran...oh...right... rumorsprobably heard from theirIsraeli new BF!Wow, I guess HOOVER

didn't die... he just movedto Israel.

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delta 4 days ago

the most fantasticconspiritorial plot re 9-11

is the official conspiricymuch loved by israel.

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Cinque Terrae 4 daysago

What about the attack onthe USS Liberty in1967??

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