- Years of tracking down an important set of drug-trafficking
cases, led EIR investigators to what has now become a contender for the
story of the new century: the investigation of connections between detained
Israeli spies and the events of Sept. 11. The opening gun of this earth-shaking
story, was EIR's own, Nov. 29, 2001 release, which was circulated to subscribers
in the Dec. 4, 2001 Executive Alert Service.
To appreciate the significance of the EIR expose properly, it is crucial
to first restate some essential features of Lyndon LaRouche's now-undisputable
assessment of the events of Sept. 11, first aired on the Jack Stockwell
radio show, as the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were
still occurring. LaRouche stated that the New York and Washington attacks
could not have occurred without the witting complicity of high-level "rogue
elements" within the U.S. military-intelligence command structures.
The actions of Sept. 11 constituted a coup d'état attempt against
the Bush Administration, aimed at drawing the United States into precisely
the kind of "Clash of Civilizations" Eurasian war, openly advocated
by such individuals as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel Huntington, and Bush
Administration "moles" like Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle.
The Israeli government of Ariel Sharon and the present Israeli Defense
Force command is the most significant asset of the Anglo-American faction
pressing the "Clash of Civilizations" war-plan, as evidenced
by Sharon's persistent efforts to provoke a new religious war in the Middle
East against the Palestinian Authority and a range of other Arab targets.
Thus the events of Sept. 11 and the ongoing coup threat must be first understood
from the standpoint of the interaction of these three elements: 1.) the
as-yet unidentified rogue operators within the military-security command;
2.) the strategic policy figures promoting the new Eurasian Thirty Years
War; and 3.) the Israeli apparatus of Sharon and the IDF.
It is the latter, the IDF, which, as part of its war aims, has carried
out an aggressive espionage and covert operations penetration of the U.S.A.,
including the recruitment of American-born assets. It is so far unknown,
but strongly suspected, that some of these Israeli assets may have contributed
an included feature of the rogue networks whose complicity abetted the
successful attacks of Sept. 11.
With that said, the story can be told.
The Jones-Powell Exchange
That Executive Alert Service item of Dec. 4 reported, under the headline,
"A Sharon spy network in the Americas?", that "A well-placed
Washington source has alerted EIR that there is growing suspicion among
U.S. government law enforcement and intelligence agencies that Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has dispatched special operations teams into
North America. The warning came in the context of a discussion about the
recent deportation of five Israelis who were detained on Sept. 11 for suspicious
behavior."
Since Secretary of State Colin Powell's answer to a question from EIR's
Washington Bureau Chief Bill Jones, at a Dec. 13 special State Department
briefing, the lid is off the Israeli spy scandal and suggestions of its
links to the Sept. 11 irregular warfare attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon-despite desperate efforts at suppressing the Israeli spy
story by most leading news media.
At the Dec. 13 State Department briefing, Jones asked Powell: "There
were 60 Israeli citizens who have been picked up in the post-Sept. 11 sweep,
many of whom, if not all of whom, are connected to Israeli intelligence.
. . Are you concerned about such intelligence operations on U.S. soil,
and have you taken up this issue with your counterpart in Israel?"
Secretary Powell responded: "I'm aware that some Israeli citizens
have been detained, and I've been in touch with the Israeli government
as to the fact that they have been detained, in making sure that they have
rights of access to Israeli diplomatic personnel here in the United States.
With respect to why they are being detained, and the other aspects of your
question, whether it's because they are in intelligence services or what
things they were doing, I will defer to the Department of Justice and the
FBI to answer that; because, frankly, I deal with the consular parts of
that problem, not the intelligence or law-enforcement parts of that problem."
Spies, Criminals, and Terrorists
What was behind that exchange between Jones and Powell?
Since the Alert report of the Israeli spy story, and the suspected links
to Sept. 11, EIR has compiled evidence of a vast network of Israeli drug
and diamond smugglers, spies, and communications intelligence operatives-all
working under Israeli, American and Canadian corporate covers, on behalf
of the mafia-riddled Sharon government, and Sharon's international sponsors
in the Mega Group and allied Anglo-American circles (See EIR, Aug. 31,
2001, "Mega Was Not An Agent-Mega Was the Boss;" and Nov. 16,
2001, "The `Mega-maniacs' Steering Sharon's Mideast War Drive").
A number of sources have confirmed earlier EIR investigative findings that
this network is engaged in:
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- * A massive ecstasy trafficking operation, delivering
hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal drugs, manufactured in the Netherlands,
to cities across the United States. The drug trafficking operation is also
engaged in black market diamond smuggling, using Hassidic Jews as couriers.
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- Portions of the funds garnered from the illegal operations,
according to sources, are funneled to offshore bank accounts of Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Some of these dirty funds were reportedly
diverted to Sharon's election campaigns. This Israeli mafia apparatus receives
technical support via a number of Israeli communications firms, that subcontract
with major American telephone companies and government law enforcement
agencies. * Spy operations, targeted at mosques and other centers of the
Islamic-American communities. According to sources, the goal is to foment
nominally "Arab" or "Islamic" labeled violence and
terrorism inside the United States, to win Bush Administration support
for an Israeli war against the Palestinians and Arabs. These sources believe
further, Israeli-abetted terror attacks are to be expected. * Surveillance
of U.S. government law enforcement, military and intelligence facilities,
to gather profile information for such terrorist attacks, as well as espionage
penetration. Organized teams of young, "recently retired" Israeli
Defense Force soldiers, often associated with specialty units engaged in
electronic signal intercepts and explosive ordinance, have targeted at
least 36 domestic U.S. military bases, and many federal law enforcement
and intelligence installations. A second feature of this targeting of USG
facilities is the recruitment of "a new generation of Jonathan Pollards"
(Israeli spies).
- Pattern of Arrests
Between 1998 and early 2001, more than 200 Israeli nationals were arrested
or detained inside the United States, on a variety of visa violations and
other nominally petty violations, including low-level drug trafficking.
The majority of these detainees claimed they were Israeli art students,
peddling art work to cover their college tuitions; or were toy vendors,
employed by an Israeli-owned Miami Beach company, Quality Sales Corporation,
which investigations link to Israel's equivalent of the U.S. National Security
Agency. The attorney for Quality Sales Corp., Thomas W. Dean, is also the
director of litigation for the National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Legislation (NORML), one of the oldest of the drug legalization
lobbies, which enjoys the financing of mega-speculator George Soros.
The emerging pattern of surveillance of American government facilities,
and established links to suspected Arab and Islamic terrorist cells prior
to Sept. 11, by these Israeli nationals, set off alarm bells, following
the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Prior to Sept.
11, a series of highly-classified government memos had been circulated
by the CIA and the NSA, pronouncing this Israeli espionage operation a
major national security problem.
A drug probe in Los Angeles provided one crucial clue to the broader drug/espionage/terror
nexus. From 1997, up until he was arrested by a joint anti-drug task force
in April 2000, Jacob "Cookie" Orgad ran one of the biggest ecstasy
smuggling operations in America-for the Israeli dope-and-diamond crime
syndicate. Orgad has been named as the "enforcer" of the infamous
Heidi Fleiss Hollywood prostitution ring.
Every time the DEA, FBI and Los Angeles Police Department task force infiltrated
an agent inside the Orgad ring, his or her identity was blown within a
matter of days. Everytime a court ordered wiretap was put in place, the
target immediately "began behaving like Mother Teresa," according
to a source familiar with the case.
A highly confidential federal counter-surveillance effort eventually revealed
that the Orgad gang was receiving inside information about phone taps,
and even details of conversations between the federal and local police
officials on the task force, as well as their home addresses and phone
numbers.
Investigations into the sources of the leaks converged on two prominent
Israeli corporations, which are both core service providers to the American
telecommunications industry and to U.S. law enforcement agencies. The two
companies are Amdocs and Comverse.
Amdocs was first identified in the Aug. 31, 2001 EIR expose of the Mega
Group as part of the Israeli "inside" apparatus in the Clinton
White House, that tapped the President's phone conversations with Monica
Lewinsky, and used the tapes as blackmail leverage against the U.S. peace
efforts in the Middle East.
Amdocs was incorporated in 1982 on the notorious offshore British financial
safe-haven of Guernsey. It provides a wide range of top-end telecommunications
services, including phone billings and fraud detection, to the 25 largest
telephone companies in the United States and to companies in 50 other countries
around the world. The overwhelming majority of its 9,000 employees are
Israelis, and the top management are largely former high-ranking officers
of Israeli military and intelligence bureaus.
Comverse, along with the Canadian company, JSI International, handles the
majority of contracts, worldwide, for wiretaps, including in the United
States. Comverse is a major sub-contractor for both the FBI and the Drug
Enforcement Administration. Comverse, too, primarily employs Israeli military
and intelligence veterans. The company is a leading manufacturer of facial-recognition
and voice-recognition technology, employed by American law enforcement
and intelligence.
Both firms have also been linked to the Israeli "art students"
and toy vendors.
Where It Stands
To summarize the EIR investigation as of this moment: The same billionaires'
club, called "Mega," which was pointed to as the orchestrator
of the 1997-99 operations against U.S. President Bill Clinton, is multiply
linked to the authors of the current Israeli killing operations. It is
situated in a network of U.S.A., Canada, Israeli, and other business organizations
at the center of the Israeli military intelligence service's international
operating capabilities. These businesses, like those involved in the Clinton
White House message system scandal, represent wiretapping and other espionage
capabilities beyond the means enjoyed by most leading governments.
These connections should have been shut down totally, even for no other
reason than U.S. interest in protection of its citizens against foreign
and other spying, and in the protection of the secrets of our sovereign
government, and integrity of our intelligence and law-enforcement functions.
While this Israeli-linked spying against the United States and its most
sensitive military, intelligence, and law-enforcement agencies continues,
the United States has no real national security. As long as this is not
cleaned up, the drug-traffickers, including those tied to international
terrorist operations, often have more authority in criminal matters than
properly constituted law-enforcement and related official agencies.
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