- Gordon Thomas discloses Mossad's role in the "Monica
Lewinsky" scandal
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- Monica Lewinsky may have been a Mossad agent. It appears
that Mossad's information on the affair was leaked to the media, to block
Clinton's attempts to impose a Peace Settlement on Israel.
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- The Mossad-Likud blackmailing of Clinton is an example
of the clash between two conspiracies: the Socialist one (of Clinton and
the EU) and the Tory-Zionist one promoting the current war in Iraq.
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- Excerpted From -
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- 'Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad' By
Gordon Thomas Macmillan, London, 1999
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- (p. 92) Only the incumbent Mossad memune knew how long
Mega had been in place.
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- The committee members did, however, know that the FBI's
counterintelligence division finally believed that the lack of action against
Mossad was due to the power of the Jewish lobby in Washington, and the
reluctance of successive administrations to confront it. Once more that
lobby could be called upon to dampen the firestorm building since Mega
had first been discovered by the FBI. On February 16, 1997, the National
Security Agency (NSA) had provided the FBI with an intercept of a late-night
telephone conversation from the Israeli embassy between a Mossad intelligence
officer identified only as Dov, and his superior in Tel Aviv, whose name
had not been revealed during the short conversation.
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- Dov had asked "for guidance" as to whether
he "should go to Mega" for a copy of a letter written by Warren
Christopher, then secretary of state, to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. The
letter contained a set of assurances given to Arafat by Christopher on
January 16 about the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank city
of Hebron. Dov was instructed by the voice in Tel Aviv "to forget
the letter. This is not something we use Mega for."
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- The brief conversation had been the first clue the FBI
had of the importance of Mega. ...
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- {p. 93} In March 1997, on receipt of information from
Mossad's katsa in Washington, Yatom took action. He send a yahalomin team
to Washington to follow-up on the katsaÕs report that President
Clinton was repeatedly inlulging in phone-sex calls with a a former White
House
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- {p. 94} aide, Monica Lewinsky. He was making the calls
from the oval Office to her apartment in the Watergate complex. Knowing
that the White House was totally protected by electronic counter-measures,
the yahalomin team focused on Lewinsky's apartment. They began to intercept
explicit phone calls from the president to Lewinsky. The recordings were
couriered by diplomatic bag to Tel Aviv.
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- On March 27, Clinton once more invited Lewinsky to the
Oval Office and revealed he believed a foreign embassy was taping their
conversations. He did not give her any more details, but shortly afterwards
the affair ended.
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- In Tel Aviv, Mossad's strategies pondered how to use
the highly embarrassing taped conversations; they were the stuff of blackmail
- though no one suggested any attempt should be made to blackmail the president
of the United States. Some, however, saw the recordings as a potent weapon
to be used if Israel found itself with its back to the wall in the Middle
East and unable to count on Clinton's support.
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- There was common consensus that the FBI must also be
aware of the conversations between Clinton and Lewinsky. Some strategists
urged Yatom to use "the back-door channel" with Washington and
let the FBI know Mossad was aware of the president's phone calls: it would
be a not-very-subtle way of telling the agency to back off in their continuing
hunt for Mega. Other analysts urged a wait- and-see policy, arguing that
the information would remain explosive whenever it was released. That view
prevailed.
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- In September 1998, the Starr report was published and
Yatom had left offfice. The report contained a short reference to Clinton
warning Lewinsky back in March 1997 that his phone was being bugged by
a foreign embassy. Starr had not pursued the matter when Lewinsky had given
her testimony before the grand jury about her affair with Clinton. However,
the FBI could only have seen the revelations as further evidence of their
inability to unmask Mega.
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- According to at least one well-placed Israeli intelligence
source, Rafi Eitan had received a phone call from Yatom reinforcing the
need to stay well clear of the United States for the foreseeable future.
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