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The Isaiah L. Kenen meets with Nathan B. Lenvin at the Department of
Justice about his Foreign Agent
registration status
DocumentsDocument 1. On January 17, 1951, Israeli Foreign Ministry employee and registered foreign agent Isaiah L. Kenen met with Nathan B. Lenvin at the US Department of Justice Foreign Agent Registration Act section. Kenen helped establish and served as a director of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affair's "Israel Information Office" in New York City in 1948. In 1951 Kenen negotiated with Israeli government officials alternatives for lobbying and launching public relations campaigns as a domestic US lobbyist, rather than as a foreign agent regulated under FARA. The FARA office advised Kenen he should continue registering, but Kenen instead began lobbying for Israel from the American Zionist Council (AZC) and later the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC while still receiving funds from Israel via the Jewish Agency - American Section. |
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facilitates evaluation by the government and the American people of the
statements and activities of such persons in light of their function as
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The Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) and the diversion of US government weapons-grade uranium to Israel
The Nuclear
Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) and the diversion of US
government weapons-grade uranium to Israel
"an Israeli
operation from the beginning..." CIA Tel Aviv Station Chief John Hadden
"NUMEC material had
been diverted by the Israelis and used in fabricating weapons."
CIA
Directorate of Science and Technology Deputy Director Carl Duckett
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On September 10,
1968 NUMEC receives a key coordinator of Israel's clandestine nuclear
weapons program
(Avraham Hermoni) and three undercover Israeli intelligence operatives. NUMEC tells the Atomic Energy Commission the Israeli visitors are "energy specialists." |
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Documents
Since the mid-1960s law
enforcement and regulatory agencies
suspected a small nuclear processing facility in Pennsylvania had illegally diverted U.S. government-owned
weapons-grade nuclear material into Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons
program. The Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation received
start-up capital organized by a mysterious former smuggler with deep and ongoing ties to
Israeli intelligence. FBI investigations revealed NUMEC President Zalman
Mordecai Shapiro
also had repeated unexplained interactions with Israeli
intelligence and organized a joint venture with the primary front organization
of the
Israeli nuclear weapons program. According to a 2001 US Department of
Energy report, NUMEC still holds the record for the highest losses of bomb-grade material of any plant
in the United States.
In April 1976 Attorney General
Edward Levi ordered the FBI to reopen an investigation into Dr. Zalman
Shapiro and the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation
(NUMEC). The newly reopened investigation looked beyond violations of
the Atomic Energy Act. The FBI's new mandate was to also uncover "any
attempt by anyone in the executive branch to prevent or impede an
investigation into this alleged diversion, or to withhold any
information regarding this alleged diversion from any investigative
body." The FBI code-named its investigation "DIVERT." The FBI
interrogated high-level officials from U.S. government agencies and
NUMEC employee eyewitnesses to nuclear diversion.
Inexplicably, on January 23,
1981 the FBI placed the NUMEC investigation into "closed status" until
further instructions from the Department of Justice. Field offices
were ordered not to destroy files without instructions from FBI
headquarters. The NUMEC investigation portfolio, which had passed
from LBJ,
to Nixon, and on to Ford was closed at the end of the Carter
administration.
 New BookDivert!: NUMEC, Zalman Shapiro and the diversion of US weapons grade uranium into the Israeli nuclear weapons programBased on an exhaustive review of formerly classified government documents-as well as previously unexplored corporate filings, office diaries and unguarded interviews-Grant F. Smith has written a riveting story of the 1960s diversion of US weapons-grade nuclear material from an Israeli front company in Pennsylvania into the clandestine Israeli atomic weapons program. The talented but highly conflicted founder of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC)-Dr. Zalman Mordecai Shapiro alongside his close friend and financial backer David Lowenthal-engaged in a ferocious clandestine drive to funnel the most valuable military material on earth that forever tilted the balance of power between Israel and the world. Divert! chronicles Zalman Shapiro's journey from crafting ingenious innovations for the Nautilus nuclear submarine in the 1950s to his costly pursuit of America's most advanced hydrogen bomb designs in the 1970s. Tasked during secret summits with high-level Israeli intelligence agents, guided by Israel's top nuclear arms designers, and defended by Israel and its US lobby, Shapiro and NUMEC drove the CIA and FBI from furious outrage to despair. Presidents from LBJ to Jimmy Carter secretly grappled with how to respond to Israel's brazen theft of American nuclear material before finally deciding to bury the entire affair in classified files. But NUMEC's toxic secrets have refused to be buried alive. Newly declassified wiretaps have risen from the grave, detailing Shapiro's utter contempt for worker and nuclear safety. David Lowenthal's role as an international refugee smuggler between the US, Europe and Israel-before organizing financing for NUMEC-is placed under new scrutiny. This explosive story emerges even as the US Army Corps of Engineers struggles to quietly clean NUMEC's toxic waste near Apollo, Pennsylvania with $170 million in taxpayer funding. At a time when America is coming under intense pressure to attack on the mere suspicion that Iran is diverting nuclear material, Divert! stands as the ultimate cautionary tale of how US Middle East policy is continually undermined from within by corruption, immunity, deceit and unwarranted secrecy. Paperback and Kindle. |
Israel is Samantha Power’s first priority in opening statement to Congress
Israel is Samantha Power’s first priority in opening statement to Congress
Samantha Power wants to be our next ambassador to the United Nations. Here’s her opening statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. She mentions Israel eight times in the statement and “the United States” eight times*.First, the UN must be fair. The UN cannot focus disproportionate attention on a few, while giving a pass to others flouting their international obligations. There cannot be one standard for one country and another standard for all others. The United States has no greater friend in the world than the State of Israel. Israel is a country with whom we share security interests and, even more fundamentally, with whom we share core values – the values of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. America has a special relationship with Israel. And yet the General Assembly and Human Rights Council continue to pass one – sided resolutions condemning Israel above all others. Israel – not Iran, not Sudan, not North Korea – is the on e country with a fixed place on the Human Rights Council ’s agenda. Israel’s legitimacy should be beyond dispute, and its security must be beyond doubt. Just as I have done the last four years as President Obama’s UN adviser at the White House, I will stand up for Israel and work tirelessly to defend it.*Yes, she says America a number of times too.
Thanks to Adam Horowitz.
were did obama get all these low life people
did he go to the jails all over the world and ask them
want to take over the usa
lets see every one that works for him is just as evil as him
they list of crimes is like whos who on how many crimes and deaths they are envoled in
what he place an add in the terrorist times and say you must have at least killed 10 people to get the job
what did he ask them how many jews you kill
how many white people you kill
wow
did he go from one jail to the next tonext asking them how many americans you killed this year
want to take over the usa
lets see every one that works for him is just as evil as him
they list of crimes is like whos who on how many crimes and deaths they are envoled in
what he place an add in the terrorist times and say you must have at least killed 10 people to get the job
what did he ask them how many jews you kill
how many white people you kill
wow
did he go from one jail to the next tonext asking them how many americans you killed this year
Obama appears ready to expand covert assistance to Syrian opposition
Obama appears ready to expand covert assistance to Syrian opposition
This stepped-up assistance program is likely to be discussed during talks Friday between President Obama and Saudi King Abdullah. U.S. endorsement of the program would tighten America’s links with Saudi Arabia after a period of noisy disagreement about Syria policy. But it also would complicate already tense relations with Russia and Iran, the two key backers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
David Ignatius
Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column and contributes to the PostPartisan blog.
Gallery
Critics argue that an expanded training and assistance program, first recommended by Obama’s top advisers in mid-2012, is long overdue — and that delays have allowed extremists and Assad’s forces to brutalize Syria. But Obama has been cautious about descending what he sees as a slippery slope. So far, despite pledges of support for the opposition, he has authorized only a limited program of covert training and mostly nonlethal assistance. He also recognizes the checkered history of such covert efforts, from the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to Nicaragua.
Details of the plan were still being debated Thursday, but its likely outlines were described by knowledgeable officials:
●Syrian opposition forces would be trained in camps in Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The number of Syrian opposition fighters who would receive training would roughly double, to about 600 per month.
●The CIA would oversee training, expanding the program that it currently manages. The administration is still discussing whether U.S. Special Operations forces and other military personnel should play a role. Syrian rebels have argued that Special Operations trainers would provide better help, without the CIA’s political baggage.
●The rebels have been pleading for two years for anti-aircraft missiles to stop Assad’s air force, but Saudi Arabia wants U.S. permission before delivering them. To reassure the United States, the opposition has proposed tight controls on these weapons, known as “MANPADS.” Only five missile launchers would initially be furnished. Each use of them is to be videoed, and each would be fitted with a tracking device and a remote shutdown mechanism. As of late Thursday, the administration still appeared to be weighing the issue.
●Vetting of opposition forces would continue during and after the training. Recruits with extremist links supposedly would be weeded out as trainers learned their backgrounds. Saudi Arabia has agreed to exclude any fighters who have worked with three jihadist groups: Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
●The sometimes fractious “friends” of the Syrian opposition would, in theory, be united behind this program. Qatar, which in the past funneled aid to organizations known as the Islamic Front, support that later made its way to al-Qaeda extremists, has agreed to halt this assistance.
Qatar has also offered to finance the combined program in its first year, which could run to hundreds of millions of dollars. Saudi Arabia, a sharp critic of Qatar, may resist this donation. It is unclear what role would be played by Turkey, which has been accused of allowing Muslim extremists to operate across its border with Syria.
●To stabilize what is today a badly fragmented Syria, the program would provide assistance for local councils and police in areas that have been cleared of Assad’s forces. The opposition has also requested specialized training to maintain border security. Finally, the program may seek to establish corridors for delivery of humanitarian assistance, though it is unclear how aggressively the United States and its allies would be prepared to protect these humanitarian zones.
The expanded program would “send a clear message to the Assad regime that there is no military solution to the struggle,” according to a March memo to the White House from the opposition. Assad “has no incentive to talk” now, the memo argued, because he thinks he is winning.
The rationale, bluntly stated, is that to reach an eventual diplomatic settlement in Syria, it is necessary now to escalate the conflict militarily. This has been a hard pill for Obama to swallow, but prodded by the Saudis, he seems to have reached that point.
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