Israel’s Secret Toolbox: It’s Not So Secret Any longer

Israel has actually been enabled to get away with enormous espionage directed versus the U.S. and the theft of product and technology, Phil Giraldi writes.

Few Americans know the truth that no U.S. federal government official, to consist of congressmen, can in any method mention or discuss Israel’s nuclear toolbox, which is estimated by some observers to consist of as numerous as 200 tactical nuclear weapons which can be provided on target by air, land or sea. The prohibition is defined in a Department of Energy “category publication” graded Secret, which was provided on September 6, 2012 and bears the file number WPN-136. The subject line checks out “Guidance on Release of information Associating with the Prospective for an Israeli Nuclear Capability.” It would be intriguing to discover exactly how the text of the memo reads, however in spite of repeated efforts to obtain a copy under the Liberty of Information Act, the entire body of the document is totally blacked out.

What is known because the memo is basically a gag order, most likely released by the Barack Obama Administration to obstruct any official from making a remark that may be interpreted to mean that the federal government acknowledges that Israel has nuclear weapons. The silence over the Israeli arsenal go back to an agreement made by President Richard Nixon with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. In its newest symptom, President Barack Obama, when asked if he knew of “any nation in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons,” responded “I do not want to hypothesize.” He was, of course, lying.

The publication’s very first recognized victim was Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear policy professional James Doyle who in 2013 composed a sentence recommending that Israel had a nuclear arsenal. It appeared in an article entitled “Why Get Rid Of Nuclear Defense!.?.!? “which had actually been security cleared by Los Alamos and appeared in the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. An unknown congressional staffer required an evaluation and Doyle had his home computer searched before being fired.

Israel, as is so typically the case, gets a totally free pass on what is for others criminal habits. Its nuclear program was created by stealing American uranium and weapons technology. Avoiding nuclear proliferation remained in truth a major objective of the U.S. federal government when in the early 1960s President John F. Kennedy discovered that Tel Aviv was establishing a nuclear weapon from a CIA report. He told the Israelis to terminate their program or risk losing American political and financial support however was killed before any actions were taken to end the task.

Israel accelerated its nuclear program after the death of President Kennedy. By 1965, it had actually gotten the raw product for a bomb consisting of U.S. government owned extremely enriched weapons grade uranium obtained from a business in Pennsylvania called NUMEC, which was founded in 1956 and owned by Zalman Mordecai Shapiro, head of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Zionist Organization of America. NUMEC was a supplier of enriched uranium for federal government projects but it was likewise from the start a front for the Israeli nuclear program, with its primary funder David Lowenthal, a leading Zionist, taking a trip to Israel at least when a month where he would consult with an old pal Meir Amit, who headed Israeli intelligence. NUMEC covered the shipment of enriched uranium to Israel by claiming the metal was “lost,” losses that amounted to almost 6 hundred pounds, enough to produce dozens of weapons. Such was the significance of the operation that in 1968 NUMEC even got a private anonymous check out from a top Israeli spymaster Rafi Eitan who later ran the spy Jonathan Pollard.

Also there was physical proof associating with the diversion of the uranium. Fine-tuned uranium has a technical signature that permit recognition of its source. Traces of uranium from NUMEC were identified by Department of Energy inspectors in Israel in 1978. The Central Intelligence Agency has likewise looked into the diversion of enriched uranium from the NUMEC plant and concluded that it became part of a more comprehensive program to get the technology and raw materials for a nuclear device for Israel.

With the uranium in hand, the stealing of the innovative technology needed to make a nuclear weapon, which is where Hollywood motion picture manufacturer Arnon Milchan enters into the story. Milchan was born in Israel however relocated to the United States and eventually wound up as the founder-owner of New Regency Films. In a November 25, 2013 interview on Israeli tv Milchan confessed that he had spent his many years in Hollywood as an agent for Israeli intelligence, helping obtain embargoed innovations and materials that allowed Israel to establish a nuclear weapon. He worked for Israel’s Bureau of Science and Liaison acquisition department of Mossad, described as the LAKAM spy firm.

Milchan admitted in the interview that “I did it for my nation and I’m proud of it.” He was not referring to the United States. He also said that “other big Hollywood names were linked to [his] covert affairs.” To name a few successes, he obtained through his company Heli Trading 800 krytons, the advanced triggers for nuclear weapons. The gadgets were obtained from the California top secret defense professional MILCO International. Milchan personally recruited MILCO’s president Richard Kelly Smyth as an agent prior to turning him over to another Heli Trading employee, future Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for handling. Smyth was eventually jailed in 1985 but insofar as is understood neither Milchan nor Netanyahu has ever been questioned by the FBI relating to the thefts.

Israel’s nukes are now in the news because of an Op-Ed that surprisingly appeared in the New York Times on August 11th written by Peter Beinart entitled “America Requirements to Start Informing the Reality About Israel’s Nukes.” Beinart wrote that “Israel already has nuclear weapons. You ‘d just never ever know it from America’s leaders, who have invested the last half-century feigning lack of knowledge. This deceit damages America’s expected commitment to nuclear nonproliferation, and it misshapes the American dispute over Iran. It’s time for the Biden administration to tell the truth.”

Beinart explains that the American public can barely make a notified judgement regarding what ought to be performed in the Middle East if it doubts whether Israel is a nuclear power or not, however one issue he does not discuss is the concern of money. IRMEP’s Grant Smith, who has actually been challenging the secrecy surrounding the Israeli arsenal, recently observed that “The Symington & Glenn arrangements of the Arms Export Control Act (22 USC § 2799aa-1: Nuclear reprocessing transfers, illegal exports for nuclear explosive devices, transfers of nuclear explosive gadgets, and nuclear detonations) forbid U.S. foreign help to countries with nuclear weapons programs that are not signatories to the Treaty on the Proliferation of Nuclear Defense, missing needed unique treatments … But no member of Congress has actually taken up this concern– and even mentioned Israel’s nuclear weapons toolbox.”

Smith is irritated by the unwillingness of progressives in Congress, who have opposed current extra $735 million in military aid to Israel allowing it to rearm after its attack on the Gazans, to neglect the gag order and raise the concern of the nuclear arsenal. He composes “It appears as though even these members of Congress, in addition to the rest of the U.S. government, are complying with this secret gag order when they might act which would challenge the administration’s rejection to acknowledge Israel’s nuclear weapons and potentially stop $3.8 billion in taxpayer cash from going to Israel.”

That the Energy Department document exists at all is acknowledgment of the amazing power of the Israeli Lobby over the U.S. government at all levels, especially as it is intended to ignore and even negate other legislation passed by congress to fight nuclear expansion. And the denial of what everybody understands to be true, i.e. that Israel has a nuclear toolbox, appears to all boil down to the ability of the United States federal government to continue to reward a rich Israel with billions of dollars of taxpayer money every year. To recommend that the arrangement is nefarious would be to put it slightly, but it is more that that. It is criminal. Israel has actually been allowed to get away with huge espionage directed versus the United States and the theft of material and innovation while also since the 1970s being taken part in a conspiracy with the U.S. government that distorts America’s foreign policy, mainly done to keep getting the billions of dollars that it is not entitled to get under existing American law. It is disgraceful. Beyond that, it may be interpreted as treason.

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