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Israel Flagged as Top Spy Threat to U.S. in New Snowden/NSA Document

Newsweek

Israel was singled out in 2007 as a top espionage threat against the U.S. government, including its intelligence services, in a newly published National Security Agency (NSA) document obtained by fugitive leaker Edward Snowden, according to a news report Monday.

The document also identified Israel, along with North Korea, Cuba and India, as a “leading threat” to the infrastructure of U.S. financial and banking institutions.

The threats were listed in the NSA’s 2007 Strategic Mission List, according to the document obtained by journalist/activist Glenn Greenwald, a founding editor of The Intercept, an online magazine that has a close relationship with Snowden, a former NSA and CIA contractor who fled the U.S. with thousands of top-secret documents last year.

In this new document, Israel was identified by the NSA as a security threat in several areas, including “the threat of development of weapons of mass destruction” and “delivery methods (particularly ballistic and nuclear-capable cruise missiles).” The NSA also flagged Israel’s “WMD and missile proliferation activities” and “cruise missiles” as threats.

In a section of the document headed “Foreign Intelligence, Counterintelligence; Denial & Deception Activities: Countering Foreign Intelligence Threats,” Israel was listed as a leading perpetrator of “espionage/intelligence collection operations and manipulation/influence operations…against U.S. government, military, science & technology and Intelligence Community” organs.

The term “manipulation/influence operations” refers to covert attempts by Israel to sway U.S. public opinion in its favor. In this, Israel has dubious company, according to the NSA: Other leading threats were listed as China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, France, Venezuela and South Korea.

Israel has similar company in threats against U.S. infrastructure, according to the NSA document. Under a section headed “Mastering Cyberspace and Preventing an Attack on U.S. Critical Information Systems,” Israel, India, North Korea and Cuba are identified as “FIS [financial/banking system] threats.” Israel also appears on the list of countries believed by the NSA to be “enabling” electronic warfare “producers/proliferators.”

The new document again underscores the schizoid relationship between the U.S. and Israel, which cooperate closely in military and intelligence operations but also aggressively spy on each other. A previously released Snowden document said that “one of NSA’s biggest threats is actually from friendly intelligence services, like Israel.” Another revealed that a U.S. National Intelligence Estimate ranked Israel as “the third most aggressive intelligence service against the U.S.,” behind only China and Russia.

In a series of articles last May,Newsweek reported that “Israel has been caught carrying out aggressive espionage operations against American targets for decades,” an allegation vociferously denied by Israeli officials, who insisted that Jerusalem stopped spying on the U.S. after the late 1980s arrest and conviction of its secret agent Jonathan Pollard, a U.S. Naval Intelligence analyst. Over the weekend, the German magazine Der Spiegelreported that Israel eavesdropped on Secretary of State John Kerry’s cellphone conversations during Middle East peace talks in 2013. (According to a July 20, 2014, piece in The New Republic, “The Kerry team spoke more carefully over cell phones, believing the Israelis might be listening.”)

The State Department had no comment on the Der Spiegel allegations.

Washington’s protective relationship toward Israel is heavily influenced by its close cooperation in intelligence operations against common Middle Eastern threats, such as Iran, Syria, terrorist groups and the Palestinians.

Citing NSA documents, Greenwald’s piece in The Intercept says, “The relationship has, on at least one occasion, entailed the covert payment of a large amount of cash to Israeli operatives.” The NSA and its British counterpart also “rely on U.S.-supported Arab regimes, including the Jordanian monarchy and even the Palestinian Authority Security Forces, to provide vital spying services regarding Palestinian targets.

“Over the last decade,” Greenwald added, “the NSA has significantly increased the surveillance assistance it provides to its Israeli counterpart, the Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU; also known as Unit 8200), including data used to monitor and target Palestinians. In many cases, the NSA and ISNU work cooperatively with the British and Canadian spy agencies, the GCHQ and CSEC.”

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When You "Stand With Israel" They're Peeking Behind Your Back Checking Out Your Private Parts

Israel’s Aggressive Spying in the U.S. Mostly Hushed Up

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Israel pulling the strings of NSA surveillance program

Press TV has conducted an interview with James Fetzer, Professor Emeritus of the University of Minnesota Duluth (Madison) about the United States government spying on American citizens as well as eavesdropping on several world leaders.





The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: I’d like to get your thoughts on the recent US Senate Intelligence Committee’s measures that will allow the continuation of the government sweeping mass surveillance activities. Does this show the complete disregard of the United States for the aftermath of the revelations of its espionage activities?
Fetzer: Well, it has several dimensions. It is completely unconstitutional and it cannot be justified on the basis of domestic terrorism.
The very same Committee that is considering this legislation released a report on October 3, 2012 based upon its review of 680 fusion center reports or fusion centers’ merged Federal State and local anti-terrorism efforts gathered between 2009 and 2010 and in that 680 reports distributed all over the country they found not a single instance, -not one, zero, zilch, naught, none- of domestic terrorist activity.
 


So, this is clearly not directed at domestic terrorist activities; instead it is directed at opponents of the National Security State. Dianne Feinstein, I am sorry to say, is a stooge of Israel. She is one of many.
The problem here is that the NSA [the National Security Agency] has so much information on all of the members of Congress, all of the members of the Supreme Court, all of the members of the Executive up to including President Obama that they could extort them, they can subject them to pressure, they can threaten to embarrass them and in fact there is every reason to believe that Israel is behind all of this because there is an agreement between the NSA and Israel that all of our raw data should go directly into Tel Aviv. It is a terrible, shocking situation. And I am appalled that the Senate should be seeking some way to legalize it but I can assure you that is because they are under duress by the NSA.
Press TV: Professor Fetzer, revelations by Edward Snowden, week on out, reveal more shocking details about the espionage activities. There is spying on civilians inside the United States, spying on foreign countries, civilians of foreign countries, even leaders of other countries, foes and allies alike.
Just how far does this rabbit hole go?
Fetzer: It is worldwide and massive. They are vacuuming up everyone’s electronic communications, are vacuuming up everyone’s email, cell phones, any form of communication, financial and medical.
Chancellor Merkel was well alarmed because she grew up and born in East Germany which was dominated by the Stasi, the most effective secret organization ever conceived by the mind of man and it turns out at last that our own Department of Homeland Security was modeled after the Stasi in combination with the NSA the HS is seeking to dominate the United States or try to disarm Americans so they cannot stand up and oppose the imposition of tyranny by this administration.
It is a very serious situation. I am very profoundly troubled and the whole world ought to be disturbed by what is going on here.
Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, is McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
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Israeli art students spying again

A local ABC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah has caused a 

stir online with a report suggesting that self-proclaimed 

Israeli art students, peddling their artwork from door to 

door, have been asking disturbing questions about plans to 

build an NSA data center in the area.

"These salespeople say they're Israeli students," ABC4 


reporter Brent Hunsaker explained. "They even produce 

Israeli passports. They say they're selling their own artwork 

to raise money to open a gallery. So why would the Israeli 

art students want to know about the National Security 

Agency?"

According to Hunsaker, warnings about the students are 


being spread through blogs and church bulletins. One 

bulletin sent out to Mormon women even claimed that 

"federal law enforcement groups are actually investigating 

their ties to organized crime and terrorist groups."

The basis for the suspicions goes back to 2002, when a 


lengthy article at Salon described how Drug Enforcement 

Agency field offices were reporting that "young Israelis 

claiming to be art students and offering artwork for sale 

had been attempting to penetrate DEA offices for over a 

year. The Israelis had also attempted to penetrate the 

offices of other law enforcement and Department of 

Defense agencies."

According to author Christopher Ketcham, "Some of the 


Israelis were observed diagramming the inside of federal 

buildings. Some were found carrying photographs they had 

taken of federal agents. One was discovered with a 

computer printout in his luggage that referred to 'DEA 

groups.' In some cases, the Israelis visited locations not 

known to the public -- areas without street addresses, for 

example, or DEA offices not identified as such."

These reports were summarized in a June 2001 internal 


DEA memo, but what brought the story to public notice 

was 

a Fox News special in December of that year. It suggested 

that the "art students" might have been Israeli spies who 

had trailed al-Qaeda members across the United States but 

had never shared any information they might have gained 

on the plans for September 11 with US authorities.

Ultimately, the more conspiratorial aspects of the story 


proved impossible to confirm, and it became one more 

unsolved 9/11 mystery. Since then, self-proclaimed "Israeli 

art students" have continued to show up from time to time, 

but most of them are clearly running a scam.

Police in Ontario, Canada, for example, are currently 


issuing warnings about individuals going door to door and 

asking hundreds of dollars for "one of a kind" artworks that 

are "actually mass-produced oil paintings from China worth 

about $15."

The situation is somewhat different in Utah, however, 


where the sudden appearance of the art students is being 

tied to recent news reports that "the Army has awarded a 

$1.2 billion contract to a construction consortium to build 

spacious new data center in Utah for the National 

Security Agency's (NSA's) cybersecurity effort."

The facility is part of the Comprehensive National Security 


Initiative, launched in 2008, whose aim is to protect 

military computer networks from cyber-threats and provide 

assistance to the Department of Homeland Security in 

securing the federal government's civilian networks.
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NSA Never Breaks Up Israeli Espionage


The new Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid

NSA Spying Never Catches Israelis – Why Not?


…by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor     …and  Press TV

-  First published on Press TV, July 11th, 2013  -



Snordster – Who and where is he?
[Editors Note: After this ran on Press TV Snordster picked it up for one of his incredible dramatic reading videos which is always a kind of out of body experience for a writer. So you have the choice of sitting back for the movie version at 11 minutes, and/or reading it below.

He had done an earlier one on my Jewish Genome piece that did very well, but this NSA one has 7500 views, not bad at all for this genre. One of these days when I find out how to contact him I will be able say thank you. I just Googled the Press TV title above and it still has a hit count of over 63,000, meaning it has been posted that many times, so we got the word out.

Snordster abridged the title, which creates a different search term. I just Goggled that one and got a count of 262,000, the highest number for anything I have ever done. I hate to quote Hillary, but this shows "it does take a village". Thanks to all of you who help to do the same...Jim W. Dean]

NSA Spying Never Catches Israelis?


YouTube - Veterans Today - – Snordster dramatic reading
Intelligence analysis always follows a dual track of analyzing what you can see…and what you can’t. The massive coverage on the recent Snowden revelations has basically all been theater as most had already been revealed and/or was known about by every Intel agency on the planet.
Two old platitudes come to mind…’Crying Crocodile Tears’, and Shakespeare’s “Me thinks she doth protest too much”. When you cut through all the smoke and mirrors, the essence is very simple.
Snowden, like Assange…despite the huge amount of classified material with all the embarrassing things that involved so many countries, neither of them seemed to know anything about the massive Israeli espionage that is carried out all over the world.


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For example, the field reports from Afghanistan and Iraq involved Israelis being picked up as contractors doing very nasty things, and yes, doing them even to American troops.
None of that stuff made its way into the leakers shocking release pile. We have people who wrote some of those reports, and they were major headlines.
My verdict? No leaker who has had access to the mother-load of dirty Intel laundry on numerous selected countries, and who never releases any on Israel, is for real. They are an operator. Why? Because busting open the Israeli espionage cover-up is the story of a lifetime.
On one side you have a loyal faction of modern Intel professionals trying to monitor and block Israeli penetrations. And then there is the rogue bunch assisting the bad guys for all the rewards offered, not so much by the Israelis themselves but their substantial political helpers.
This battle has been going on for a long time and there is a huge amount of material available even in the declassified files. If you want to find out more, all you have to do is scratch the dirt. It is the espionage scandal of our time and these phony leakers have contributed nothing.
Veterans Today burned Assange in the fall of 2011, with Ziggy Brzezinski helping through his big PBS interview where he spilled the beans about the Assange information being released having been ‘seeded.’ He gave our initial claims a lot more exposure.
So that really leaves only one plausible explanation for ‘missing’ the Israeli espionage angle. Remember I said it would be impossible for a really connected leaker not to know about it. And if Assange and Snowden were really these altruistic goody goodies who cry about the public’s right to know how they are being abused by government spying on them, then why would they give the Zionists a free pass for doing it to all of us?
Press TV readers would know why…because these guys are on an Israeli string. This is simply Intel 101. When everybody is getting embarrassed by leaks except for that one special group, there is no suspect number two.
The Europeans are crying wolf as part of the charade, also. They all have been doing similar communications intercept spying on their own people…and more than a few of them in conjunction with the US under sharing arrangements.

The guilty have escaped so far
The beginning of this came from the alleged 911 hijackers. They had spent time in various European states and moved around different legal jurisdictions as the most normal tactic of that era for avoiding close monitoring by counter-intelligence services.
Communications Intel people did not want to get caught being responsible for missing another major attack, so it was open city on collecting everything they could by whatever means available.
The NSA name for it was Total Awareness. This sometimes would include having other jurisdictions do things that were illegal for you to do in your own country.
For example, years ago Canada intercept sites could collect material on Americans, and we on them, and both could testify that they were not collecting communications domestically and be telling the truth technically. But they were never asked about whether there was a sharing arrangement with anyone. This is part of the theater of Congressional hearings…what does not get asked.
The Israelis have a huge appetite for intercept information and they used their Jewish Lobby political muscle to get their contractors inside many of their friendly country counterintelligence operations, especially communications. In the US, Michael Chertoff literally hardwired them with full promotion and protection from Bush and Cheney.
Remember this is the crowd, along with Rudy Giuliani, who were going to make Bernie Kerik Homeland Security Director after being a high school dropout and detective third class. He was nothing more than a sock puppet for his handlers who would have been running the show.
What kind of leaders would use a tragedy like 911 to put a totally incompetent person in charge of the biggest conglomeration of Intel and law enforcement in history? Many were suspicious that they wanted to make sure that 911 would never be unraveled as to who was really behind it here in the US. Bernie would have been perfect for that. He has been out of jail a month now.
So what we have had going on is a cruel betrayal, not only here in America but in many countries. The War on Terror has been used by elites as an excuse to get a vice grip control over their populations, profiling them on a scale formerly only dreamed about.

“Here’s lookin at ya!”
Why would this be necessary? The only real answer is a looming fear of publics finding out what their governments had really done to them, the extent of the corruption and how thoroughly they had been pillaged.
People learning that their countries had been stolen, that would make them dangerous. They would all turn against those responsible.
The only defense for the elites then would be to quickly round up all those of a certain profile, those who had the leadership skills, the knowledge, and the network strength to fight back.
The data mining ability available to governments now is absolutely incredible. They can find out just about anything about anybody…but not on the Israelis, of course. Think about it. With these new tools we should have been able to decimate Israel’s espionage networks here…political, military, financial, media, academia and the think tanks.
How many Israeli Intel networks have the Western countries broken up since 911? The answer is zero. The Zionists have compromised these Western nations in a variety of ways, with the primary tool being political espionage as that is the pathway you use to get your people deeply embedded in all the important spots.
They spend ten, twenty years, even longer grooming their people to have them ready when the time is right to slip them into sensitive positions. Even our Justice Department has been compromised, as loyal people have gone everywhere to initiate prosecutions only to be told that it was just impossible for “protected entities”.
Assange, and now Snowden, are just side shows…burning up the public attention time clock that could have been much better spent going after the really dangerous threats. You cannot involve the Israelis in anything and have any security. The two are mutually exclusive.

Who is hoovering up who? And why are Israelis found at all the key junctions?
The professional Intel people all know this, but get overruled by the civilian leadership where that fix is in. To call these countries democracies is an embarrassment to the word.
These are conquered countries where people were sold the story about the tooth fairy and who are now struggling to outgrow their childish beliefs as their make believe world comes down around their ears.
All of these countries, their elite class, deem their own people to be their number one threat. And the Israeli Lobby operators are stuck to the elites like glue, promising to protect them when the dark times come…that they will be OK if they are with the right group.
Dear readers, we are not on their ‘right group’ list. We are on the expendable, potential threat one. Even War on Terror veterans found themselves on it, yet many are still refusing to let go of their Teddy Bears and face up to what has to be done.
You can shoot me as the bad news messenger if you want, but that won’t save you. Saving ourselves is going to require some very clear thinking, determination, and building street armies like the Egyptians just did.
When we can put 50 million people into the streets and bring the military over with us, it will be a new Independence day. And the first order of business would be to clean up 911, and not let those responsible walk among us.
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