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Title: | SPYING for the US against Israel is no goldmine either | |||
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| Name: | PETER SM | | |||
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| City: | MELBOURNE | State: | AUSTRALIA | | |
| America`s Spies in Israel Yosef Amit was an intelligence officer in the Israel Defense Forces, responsible for running agents in Arab countries, who eventually rose to command an intelligence base on the border with Lebanon. While there Major Amit ran into difficulties with the law in 1978, and was discharged from the IDF. Eventually going to work as a private investigator, he was recruited into the CIA by Tom Waltz, a Jewish CIA officer based at the American embassy in Tel-Aviv. The Americans were supposedly especially interested in information on Israeli troop movements and plans in Lebanon and the territories, which Amit provided. He also apparently passed to the Americans secret documents from Israel`s internal security service, the Shin Bet, which he got from a friend who worked there. The Shin Bet eventually caught up with Amit in 1986, when he was secretly arrested for espionage. The trial was also secret, though it is known that Amit received a long prison sentence. (Ha`aretz, Dec. 12, 1997) Another U.S. spy was the Israeli politician Andrzej Kielczynski, a friend of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and also a member of the Likud Central Committee. Kielczynski was recruited into the CIA in 1985 by the same Mr. Waltz who recruited Yosef Amit, and he allegedly turned over to the Americans information on where Israel based nuclear weapons, and also helped to uncover Jonathan Pollard`s spying against America. (Haaretz, May 18, 2001) Kielczynski later sued the CIA, claiming breach of contract ? supposed promises of money and American citizenship having not been forthcoming. In contesting the suit, the CIA did not deny that Kielczynski was a CIA asset. Instead, it won the case by citing a 125 year-old precedent (Totten v. United States, 92 U.S. 105 [1875]) to the effect that "secret information agreements to which a United States government agency is a party cannot be enforced in the courts ... because its litigation could jeopardize confidential information." ( New York Law Journal, Feb. 27, 2001) In other words, the CIA`s own legal defense confirmed that it had recruited Kielczynski as a spy against Israel |
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