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Lawsuit Challenges U.S. “Ambiguity” Toward Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal
By Grant F. Smith In 1958 Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion designated super-lobbyist Abraham Feinberg as the North American coordinator to raise funds for Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons program. Feinberg was a…
FBI Tracked Israeli Spy Itzhak Vardi: Intelligence Officer Promoted Israel Charities in New York and South America
Itzhak (aka Yitzhak) Vardi’s intelligence operations for Israel in England put him on an FBI watch list as he traveled throughout New York. As he worked at high levels within the Palestine…
Espionage Allegations Intensify Battle for Israel’s Technion Nuke File
Is the Justice Department Obstructing Justice? Israel’s oldest university – Technion – is under an intensifying legal spotlight over stunning new allegations of espionage and a transparency-law fight to reveal its clandestine role in…
“U.S. gives too much foreign aid to Israel” say 6 in 10 Americans
Most Americans (60.7 percent) believe the United States gives “much too much” or “too much” foreign aid to Israel according to the survey report American Public Opinion on U.S. Aid to Israel (PDF) released…
Six in Ten Americans Say U.S. Gives “Too Much” Aid to Israel
Special Report By Grant F. Smith The Chicago Council on Global Affairs conducts a survey every two years, and its insights are eagerly awaited by journalists and the public alike. On Sept….
American Public Opinion on U.S. Aid to Israel
Who wants to pay for nuclear-armed Israel’s “Qualitative Military Edge”? Results of a September 2014 IRmep Online Survey By Grant F. Smith Editing and additional analysis by Jeffrey Blankfort Through 2014 the…
Americans Believe the US Gives Too Much Foreign Aid to Israel
Surveying Americans about U.S. aid to Israel requires putting it into proper perspective. Given Israel’s position as the leading single U.S. foreign aid recipient (by a wide margin), asking the foreign aid…
Americans Falsely Believe Iran has Nuclear Weapons
A steady campaign of accusations that Iran’s civilian nuclear program was—in fact—a cover for nuclear weapons development paid off. In late 2014 a strong majority of Americans (58.5%) believed that Iran had nuclear…
Most Americans Correctly Believe Israel has Nuclear Weapons
Despite a longstanding Israeli policy of “strategic ambiguity”—never confirming or denying that Israel has nuclear weapons—curiously followed by the US government, most Americans are not fooled. Revelations by Mordecai Vanunu, complete with…
DOJ Demands Immunity for Anti-Iran Group UANI
Will precedent place Israel lobby organizations above the law? The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge on Friday to throw out a lawsuit against the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran,…
U.S. Suspected Israeli Involvement in 1960s Missing Uranium
Ally Used Materials Lifted From Pennsylvania Toward a Weapons Program …The evidence suggested that “something did transpire,” said Zbigniew Brzezinski, Mr. Carter’s national-security adviser, in a recent interview. “But until you have…
Is nonprofit “United Against Nuclear Iran” a Mossad front
Greek shipping magnate’s lawsuit could answer question, but is blocked by the Justice Department…UANI’s charges that Restis is a “front-man” for Iran are thinly based on UANI’s possession of a proposal letter…
What is the Israel Lobby?
If Israel were really a U.S. strategic asset, would 200 nonprofits have to spend $1.4 billion per year to convince Americans? What are the major activities of Israel lobbying organizations? What is…
Death of the Masked Men
CIA’s John Hadden ignored as Israeli spy Avraham Bendor celebrated The death of CIA veteran John Lloyd Hadden a year ago went utterly unreported by establishment media in the United States. Given Hadden’s known…
Israel’s First US Espionage and Smuggling Network
Newly declassified Navy intelligence reports foreshadowed future Newly declassified postwar Naval Intelligence files shine new light on a little-known chapter of U.S.-Israel relations. Massive supplies of American WWII military surplus under liquidation by the…
Israel deploys three proven tactics to blunt U.S. backlash over spying
Newsweek reporter Jeff Stein’s “double-tap” expos� of Israeli espionage in the United States has put Israel and its American lobby on red alert. Stein’s initial salvo “Israel Won’t Stop Spying on the U.S.” generated howls of…
Israel’s Stolen Nuclear Materials: Why it Still Matters
…Grant W. [F.] Smith, Director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) followed up Gilinsky and Matson’s 2011 disclosures with a report based on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and…
Did Israel steal bomb-grade uranium from the United States?
Last month the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP), the nation’s highest classification authority, released a number of top-level government memoranda that shed additional light on the so-called NUMEC affair, “the story…