[News] Treason in high places: Pentagon zionists, AIPAC and Israel

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07-09-2004
Treason in high places: Pentagon zionists, AIPAC and Israel
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<http://www.rebelion.org/autores.php?id=11>James Petras
<http://www.rebelion.org>Rebelión
The FBI investigation into Israeli espionage agents in the Pentagon is part 
of a major struggle between prominent Zionists in the Pentagon and the US 
security apparatus. Ever since the Bush regime came to power there has been 
a fierce political and organizational war between the Pentagon Zionists and 
their militarist collaborators, on the one hand, and the professional 
military and intelligence apparatus, on the other. This conflict has 
manifested itself in a series of major issues including the war in the 
Middle East, the rational for war, the relationship between Israel and the 
US, the strategy for empire, as well as tactical issues like the size of 
military force needed for colonial wars and the nature of colonial 
occupation. From 9/11/2001 to the invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon Zionists 
and the civilian militarists had the upper hand: they marginalized the CIA 
and established their own intelligence services to “cook the data”, they 
pushed through the doctrine of sequential wars, beginning with Afghanistan 
and Iraq and projecting wars with Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and 
other Muslim countries. The Pentagon Zionists increased Israel’s power in 
the Middle East and promoted its expansionist colonization of Palestine, at 
the expense of US soldiers, budget busting expenditures and CIA objections.

The US military and security apparatus has retaliated. First by debunking 
Zionist lies about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, then by exposing the 
role of Zionist client Ahmed Chalabi as a double agent for Iran, followed 
by a two-year investigation of Pentagon Zionists passing documents to 
Israeli military intelligence and the secret police, the Mossad.

More is at stake than a turf war between the ‘Israel First’ Pentagon crowd 
and their opponents in the US military, diplomatic corp and intelligence 
agencies. The fundamental issue is the freedom of the US people to decide 
or at least influence their political leaders and their appointees without 
being subject to the manipulation and control by a foreign government 
(Israel) and their highly placed agents in positions of power.

Israel has for decades subverted US foreign policy to serve its interests 
through the organized power of major Jewish organizations in the US. What 
is new in the current Pentagon spy case is that rather than pressuring from 
the outside to secure favorable policies for Israel, the Israel loyalists 
are in top positions within the government making strategic decisions about 
US global policy and providing their Israeli handlers with secret documents 
pertaining to top level discussions in the White House on questions of war 
and peace. Today the politics of Pentagon and AIPAC espionage is especially 
dangerous – because what is at stake is a new US and/or Israeli war on Iran 
which will ignite the entire Middle East.

The move to high-level spying by top Zionist policy-makers like Douglas 
Feith, Elliott Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz and others in the Bush Administration 
is the culmination of a long series of strategic policies promoted by AIPAC 
designed to enhance Israeli expansionist goals in the Middle East.

Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams, Perle, Rubin et al were the most zealous 
promoters of the war against Iraq. They worked closely with other Zionist 
ideologues like Bush speechwriter David Frum to promote the notion of “axes 
of evil”, to engage in a sequence of wars against Muslim regimes hostile to 
Israeli colonial policy in Palestine and beyond. Wolfowitz, Feith set up 
the parallel ‘intelligence’ agency (the Office of Special Planning) run by 
fellow Zionist Abram Shulsky using Chalabi to provide phony data on Iraq to 
precipitate that war. An army of ‘Israel First’ academic and journalist 
ideologues wrote, spoke and acted to justify the US attack on Iraq as the 
first part of a regional war to destroy any and all regimes critical of 
Israeli expansionism. Cohen, Rubin, Kristol, Foxman, Ledeen and many others 
provided “expert” propaganda on why US soldiers should kill and be killed 
for Greater Israel. Almost daily meetings and consultations took place 
between the top Zionists officials and the Israeli military and 
intelligence leaders in the offices of Feith and other Zionists. The 
Pentagon offices of Feith and Wolfowitz appeared to be an upscale bordello 
for high ranking Israeli officials. Judging from the subsequent policies it 
is clear that Pentagon Zionists took their cues from their Israeli 
counterparts – Israel was given greater funding, unlimited access to US 
policy makers and information pertaining to US policy in the Middle East. 
Meantime US intelligence and military officials were marginalized, their 
objections to Israeli positions blown away, their very presence seen as 
obstacles to realizing Sharon’s vision of a Greater Israeli – sharing (?) 
domination over the Middle East.

Given the high level of structural collaboration and integration of US 
Pentagon Zionists and US Jewish organizations with the Israeli state, the 
boundaries of what is United States policies and interests and what are 
Israeli prerogatives and interests are blurred. From the perspective of the 
Pentagon Zionists and their organized Jewish supporters, it is “natural” 
that the US spends billions to finance Israeli military power and 
territorial expansion. It is “natural” to transfer strategic documents from 
the Pentagon to the Israeli State. As Haaritz states, “Why would Israel 
have to steal documents when they can find out whatever they want through 
official meetings?” The routinization of espionage via official 
consultations between Israeli and US Zionist officials became public 
knowledge throughout the executive branch. Only it wasn’t called espionage, 
it was referred to as ‘exchanging intelligence’, only the Israelis sent 
‘disinformation’ to the Pentagon Zionists to serve their interests while 
the latter passed on the real policies, positions and strategies of the US 
government.

The history of the key Zionists in the Pentagon reveals a pattern of 
disloyalty to the US and covert assistance to Israel. Harold Rhode and 
William Luti, both fanatical Pentagon Zionists under Feith , Wolfowitz and 
I. Lewis Libby have been under investigation by the FBI for passing 
documents to Israel. Rhode had his security clearance suspended recently. 
CIA operatives in Baghdad reported he was constantly on his cell phone to 
Israel reporting on US plans, military deployments, political projects, 
Iraqi assets and a host of other confidential information. Michael Ledeen, 
another influential Zionist policy maker who worked in the Pentagon lost 
his security clearance after he was accused of passing classified material 
to a ‘foreign country (Israel). In 2001 Feith hired Ledeen to work for the 
Office of Special Plans which handled top secret documents. Feith himself 
was fired in March 1983 from the National Security Council for providing 
Israel with classified data. The FBI investigated Wolfowitz for having 
provided documents to Israel on a proposed sale of US weapons to an Arab 
country.

It is clear that Israeli agents, not simply Zionists ideologues, infest the 
top echelon of the Pentagon. The question is not merely a question of 
taking this or that policy position in favor of Israel but of working 
systematically on a whole range of issues to further Israeli power over and 
against US imperial interests.

What is surprising is not the current investigation over Israeli spies in 
the Pentagon but why they have not been arrested, indicted and sentenced a 
decade or two earlier.

The problem of American Jewish organizational collaboration with Pentagon 
espionage - namely the role of the AIPEC as an accomplice in the current 
spy case - is not exceptional. In their books, former Mossad agent, Victor 
Ostrovsky ( The Other Side of Deception, 1994), and Gordon Thomas and 
Martin Dillon (Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Superspy, 2002) describe how the 
Israeli security forces have recruited overseas Zionist Jews, who are 
called sayanim, to serve as back-up supporters and collaborators in Israeli 
overseas operations. AIPAC is not merely a pro-Israel ‘lobby’ but a 
long-standing listening post and gatherer of public and confidential 
government information for Israel. At a more ‘philosophical’ level there is 
an insidious belief widely held among the leaders of major Jewish 
organizations like AIPAC that the basic question for all Jews is whether 
the “policy is good for the Jews” - narrowly defined to mean the interest 
of the State of Israel and its current rulers. In pursuit of “Defending 
Israel at all costs” it is very likely that some of these officials go over 
the line into wartime espionage.

President Bush has declared that he is a “wartime President” – the US is 
officially involved in a colonial war of aggression against the Iraqi 
people. In these circumstances, espionage in time of war is a capital 
offense
 even if the spymasters are Israelis. It is no wonder that the 
Zionist and Israeli propaganda machine is working overtime to undermine the 
espionage investigation.

After the first announcement by CBS television, the rest of the mass media 
gave prominent space to Israeli and AIPEC denials. More seriously the CBS 
broadcast deliberately harmed the FBI spy investigation into the links 
between the Pentagon and AIPEC. The FBI blames CBS’s revelations concerning 
Franklin when, the latter had already confessed and was working with the 
FEDS to implicate AIPAC and Israeli agents. Zionist ideologues in the US 
mass media and the Israeli press try to downplay the incident – first 
through vehement denials and subsequently to reducing the case of treason 
to a question of a routine exchange of information by a single “lower 
level”, bumbling but fanatically pro-Israel Gentile functionary. They 
forget to mention he was hired and directed by Douglas Feith and Paul 
Wolfowitz to be their expert on Iran deeply involved in handling top secret 
documents and formulating policy on Iran.

The Israeli officials claim that Mossad and military intelligence solemnly 
pledged to stop spying on the US after the Jonathan Pollard case. “We have 
never spied on the US since
”, they claim. In fact over 800 Israeli spies 
posing as ‘art’ students and tourists were expelled after 9/11 and several 
Mossad agents posing as movers in New Jersey and Tennessee were expelled.

The arrogance of Israeli power in then US, which Sharon publically boasted 
about, is largely based on the simple principle embraced by all Zionist 
zealots whether they are Ivy league academics or neo-fascist felons (like 
Elliot Abrams) is “What’s good for Israel is good for the US”. “Good for 
Israel” today means bloody US wars against Israel’s adversaries, 
unconditional support for Israeli expansion and pillage of Palestine and 
now spying on the US for the good of Israel. Guided by this slogan it is 
easy to see how everything in the US that might be of use to Israeli 
intelligence whether it be documents, directives or strategic debates about 
big wartime issues taking place in the White House are fair game for 
transmission to Israeli intelligence.

Rather than face the evidence, the Zionist ideologues have taken to ad 
hominum attacks on their espionage agent as merely a middle level official 
who didn’t influence policy. They overlook the fact that he was the 
‘delivery boy’ for his Zionist bosses who actually do make policy and work 
with top echelons of the Israeli state in ‘coordinating’ US policy to fit 
Israel’s needs. The power of the Israeli-US Zionist propaganda machine is 
so overwhelming that the FBI had to investigate for 2 years, make endless 
wiretaps, videos and photos, interview dozens of government and 
not-government officials before they could prepare to make the charges. 
Despite being taped and photographed in the act of taking top secret 
documents, AIPEC officials deny everything and then hire a string of 
high-powered defense lawyers. Already the pro-Zionists mass media suggest 
that Zionist-AIPEC spying is really a case of ‘mishandling sensitive 
documents’ – a case of putting top secret documents in the wrong mailbox. 
Really!

In less than two days the pro-Israel mass media buried the story, and a 
series of ‘news reports’ were published featuring AIPEC denials, Israeli 
ridiculing their Pentagon mole as a fanatical idiot (Haaretz) and launching 
a counter attack questioning the motives of the investigation and the FBI 
counter-espionage service. The media published stories from anonymous 
“insiders” who purportedly spoke of the FBI dropping espionage charges in 
favor of charges of “mishandling a classified document” or even simply 
dropping the case altogether. They claim that the spy handing over a 
classified document to Israeli interests didn’t know it was a crime, a case 
of an innocent, well-intentioned error of judgment. This piece of 
propaganda has been thoroughly discredited when it was revealed that the 
Israeli agent (Franklin) confessed and has been cooperating with the FBI 
for the past months.

Nothing captures the power and pervasive and corrosive influence of the 
US-Zionist apparatus on US politics as much as the absolute silence of both 
major candidates faced with a high-level security lapse and potentially 
damaging spy investigation. John Kerry, the Democratic candidate trailing 
Bush in the polls refuses to expose the Zionist Pentagon’s ‘security 
failures’ despite national security being at the center of his campaign. 
The reason is very clear: Kerry is tied to the AIPEC-Israel-US Zionist 
political machine and he is willing to sacrifice US security for the 
Zionist vote even when faced with the issue of Israeli espionage in a time 
of war.

The Republicans went one step further – sending their top politicos to an 
AIPEC political extravaganza organized in New York two days after AIPEC was 
cited by the FBI as the Israeli intermediary in the passing of secret 
documents. At no time in recent modern history has any governing or 
opposition party engaged in public festivities with an organization engaged 
in foreign espionage. The explanation is the unprecedented and unique 
political situation that exists in the US today – the extraordinary power 
that a small, economically dependent state exercises over a global imperial 
state via its wealthy organized political-religious agents.

If Israel can get anything it wants from its Zionist patriots in high 
places in the US government, then why engage in espionage? There are 
several explanations.

The hand delivery of documents by Franklin can be seen as a time saving and 
security-wise move. If discovered, Franklin’s mentors can simply deny 
involvement – he was acting on his own, an argument put forth in the 
Israeli press. The idea of Franklin as some kind of ‘loose cannon’ does not 
explain why he was hired, retained and given delicate assignments and 
praised by the senior Zionists (Feith, Wolfowitz, Ledeen and Abrams) up to 
the time of his exposure. Secondly the document transferred provided Israel 
with very timely information on a major top-level debate: US policy toward 
Iran, more particularly who was for or against a military assault on 
Teheran. This allows Israel to plan its own military strategy knowing in 
advance Washington’s possible response and directing its higher up Pentagon 
collaborators how to prepare the ground for acceptance of Israeli 
aggression. Fundamentally Israel wanted to be in the

White House decision making loop at every stage of Middle East policymaking 
via Wolfowitz, Feith et al and via confidential documentary accounts which 
the Mossad could analyze directly. There was a ‘need’ for espionage, 
because the Mossad does not merely rely on one source of information, nor 
does it operate only on one track. It has direct formal and ‘informal’ 
relations (spying) with ‘friendly’ government policy-makers. It operates on 
many levels, legal and illegal, through Zionist collaborators as well as 
overseas agents, through agents with false passports and though local 
Zionist sleepers, who can be activated for specific tasks



Conclusion

Investigations and evidence are usually enough to proceed with indictments, 
interrogations and the pursuit of the leaders and foreign handlers in a 
major espionage case, especially in wartime. Thousands of innocent South 
Asians, Arabs and Muslims have been picked up and jailed on the most flimsy 
excuses (“suspicions”). But in the case of Israeli-AIPEC-Pentagon espionage 
the normal legal processes are inoperative.

The question of espionage prosecution depends on political power - a 
struggle between the Israeli State backed by the major Presidential 
candidates and parties, the Zionist-American political machines and their 
mass media acolytes on the one hand and, on the other hand the FBI, 
professional intelligence apparatus (CIA, DIA), state prosecutor and his 
investigatory staff and few stray political voices. The so-called 
progressive movements and policy critics are strangely silent: Even as they 
speak out against war, they fail to denounce an espionage case which is 
intimately related to the next Middle Eastern war – an Israeli attack on 
Iran. Why don’t progressive Jews denounce AIPAC espionage to further a new 
war in Iran? A signed statement “Not in our name” would clearly separate 
them from these agents of foreign wars. Three days after the initial 
expose, the mass media have buried the story. The FBI is delaying any 
announcements. The prosecuting attorney is under tremendous one-sided 
political pressure. Lacking any mass media outlets the US republic is a 
helpless giant, tied in knots by malicious dwarfs, unable to defend itself, 
unable to define its own policy interests. The latest report from the FBI 
tells us that self-confessed Israeli agent was preparing to lead the 
authorities to his contacts in the Israeli government when CBS blew open 
the case. Was CBS aware of the danger to the Israeli secret services and 
was it trying to undermine the investigation? No doubt some sort of 
official statement will be made, perhaps even an indictment will be made of 
the middle level functionary on secondary charges and the FBI may even dare 
to interview Wolfowitz and Feith on their knowledge of the espionage 
network with predictable consequences. However if there is anything beyond 
an interview, the Zionist media will charge “anti-Semitism”, a “Second 
Dreyfuss” case, which will probably end the current investigation.

The ‘underground’ struggle between the Pentagon Zionists and the US 
security apparatus will continue. If Bush is re-elected, Wolfowitz will 
most likely become Secretary of Defense. If Kerry is elected, the closet 
Zionist, Richard Holbrooke, will take charge of the Pentagon.

American citizens will have to face a serious question: If the security 
services are incapable of defending our country from foreign espionage in 
high places – What is to be done?

In either case we face an imminent Zionist designed and promoted military 
attack on Iran, which is likely to lead to a general conflagration which 
can only benefit the neo-fascists who run the state of Israel. And you are 
afraid of being called an anti-Semite for opposing the Israel’s espionage 
and regional wars.

August 31, 2004


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