EDITOR’S NOTE: Le Monde today NZT published a lengthy report into Israeli spy activities in the US prior to 911 which
raises clear questions about the extent of Israeli prior knowledge of the attacks. The story expands on material which
first emerged in a story published and then spiked on the Murdoch owned Fox News Network website last year. US officials
have quickly moved to quash the allegations made in the Le Monde article.
Below are links to the Le Monde report, transcripts of the intros to Associated Press and Reuters followup stories, a
link to the MSNBC report of official US denials, a commentary on the story from independent Internet news site whatreallyhappened.com, and a transcript of the Fox News programme which has since been spiked from the Fox News website.
NOTE: This posting has also been sent to Sludge Report Subscribers...
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Le Monde - An Israeli Spy Network Was Dismantled In The United States
(LINK - Le Monde +Google Translation)
Tuesday, 5 March 2002
It is undoubtedly the largest business of Israeli espionage in the United States made public since 1986. In June 2001, a
report/ratio of investigation details the activities of more than one hundred of Israeli agents, some being presented in
the form of students in fine art, others being related to Israeli companies of high-tech. All were challenged by the
authorities, were questioned and a dozen of them would be still imprisoned. One their missions would have been to track
the Al-Qaida terrorists on the American territory, without informing the federal authorities of them. Elements of this
investigation, taken again by American television Fox News, reinforce the thesis according to which Israel would not
have transmitted to the United States all the elements in its possession on the preparations of the attacks of September
11.
A vast operative Israeli spy network on the American territory was dismantled, reveals in its last delivery the Letter
of Intelligence Online, publication specialized in the questions of information.
It is the most spectacular business blaming the activity of Mossad (Israeli external safety) at the United States since
the judgment at the prison at life of Jonathan Pollard, an employee of US Navy, in 1986, for espionage with the profit
of Israel. Which was the real scale of this network? The facts evoked by an American report/ratio of investigation do
not indicate if it could reach information of first order, or if the authorities dismantled it in its initial phase.
According to the writer as a head of Online Intelligence, Guillaume Dasquié, this "vast network of intelligence agents
Israeli was neutralized by the services of against-espionage of the department of justice" . The Americans "would have
apprehended or expelled nearly 120 Israeli nationals" .
Mr. Dasquié gives a report on a "review article of 61 pages" of June 2001, given to the American ministry of justice by
a "task force" made up of agents of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration, service of repression of the narcotics)
and INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) "with which were associated the FBI [ federal police force ] and the
office with investigations of the US Air Force" . Questioned by the World , Will Glaspy, of the Public department
Affairs of the DEA, authenticated this report/ratio, whose DEA "holds a copy".
For full story…
French Readers see…. http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3222--265330-,00.html
Google Translation see… CLICK HERE…
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Partial Transcripts of AP and Reuters Follow Up Reports
AFP - US authorities have broken a network of Israeli spies living in
the United States who were trying to burrow into the justice and defense
departments, a French website specializing in intelligence matters
reported. The site, Intelligence Online, said it had exclusive access to
a US justice department report that showed that "a huge Israeli spy ring
operating in the United States was rolled up by the Justice Department's
counter-espionage service." Around 120 Israelis were arrested or
deported as a result of the operation, which it said had been kept
top-secret up to now….
REUTERS - Le Monde said the secret study said the
Israelis posed as graphic arts students and tried to enter buildings
belonging to the Drug Enforcement Administration and other U.S. agencies
. . . Asked by Reuters about the Intelligence Online report, an FBI
spokesman flatly called it a "bogus story." The spokesman said: "There
wasn't a spy ring." In Washington, U.S. Justice Department spokeswoman
Susan Dryden said of the Le Monde report, "At this time, we have no
information to support this." U.S. officials said some Israeli students
had been sent out of the country for immigration violations, not for
spying. In Israel, a spokesman said the prime minister had no comment
on the matter. Le Monde reported Intelligence Online's findings and
added elements it said its reporters had uncovered. "A vast Israeli
espionage network operating on American territory has been broken up,"
it wrote.
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FBI, CIA, Department of Justice Denials…
(LINK TO MSNBC REPORT)
Tuesday, 5 March 2002
PARIS, March 5 — U.S. officials on Tuesday denied a French newspaper report that the United States had broken up a huge
Israeli spy ring and said no espionage charges were ever brought.
The officials said there had been suspicions within the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that Israeli art students
may have been spying, and the agency even did a draft report about it, but the Justice Department and FBI found the
suspicions were groundless.
''No one's been charged with espionage with regard to this matter. That's the bottom line,'' an FBI official said. ''I'm
unaware of any great interest in this here.''
For Full Story…
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Whatreallyhappened.com Commentary On The Story Fox Spiked
Transcript From…. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.html
"Israel does not spy on the United States of America."
-- Mark Regev, a spokesman at the Israeli embassy in Washington
Prior to 9/11, the FBI had discovered the presence of a massive spy ring inside the United States run by the government
of Israel. This seems a harsh gratitude from a nation which obtains 10% of its annual budget from the American taxpayer,
$3+ billion a year. Over the years, American taxpayers have been required to send Israel more than four times what the
US spent to go to the moon.
What Israel has done in return was to set up government subsidized telecommunications companies which operate here in
the United States. One of these companies is Amdocs, which provides billing and directory assistance for 90% of the
phone companies in the USA. Amdocs' main computer center for billing is actually in Israel and allows those with access
to do what intelligence agencies call "traffic analysis"; a picture of someone's activities based on a pattern of who
they are calling and when. Another Israeli telecom company is Comverse Infosys, which subcontracts the installation of
the automatic tapping equipment now built into every phone system in America. Comverse maintains its own connections to
all this phone tapping equipment, insisting that it is for maintenance purposes only. However, Converse has been named
as the most likely source for leaked information regarding telephone calls by law enforcement that derailed several
investigations into not only espionage, but drug running as well. Yet another Israeli telecom company is Odigo, which
provides the core message passing system for all the "Instant Message" services. Two hours before the attacks on the
World Trade Towers, Odigo employees received a warning. Odigo has an office 2 blocks from the former location of the
World Trade Towers.
Let us be clear here. There is nothing benign about Israel spying on the United States. When Jonathan Pollard stole our
nuclear secrets (which your taxes paid to develop) and sent them to Israel, Israel did not hesitate to trade those
secrets to the USSR in exchange for increased emigration quotas.
The implication of these facts is that the billions of our tax dollars sent to Israel (while women and children sleep in
America's alleys and eat out of trash bins) have bought and paid for a monstrous phone tracking and phone tapping system
that can eavesdrop on almost any phone call in America. Even the White House phones were open to such tapping by
listening in on the other end outside the White House itself.
This actually happened. The Ken Starr report on Whitewater describes how Bill Clinton informed Monica Lewinsky that
their phone sex conversations had been recorded. At the same time, Clinton ordered the FBI to cease the hunt for an
Israeli mole known to be operating inside the White House itself!
So here we have a foreign nation able to listen in on most phones at will, using taps that cannot be found because they
are built into the phone system itself, and willing to use the information gleaned from those calls to blackmail
Americans into any desired course of action. This may well be what Ariel Sharon meant when he stated that the Jewish
people control America.
That the information gleaned from these phone taps is being used to coerce the behavior of key individuals in the US
Government and media is illustrated by the manner in which the government and the media have handled this scandal of the
largest spy ring ever uncovered inside the United States, and of phone taps on all of our phones. They are downplaying
it. Actually, burying it is a better word.
Fox News, alone of all the media, actually ran the story as a four part broadcast, and put the story up on its web site.
Then, without explanation, Fox News erased the story from their web site and have never mentioned it again. CNN followed
by "Orwellizing" their report of the two hour advance warning of the WTC attacks sent to Odigo employees. But far more
telling is the admission made by a US Official in part one of the Fox News report that hard evidence existed linking the
events of 9/11 not to Arab Muslims, but to some of the more than 200 Israeli spies arrested both before and after 9/11,
but that this evidence had been CLASSIFIED.
Since then, any and all mention of the Israeli spy ring and phone tapping scandal has resulted in a barrage of shrill
screams of "hate" and "anti-Semite", two well worn and frankly over used devices to try to silence discussion on any
topic unfavorable to the nation which owns the spy ring in question.
The story of the uncovering of the largest spy ring ever discovered inside the United States should be the story of the
century, if indeed the US media is looking out for the best interests of the American people. That this spy ring helped
drug smugglers evade investigators should be a major scandal, if indeed the US media is looking out for the best
interests of the American people. That the spy ring includes companies able to track and tap into any phone in America,
including the White House, should be a cause celebre', if indeed the US media is looking out for the best interests of
the American people.
But they are not. The media is trying to bury this story. They are spiking it, erasing it from their web sites in a
chilling real-life Orwellian rewriting of history.
The actions of the US media are those of people trying to protect this spy ring and those that the spy ring worked for.
The actions of the US media are those of traitors to the American people.
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Transcript of Spiked Four Part Fox News Report On Israeli Spyring
(TRANSCRIPT FROM ANGELFIRE.COM)
From…
TRANSCRIPT BEGINS…
BRIT HUME, HOST: It has been more than 16 years since a civilian working for the Navy was charged with passing secrets
to Israel. Jonathan Pollard pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and is serving a life sentence. At first,
Israeli leaders claimed Pollard was part of a rogue operation, but later took responsibility for his work.
Now Fox News has learned some U.S. investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in spying in
and on the U.S., who may have known things they didn't tell us before September 11. Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron
has details in the first of a four-part series.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Since September 11, more than 60 Israelis have been arrested or detained, either
under the new patriot anti-terrorism law, or for immigration violations. A handful of active Israeli military were among
those detained, according to investigators, who say some of the detainees also failed polygraph questions when asked
about alleged surveillance activities against and in the United States.
There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9-11 attacks, but investigators suspect that they Israelis
may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed investigator said there
are "tie-ins." But when asked for details, he flatly refused to describe them, saying, "evidence linking these Israelis
to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."
Fox News has learned that one group of Israelis, spotted in North Carolina recently, is suspected of keeping an
apartment in California to spy on a group of Arabs who the United States is also investigating for links to terrorism.
Numerous classified documents obtained by Fox News indicate that even prior to September 11, as many as 140 other
Israelis had been detained or arrested in a secretive and sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by Israelis
in the United States.
Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a working group that's been compiling evidence since the mid
'90s. These documents detail hundreds of incidents in cities and towns across the country that investigators say, "may
well be an organized intelligence gathering activity."
The first part of the investigation focuses on Israelis who say they are art students from the University of Jerusalem
and Bazala Academy. They repeatedly made contact with U.S. government personnel, the report says, by saying they wanted
to sell cheap art or handiwork.
Documents say they, "targeted and penetrated military bases." The DEA, FBI and dozens of government facilities, and even
secret offices and unlisted private homes of law enforcement and intelligence personnel. The majority of those
questioned, "stated they served in military intelligence, electronic surveillance intercept and or explosive ordinance
units."
Another part of the investigation has resulted in the detention and arrests of dozens of Israelis at American mall
kiosks, where they've been selling toys called Puzzle Car and Zoom Copter. Investigators suspect a front.
Shortly after The New York Times and Washington Post reported the Israeli detentions last months, the carts began
vanishing. Zoom Copter's Web page says, "We are aware of the situation caused by thousands of mall carts being closed at
the last minute. This in no way reflects the quality of the toy or its salability. The problem lies in the operators'
business policies."
Why would Israelis spy in and on the U.S.? A general accounting office investigation referred to Israel as country A and
said, "According to a U.S. intelligence agency, the government of country A conducts the most aggressive espionage
operations against the U.S. of any U.S. ally."
A defense intelligence report said Israel has a voracious appetite for information and said, "the Israelis are motivated
by strong survival instincts which dictate every possible facet of their political and economical policies. It
aggressively collects military and industrial technology and the U.S. is a high priority target."
The document concludes: "Israel possesses the resources and technical capability to achieve its collection objectives."
(END VIDEO CLIP)
A spokesman for the Israeli embassy here in Washington issued a denial saying that any suggestion that Israelis are
spying in or on the U.S. is "simply not true." There are other things to consider. And in the days ahead, we'll take a
look at the U.S. phone system and law enforcement's methods for wiretaps. And an investigation that both have been
compromised by our friends overseas.
HUME: Carl, what about this question of advanced knowledge of what was going to happen on 9-11? How clear are
investigators that some Israeli agents may have known something?
CAMERON: It's very explosive information, obviously, and there's a great deal of evidence that they say they have
collected — none of it necessarily conclusive. It's more when they put it all together. A bigger question, they say, is
how could they not have know? Almost a direct quote.
HUME: Going into the fact that they were spying on some Arabs, right?
CAMERON: Correct.
HUME: All right, Carl, thanks very much
Carl Cameron Investigates Part 2
Part 2 of 4
BRIT HUME, HOST: Last time we reported on the approximately 60 Israelis who had been detained in connection with the
Sept. 11 terrorism investigation. Carl Cameron reported that U.S. investigators suspect that some of these Israelis were
spying on Arabs in this country, and may have turned up information on the planned terrorist attacks back in September
that was not passed on.
Tonight, in the second of four reports on spying by Israelis in the U.S., we learn about an Israeli-based private
communications company, for whom a half-dozen of those 60 detained suspects worked. American investigators fear
information generated by this firm may have fallen into the wrong hands and had the effect of impeded the Sept. 11
terror inquiry. Here's Carl Cameron's second report.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fox News has learned that some American terrorist investigators fear
certain suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks may have managed to stay ahead of them, by knowing who and when investigators
are calling on the telephone. How?
By obtaining and analyzing data that's generated every time someone in the U.S. makes a call.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What city and state, please?
CAMERON: Here's how the system works. Most directory assistance calls, and virtually all call records and billing in the
U.S. are done for the phone companies by Amdocs Ltd., an Israeli-based private elecommunications company.
Amdocs has contracts with the 25 biggest phone companies in America, and more worldwide. The White House and other
secure government phone lines are protected, but it is virtually impossible to make a call on normal phones without
generating an Amdocs record of it.
In recent years, the FBI and other government agencies have investigated Amdocs more than once. The firm has repeatedly
and adamantly denied any security breaches or wrongdoing. But sources tell Fox News that in 1999, the super secret
national security agency, headquartered in northern Maryland, issued what's called a Top Secret sensitive
compartmentalized information report, TS/SCI, warning that records of calls in the United States were getting into
foreign hands – in Israel, in particular.
Investigators don't believe calls are being listened to, but the data about who is calling whom and when is plenty
valuable in itself. An internal Amdocs memo to senior company executives suggests just how Amdocs generated call records
could be used. “Widespread data mining techniques and algorithms.... combining both the properties of the customer
(e.g., credit rating) and properties of the specific ‘behavior….’” Specific behavior, such as who the customers are
calling.
The Amdocs memo says the system should be used to prevent phone fraud. But U.S. counterintelligence analysts say it
could also be used to spy through the phone system. Fox News has learned that the N.S.A has held numerous classified
conferences to warn the F.B.I. and C.I.A. how Amdocs records could be used. At one NSA briefing, a diagram by the Argon
national lab was used to show that if the phone records are not secure, major security breaches are possible.
Another briefing document said, "It has become increasingly apparent that systems and networks are vulnerable.…Such
crimes always involve unauthorized persons, or persons who exceed their authorization...citing on exploitable
vulnerabilities."
Those vulnerabilities are growing, because according to another briefing, the U.S. relies too much on foreign companies
like Amdocs for high-tech equipment and software. "Many factors have led to increased dependence on code developed
overseas.... We buy rather than train or develop solutions."
U.S. intelligence does not believe the Israeli government is involved in a misuse of information, and Amdocs insists
that its data is secure. What U.S. government officials are worried about, however, is the possibility that Amdocs data
could get into the wrong hands, particularly organized crime. And that would not be the first thing that such a thing
has happened. Fox News has documents of a 1997 drug trafficking case in Los Angeles, in which telephone information, the
type that Amdocs collects, was used to "completely compromise the communications of the FBI, the Secret Service, the DEO
and the LAPD."
We'll have that and a lot more in the days ahead – Brit.
HUME: Carl, I want to take you back to your report last night on those 60 Israelis who were detained in the anti-terror
investigation, and the suspicion that some investigators have that they may have picked up information on the 9/11
attacks ahead of time and not passed it on.
There was a report, you'll recall, that the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, did indeed send representatives to
the U.S. to warn, just before 9/11, that a major terrorist attack was imminent. How does that leave room for the lack of
a warning?
CAMERON: I remember the report, Brit. We did it first internationally right here on your show on the 14th. What
investigators are saying is that that warning from the Mossad was nonspecific and general, and they believe that it may
have had something to do with the desire to protect what are called sources and methods in the intelligence community.
The suspicion being, perhaps those sources and methods were taking place right here in the United States.
The question came up in select intelligence committee on Capitol Hill today. They intend to look into what we reported
last night, and specifically that possibility – Brit.
HUME: So in other words, the problem wasn't lack of a warning, the problem was lack of useful details?
CAMERON: Quantity of information.
HUME: All right, Carl, thank you very much.
Part 3 of 4
BRIT HUME, HOST: Last time we reported on an Israeli-based company called Amdocs Ltd. that generates the computerized
records and billing data for nearly every phone call made in America. As Carl Cameron reported, U.S. investigators
digging into the 9/11 terrorist attacks fear that suspects may have been tipped off to what they were doing by
information leaking out of Amdocs.
In tonight's report, we learn that the concern about phone security extends to another company, founded in Israel, that
provides the technology that the U.S. government uses for electronic eavesdropping. Here is Carl Cameron's third report.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The company is Comverse Infosys, a subsidiary of an Israeli-run
private telecommunications firm, with offices throughout the U.S. It provides wiretapping equipment for law enforcement.
Here's how wiretapping works in the U.S.
Every time you make a call, it passes through the nation's elaborate network of switchers and routers run by the phone
companies. Custom computers and software, made by companies like Comverse, are tied into that network to intercept,
record and store the wiretapped calls, and at the same time transmit them to investigators.
The manufacturers have continuing access to the computers so they can service them and keep them free of glitches. This
process was authorized by the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA. Senior government
officials have now told Fox News that while CALEA made wiretapping easier, it has led to a system that is seriously
vulnerable to compromise, and may have undermined the whole wiretapping system.
Indeed, Fox News has learned that Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller were both warned Oct.
18 in a hand-delivered letter from 15 local, state and federal law enforcement officials, who complained that "law
enforcement's current electronic surveillance capabilities are less effective today than they were at the time CALEA was
enacted."
Congress insists the equipment it installs is secure. But the complaint about this system is that the wiretap computer
programs made by Comverse have, in effect, a back door through which wiretaps themselves can be intercepted by
unauthorized parties.
Adding to the suspicions is the fact that in Israel, Comverse works closely with the Israeli government, and under
special programs, gets reimbursed for up to 50 percent of its research and development costs by the Israeli Ministry of
Industry and Trade. But investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest
Israeli spying through Comverse is considered career suicide.
And sources say that while various F.B.I. inquiries into Comverse have been conducted over the years, they've been
halted before the actual equipment has ever been thoroughly tested for leaks. A 1999 F.C.C. document indicates several
government agencies expressed deep concerns that too many unauthorized non-law enforcement personnel can access the
wiretap system. And the FBI's own nondescript office in Chantilly, Virginia that actually oversees the CALEA wiretapping
program, is among the most agitated about the threat.
But there is a bitter turf war internally at F.B.I. It is the FBI's office in Quantico, Virginia, that has jurisdiction
over awarding contracts and buying intercept equipment. And for years, they've thrown much of the business to Comverse.
A handful of former U.S. law enforcement officials involved in awarding Comverse government contracts over the years now
work for the company.
Numerous sources say some of those individuals were asked to leave government service under what knowledgeable sources
call "troublesome circumstances" that remain under administrative review within the Justice Department.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
And what troubles investigators most, particularly in New York, in the counter terrorism investigation of the World
Trade Center attack, is that on a number of cases, suspects that they had sought to wiretap and survey immediately
changed their telecommunications processes. They started acting much differently as soon as those supposedly secret
wiretaps went into place – Brit.
HUME: Carl, is there any reason to suspect in this instance that the Israeli government is involved?
CAMERON: No, there's not. But there are growing instincts in an awful lot of law enforcement officials in a variety of
agencies who suspect that it had begun compiling evidence, and a highly classified investigation into that possibility –
Brit.
HUME: All right, Carl. Thanks very much.
Part 4 of 4
TONY SNOW, HOST: This week, senior correspondent Carl Cameron has reported on a longstanding government espionage
investigation. Federal officials this year have arrested or detained nearly 200 Israeli citizens suspected of belonging
to an "organized intelligence-gathering operation." The Bush administration has deported most of those arrested after
Sept. 11, although some are in custody under the new anti-terrorism law.
Cameron also investigates the possibility that an Israeli firm generated billing data that could be used for
intelligence purpose, and describes concerns that the federal government's own wiretapping system may be vulnerable.
Tonight, in part four of the series, we'll learn about the probable roots of the probe: a drug case that went bad four
years ago in L.A.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Los Angeles, 1997, a major local, state and federal drug
investigating sours. The suspects: Israeli organized crime with operations in New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Canada, Israel
and Egypt. The allegations: cocaine and ecstasy trafficking, and sophisticated white-collar credit card and computer
fraud.
The problem: according to classified law enforcement documents obtained by Fox News, the bad guys had the cops’ beepers,
cell phones, even home phones under surveillance. Some who did get caught admitted to having hundreds of numbers and
using them to avoid arrest.
"This compromised law enforcement communications between LAPD detectives and other assigned law enforcement officers
working various aspects of the case. The organization discovered communications between organized crime intelligence
division detectives, the FBI and the Secret Service."
Shock spread from the DEA to the FBI in Washington, and then the CIA. An investigation of the problem, according to law
enforcement documents, concluded, "The organization has apparent extensive access to database systems to identify
pertinent personal and biographical information."
When investigators tried to find out where the information might have come from, they looked at Amdocs, a publicly
traded firm based in Israel. Amdocs generates billing data for virtually every call in America, and they do credit
checks. The company denies any leaks, but investigators still fear that the firm's data is getting into the wrong hands.
When investigators checked their own wiretapping system for leaks, they grew concerned about potential vulnerabilities
in the computers that intercept, record and store the wiretapped calls. A main contractor is Comverse Infosys, which
works closely with the Israeli government, and under a special grant program, is reimbursed for up to 50 percent of its
research and development costs by Israel's Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Asked this week about another sprawling investigation and the detention of 60 Israeli since Sept. 11, the Bush
administration treated the questions like hot potatoes.
ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I would just refer you to the Department of Justice with that. I'm not
familiar with the report.
COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE: I'm aware that some Israeli citizens have been detained. With respect to why they're
being detained and the other aspects of your question – whether it's because they're in intelligence services, or what
they were doing – I will defer to the Department of Justice and the FBI to answer that.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
CAMERON: Beyond the 60 apprehended or detained, and many deported since Sept. 11, another group of 140 Israeli
individuals have been arrested and detained in this year in what government documents describe as "an organized
intelligence gathering operation," designed to "penetrate government facilities." Most of those individuals said they
had served in the Israeli military, which is compulsory there.
But they also had, most of them, intelligence expertise, and either worked for Amdocs or other companies in Israel that
specialize in wiretapping. Earlier this week, the Israeli embassy in Washington denied any spying against or in the
United States – Tony.
SNOW: Carl, we've heard the comments from Ari Fleischer and Colin Powell. What are officials saying behind the scenes?
CAMERON: Well, there's real pandemonium described at the FBI, the DEA and the INS. A lot of these problems have been
well known to some investigators, many of who have contributed to the reporting on this story. And what they say is
happening is supervisors and management are now going back and collecting much of the information, because there's
tremendous pressure from the top levels of all of those agencies to find out exactly what's going on.
At the DEA and the FBI already a variety of administration reviews are under way, in addition to the investigation of
the phenomenon. They want to find out how it is all this has come out, as well as be very careful because of the
explosive nature and very political ramifications of the story itself – Tony.
SNOW: All right, Carl, thanks.
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