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Israeli Spy Ring in the U.S.

 
 
Ethan Hawke
12:15 / 07.05.02
There's a long article in Salon Premium today about a series of encounters between DEA agents and young Israeli men and women posing as art students. These art students targeted DEA officials at work and at home and attempted to get information about the premises from them. Connections between the students and Israeli attaches at their embassy in Washington has been established convincingly.

Here is a link to a DEA internal memo about the phenomenon

Some of these "art students" are alleged to have resided in Hollywood, Florida, the same small town several of the Sept. 11th hijackers lived in. Sources in the Salon article speculate that the spy ring was in the U.S. to watch al qaeda operatives, but didn't share intel with the U.S.

Any other speculation? Why the DEA? My only guess for that is that I believe Tel Aviv is a hot spot for MDMA manufacture/distribution.
 
 
grant
14:38 / 07.05.02
Oh lord... South Florida again.

As a tangential note, the same area (southern Broward county) was home for some fellows who ran guns to the IRA, an operation financed in Boston. (where the 9-11 planes took off from, right?).

Just speckalatin'.... The DEA does have a rather wide sphere of influence, and there are a *lot* of DEA in this area, cuz it's where much of the Colombian & South American product comes into the States. Unless there are closer ties between the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism (sharing intelligence agents, etc.) than we want to know.
 
 
shirtless, beepers and suntans
18:19 / 07.05.02
i don't want to start a debate on israel, but i fail to see how washington considers it one of "our reliable allies."

if what you've posted is true, then it's just another argument that israel has become a billion-dollar-a-year political liability since the fall of the soviet union.

i vaguely recall a story printed sometime in the last six months describing how a company based in israel, with ties to its government, has access the phone records of nearly every american household.

i say israel should either make itself useful for once or get off the dole.
 
  
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