The Israeli press is picking up Grant Smith’s revelation from FBI documents that Benjamin Netanyahu was part of an Israeli smuggling ring that spirited nuclear triggers out of the U.S. in the 80s and 90s.
Arutz Sheva, the nationalist Israeli press:
Declassified FBI documents from a 1985-2002 investigation implicate Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in an initiative to illegally purchase United States nuclear technology for Israel’s nuclear program.
Netanyahu was allegedly helped by Arnon Milchan, a Hollywood producer with ties to Israeli prime ministers and U.S. presidents.
The original story was broken by Grant Smith at antiwar.com, “Netanyahu worked inside nuclear smuggling ring”:
On June 27, 2012, the FBI partially declassified and released seven additional pages [.pdf] from a 1985–2002 investigation into how a network of front companies connected to the Israeli Ministry of Defense illegally smuggled nuclear triggers out of the U.S.* The newly released FBI files detail how Richard Kelly Smyth — who was convicted of running a U.S. front company — met with Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel during the smuggling operation. At that time, Netanyahu worked at the Israeli node of the smuggling network, Heli Trading Company. Netanyahu, who currently serves as Israel’s prime minister, recently issued a gag order that the smuggling network’s unindicted ringleader refrain from discussing “Project Pinto.”
The Hebrew paper Ma’ariv, in translation:
According to FBI documents released by the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was involved in smuggling in the 70s from the U.S. components of Israeli nuclear program, and assisted by the businessman Arnon Milchan, who according to previous publications was a former Mossad agent.
The documents, declassified in part by the FBI after partial classification removed, describe the findings of the investigation has been performed between the years 1985 to 2002 on about how a network of front companies a U.S. security firm illegally smuggled equipment used for weapons seeds out of the U.S..
fantastic
Why? This will make him a big hero to all the rest of the Israelis. Wouldn’t be surprised if they made him King, or Head Rabbi, or whatever it is they got over there.
He ripped off the US? For an Israeli, what’s not to love about that?
i think it is fantastic the Israeli press is picking up any of Grant Smith’s revelations. more please. push the truth!
Annie,
I’m with Mooser on this one. What “truth” do you think Israelis care about? They don’t care about truth, certainly not any truth that you or I have in mind.
Like Mooser wrote:
Actually I’ve heard from quite a few people that the Israeli press is more liberal and openly critical of Israel than the American press. So far none of the mainstream networks here has picked this up (no surprise there) but not even the alternative RT has reported this.
High Priest?
Mooser’s right. This needs traction in the Presbyterian Church. Then you will pour gasoline on this American fire. Israelis couldn’t give a shit. They don’t like Americans, anyway. They call us the friers. And that includes American Jews who think they are exempt. I cannot tell you what I’ve heard from US-based Israelis about Jews here. Extraordinarily ugly and contemptuous. Why don’t people take Danaa at her word about this?
link to haaretz.com
Freiers is spelled FREIERS. Damn auto-correct.
Oh my! Looks like some of the silenced patriots within the FBI are finally getting to do some unveiling.
It all goes to show that as resentment builds and is suppressed, the dam will eventually break.
Stay tuned folks – the show is just about to begin. Stock up on popcorn, we’ll be here for a while!
For some time now it has looked to me that there are some “like-minded” people operating within some of our agencies against the Israel firsters.
Agreed. It has certainly been true of the CIA.
fbi too, and homeland security.
This is a real dilemma for the lobby. The federal bureaucracy is just too large to fill all of those agencies with Zionist plants. The agencies are too vast for the political appointees to micro manage each section. One patriot at the GS15 level with a loyal staff can make a difference.
One or two GS15 who still believe their government really does work for the Amercan people can be snuffed out. It will take much more.
My hope is that Americans — Jewish and non-Jewish — come to the quiet realization that they have been Zuckers for Zionism, and just peacefully walk away from it.
Israel will then have to figure out its place in the world. That would mean getting over itself, making peace with it’s neighbors and becoming a normal country instead of a US military base filled with paranoid gun-toting zealots.
Grant Smith has no traction. Yet. Watch it coming.
They didn’t do it voluntarily, C&D.
Understood. The superiors have to be forced. It gives the opening for something like this to slip out, thanks to those who are waiting to do so.
From Wikipedia:
An apocalypse (Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apocálypsis, meaning ‘un-covering’) is a revelation of something hidden. In religious contexts it is usually a revelation of hidden meaning – hidden from mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception.
The apocalypse is upon us. 2012 will be a year to remember.
Well, C & D, I think Trump, of all people, has already revealed Obama will attack Iran before November to secure his re-election if the race is tight as summer wans–Trump has not revealed that if Mitt wins, Iran will be attacked shortly thereafter. In either case, the apocalypse will be the same (WW3–in big window view, making a straight line of causation), with US attack on Iran being condition precedent to Obama’s reelection, or if he does not attack, and loses to Mitt, attack on Iran being a condition subsequent to Mitt’s first term as POTUS. The very small guy, Truman would understand; after all, he started the Zionist takeover ball rolling in the first place against the advice of the Realists of the time. The current US campaign finance system is not geared to produce an American First POTUS when it comes to anything Israel. All US hopefuls check their integrity at AIPAC’s door. That’s the price of successful personal political ambition in America.
Obama will lose the election if he bombs Iran, Citizen. You’re not hearing what I’m hearing.
Gee, I thought Americans have a record of getting behind their POTUS when he’s strapped on his battle gear. A false flag is not unheard of as to getting things rolling. Have the sanctions hit the central bank of Iran yet? I hear the Iranian people are suffering a lot under the current array of sanctions.
Yes, but are the sayanim that surround him letting him hear the same thing?
@MRW: I’m not so sure Obama won’t attack Iran before the election. Ostensibly, Iran hasn’t yet closed the Strait of Hormoz for fear of an American/Israeli attack, but the EU embargo changed their priorities–according to Press TV, as of this week Iran is pushing to close the Strait of Hormoz, and the United States of Israel is not likely to respond kindly to that. If Iran closes the Strait and Obama attacks Iran, the government and its media cronies are likely going to sell it as a “patriotic attack” to preserve the inalienable rights of barrels of oil to move freely or something crazier than that and as usual the American sheeple who still have faith in the government will devour it.
link to presstv.ir
Who exactly will he lose to?
I stand second to no man in my unqualified contempt for Obama. And yet, what’s the alternative? I’m probably going to vote for him.
Time to indict and demand he be turned over to US custody to stand trial and, if found guilty, to go to prison.
uh huh, like that’s gonna happen any day between now and when he anoints romney’s vp running mate.
Well, Anderson Cooper finally came out of the closet. No one thought that would ever happen either. Sometimes pigs do fly.
i didn’t know he was in the closet. was it a ellen like event? i’m out of the loop.
No considering it was the least kept secret ever.
He was sort of half in half out of the closet for SO long that no one was surprised when he finally came out. It was a “secret” that everyone knew about. It was not Ellen-like at all. When he finally came out it was rather indirectly through a letter to Andrew Sullivan.
He’s been out of the closet for years. Lotsa articles about life with him and his Latino BF.
No he hasn’t – not openly. Lots of people knew and he never denied it but he hasn’t publicly acknowledged it until now.
Hope springs eternal, Annie.
Michelle Bachman is still ‘my girl’ for the VP slot. Beauty and brains. A fine legal mind, a staunch zionist, a hottie, and would clean Biden’s clock in a debate.
Absolutely, biorabbi. Michelle Bachman. I’ll back that. 100%. I pray it happens.
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yep, she’s no refrigerator as to her looks and nice body; and those Oral Roberts U credentials are pure gravitas
@biorabbi
Get professional help.
C&D,
;-)
Look, Israel murdered a bunch of US military personnel and nearly sunk their ship at a time when there was a hint of diversity in US official opinion re the US’ relations with that pirate nation. Johnson actually had to ignore or threaten countervailing and discordant voices to quash the investigation.
Now, with a harmonized choir of castrati at the helm, how likely is it that anyone will be distressed Netanyahu’s decades-old treachery?
I don’t know how to relate to the conviction held by so many of the site’s regulars that we’re at a turning point vis a vis US/Israel relations. Sometimes I’m heartened by the positivity, sometimes it seems naive.
If this story picks up one tiny particle of traction in the mainstream US press, and if it eventuates in even a burble of official action (from, you know, a government which acknowledges without shame its inconsistent standards re Israel and everyone else), I’ll fold my cynicism t-shirt neatly and put in on the back shelf.
Why is the *Israeli* press picking up the story?
My two guesses: (1) Netanyahu had made a lot of political enemies over the decades, and his enemies are eager for anti-Netanyahu information, true if possible.
(2) His enemies fear that Netanyahu plans to attack Iran, which they think would be a disaster for everybody, including Israel. So they’re trying to step back from the brink.
These two guesses are not mutually exclusive.
Check Mooser’s remark above. It will help Netanyahu get re-relected forever.
“It will help Netanyahu get re-relected forever.”
Well this is good. Ideally, Israel would elect someone like Yishai or Lieberman, but Netanyahu should suffice for my purposes.
and he should be arrested the next time he enters any U.S. territory and taken to trial, then executed as a foreign spy who did material harm to the U.S.
but, instead, because the israeli lobby controls our country (especially our slavish Congress) – he is feted with honors and allowed to publicly bully us
let me say it again – israel has long been and currently is the greatest Clear and Present Danger to the United States and its national interests
What difference does it make if the media guys in the Israel First mafia don’t want it to exist?
As the song says, you might as well be walking on the sun.
I’ve written a letter to U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich, requesting they investigate Netanyahu’s espionage activities:
link to my.firedoglake.com
Will POTUS Obama be brave enough to use this to bar Bibi’s ever-annoying presence in the USA?
Only the churches’ opinion will matter.
“Will POTUS Obama be brave enough to use this to bar Bibi’s ever-annoying presence in the USA?”
Silly question. Do you actually have any doubts on this score?
Israel will agree to turn Netanyahu over to the US provided we give them Pollard.
What a dumb exchange idea. There are nearly 5,000,000 active military. The military brass are adamant about what Pollard did to destroy the US. You need to read their blogs. There isn’t one single military blog that backs Pollard. None. Name one.
Let’s keep track and get as many politicians on record about this matter as possible.
The “Free Pollard” crowd should all be asked about this matter, as should the leaders of the big Jewish orgs.
It’s a win-win-win. Either…
(a) they ignore you, thus leaving your choice of words unchallenged,
or (b), they attempt to justify Netanyahu’s behavior, which is going to wind up sounding like saying seducing the fourteen-year old baby sitter isn’t really child abuse,
or (c), they attempt to call you a liar, which is readily refuted.
So, umm, where’s the arrest warrant for Arnon Milchan?
Stop making such a fuss.
So your bestest ever allies who have sent their troops to fight alongside yours in – how many wars? a million, is it? – forgot to ask when they borrowed a little bit of your technology. So what? You were busy at the time, and they didn’t want to bother you.
And anyway, think of all those shared values and the invention of the cherry tomato and things. Where would you be without Israel?
And remember the Holocaust, you anti-Semites.
Yup. And if the US could bury the attack on the USS Liberty, this little teensy thing can be buried too.
>> And remember the Holocaust, you anti-Semites.
Nicely put. ;-)
RE: “illegally smuggled equipment used for weapons seeds out of the U.S…” ~ translation from Hebrew
MY COMMENT: Instead of “seeds” it should probably be triggers.
FROM GRANT SMITH’S ARTICLE AT ANTIWAR.COM, 7/04/12:
SOURCE – link to original.antiwar.com
P.S. RE: “. . . In July 2001, Smyth was arrested in Spain by Interpol and returned to the U.S., and in November, he was convicted of exporting 800 nuclear triggers (called krytrons). . .” ~ from Grant Smith’s article excerpted above)
ALSO SEE: “Israel’s Nuclear Triggers”, by Grant Smith, Antiwar.com, 3/22/12
ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to original.antiwar.com
* P.P.S. So you see, it is anti-Semitic not to allow the Israelis unfettered access to krytrons (nuclear triggers) so that they can be used to automatically heat up cholent on the Sabbath without anyone working to light the fire!
Dickerson,
The Hebrew word for “seed” and “nuclear” (nucleus) is the same, it’s Gar’een.
Neshek Gar’ini is “nuclear weapon”. It would appear that Google Translate is not sophisticated enough to translate in context.
By the way, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds are popular in Israel, and in fact throughout the Middle East. In Hebrew, someone engaged in the act of eating them is said to be, Mehfatzayakh (Meh-fuh-ttze-yakh) Gar’inim, a seed cracker (cracking seeds).
Anyway, end of lecture.
Thanks for explaining where the “seeds” came from.
Yes, the non-human translations can be very poor, especially when you are not dealing with English, Spanish, French, German or Italian. The translations from Arabic to English are particularly bad.
RE: “Netanyahu implicated in nuclear smuggling from U.S. — big story in Israel” ~ Weiss
MY SNARK: “Membership [or not] has its privileges!”™
ALSO SEE: “Report: Secret Document Affirms U.S.-Israel Nuclear Partnership”, by Haaretz Service, Barak Ravid and Reuters, Haaretz, 7/07/12
According to Army Radio, the U.S. has reportedly pledged to sell Israel materials used to produce electricity, as well as nuclear technology and other supplies.
ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to commondreams.org
Haaretz is not Chairman of JCOS General Martin Dempsey.
P.S RE: “Netanyahu implicated in nuclear smuggling from U.S…” ~ Weiss
ALSO SEE: “The Real Nuclear Outlaws: How the US and Israel are Shredding the NPT”, by Carl Boggs, Counterpunch, 4/04/12
ENTIRE COMMENTARY – link to counterpunch.org
P.S. RE: “The NPT called on all parties to fight proliferation… Article I stated that nuclear powers agree not to assist non-nuclear countries in their nuclear programs… As for Article I, the U.S. (along with France) offered substantial aid and protection to the hyper-secret Israeli nuclear-weapons program going back to the 1950s.” ~ Carl Boggs (above)
FOR INSTANCE, SEE: “Israel’s Nuclear Triggers”, by Grant Smith, Antiwar.com, 3/22/12
ENTIRE ARTICLE – link to original.antiwar.com
As a note, from the information given, it would seem that ”Benjamin Netanyahu was part of an Israeli smuggling ring that spirited nuclear triggers out of the U.S. in the 80s and 90s’ is technically inaccurate.
The investigation ran from 1985 to 2002. Netanyahu’s actual involvement seems to have happened in the 1970′s. If one is going to push this, one doesn’t want there to be any inaccuracies in one’s statements.
I’ll also note that the FBI documents were released on June 27 — but no major US news organizations seem to have picked up on the story yet. People would seem to be sitting on it.
From-http://nationalinterest.org/article/israels-new-politics-the-fate-palestine-7069
“I know what America is. America is something that can be easily moved. Moved to the right [direction]. . . . They won’t get in our way. They won’t get in our way. . . . So let’s say they say something. So they said it! They said it! 80 percent of the Americans support us.” Netanyahu’s oft-quoted comment