From the National Security Archive,
Kennedy and Dimona, a trove of declassified new documents about how JFK sought to prevent Israel from obtaining nuclear weapons.
“More than any other American president, John F. Kennedy was personally engaged with the problem of Israel’s nuclear program; he may also have been more concerned about it than any of his successors. Of all U.S. leaders in the nuclear age, Kennedy was the nonproliferation president.
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Often those critical of Israel are demonized and smeared as if any criticism is akin to hatred of a race. As a person who has in his life had family who I loved dearly married into my family that are Jewish, and as what I believe to be - a morally consistent Paleo-Conservative Christian, I find these attacks to be disgusting and warrant-less. To this day I have friends and family who are Jewish who I love dearly. The co-host of my show for 6 years was himself born Jewish but converted to Christianity. My criticism of Israel and of political Zionism is based on factual and historical truths that have been nearly white washed completely from news reporting in the main stream. You will see evidence of these facts revealed with documented evidence below with no need for "conspiracy theories".
To the compatibility of Judaism and Christianity, Christ historically opposed the "Oral Traditions" which became the compilation of the Talmud. I have ideological differences with the contents of the Talmud but not unto the point that I believe in anyone's persecution. To illustrate this please see "
Jesus In The Talmud By Jacob Prasch" or the book
Jesus in the Talmud by
Peter Schäfer written by a Jewish author written not meaning to create discord or animocity, but for what he stated; the "purpose of being honest". So he felt the need to speak candidly about Him (Yeshua) and who he states the Talmud refers to His mother the Harlot Miriam. I applaud him for his honesty. And I have no ill feelings toward the man. It is what many of us Christians have been trying to tell people for many years but have been called names and accused of lying. This man's book can simply not be disputed as he takes directly from the Babylonian Talmud and reveals shocking affirmations of what I have found. I have read much of the Talmud, and the Quran. And I concur with what he says.
Merely having ideological differences do not equate to hatred for any of God's children which we all are regardless of the dogma one has been raised with. As for the letter below and the following disclosures, these are documented facts. Jews have been propagandized into the Statist mentality of the worship of their government as akin to that of God, and the fusion with it into cultural and religious identity. This, in my opinion takes precedence over any moral responsibility. This is a common theme in world history when religion is used as a mechanism to control people. I see Israelis and most Jews no different than the average American as related to this effect. I frankly do not blame most of them for holding the beliefs they do as a result. I may not agree with the Kennedy politicians that preceded JFK, but he and Bobby Kennedy were at war with gangsters of organized crime as well as gangsters of nations. I am an American. The lives, safety, well being, and freedom of the American people of all walks of life are my paramount concern.
We must make a distinction between the religion and the people who are trapped in it, especially when fused with the interests of a secular nation state. I love Roman Catholics, (as once being one) and because I love them, I reject the doctrine of Roman Catholicism. I love Muslims, and because I love them, I reject the doctrine of Islam. I love Jews, and because I love Jews I reject the doctrine of Rabbinic Judaism, which is what I believe to be the doctrines of the Pharisees, and as I have come to learn, it is not the religion of the Biblical Israelites or of Abraham or Moses. To reject or to stand opposed to a doctrine is not the equivalent to hatred. That is born in another ideology which is Marxist in nature and honed by
Leon Trotsky. A good way of silencing intelligent debate and critique.
Political Correctness. Anti-Semitism. etc. These are bullying tactics used to discredit any intelligent argument based on truth and facts. And the
cognitive dissonance of those or who have been
psychologically programmed by mass media to use these techniques, or
fake news controlled by large corporations driven by special interests, is strong. Only through love, compassion, civil dialogue and patience can the walls of this be broken down.
The following departs from religious differences and focuses on primarily the political aspects based in fact with documented evidence. But full disclosure of what I believe is what I wish to also be honest and candid about. This is why I have explained myself above. I fear for the people of Israel and Palestine. They are in grave danger in my assessment. And there was a man who tried to prevent all of this. His name was John F. Kennedy, and although I am a Conservative, he was one of my favorite Presidents. The following are his words and backed up thereafter with evidence of what he was trying to counter.
T.R. Lacovara-Stewart
"They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions." - Isaiah 30:10
This is a telegram from the Department of State to the Embassy in
Israel transmitting the text of a letter from President
Kennedy to Israeli
Prime Minister Ben Gurion on arrangements to visit Dimona.
You should deliver following letter from President to Prime Minister Ben-Gurion:
"Dear Mr. Prime Minister:
"I welcome your letter of May 12 and am giving it careful study.
"Meanwhile, I have received from Ambassador Barbour a report of his conversation with you on May 14 regarding the arrangements for visiting the Dimona reactor. I should like to add some personal comments on that subject.
"I am sure you will agree that there is no more urgent business for the whole world than the control of nuclear weapons. We both recognized this when we talked together two years ago, and I emphasized it again when I met with Mrs. Meir just after Christmas. The dangers in the proliferation of national nuclear weapons systems are so obvious that I am sure I need not repeat them here.
"It is because of our preoccupation with this problem that my Government has sought to arrange with you for periodic visits to Dimona. When we spoke together in May 1961 you said that we might make whatever use we wished of the information resulting from the first visit of American scientists to Dimona and that you would agree to further visits by neutrals as well. I had assumed from Mrs. Meir's comment that there would be no problem between us on this.
"We are concerned with the disturbing effects on world stability which would accompany the development of a nuclear weapons capability by Israel. I cannot imagine that the Arabs would refrain from turning to the Soviet Union for assistance if Israel were to develop a nuclear weapons capability--with all the consequences this would hold. But the problem is much larger than its impact on the Middle East. Development of a nuclear weapons capability by Israel would almost certainly lead other larger countries, that have so far refrained from such development, to feel that they must follow suit.
"As I made clear in my press conference of May 8, we have a deep commitment to the security of Israel. In addition this country supports Israel in a wide variety of other ways which are well known to both of us. [4-1/2 lines of source text not declassified]
"I can well appreciate your concern for developments in the UAR. But I see no present or imminent nuclear threat to Israel from there. I am assured that our intelligence on this question is good and that the Egyptians do not presently have any installation comparable to Dimona, nor any facilities potentially capable of nuclear weapons production. But, of course, if you have information that would support a contrary conclusion, I should like to receive it from you through Ambassador Barbour. We have the capacity to check it.
"I trust this message will convey the sense of urgency and the perspective in which I view your Government's early assent to the proposal first put to you by Ambassador Barbour on April 2.
"Sincerely,
"John F. Kennedy"
Rusk
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As to the behavior of "Israel as an ally" we can see in even this biased report that was scrubbed from the Fox News archives but they none the less had to report dude to the amount of people who became aware of this spy ring, that nations who conduct this level of espionage are not concerned with the American people.
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The Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) and the diversion of US government weapons-grade uranium to Israel
"an Israeli operation from the beginning..." CIA Tel Aviv Station Chief John Hadden
"NUMEC material had been diverted by the Israelis and used in fabricating weapons."
CIA Directorate of Science and Technology Deputy Director Carl Duckett
Since the mid-1960s law enforcement and regulatory agencies suspected a small nuclear processing facility in Pennsylvania had illegally diverted U.S. government-owned weapons-grade nuclear material into Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons program. The Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation received start-up capital organized by a mysterious former smuggler with deep and ongoing ties to Israeli intelligence. FBI investigations revealed NUMEC President Zalman Mordecai Shapiro also had repeated unexplained interactions with Israeli intelligence and organized a joint venture with the primary front organization of the Israeli nuclear weapons program. According to a 2001 US Department of Energy report, NUMEC still holds the record for the highest losses of bomb-grade material of any plant in the United States.
In April 1976 Attorney General Edward Levi ordered the FBI to reopen an investigation into Dr. Zalman Shapiro and the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC). The newly reopened investigation looked beyond violations of the Atomic Energy Act. The FBI's new mandate was to also uncover "any attempt by anyone in the executive branch to prevent or impede an investigation into this alleged diversion, or to withhold any information regarding this alleged diversion from any investigative body." The FBI code-named its investigation "DIVERT." The FBI interrogated high-level officials from U.S. government agencies and NUMEC employee eyewitnesses to nuclear diversion. Inexplicably, on January 23, 1981 the FBI placed the NUMEC investigation into "closed status" until further instructions from the Department of Justice. Field offices were ordered not to destroy files without instructions from FBI headquarters. The NUMEC investigation portfolio, which had passed from LBJ, to Nixon, and on to Ford was closed at the end of the Carter administration.
These are a few excerpts of the documentation (link to full disclosure listed below:
Director of Central Intelligence Agency memo to Attorney General Ramsey Clark. "You are well aware of the great concern which exists at the highest levels of this Government with regard to the proliferation of nuclear weapons...It is critical for us to establish whether or not the Israelis now have the capability of fabricating nuclear weapons which might be employed in the Near East...I urge that the Federal Bureau of Investigation be called upon to initiate a discreet intelligence investigation of all source nature of Dr. Shapiro in order to establish the nature and extent of his relationship with the Government of Israel." Release letter
Section 1 - Zalman Shapiro investigated by the FBI for potential Foreign Agents Registration Act after 61 kilograms of U-235 are discovered missing from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. FBI establishes surveillance of Shapiro in 1968. Nature of David Lowenthal's relationship and financing of NUMEC discovered. David Lowenthal observed in photos "shaking hands with Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan" and "reportedly fought for Israel as a freedom fighter in 1956 and travels to Israel on the average of approximately once per month." NUMEC's founders, security clearances, shipment of 320 grams of plutonium to Israel in 1963, censored files.
On September 6, 1968, the US attorney general requests investigation "whether the subject is acting as an agent of the Israeli Government." September 6, 1968 NUMEC request for visit of Avraham Hermoni (Israeli nuclear weapons chief), Ephraim Biegun, Avraham Bendor, and Rafael Eitan (founder of LAKAM economic espionage network). The intelligence operatives enter under the cover of being "thermo electric generator specialists."
FULL DOCUMENTED DISCLOSURE -
http://www.israellobby.org/numec/
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I highly recommend everyone who wishes to fully understand that the real threat to America, and to the world is not based in the people, but within government agents who defy morality, and seek their own power. More on the stolen nuclear tech and material -
Divert by Grant F. Smith
Based on an exhaustive review of formerly classified government documents—as well as previously unexplored corporate filings, office diaries and interviews—Grant F. Smith has written a riveting account of the 1960s diversion of US weapons-grade nuclear material from a front company in Pennsylvania into the clandestine Israeli atomic weapons program. The talented but highly conflictual founder of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC)--Dr. Zalman Mordecai Shapiro--and his close friend and financial backer David Lowenthal engaged in a ferocious clandestine drive to funnel the most valuable military material on earth and forever tilt the balance of power between Israel and the world. Divert! chronicles Zalman Shapiro's journey from engineering key innovations for the Nautilus nuclear submarine in the 1950s to his gambit for America's most advanced hydrogen bomb designs in the 1970s. Tasked during secret summits with high-level Israeli intelligence agents, guided by Israel's top nuclear arms designers, and defended by Israel and its US lobby, Shapiro and NUMEC drove the CIA and FBI into furious outrage and despair. Presidents from Lyndon B. Johnson to Jimmy Carter secretly grappled with how to respond to Israel's brazen theft of American nuclear material before finally deciding to bury the entire affair in classified files. Yet NUMEC's toxic secrets have refused to remain buried. Newly declassified wiretaps detail Shapiro's utter contempt for worker safety and the environment. David Lowenthal's role as an international refugee smuggler between the US, Europe and Israel—before he organized critical financing for NUMEC—is examined within a network of Israeli front companies. This explosive exp
osé emerges as the US Army Corps of Engineers struggles to quietly clean up NUMEC's toxic waste near Apollo, Pennsylvania with $170 million in taxpayer funding. At a time America is coming under intense pressure to attack on the mere suspicion that Iran is diverting nuclear material into military programs, Divert! stands as a cautionary tale of how US Middle East policy is continually undermined from within by corruption, immunity, deceit and secrecy.
"Attached hereto is the entire file relating to the American Zionist Council and our efforts to obtain its registration under the terms of the Foreign Agents Registration Act..."
Documents
In the early 1960's Israel funneled $5 million (more than $35 million in today's dollars) into US propaganda and lobbying operations. The funds were channeled via the quasi governmental Jewish Agency's New York office into an Israel lobby umbrella group, the American Zionist Council. Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigations and hearings documented funding flows, propaganda, and public relations efforts and put them into the record. But the true fate of the American Zionist Council was never known, except that its major functions were visibly shut down and shifted over to a former AZC unit known as the "Kenen Committee," called the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (or AIPAC) in the late 1960's. The following chronology provides links to images of original Department of Justice case files released on June 10, 2008 under a Freedom of Information Act filing.
John F. Kennedy President, Robert F. Kennedy Attorney General
Now on to the Committee on Foreign Relations - Non-diplomatic Representatives
Documents
In 1962-1963 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigated the Jewish Agency and the American Zionist Council. Their funding flows from Israel as well as lobbying and public relations campaigns in the United States were explored during sworn testimony on May 23 and August 1, 1963. The Senate record including transcripts and subpoenaed documents are included in the following PDF files scanned from bound records held at the National Archives and Records Administration.
May 23, 1963 Hearings
Part 1 (2.8 MB)
Part 2 (3.7 MB)
Part 3 (7.2 MB)
Part 4 (2.5 MB)
August 1, 1963 Hearings
Part 1 (4.6 MB)
Part 2 (2.5 MB)
Many documents subpoenaed during the Senate investigation were not included in the final record (above). Also, organizations such as the Jewish Agency and American Zionist Council lobbied for redactions of some of their statements made under sworn testimony. The Senate investigation team files, newly released by the National Archives and Records Administration on July 23, 2010, reveal a comprehensive Jewish Agency public relations campaign in the US. Visit the new AZC archive for these declassified records.
The following is an excerpt from an article from Consortiumnews
How Israel Stole the Bomb
September 11, 2016
Exclusive: When Israel launched a covert scheme to steal material and secrets to build a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials looked the other way and obstructed investigations, as described in a book reviewed by James DiEugenio.
By James DiEugenio
In 1968, CIA Director Richard Helms was presented with a disturbing National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stating that Israel had obtained atomic weapons, a dangerous development that occurred earlier than the CIA had anticipated.
It was particularly dangerous because just the year before, the Six Day War had marked the beginning of open hostilities between the Israelis and Arab nation states. To prevail, Israel had launched preemptive air attacks against Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq at the start of the conflict. Considering that violent backdrop, Helms immediately arranged a meeting with President Lyndon Johnson to inform him of this troubling milestone.
CIA Director Richard Helms.
The man who had prepared the NIE and gave it to Helms was the CIA’s chief science and technology officer, Carl Duckett. After Helms met with Johnson, the CIA Director told Duckett about the President’s rather odd reaction.
LBJ did not get upset, and he did not order an investigation into how it happened. Further, he did not tell Helms to let both the Defense Department and State Department know about it so they could establish intelligence inquiries or consider sanctions.
Instead, Johnson did the opposite. He told Helms to keep the news secret and specifically told the Director not to let the secretaries of State or Defense know about it.
(JOHNSON COMPLETELY DEPARTED FROM JFK's DEFENSE of AMERICA) - RTR
Helms obeyed the orders of his Commander in Chief, but he decided to talk to the FBI about how this development had occurred earlier than expected. Thus begins Roger Mattson’s Stealing the Atom Bomb: How Denial and Deception Armed Israel, the riveting story of duplicity, betrayal, cover-ups and deceit.
The cover-ups and duplicity did not just come from Israel and its agents in America. The deceit also came from men inside the American government who, for whatever reasons, decided to cast a blind eye on what was really happening under their jurisdiction, even after they had been alerted to it.
What Mattson reveals is no less than an atomic heist – one that could have been prevented if men in high positions had done their duty.
Highly Enriched Uranium
After Johnson told Helms not to tell State or Defense, the CIA Director called Attorney General Ramsey Clark, because what made this news even more ominous — and a potential crime — was what the CIA had discovered when it conducted a chemical test around the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona, in the Negev desert.
U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark with President Lyndon Johnson in 1967. (U.S. Government photo)
Duckett had concluded that Israel had something that they should not have possessed at that time: HEU, or highly enriched uranium, which could only be produced by one of the five major powers that already had nuclear weapons.
But the test had also revealed characteristics that showed the material had originated in the United States. (Mattson, p. 97) Specifically, the HEU came from Portsmouth, Ohio and then was further processed at a plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania.
The AZC's internal "Information and Public Relations Department" reports.
"For obvious reasons our activities in this area cannot be minutely described, nor can we give names, dates, or places. We are, however, fighting hostile propagandists as one of our major activities throughout the year by: a. a careful check of newspapers, bulletins and confidential sources of our own, who can give us reliable information on the movements or itineraries of these propagandists. b. alerting our community contacts...c. requesting that all known meetings be monitored....furnishing speakers and arranging for them to address the forums..."
Documents (link provided to doc database below)
Between 1962-1963 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee subpoenaed internal reports of the American Zionist Council during its investigation into the activities of registered agents of foreign principals. They discovered that more than $5 million in tax exempt (and possibly overseas donations) had been laundered through the Jewish Agency's American Section into the American Zionist Council. The Jewish Agency functioned as a quasi-branch of the Israeli government, received Israeli government funding, and was able to review legislation before it went to the Knesset under its Covenant Agreement.
This violated IRS regulations on the use of tax exempt charitable funds and the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The following reports detail how the American Zionist Council used the funding in a sophisticated campaign to cajole and intimidate news media, subvert open debate about Israel and undermine reporting about key issues of the day such as Israel's Dimona nuclear weapons facility, operation Susannah terror attacks on the United States, and the return of Arab refugees to their homes. The AZC tracked and targeted professors and engaged in covert operations obliquely referred to in the following internal reports.
After the Justice Department ordered the American Zionist Council to register as a foreign agent in late 1962, it transferred responsibilities to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which refuses to register as a foreign agent of the Israeli government.
On May 19, 1970, the Dow Jones Observer reported, "In 1963 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigated the Jewish Agency and uncovered a 'conduit' operation run by an organization called the American Zionist Council. Over an eight-year period, this council received more than $5,000,000 from the Jewish Agency to create favorable public opinion in this country for Israeli government policies. The Senate investigation closed down the conduit, but the extensive propaganda activities still go on."
FULL DOCUMENT LINKS HERE |
How can America’s representatives declare that any other country’s fight — even one as close to us as Israel is — is our fight, its cause our cause, its values our values?
It’s precisely this kind of overidentification that George Washington warned against in his 1796 farewell address. “A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils,” Washington said. “Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists… betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.”
The above excerpt is from the following article
https://forward.com/opinion/395676/its-time-for-aipac-to-register-as-a-foreign-agent/
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