All 4 parts of this subsequently censored Fox News report from December

2001

Fox News Special Report. Part One. 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 Sept. 11. Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron has details in

the first of a four-part series."

"Since September 11, more than 60 Israelis have been arrested or

detained, either under the new patriot anti-terrorist 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 the Israelis may have gathered intelligence

about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed

investigator said there are 'tie-ins' ... 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." Carl Cameron 14Dec2001

According to Carl Cameron of Fox News -- in a series of reports that

have subsequently disappeared from the Fox News website -- in 1997 the

Israelis organized "cocaine and ecstasy trafficking, and sophisticated

white-collar credit card and computer fraud... 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." An investigation revealed the Israeli crime network

possessed "extensive access to database systems to identify pertinent

personal and biographical information" of law enforcement officers. How

did a network of drug dealers get this sensitive 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,"

Cameron reported. "Amdocs generates billing data for virtually every

call in America, and they do credit checks." But it seems Amdocs was

not only involved with Israeli drug dealers. "More than two dozen U.S.

intelligence, counter-intelligence, law-enforcement and other officials

have told Insight [magazine] that the FBI believes Israel has

intercepted telephone and modem communications on some of the most

sensitive lines of the U.S. government on an ongoing basis," write J.

Michael Waller and Paul Rodriguez. "The worst penetrations are believed

to be in the State Department. But others say the supposedly secure

telephone systems in the White House, Defense Department and Justice

Department may have been compromised as well. The problem for FBI agents

in the famed Division 5, however, isn't just what they have uncovered,

which is substantial, but what they don't know yet." Amdocs "helped

Bell Atlantic install new telephone lines in the White House in 1997...

[and] a senior-level employee of Amdocs had a separate T1 data phone

line installed from his base outside of St. Louis that was connected

directly to Israel... investigators are looking into whether the owner

of the T1 line had a 'real time' capacity to intercept phone calls from

both the White House and other government offices around Washington, and

sustained the line for some time, sources said. Sources familiar with

the investigation say FBI agents on the case sought an arrest warrant

for the St. Louis employee but [Clinton] Justice Department officials

quashed it." Waller and Rodriguez quoted one senior government official

as saying: "It is a politically sensitive matter. I can't comment on it

beyond telling you that anything involving Israel on this particular

matter is off-limits. It's that hot."

Addeddate 2019-03-04 16:24:07 Identifier CensoredIsraeliSoftwareSpyingOnUSAmDocsComverseInfosysCarlCameronDec2001 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4