Spy Trade How Israel's Lobby Undermines America's Economy |
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Author:
| Smith, Grant F. |
Foreword by:
| Scheuer, Michael |
ISBN: | 978-0-9764437-1-1 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2009 |
Publisher: | Institute for Research
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $12.95 |
Book Description:
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Israel and its American lobby have committed audacious but generally unknown crimes against the United States. Government secrecy has long kept files about Israeli espionage, weapons smuggling and covert operations on American soil classified...until now.
Using declassified files Spy Trade follows the trail of a smuggler network funneling stolen and illegally purchased surplus WWII arms to Jewish fighters in Palestine. When the FBI threatened to crack down¿a clandestine summit...
More DescriptionIsrael and its American lobby have committed audacious but generally unknown crimes against the United States. Government secrecy has long kept files about Israeli espionage, weapons smuggling and covert operations on American soil classified...until now.
Using declassified files Spy Trade follows the trail of a smuggler network funneling stolen and illegally purchased surplus WWII arms to Jewish fighters in Palestine. When the FBI threatened to crack down¿a clandestine summit meeting yielded minor convictions for small time operators¿but not the financial masterminds behind the scheme.
Spy Trade analyzes later smuggling operations diverting uranium from the US to Israel's Dimona nuclear weapons factory. The Justice Department battled mightily to regulate two key enablers¿the Jewish Agency and American Zionist Council¿as Israeli foreign agents in the 1960s. But when the effort collapsed it unleashed intensified Israel lobby election law violations and escalating intimidation of American politicians.
Spy Trade reveals the long term impact of a newly declassified "third scandal" that began in the 1980s. In the midst of both the Iran-Contra affair and Jonathan Pollard espionage incident the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Israeli embassy conducted a spectacular clandestine operation against American industries and workers. So far it has cost the US economy $71 billion and a hundred thousand jobs each year by diverting and shutting down US exports.
More than a skillful dissection of the strategies the lobby repeatedly uses to evade justice, Spy Trade provides strategies for ending criminal immunity that could restore American governance.