Declassified FBI File Alleges an Israeli Intelligence Agent Worked at AIPAC

Via: Reuters.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — An agent of the Israeli

intelligence service worked on the staff of the American Israel Public Affairs

Committee (AIPAC) according to a newly declassified FBI file.

An August 13, 1984 secret communication from the FBI Washington Field Office

(WFO) to the FBI director states, “WFO files disclose that AIPAC is a powerful

pro-Israel lobbying group staffed by U.S. citizens. WFO files contain an

unsubstantiated allegation that a member of the Israeli Intelligence Service

was a staff member of AIPAC.” The newly declassified document may be

downloaded from the Israel Lobby Archive at:

http://www.irmep.org/ILA/economy/08131984_WFO_DFBI_REPORT.pdf

The secret FBI file was declassified and released to the Institute for

Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) under a Freedom of Information Act

(FOIA) request. IRmep sought the FBI files to file a third amicus brief urging

Judge T.S. Ellis not to dismiss charges against two AIPAC staffers under the

1917 Espionage Act. The DOJ dropped espionage charges against former AIPAC

staffers Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman on May 1, 2009.

According to the newly released IRmep book “Spy Trade: How Israel’s Lobby

Undermines America’s Economy,” the 1984 and 2005 espionage incidents were not

isolated events. Using declassified documents, “Spy Trade” documents Israeli

covert actions against US military and industrial targets from the 1940s

through the present.

“Spy Trade” also presents a damage assessment for the 1984 AIPAC industrial

espionage incident: US $71 billion in lost exports, equivalent to 100,000 jobs

over the last decade. “Spy Trade” may be purchased at MiddleEastBooks.com,

Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and other bookstores.

The Israel Lobby Archive, http://IRmep.org/ila, is a unit of the Institute for

Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington. The Archive digitizes

declassified documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act filings

with law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The Archive facilitates

permanent direct citizen access to critical records that briefly enter the

public domain but vanish for lack of warranted mainstream media coverage.

SOURCE Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy

Grant Smith of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy,

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