"Spyfail" - Israhell's influence on the US exposed in James Bamford's new book

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A review of James Bamford's book by Grant F. Smith
Bamford's "Spyfail" exposes corruption at center of Netanyahu "judicial reform" crisis that is tearing Israel apart
https://irmep.com/2023/03/bamfords-spyfail-exposes-corruption-at-center-of-netanyahu-judicial-reform-crisis-that-is-tearing-israel-apart/

James Bamford's new book Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence https://www.amazon.com/Spyfail-Saboteurs-Collapse-Americas-Counterintelligence/dp/B0B7SLQRQR/ devotes nine chapters to the impunity of Israel, its spies and U.S. lobby.

Bamford is best known as America's premiere chronicler of the ultra-secretive National Security Agency in his books The Puzzle Palace and The Shadow Factory.

Unlike most authors published through mainstream publishing houses, Bamford has not held back on exposing extremely damaging and behind the scenes exploits of Israel and its lobby in this damning look at U.S. counterintelligence. That was a shock to the second most prominent reader reviewer on Amazon.com who claimed, "I did not expect a full-throated anti-Israel screed completely devoid of nuance or historical context." Most other reviewers were much more appreciative of Bamford's honest take.

Among the most scandalous episodes chronicled in Spy Fail are stunning new details about Hollywood movie producer Arnon Milchan's espionage and weapons smuggling operations targeting the United States.

Bamford follows Milchan's early efforts to prop up apartheid South Africa through well paid weapons dealing and propaganda, including the production of feel good theatrical works depicting exploited blacks as happy with their lot in South Africa. Milchan's recruitment into Israel's Bureau of Scientific Relations Lakam spy agency then leaves him scouring the U.S. for nuclear weapons related technology.

Since Israel had already stolen enough U.S. weapons grade uranium to build atomic bombs from NUMEC, Milchan was tasked to obtain high speed switches that could provide the precisely timed pulses to trigger a detonation. Milchan recruited the hapless Richard Kelly Smyth to set up the front company "Milco" in Huntington Beach California by bedazzling the failing businessman with stars and starlets at his Hollywood parties. 

Smyth provided the triggers and many other export prohibited items, but always managed to give away what he was doing to vigilant federal government authorities. Smyth (but not Milchan) was eventually indicted and fled overseas. When he sought help, Milchan ghosted him while working to stay ahead of the law.

Milchan benefitted from mainstream press support to spread the word that the billionaire had no idea what was going on in his global network of companies. Perhaps the most valuable diversion was the New York Time's Tom Friedman who quickly got wind of the Smyth indictment and promoted Milchan's innocence. While Bamford mentions the Netanyahu-Milchan connection he does not delve into Smyth's revelation that Israel's current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu worked inside the "Project Pinto" krytron smuggling network at the Israel based Heli Trading company. Heli executed the purchase orders from the Israeli Ministry of Defense for export controlled items Milco misclassified and exported.

The devolution of the Milchan Netanyahu relationship is perhaps the most important revelation of extreme current relevance in the book. Milchan pressed Netanyahu to pressure U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for a 10-year visa after the agency—finally wise to Milchan's espionage—refused to renew it. The feckless John Kerry eventually acquiesced to Netanyahu and issued the visa. To this day Milchan continues to produce blockbusters and allegedly dodge taxes in the U.S.

But just as Milchan burned Smyth, Netanyahu began pumping Milchan for endless boxes of expensive cigars—"leaves"—and cases of $400 per bottle champagne—"bubbles"—and other gifts for his wife in exchange for the visa favor. Bamford's depiction of this shakedown is as detailed as it is relentless.

The resultant Israeli corruption cases against Netanyahu have recently led him to seek judicial reforms, which could give his coalition power to shut the cases down. Netanyahu's initiative has torn Israel apart and put the country on the verge of civil war as protesters sought to stop the gutting of court oversight.

Americans who read and fully digest Spyfail will come away with new insights about how the politicization of American counterintelligence produces media frenzies and scapegoats—such as Maria Butina—while continually steering clear of Israel's hugely damaging covert intelligence operations against the U.S. Bamford pins this impunity squarely on the Israel lobby and the oversize role it plays in financing the political careers of ever-compliant U.S. elected officials and their political appointees.



Grant F. Smith is director of IRmep and forced the declassification and release of many of the NUMEC and "Project Pinto" documents cited in this book through FOIA lawsuits.

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Intelligence expert: Israel is an international center of illegal election influence
"Israel has become an international center for election fraud, fake news, hacking of private emails and disinformation," sums up James Bamford.
https://www.partisaani.com/news/zionism/2023/05/12/tiedusteluasiantuntija-israel-on-laittoman-vaalivaikuttamisen-kansainvalinen-keskus/

In his latest book , investigative journalist and non-fiction writer James Bamford , who has received several awards for his work , harshly criticizes Israel's illegal election influence in the world. Bamford, who is considered one of the original whistleblowers of the activities of the American intelligence service NSA (National Security Agency), now accuses the mainstream media of a systematic cover-up of Israeli spying and election manipulation operations.

In his book, Bamford reveals previously undisclosed official documents, which reveal that Jewish spies carried out illegal election influence operations in the United States to ensure Donald Trump's victory in 2016. The reason for supporting Trump was that the real estate mogul and financial criminal, who has since become president, had sworn to Israel that he would radically attack Palestine and Iran, among other things . After winning the election, Trump also fulfilled his promises to the Jews, for example supporting the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and destroying diplomatic relations with Iran by canceling the nuclear agreement with the country.

According to Bamford, the mainstream media and influential politicians have been in the grip of a "Russia-fixation" in recent years, even though there is considerably more extensive technical evidence of Israel's illegal election influence than of Russia's election manipulation abroad. The zeal of the press and those in power to defend "democracy" dies immediately when the threats to democracy are revealed to be Jews.

Better evidence of Israel's election influence than Russia's
Bamford reminds us that the so-called Mueller investigation never managed to find unequivocal evidence that Trump's election campaign colluded with Vladimir Putin's administration. Instead, the FBI found unequivocal evidence of criminal collusion between the Trump campaign and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his highest-ranking spies. However, the mainstream media reacted to the findings by continuing to loudly repeat the Russian theories, while at the same time shutting Israel's role to death.

Evidence of a secret agreement between Israel and the Trump campaign began to leak in 2020, when a search warrant from 2018 related to the Mueller investigation became public. Bamford found out that the FBI's search warrant was for an Israeli spy who worked under Netanyahu's direct command.

According to Bamford, Israel's election influence operation in the United States was a crime in the purest sense of the word. The crimes of the FBI's investigation included money laundering related to corruption, inciting and aiding and abetting a crime, fraud and data breach. Bamford notes that the last item on the list is evidence that Israel conducted likely criminal hacking operations in the United States to manipulate the presidential election.

An international hub of hacking, fraud, manipulation and lying
Bamford writes that an ecosystem of hacking, espionage, fraud, corruption, fake news manufacturing and political manipulation has been born in Israel, which offers its criminal services to global clients in dozens of different countries. Although a large part of the players in the industry are privately owned companies, they usually have very close relations with the government and intelligence services of the Jewish state. The Archimedes Group, which is part of the ecosystem, for example, promises that it can "change reality according to the wishes of our customers".

Other Jewish organizations operating in the field include, for example, NSO Group, Unit 17, Percepto International, Psy Group and Fifth Dimension, whose leaders are former high-ranking Mossad officers. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has written openly about the "Internet lie factories" operating in the country. In the US presidential elections, Jewish spies and hackers created, among other things, fake news pages and fake user profiles to distort the public debate. The Psy Group's Project Rome disinformation operation alone cost Trump's election campaign more than $3.5 million.

Bamford quotes a Jewish state official interviewed by The Times of Israel as saying that "the outsourcing of fake news and voter manipulation has become an economic growth sector in Israel," and the Israeli government is not even trying to prevent the development. According to Bamford, Netanyahu has instead welcomed the development with open arms because it has provided an opportunity to "covertly manipulate other states in Israel's favor."

The police and the media have their eyes closed when it comes to Israel
"Israel has become an international center for election fraud, fake news, private email hacking and disinformation," Bamford sums up. For "coincidental reasons", for example, the leading star of the Finnish mainstream media, the Jewish-owned Helsingin Sanomat , has been completely silent about the phenomenon, even though it tries to present itself as the most important defender of democracy and freedom of speech.

Bamford does not hide his irritation at how effectively those in power have succeeded in censoring information about the activities of Jewish lie factories around the world and especially in the US presidential elections: "Even though US laws were clearly violated in the months-long covert election influence operation, the police authorities did not voluntarily publish details of the examinations and the subject was not discussed let alone investigated in Congress. In the press, the case was not even touched with a long stick, but all attention was directed towards Russia."

Bamford demands that the FBI and the media finally "remove the labels related to Israel from their eyes". Bamford's book on the subject is called Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence. He has previously published, among others, the NSA-themed trilogy, which is generally considered the best account of the history and crimes of the world's most powerful intelligence agency: The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory.

Source: The Nation (archived)  https://archive.md/TvWhR