[R-G] Is Israel's booming high-tech industry a branch of the Mossad?

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

Mossad and the sixteen commercially based U.S.intelligence agencies with at
least 70 billion dollar a year government funding are clones of one another.
Yes, Israel's high tech industry is Mossad's backbone, as are startups and
giants, like IBM, Man Tech, in the U.S.   "Spies for Hire" by Shorrock shows
that in minute detail.   If the goal of the U.S. is empire, which can be
demonstrated and proved, then the goals in "Spies" are crucial to world
control in other ways than wealth of country.  Since that book is little
read and, in Europe, almost unavailable so unknown. the moves that these
secet businesses excel in , are unwatched, undebated.  United States policy
is led by the intelligence communities.  Links with Mossad are natural. The
high tech companies are increasing in techniques of propaganda that are
incredibly effective, especially as there is no view of what they are doing.
 The money crisis is an opportunity of awesome potential for them.  The
financial meltdown is masking alot of things other than climate change.   No
habeous Corpus is crucial to their success.  So, as war and control
techniques mutate, secrecy needs increase.
Suzanne de Kuyper

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Sid Shniad <shniad at sfu.ca> wrote:

>
>   http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1029006.html
>   Haaretz 16/10/2008
>   Is Israel's booming high-tech industry a branch of the Mossad?
>   By Yossi Melman
>   In 2006 the Check Point Software Technologies company, which
>   specializes in protecting computer systems from hackers and data
>   theft, wanted to acquire an American company called Sourcefire, which
>   works in the same field. The great advantage of Sourcefire was that
>   its clients include the American Defense Department and the National
>   Security Agency. The U.S. administration, however, by means of the
>   Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, did not approve
>   the acquisition.
>   The committee made its decision based on an opinion by the Federal
>   Bureau of Investigation and NSA security officers. The two
>   organizations were afraid that Check Point, which was founded by Gil
>   Shwed and fellow graduates of Unit 8200, the Israel Defense Forces'
>   high-tech intelligence unit, would have access to top-secret
>   information, which it could pass on to Israel's intelligence
>   community.
>   The fear and suspicion currently is directed not only toward Check
>   Point, but also other Israeli high-tech companies like Verint,
>   Comverse, NICE Systems and PerSay Voice Biometrics, some of which work
>   in data mining and engage in software development for tapping
>   telephones, fax machines, e-mail and computer communications.
>   The above accusations come from journalist and writer James Bamford,
>   whose new book, "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to
>   the Eavesdropping on America" (Doubleday), came out this week in the
>   United States.
>   Bamford, a former producer for the ABC television network, has spent
>   the last 30 years writing about the NSA - one of the most important
>   and least-known intelligence agencies in the United States, but
>   usually in the shadow of the Central Intelligence Agency. The NSA is
>   responsible for eavesdropping on telephones, fax machines and
>   computers; intercepting communications and electromagnetic signals
>   from radar equipment, aircraft, missiles, ships and submarines; and
>   decoding transmissions and cracking codes. It has contributed
>   immeasurably to U.S. intelligence and national security.
>   In this respect, the United States resembles Israel: Successes
>   attributed to the Mossad should often be credited to other
>   intelligence units - first and foremost Unit 8200, the Israeli
>   equivalent of the NSA.
>   This is Bamford's third book, and it affords a look into the mazes of
>   the NSA. In 1982 the Justice department threatened to prosecute him
>   for revealing agency secrets in his first book, "The Puzzle Palace:
>   Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret
>   Intelligence Organization." In his second book, "Body of Secrets:
>   Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency," he described
>   the NSA with a great deal of enthusiasm, which made him the
>   organization's hero of the day. The NSA even organized a party in his
>   honor at headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. His new book, which is
>   critical of the NSA, has sent him back to his starting point.
>   Bamford's main thesis is that before September 11, 2001, the agency
>   failed along with other intelligence agencies in understanding the
>   Al-Qaida threat, even though it had intercepted members' phone calls
>   and e-mails. This stemmed in part from excessive caution for upholding
>   laws and respecting citizens' privacy. In April 2000, then-NSA
>   director general Michael Hayden (currently the director of the CIA),
>   vividly described to a Congressional committee how, if at that very
>   moment Osama bin Laden were to step onto the Peace Bridge at Niagara
>   Falls and cross into the United States, "my people must respect his
>   rights."
>   After the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the
>   Pentagon, the organization swung over to the other extreme. According
>   to Bamford, since September 11 the NSA has had no compunctions about
>   violating the Constitution and has been eavesdropping on American
>   citizens.
>   One of the outstanding examples in the book, which has been
>   well-covered in the American media, is the fact that the NSA has
>   listened in on bedroom conversations of journalists, military officers
>   and officials serving in Iraq. The NSA may eavesdrop on and intercept
>   transmissions outside the United States, but cannot do so to American
>   citizens without a court order.
>   Another of Bamford's important assertions, which also concerns Israel,
>   is that the largest telephony and communications companies in the
>   United States - in fact all of them except QWEST - have cooperated
>   with the NSA, allowing it to tap their lines and optic fibers.
>   The above-mentioned Israeli companies and others are important
>   software and technology suppliers for not only the American telephony
>   companies, but for the NSA itself. Bamford claims that 80 percent of
>   all American telephone transmissions are conducted by means of the
>   Israeli companies' technology, know-how and accessibility. Thus,
>   Bamford believes, the American intelligence community is exposing
>   itself to the risk that the Israeli companies will access its most
>   secret and sensitive digital information.
>   Bamford does not provide any backing for this thesis; he only points
>   to a circumstantial relationship. The Israeli companies were largely
>   established by graduates of 8200, and therefore he says they are
>   connected by their umbilical cords to Israeli intelligence, and their
>   CEOs and boards of directors include senior Shin Bet officials like
>   Arik Nir or former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy (Nir is the CEO of
>   Athlone Global Security, a hedge fund that has invested inter alia in
>   PerSay Voice Biometrics, and Ephraim Halevy is a member of the Athlone
>   Advisory Board).
>   To put it mildly, Bamford has no love lost for Israel. In his
>   articles, he publishes claims by American Navy officials who believe
>   Israel maliciously attacked the American spy ship Liberty during the
>   1967 Six-Day War. He holds that the September 11 attack did not stem
>   from radical Islam's basic hatred of America, but rather from its
>   anger at the United States' support for Israel. He calls the nineteen
>   September 11 terrorists "soldiers" and describes them with a great
>   deal of sympathy - Davids who "only" demolished four airplanes of the
>   American Goliath.
>   In this context, and apparently because of his deep hostility, Bamford
>   asserts that in light of the problematic record of Israel, which did
>   not hesitate to spy against America on American soil, Israeli
>   companies should not have been given the keys to the kingdom of
>   America's secrets. His attitude toward Israel apparently pushes him
>   over the psychological brink, as his book hardly mentions the close
>   cooperation between the two countries' intelligence communities,
>   mainly in the war against international jihad terror or in monitoring
>   Iran.
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