Pre-state smuggling network
(1945) The Sonneborn Group - On July 1, 1945, David Ben-Gurion asked a small gathering of American-Jewish activists at Millionaire oil executive, Rudolf Sonneborn's apartment to send supplies to the Jewish community and its military force, Haganah. The group became a secretive, nationwide organization led by Sonnenborn, Materials for Israel, also known as the Sonneborn Institute, which covered as a charity for Holocaust survivors. Plus, United Israel Apeal took tax dollars from the state department's refugee & assisstant account for resettling Jews to Israel, and gave the money to the Ben-Gurion's Jewish Agency. Those present at the meeting were: Henry Montor, (director of United Jewish Appeal) Abba Hillel Silver, (chairman of the US sectinon of the jewish agency) Teddy Kollek, (executive secretary of the Jewish Agency and future mayor of jeruselum) Yehuda Arazi, (Haganah's cheif arms producer and perchaser) Leonard Weisman, (Jewish businessman who set up front companies for transportation, including Minirals Redistrebution co., Paragon Design and Development corp, and the Prat Steam Ship Line) Nahum Bernstein, (set up the Foundry Associated Corporation, which only existed on paper) Sam Sloan, (a scrap metal deal netweorker who had scrapyards across the nation) Eli Schalit, (removed arms form NY to Palestine) Samual Zemury, (had contacts in Latin America, and was the largest shareholder of United Uruit) and Reuven Dafni (Haganah's liason to orgaanized crime in the US).
Bugsy Siegel - In 1946, Dafni met with Bugsy Siegel in a reseteraunt in LA, convincing him to donate ($50,000) to Haganah to help fight the Palestinians.
Sammy Kay - Dafni contact and Miami gangster, Sammy Kay was good friends with the pesident of panamar, allowing ships to carry the Panamanian flag as they were shipping weapons to Palestine.
Moe Dalitz - Dafni contact and Jewish gangster, Moe Dalitz of the was a business partner of Moe Bernstein of the (((Purple Gang))), a group which used to murder motorists for fun, and who the FBI beleived were responsible for kidnapping ad killing Charles Lindbergh's baby. Later, Dalitz got an award from the ADL.
Yehuda Arazi - Yehuda Arazi, Haganah's cheif arms smuggler worked with the NY mob to transport weapons to Palestine through ZIM shipping, from NJ ports run by Abner Zwillman and the docks in NY run by lansky and Albert Anastasia. Ta'as was one of the companies set up by Hagenah to smuggle dynamite into Palestine. In 1948, TNT was found being loaded onto ships at a NJ pier, bound for Palastine, through the guise of "Oyed Trading Co."
Ted Kollek - Sonnebourn group member, Ted Kollek aquired $8M as well as arms from Nicaragua Dictator, Anastasio Samosa. Nicaragua had been ocupied from 1912 to 1933 by the US. Samosa openly gave land grants to gold and other minerals to the US in exchange for allowences on purchasing surpluss weapons, diverted to israel. Up until 1979 the Zionists continured the relationship with Anasasio Samoza debale.
Hank Greenspun - The AJDC's (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) colaboration with Israel created two institutions, Lischka, in 1952, which collected information and administered individual aid, and the SSC, created in 1953, which directed AJDC funds to Lischka and represented Jewish aid provider's interests in communist governments. The SSC paid Mob associate and owner of the Las Vagas Sun, Hank Grunspun to smuggle weapons and airplanes. Hank Greenspun attempted to smuggle Pratt & Whitney R-2800 low airplain engines to Palestine. After jury tampering with a jewish jurer, greenspun, with two of his cohorts, William Sosnow and Samual Lewis were aquitted, but his other partners Adolf Schwimmer, Leon Gardner, Ray Selk and Abraham Levin. Greenspun would be found guilty of smuggling the machine guns with the planes as well as artilary and ammo. He stole 30 and fifty caliber machne guns from Hawaii and shipped them to Haganah through Mexico. This he did, working with Nathan Liff by moving decomissioned weapons from one side of the yard to another, pulling a switch so that weapons that had not been decomissioned ended up in the hands of the Israelis. When he was endicted, Greenspun tried to bribe his way out by offering $25000 to Seth Solomon Pope or anyone designated by Pope to squash his second Nutrality Act endicment. Solomon worked in Hawaii at the war assets administration in charge of decomitioning and sellign off WWII surpluss. He was investigated 3 times for fraudulent sales. They also stole over 500 machine gun barrels, with Hank taking a 10% kickback from the arms sales he made. A grand jury endicted Hank on 6 other accounts of violating the Nutrality Act and export control law, however he only got a $10k fine and no jail time. Greenspun's wife also later got an award from the ADL.
Al Schwimmer - IAI (Israel Aerospace Industries) was founded by Al Schwimmer, who obtained a Lokheed Constellation aircraft after WWII, turning it into a smuggling airline, creating a Panamanian front company, which collapsed, before he started flying it overseas to smuggle arms from Czechoslovakia to Palestine. Shchwimmer was also involved in Iran-Contra and later received presidential pardon. Charles Winters spent 18 months in prison for selling Al Schwimmer two b17s.
NUMEC owned the Apollo uranium plant in Pennsylvania, and was run by Zalman M. Shapiro, who was also the ZOA's chapter president in Pennsylvania. Highly enriched uranium was supplied from Portsmouth Ohio to NUMEC to be used in the Nautilus Program. By 1966, the FBI had opened an investigation into Shapiro after he'd held secret meetings with Israel's nuclear weapons chief, Abraham Hermoni, and an Israeli spy named Rafi Eton, among others, at both a NUMEC plant and his own house. And in 1980, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission interviewed former Numec employees who' personally witnessed Shapiro illegally diverting nuclear material and arranging secret night-time shipments from the plant's loading dock. Myer Lansky's biography coroborates that uranium was smuggled ZIM shipping, through NJ ports run by Abner Zwillman and the docks in NY run by lansky and Albert Anastasia.
As early as 1966 the atomic energy commission was aware that 392 pounds of uranium was missing from the NUMEC plant. The current costs of cleaning up radioactive material in Apollo is $500M.
John Haden and Carl Ducket of the CIA discovered that uraniam with a portsmouth signature with 97.7% enrichment had been found by testing the flora ouside Dimona. The US was the only contry with those means, and the Nautulus Program at NUMEC was the only program in the world that had tha level of enrichment. Upon presenting their findings, Richard Helms told Carl Ducket not to publish his report, but to go directly to the president. LBJ ordered Ducket no tell anyone, not even SoS Dean Rusk or SoD Robert McNamara. John McCone, the CIA director named by Kennedy to inform him about Israel's Dimona project, resigned in 1965, complaining about Johnson's complete lack of interest. According to historian Stephan green, Dimona was referred to as he sensitive issue, and that "Lyndon Johnson's white house saw no Dimona, heard no Dimona, and spoke no Dimona, when the reactor went critical in 1964. Although Johnson was a Zionist, he was also being blackmailed with information of his affair with Irgun terrorist, Mathilde Krim, whose husband, Arthur Krim, was a willing cuck. Johnson was sleeping with her when he was woken on the day the Six Day war broke out.
In 1978 the nuclear regulatory commission began looking at how to safegaurd nuclear facilities from diversion, to whom Carl Ducket of the CIA gave a breifing, admitting that uranium was stolen from the US and given to israel. In 1976, briefings were made to attourny general Edward Levi by Carl Duckett and former atomic energy chairman Glenn Seabog. The internal CIA documents were not released until 2015.
In 1968 the CIA's director of central intelligence Richard Helms worked with Attorney general Ramsey Clarke to encourage the FBI to investigate Zalman Shapiro. J. Edger Hoover had been in favor of this action, but by 1969, Hoover had discontinued the investigation into Shapiro, presumably due to the blackmail, Lansky had over him.
Operation Plumbat - In late November 1968, the Mossad arranged a covert operation called Operation Plumbat, which employed a front company in West Germany to purchase 200 tons of uranium yellowcake from Belgium. The transaction was approved by Euratom, the European organization controlling such transactions, but once the transport ship set sail for the port of Genoa, Italy, it was intercepted by another ship used by the Mossad. When the original ship reached port, the hull was empty.
France stopped supplying Israel with uranium fuel for the Dimona nuclear reactor after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Numerous sources believe that in 1968 Israel managed to obtain 200 tones of yellowcake from the Belgian mining company Union Minière, shipped processed uranium mined in Congo out of Antwerp to Genoa for a European front company by transferring the ore to another vessel at sea. This Mossad covert operation violated Euratom controls of nuclear materials
Theft of aerial reconnaissance camera technology secrets - In 1986 Recon/Optical Inc sued the Israeli government after company president Larry Larson swore in a court statement that he uncovered evidence of technology theft in late May after examining documents being carried out of his plant by three Israeli air force officers after the contract was canceled. Translations attached to the civil suit filed in a New York federal court said that the Israelis were making plans to pass on the Recon technology to "El Op," which the company asserts is a reference to Israel Electric Optical Industry, and to arrange to have an El Op "undercover representative" attend meetings at the American plant and preside over the review of the contract for the Israeli air force. "As they were stealing our data they had an elaborate system set up between the Israeli air force and a commercial company including them El Op representatives coming in as air force people so they would know exactly what we were doing," Larson said.
Theft of technology used to create chrome-plated 120mm cannon barrels - In 1987 NAPCO Inc. was fined $750,000 for smuggling, in cooperation with Israel's IMI, equipment and technology taken from Watervliet Arsenal in upstate New York for manufacture of state of the art tank cannon barrels. When seeking US government finance Israel hid the purpose of their plant by referring to the cannons as hydraulic cylinders, thus requiring n license.
Theft of cluster bomb technology - In 1986, the US Customs Service and Justice Department issued subpoenas and search warrants to American companies and Israeli defense officials in New York, under suspicion of Israel is suspected of illegally obtaining technology from private U.S. companies to build cluster bombs.
Theft of nuclear Krytron Triggers - In 1985, military contractor, Richard Smyth was indicted for illegally exporting nuclear (Krytron) trigger devices to Israel, becoming a fugitive. Israeli government officials trivialized the krytrons as simple devices used for turning on lights. Despite this, out of the 810 Smyth smuggled, over a period of several years, the Israeli Ministry of Defense returned only 500 of them. Heli, an Arnon Milchan owned company, which a young Benjamin Netenyahu worked for at the time, received the nuclear trigger devices (krytrons) which Smyth had smuggled out years later, and for which he was indicted in 1985. Arnon Milchan went on to become a prominant producer in Hollywood, financing films such as JFK and Vice, both of which downplay or deny Israel's involvement in their subject matter.
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