Theft and Smuggling of Foreign Weapons and Technology

Pre-state

On Jan. 3 1948, New York police discovered over 65,000 pounds of TNT at a Jersey City pier, hidden in crates marked as “used machinery.” The explosives were intended for shipment to Tel Aviv aboard the freighter Executor. The discovery occurred after a crate accidentally broke open during loading, revealing cans labeled “TNT, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army.”

(1945) The Sonneborn Group - On July 1 1945, future PM, 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, known as the Sonneborn Institute, which covered as a charity for Holocaust survivors.

United Israel Appeal took tax dollars from the state department's Refugee & Assistant 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 section of the Jewish Agency) Teddy Kollek, (executive secretary of the Jewish Agency and future mayor of Jerusalem) Yehuda Arazi, (Haganah's chief arms producer and purchaser) 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 networker who had scrapyards across the nation) Eli Schalit... (removed arms form NY to Palestine)

Sam Zemmury... (had contacts in Latin America, and was the largest shareholder of United Fruit)

and Reuven Dafni (Haganah's liason to organized crime in the US).

Mickey Cohen - Dafni contacted LA gangster, Mickey Cohen, who revealed in his memoirs that he smuggled weapons to Irgun and had contact with Menachem Begin: "Now I got so engrossed with Israel that I actually pushed aside a lot of my activities and done nothing but what was involved with the Irgun war."

Bugsy Siegel - In 1946, Dafni met with Bugsy Siegel, the founder of modern Las Vegas, in a restaurant in LA, convincing him to donate $50K to Haganah to help fight the Palestinians.

Sammy Kay - Dafni had contact with Miami gangster, Sammy Kay, who was good friends with the president of Panama, allowing ships to carry the Panamanian flag as they were shipping weapons to Palestine.

Moe Dalitz - Dafni contact and Jewish gangster, Moe Dalitz was a business partner of Moe Bernstein of the (((Purple Gang))), a group which used to murder motorists for fun, and who the FBI believed were responsible for kidnapping and killing of aviator, Charles Lindbergh's baby. Later, Dalitz got an award from the ADL.

Yehuda Arazi - Yehuda Arazi, Haganah's chief 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 Haganah 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 - Sonneborn group member, Ted Kollek acquired $8M as well as arms from Nicaraguan Dictator, Anastasio Samoza. Nicaragua had been occupied from 1912 to 1933 by the US. Samosa openly gave land grants to gold and other minerals to the US in exchange for allowances on purchasing surplus weapons, diverted to Israel. Up until 1979, the Zionists continued the relationship with Somoza.

Hank Greenspun - The AJDC's (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) collaboration 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 providers' 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 airplane engines to Palestine. After jury tampering with a Jewish juror, Greenspun, with two of his cohorts, William Sosnow and Samuel Lewis were acquitted, but his other partners Adolf Schwimmer, Leon Gardner, Ray Selk and Abraham Levin go charged. Greenspun would be found guilty of smuggling the machine guns with the planes as well as artillery and ammo. He stole 30 and 50 caliber machine-guns from Hawaii and shipped them to Haganah through Mexico. This he did working with Nathan Liff by moving decommissioned weapons from one side of the yard to another, pulling a switch so that weapons that had not been decommissioned ended up in the hands of the Israelis. When he was indicted, Greenspun tried to bribe his way out by offering $25K to Seth Solomon Pope or anyone designated by Pope to squash his second Neutrality Act indictment.

Solomon worked in Hawaii at the War Assets Administration, in charge of decommissioning and selling off WWII surplus. 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 indicted Hank on 6 other counts of violating the Neutrality 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 Lockheed 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 a presidential pardon from Clinton in 2001. Charles Winters spent 18 months in prison for selling Al Schwimmer two b17s.

LBJ - In the 40s, LBJ helped businessman, Jim Novy illegally ship weapons in boxes marked ''Texas grapefruit'' to Zionist militias. (𓃠)

Post-state

Dimona - During the Suez Crisis, Israel assisted France and Britain in an invasion of Egypt, momentarily seizing the Gaza strip; they also provided France intelligence during the Algerian War.

Later, David Ben-Gurion sent Israel's Director General of Defense, Shimon Peres to France to negotiate terms for Israel's involvement, resulting in an agreement in 1957 for France to help construct a Nuclear facility in Israel the Negev Desert outside the city of Dimona. Construction of the Dimona reactor began in secret in 1958, in violation of the NTP, to which Israel is still not a signatory. To raise money to build the reactor, Ben-Gurion and Peres appointed American Haganah agent and arms smuggler, Abraham Feinberg, the task of raising money around the world from wealthy Jews including Baron Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, Edmond Leopold De Rothschild, Isaac Wolson, Marcus Sieff, Louis Bloomfield, (former OSS member who held stock in Permindex) Samuel Zacks, Samuel Bronfman (Seagrums Liquor) and Henry Morgenthau Jr. Collective donations, which came from the Sonneborn institute, were coordinated by Henry Morgenthau Jr., former US secretary of the treasury, and author of the genocidal Morgenthau Plan, which would have killed millions of Germans had it been enacted. After FDR's death, Morgenthau resigned as secretary of the treasury, joining the Jewish Agency and becoming chairman of the United Jewish Appeal in 1946, working alongside its executive vice president, Henry Montor of the Sonneborn group. As chairman of UJA, Morgenthau would from 1946 to 1950 raise over half a billion dollars through fundraisers. Morgenthal and Montor also, alongside Rudolf Sonnenborn and Ben-Gurion, started the sale of Israeli bonds, worth $190M.

Schlumberger - In 1961, the munitions depot of the Schlumberger Well Drilling Corp in Louisiana was burgled by David Ferrie, Sergio Arcacha Smith, Gordon Novel and Layton Martens, who would eventually be charged by Jim Garrison years later. This may seem like your average run of the mill burglary, but a CIA internal memo re Garrison's investigation reveals that the New Orleans office of the DCS had one contact with Charles A. Doh, manager of the Schlumberger office in New Orleans. Novel stated that the burglary itself was done at the behest of the CIA, to funnel the weapons and ammo to anti-Castro Cubans, however the burglary took place in august, after the Bay of Pigs. If Cuba was an alibi, then where were the weapons actually headed? If Cuba was an alibi, than where were the arms actually headed well, Novel implied that the arms were sold to Inter-Armco. Inter-Armco was an agent for Samuel Cummings, who besides being an acknowledged CIA agent, was a also the owner of Adams Consolidated. Adams Consolidated was the weapons company which imported the Carcano rifle located in the Texas School Book Depository, allegedly used to kill JFK. Cummings also had a close associate named Enrico Frittoli, who sat on the board of directors of Permindex. Schlumberger itself was run by Jean de Menil, who was also on the board of Pemindex, and a close associate of George de Mohrenschildt. Permindex was a CIA front company, the primary share holder of which was Banque de Credit international, founded by Tibor Rosenbaum.

Tiber Rosenbaum was a money launderer and arms procurement officer for the Mossad.

NUMEC - The Apollo affair was an espionage operation orchestrated by Lakem, Israeli's secret scientific intelligence agency.

The Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) owned by the Apollo Uranium Plant in Pennsylvania, run by (((Zalman M. Shapiro))), who was also the Zionist Organization of America's (ZOA) 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 Eitan, among others, at both a NUMEC plant and his own house.

In 1980, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission interviewed former NUMEC employees who personally witnessed Shapiro illegally diverting nuclear material hidden in food irradiator trucks and arranging secret night-time shipments from the plant's loading dock.

Meyer Lansky's biography corroborates that uranium was smuggled using ZIM shipping through NJ ports run by (((Abner Zwillman))) and the docks in NY run by Lansky and Albert Anastasia.

The current costs of cleaning up radioactive material in Apollo is $500M.

JFK - In 1961 JFK signed the Arms Control and Disarmament Act, exempting signatories in its violation from foreign aid. Despite its nuclear capacity, Israel is still not a signatory to the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

After American U2 spy plains spotted Israel's unaccounted for rig in Dimona, Kennedy sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion dated June 15 1963, demanding an immediate first visit followed by regular visits every six months, otherwise, he wrote: "this government's commitment to and support of Israel could be seriously jeopardized." (𓃠)

To avoid dealing with the letter, Ben-Gurion resigned the next day, soon after giving a speech criticizing the US for denying Israel's right to possess nukes. As soon as Levi Eshkol took office, Kennedy sent him a similar letter dated June 5th 1963, but never got an answer. Kennedy is quoted as saying: "the sons of bitches lie to me constantly about their nuclear capability".

That same year he would be assassinated.

Gaddafi pointed all this out in a speech shortly before his own death.

The investigation - As early as 1966, the Atomic Energy Commission was aware that 392 pounds of uranium was missing from the NUMEC plant.

In the 60s, John Hadden and Carl Duckett of the CIA discovered that uranium with a Portsmouth signature of 97.7% enrichment had been found by testing the flora outside of Dimona.

The US was the only country with those means, and the Nautulus Program at NUMEC was the only program in the world that had that level of enrichment.

Upon presenting their findings, CIA director, Richard Helms told Duckett not to publish his report, but to go directly to the president. LBJ ordered Duckett not tell anyone, including Secretary of State, Dean Rusk or Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.

Former CIA director, John McCone, 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 ''the sensitive issue'' and: "Lyndon Johnson's White House saw no Dimona, heard no Dimona, and spoke no Dimona, when the reactor went critical in 1964.''

In 1968, the CIA's new Director of Central Intelligence, Richard Helms worked with Attorney General, Ramsey Clarke to encourage the FBI to investigate Zalman Shapiro. J. Edger Hoover had initially been in favor of this action, but by 1969 had discontinued the investigation into Shapiro, presumably due to the blackmail Lansky had on him.

In 1976, briefings were made to Attorney General Edward Levi by Carl Duckett and former Atomic Energy Commission chairman, Glenn Seaborg, but nothing came of it. The internal CIA documents were not released until 2015.

In 1978, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission began looking at how to safeguard nuclear facilities from diversion. Carl Duckett of the CIA gave a briefing, admitting that uranium was stolen from the US and given to Israel.

Operation Plumbat - France stopped supplying Israel with uranium fuel for the Dimona nuclear reactor after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, so in 1968, Israel managed to obtain 200 tones of yellow-cake uranium from Belgian mining company, Union Minière, which shipped processed uranium mined in the Congo out of Antwerp to Genoa for a front company in West Germany which transferred the ore to a vessel used by the Mossad. This 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 they 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. Larson: "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"

Theft of technology used to create chrome-plated 120mm cannon barrels - In 1987, NAPCO Inc. was fined $750K for smuggling, in cooperation with Israel's IMI, equipment and technology taken from Watervliet Arsenal in upstate New York to manufacture 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 no 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 that suspicion of Israel illegally obtaining technology from private US 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 prominent producer in Hollywood, financing films such as JFK and Vice, both of which omitted or denied Israel's involvement in their subject matter.



PROMIS - The US handed PROMIS software over to the Israelis who used media mogul, Robert Maxwell (father of chief Epstein recruiter, Ghislaine Maxwell) to sell a bugged version of it to other countries so they could spy on them. Israel's NSO Group used PROMIS as the basis for their Pegasus spyware, used by the Israeli government, among others, to surveil your phone.

Micro-wire - Micro-wire, which is used to make drones, was invented by a New Jersey company, represented by lawyer, Dr. John Hnatio. He has attested that the technology was stolen by Israel.

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By: Otto Heckel