Saturday, August 30, 2025

Theft and Smuggling of Foreign Weapons and Technology

Pre-state


(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 section of the Jewish Agency) Teddy Kollek, (executive secretary of the Jewish Agency and future mayor of Jerusalem) Yehuda Arazi, (Haganah's cheif 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 netweorker who had scrapyards across the nation) Eli Schalit, (removed arms form NY to Palestine) Samuel Zemmury, (had contacts in Latin America, and was the largest shareholder of United Uruit) and Reuven Dafni (Haganah's liason to organized crime in the US).


Mickey Cohen - Dafni contact and LA gangster, Mickey Cohen revailed 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 in a restaurant in LA, convincing him to donate ($50K) to Haganah to help fight the Palestinians.

Sammy Kay - Dafni contact and Miami gangster, Sammy Kay 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 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 believed 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 allowances on purchasing surplus weapons, diverted to Israel. Up until 1979 the Zionists continued the relationship with Anastasio Somoza Debayle.

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 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 airplane engines to Palestine. After jury tampering with a Jewish juror, Greenspun, with two of his cohorts, William Sosnow and Samuel 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 artillery and ammo. He stole 30 and fifty 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 $25000 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 accounts 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 presidential pardon. Charles Winters spent 18 months in prison for selling Al Schwimmer two b17s.

Post-state

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


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 corroborates 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 uranium with a Portsmouth signature with 97.7% enrichment had been found by testing the flora outside 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 the 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 safeguard nuclear facilities from diversion, to whom Carl Ducket of the CIA gave a briefing, admitting that uranium was stolen from the US and given to Israel. In 1976, briefings were made to attorney general Edward Levi by Carl Duckett and former atomic energy chairman Glenn Seaborg. 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.


Bay of Pigs - 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. 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 which we will get to later 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.


This begs the question, where was the Cuban peoples uprising? Surely it wouldn't be hard to knock off some dinky little dictator 90 miles off the coast of Florida. What was it about Castro, originally installed by the CIA, that allowed him to live through multiple allegedly failed assassination attempts?


Well, in 1960, a Jewish German by the name of Richard Wolff (Ricardo Sabrina Y lobo, in Spanish) who had helped Castro overthrow Batista, was appointed Cuban envoy to Israel. In the period in which Wolff served in Israel, agricultural experts from the Kibbutz movement were sent to Cuba with the involvement of the Israeli foreign ministry under the cover of the Israeli Cuban relations association.

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 yellow-cake 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 yellow-cake 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 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 downplay or deny Israel's involvement in their subject matter.


PROMIS - The US handed PROMIS software over to the Israelis who used Israeli spy, 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 his 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 the Israelis.

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