Ayoon wa Azan (Neo-Con Spies II)
Jihad Al Khazen Al-Hayat 2004/09/21
The strangest thing in the scandal of spying for Israel is the existence of a scandal in the first place; the people involved in it have been accused of spying for Israel for decades. The scandal is that they are allowed to be in key positions within the U.S. administration, after having been subject to investigations that are exactly like the current one, concerning the accusation of leaking secret information to Israel.
Douglas Feith is a famous extremist who does not deserve to be in a high-ranking position within the Department of Defense (DoD); while we know about his objection to all peace negotiations in the Middle East, including the Oslo Accords, he publicly opposed the Biological Weapons Convention (in 1986), the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (in 1988), the Chemical Weapons Convention (in 1997), the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (in 2000). He wrote an article in Commentary magazine in 1992 saying: "It is in the interest of U.S. and Israel to remove needless impediments to technological cooperation between them. Technologies in the hands of responsible, friendly countries facing military threats, countries like Israel, serve to deter aggression, enhance regional stability and promote peace thereby."
This statement justifies spying, as it means that the U.S. must provide military technology to Israel, in order to impose its hegemony and "peace" on the people of the region. However, Israel is an expansionist racist country, which must not be given any weapons, as it sold the American technology to China, as well as to others. More important than all of this is that Feith's statement uncovers the way neo-conservatives think about providing Israel with the secrets of America's technology, a thing that explains Lawrence Franklin's affair, who works with Feith, and who gave secret documents to two workers from the Israeli lobby. Neo-cons consider everything the U.S. possesses to be "legitimate" for Israel to possess as well, despite the fact that the American "spy law" clearly forbids the transfer of information between one party and another.
It might be that Franklin was inspired by his boss Feith to transfer secret documents. In 1982, Feith was expelled from his position at the National Security Council, after he was subject to an investigation concerning his leaking of secret information to an official at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. However, Richard Perle, who was DoD Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy (ISP) back then, joined Feith to himself in ISP as his Special Counsel, and then as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Negotiations Policy. Feith left the department in 1986, in order to establish a law firm in Israel with his Israeli partner.
Once again, it should not have been allowed for an accused of the type of Feith to be appointed a key position in the American administration during the 1980s or today. But his story with Perle reminds us of a story which hero, or anti-hero, is Stephen Bryen.
In April of 1979, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Robert Keuch recommended in writing that Bryen, then a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, undergo a grand jury hearing to establish the basis for a prosecution for espionage. The issue is known, as I heard it from my friend Michael Saba at the Madison Hotel, while he was showing secret documents to a visiting Israeli official. This also occurred in the presence of the director of AIPAC, or the Jewish lobby. It turned out that the official was Zvi Rafiah, the Mossad station chief in Washington. A friend of Bryen testified that she heard him talking to Rafiah in his office about secret documents (some of which referring to Saudi military bases). Bryen was not convicted because the Committee on Foreign Relations refused to give the Department of Justice the required documents that Bryen wanted to leak to Israel, and asked for him to resign from his position in the committee.
Believe it or not, this man who is accused of spying, found his way to an even more sensitive position. In 1981, Richard Perle was appointed DoD Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy (ISP); he hired Bryen as his Deputy, which requires giving the latter the permission to view secret documents. When Perle was faced with this issue during the Congress investigation to fix him in his position, he said: I consider Dr. Bryen to be a completely honest man, and I fully trust his values and patriotism.
It is an Israeli patriotism like that of Perle, as the new employees have loyalty to Israel only. Bryen remained faithful to his Israeli patriotism, as in the year 1988, Israel needed spare parts for its Arrow Missile, which were of the most important secret American technology that was not available for exporting. But Bryen asked the DoD for a permission for Varian Associates, Inc. to export the parts to Israel. All high-ranking officials of the department refused to give their consent, and Bryen said that he will ask the Israelis why they needed these parts in specific. He came back to say that he received a convincing reply, and that he would issue the permission of exportation. But what happened at the end was that the Depute Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage, who is the current Depute Secretary of State, sent a letter to Bryen asking him to inform the State Department of the "complete refusal" of the DoD to export. Bryen was obliged to withdraw the license, and Varian Associates, Inc. became the first company banned from contracts with the DoD.
The reader might have noticed that Perle's name was repeated during the talk about the activities of Feith and Bryen; he was an Israeli collaborator from the first and until today. Perle worked for Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson in 1969; not a year had passed until the axis of the investigation about leaking a secret report to the CIA about claimed special Soviet armament treaties. He officially asked Senator Jackson to expel Perle, but was content with reproaching him. A year went by and Perle was subject to a new investigation, as the FBI was tapping the phone calls of the Israeli embassy, and they recorded a phone call where Perle was preparing for providing them with secret information. Perle was subject to financial questionings throughout his professional life, for receiving a consultant salary for the Israeli Tamaris SA Group which produces arms in 1981, and receiving millions of dollars in 2004 from Hollinger, via his Likudnik friend Conrad Black.
It would be funny for Perle to fall for the last time in a financial affair, after he has worked for Israel for over four decades, and helped in guiding the American policy to harm the American interests, and ended up in Iraq with thousands of casualties from young Americans, without having a cause to defend; I continue tomorrow.
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