On July 17 the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) agreed to review highly classified documents from the LBJ administration for public release. The top-secret documents purportedly deal with the CIA's initial urgent warnings to President Johnson that Israel was diverting vast quantities of weapons-grade nuclear material from NUMEC, as well as the president and NSC's strategy for dealing with the crisis. While the CIA has denied all previous Freedom of Information Act and Mandatory Declassification Review requests for NUMEC-related documents, the ISCAP has the authority to overrule, as it has done in the majority of release cases. A successful document release could allow Parks and Apollo residents to finally seek hefty court-ordered damages from the true perpetrators (or their estates) who have long been shielded from the consequences of their lucrative crimes at NUMEC--Zalman Shapiro, NUMEC's board members and the Israeli government....
Israel Lobby Archive file:
http://www.irmep.org/ILA/numec/courtdocs/07182012iscap_confirmation.pdf
Extensive analysis in Antiwar.com today:
Related Business Insider article excerpt:
"How Israel Received Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material from a US Company by Michael Kelley http://www.businessinsider.com/the-explosive-story-of-how-israel-received-weapons-grade-nuclear-material-from-a-us-company-in-the-sixties-2012-8 ...On July 19, 1969, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger wrote the following about Israel's nuclear weapons program: "There is circumstantial evidence that some fissionable material available for Israel's weapons development was illegally obtained from the United States by about 1965." About the same time that NUMEC sustained unaccountable losses of HEU-235, the FBI notes, NUMEC was developing and manufacturing food irradiators for Israel. According to Smith there is no single smoking gun that Shapiro diverted HEU-235 to Israel --but many smoking shell-casings. They include: -- In 1965 a NUMEC employee walked near the NUMEC loading dock and encountered people he could not identify loading cans about the size of HEU-235 canisters onto a ship that was headed to Israel. The employee detailed the event in 1980 when interviewed by FBI agents. Based on the number of reported canisters, Smith estimates up to 346 lbs of U-235 could have been shipped to Israel in this single incident. -- In 1968 NUMEC invited and received Israel's elite nuclear weapons development officials and its top spy under the cover of being "thermo electric generator specialists." They included Avraham Hermoni (technical director of Israel's nuclear bomb project), Ephraim Biegun (head of the Israeli technical department of Israel's Secret Service from 1960-70) and Rafael Eitan (long-time Mossad and LAKAM operative who later directed spy Jonathan Pollard's spy program against the U.S.). Smith notes that in 1986 Middle East analyst Anthony Cordesman said there "is no conceivable reason for Eitan to have gone [to NUMEC] but for the nuclear material." --In June 1978 Department of Energy investigators told former Atomic Energy Commissioner (AEC) Glenn T. Seaborg that traces of Portsmouth U-235 -- the government-owned material primarily delivered to NUMEC for processing into fuel -- had been picked up in Israel. Seaborg, who frequently defended Shapiro during his time as AEC chief, later refused to be interviewed by FBI investigators..."
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When I was in Pittsburgh in the 1980s, I got to know the people at Westinghouse since I was writing a book on nuclear exports. They all knew Shapiro very well and Westinghouse had dealt with NUMEC the company was headquarted in Apollo, Pa just outside Pittsburgh). It had become an open secret that Shapiro have hoodwinked the USG and Westinghouse in sending sensitive, prohibited materials to Israel overa period of years. The Westinghouse guys told me many of the deatils but I unfortunately have forgotten them.
Posted by: mbrenner | 11 August 2012 at 04:43 PM
We are heading for discrimination again - no jews in sensitive positions because they cannot be trusted.
Posted by: Walrus | 12 August 2012 at 03:43 AM
The problem isn't that they can't be trusted; its that they, their co-conspirators and enablers can't be prosecuted.
Posted by: Charles I | 12 August 2012 at 10:27 AM
Walrus -
Among the wildlife I try to exclude from my shorts, I include rattlesnakes. Never been bit, but they do have a nasty -- and I believe well earned -- reputation.
Posted by: Pirate Laddie | 12 August 2012 at 12:29 PM
Will the full USA intell documentation on the Liberty attack be released eventually?
Posted by: Al Spafford | 13 August 2012 at 12:34 AM
Al Spafford
That seems very unlikely. pl
Posted by: turcopolier | 13 August 2012 at 07:27 AM
This problem was anticipated by anti-zionist Jews in Europe before WW2. They foresaw that the creation of the "jewish" state would cast suspicion on all Jews everywhere as having dual-loyalties. As in so many of their other predictions, this is now true in spades as Carl Bernstein, the famous Watergate-revealing journalist points out, the neocons who have hijacked US foreign policy were "Jewish" neocons. No one else could presumably have gotten away with such an admission. The truth is that anyone who has deep sympathies with Israel should recuse themselves from decisions regarding our mideast policy and especially our funding of that ruthless, racist state.
Posted by: Fred Mrozek | 03 July 2013 at 01:31 PM
Journalist Seymour Hersh has described our foreign policy as having been hijacked by a cult of eight or nine neocons. Carl Bernstein, famous for breaking Watergate, went even further and said these were "Jewish neocons." Presumably only a famous Jewish journalist could get away with saying that... But yes, the power of the Israel is so great today that the USA is no longer in control of it's own policies. The risk of the "dual-loyalty" or "Israel-Firster" accusations was foreseen by early orthodox Jewish opponents of Zionism. There is a website called True Torah Believers Against Zionism which present much of this opposition. It will come as a surprise to most Americans how vigorous and extensive the opposition to Zionism is amidst the orthodox Jewish community. And, one cannot fail to be impressed with how accurately they foretold the risks and consequences. For my part, I think the entire Israel Lobby should be registered and treated like the subversive foreign agents they manifestly are and I think the USA should immediately begin repairing the damage to our reputation that has accrued from that dreadful influence.
Posted by: Fred Mrozek | 03 July 2013 at 01:41 PM
Journalist Seymour Hersh has described our foreign policy as having been hijacked by a cult of eight or nine neocons. Carl Bernstein, famous for breaking Watergate, went even further and said these were "Jewish neocons." Presumably only a famous Jewish journalist could get away with saying that... But yes, the power of the Israel is so great today that the USA is no longer in control of it's own policies. The risk of the "dual-loyalty" or "Israel-Firster" accusations was foreseen by early orthodox Jewish opponents of Zionism. There is a website called True Torah Believers Against Zionism which present much of this opposition. It will come as a surprise to most Americans how vigorous and extensive the opposition to Zionism is amidst the orthodox Jewish community. And, one cannot fail to be impressed with how accurately they foretold the risks and consequences. For my part, I think the entire Israel Lobby should be registered and treated like the subversive foreign agents they manifestly are and I think the USA should immediately begin repairing the damage to our reputation that has accrued from that dreadful influence.
Posted by: Fred Mrozek | 03 July 2013 at 01:43 PM