"Hollywood Producer/Spy Arnon Milchan Played A Key Role In Israel's Nuke Program" Business Insider

"Israel's secretive LAKAM economic espionage unit, which was tasked with securing technology for Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program, recruited Milchan in the 1960s. At one point, the 69-year-old told Channel 2, he operated 30 companies in 17 different countries. (Milcharn reportedly became a key operative for LAKAM chief Benjamin Blumberg and top spy Rafi Eitan, who ran jailed spy Jonathan Pollard and infiltrated a U.S. company to obtain tons of highly-enriched uranium.) Milchen, who is good friends with current Israeli President Shimon Peres, also said that he helped Israel obtain key nuclear equipment and information while Peres established the Dimona nuclear reactor as Director-General of the Ministry of Defense. Milchan's company, Heli Trading Co., brokered the shipment of 800 krytons — sophisticated triggers for nuclear weapons — from the California company MILCO International Inc. to the Israeli Ministry of Defense between 1979 and 1983. In 1985, the U.S. indicted and extradited MILCO President Kelly Smyth on 30 counts of smuggling and making false statements. Here's what Smyth told FBI agents in Los Angeles (via IRMEP): Smyth details his recruitment by Arnon Milchan, meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu who then worked at smuggling front Heli Trading (Milchan Brothers Trading Company) in Israel, and how the "Project Pinto" smuggling operation was rolled up after his arrest for smuggling 800 nuclear triggers and subsequent flight from the U.S"  Business Insider

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"Milchan reportedly became a key operative for LAKAM chief Benjamin Blumberg and top spy Rafi Eitan, who ran jailed spy Jonathan Pollard and infiltrated a U.S. company to obtain tons of highly-enriched uranium.)"

Holder and Obama like to try people for espionage.  Well?  pl 

http://www.businessinsider.com/arnon-milchan-and-israels-nuke-program-2013-11

Comments

[Basilisk]

The "tons" of HEU is a bit misleading. Tons of HEU went to NUMEC, "Material unaccounted for" or MUF was notably high at NUMEC and it is likely that some of this MUF was diverted to Israel. The diversion probably amounted to hundreds of pounds, not "tons."

Everyone is familiar with "tons of yellowcake," but "tons of HEU" are unnecessary for a viable weapons program. Just ask Mordechai Vanunu.

[IRmep]

This story has legs.

When Holder and Obama fail to prosecute (repeating the DOJ's utter defeat in prosecuting hundreds of conventional smugglers back in the 1940's) it will show a new generation of Americans how corrupting the influence of the Israel lobby truly is.

Of course, when activists asked for warranted prosecutions back then, the State Department and DOJ told them to go to hell.

See: http://irmep.org/ILA/Dacey/default.asp

[robt willmann]

In the photograph at the top of this posting of Shimon Peres, Milchan, and Netanyahu, by all appearances, Milchan is in charge.

[eakens]

Obama has a sense of humor apparently....

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-says-hollywood-execs-have-a-responsibility-on-gun-violence-2013-11

[Harper]

This is a reminder that Pollard did not act alone, and he was backed up by an "X Committee" of leading neocons who were all over the Pentagon and the NSC during the Reagan years, and came back again under two Bush presidencies. Pollard was a spy who passed U.S. Cold War secrets to Israel, and Israel in turn traded them to the Soviets in exchange for the exodus of a million Soviet Jews to Israel, among other things. Pollard deserves to spend the rest of his life in American jail, but that does not adequately address the magnitude of the spy network that should have been, but was never rolled up. Milchan is one gloating example of how much this apparatus has gotten away with over the years. He taunts the U.S. by boasting that his Hollywood credentials won him a stay-out-of-jail card. If you go back all the way to the Carter era, Dr. Steven Bryen was caught red handed passing U.S. defense secrets to Israeli agents at the Madison Hotel. Top DOJ officials bucked the FBI investigators and prevented prosecution. The Pollard case was the exception. The vast majority of instances, including Milchan, where Israeli espionage was exposed, have gone unprosecuted. This is a crime that did not begin with Obama and Holder, but they should not be let off the hook. Fast and Furious, Milchan, Wall Street banksters all given a free ride.

[Castellio]

Pollard was "low enough" to be the fall guy, is that it?

And has there been any "roll up" of the larger support network, or is it operating as well as ever?