- "Thomas reveals that prior to 9/11 there were no
fewer than seven Mossad units - comprised of some 30 agents - working to
obtain data from Silicon Valley and other key areas, including Los Alamos."
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chiefs, led by CIA Director George Tenet, are to lobby President Bush
to tell Israel to cancel its plan to appoint its current Mossad chief,
Efraim Halevy, as its new envoy to Washington.
The chiefs will argue that Halevy has continued to wage an all-out operation
to steal America's most secret intelligence.
They also believe he has continued to run a super-spook within the Bush
Administration.
Known as "Mega," the spy first surfaced in February 1997.
"Two days after Valentine,s Day that year, the FBI was given an intercept
by the National Security Agency (NSA) of a late night telephone conversation
emanating from the Israeli embassy between a Mossad agent in the embassy
and the service's then director-general, Danny Yatom," revealed Gordon
Thomas, an internationally-recognized expert on intelligence matters and
author of Seeds of Fire.
[Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America, published
by Dandelion Books, is available in all bookstores, at www.dandelionbooks.com,
www.gordonthomas.ie, www.newsmax.com, and for the trade through Biblio
Distribution, Ingram, Baker & Taylor and other major wholesalers ($25.95).]
"The agent had asked for guidance as to whether he should go to 'Mega'
for a copy of a letter written by Warren Christopher, then Secretary of
State, to PLO Chairman Yassar Arafat," said Thomas. "The letter
contained a set of assurances given to Arafat about the withdrawal of
Israeli troops from the West Bank of Hebron. Yatom said this was something
Mega could be used for."
The FBI launched a massive hunt to try and find Mega. The agency failed.
But Mega's shadow fell across the ill-starred relationship Monica Lewisnky
had with President Bill Clinton.
In his impeachment report, public prosecutor Kenneth Starr noted that
on March 29, 1997: "He (Clinton) told her (Lewinsky) that he suspected
a foreign embassy was taping their conversations. The President told
her that if anyone ever asked about their phone sex, she should say she
knew that their calls were being monitored and they had put on the sex
talk."
"Since then Mega disappeared into the Washington woodwork. But in
the past year he has again been involved in passing on information to
Israel. CIA and FBI sources had both told me that certain information
that has come into the hands of Israel could only have been done by a
person as high-level as they believe Mega to be," said Thomas.
Mega's identity is shared only by the incumbent director-general of Mossad.
Seeds of Fire published over 100 pages of documents - many of which show
the full extent of Israeli intelligence operations in the U.S.
Some of the more damaging have taken place while Efraim Halevy has been
running Mossad.
Thomas reveals that prior to 9/11 there were no fewer than seven Mossad
units - comprised of some 30 agents - working to obtain data from Silicon
Valley and other key areas, including Los Alamos.
Seeds of Fire contained the first detailed revelations of how Mossad
penetrated the nuclear facility - and how the top-secret material was
later passed on to China.
Thomas also shows how Halevy, an urbane 67-year-old, persuaded Beijing
to allow Mossad to have first-look at the U.S. spy pane downed in the
South China Sea last year.
It is these revelations that have sent U.S. intelligence chiefs to oppose
Halevy's appointment as Israeli ambassador once the present incumbent,
David Ivry retires in April.
They are believed to favor the appointment of Israel,s Deputy Defence
Minister, Dalia Rabin, the daughter of the late prime minister, Yitzhak
Rabin.
Another candidate could be Dore Gold. Helped by Benyamin Natanyahu, the
former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations believes he could be a
compromise candidate.
"Anybody but Halevy," a senior Washington intelligence source
told Thomas.
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