But that was false for American tech companies. Why should we assume that Israeli-run firms would be less cooperative with their own nation's intelligence community? Indeed, Israel's booming high-tech sector appears to be intimately related to its spy works, just as Silicon Valley emerged out of America's Cold War efforts. [see ]
Not only does Israel have the means to commit espionage on the US and US citizens, they have a long, well-established history of doing just that. Apart from the NSA's inclusion of Israel among the five nations which are of most concern to US counterintelligence agencies, there are numerous documents attesting to Israel's spying on the US. For example, a GAO report presented to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence February 28, 1996 listed a number of violations attributed to Country A. Country A was publicly identified as being the State of Israel by the Washington Times (2/22/96).
According to a U.S. intelligence agency, the government of Country A conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any U.S. ally. Classified military information and sensitive military technologies are high-priority targets for the intelligence agencies of this country. Country A seeks this information for three reasons: (1) to help the technological development of its own defense industrial base, (2) to sell or trade the information with other countries for economic reasons, and (3) to sell or trade the information with other countries to develop political alliances and alternative sources of arms. According to a classified 1994 report produced by a U.S. government interagency working group on U.S. critical technology companies, Country A routinely resorts to state-sponsored espionage using covert collection techniques to obtain sensitive U.S. economic information and technology. Agents of Country A collect a variety of classified and proprietary information through observation, elicitation, and theft.
The following are intelligence agency examples of Country A information collection efforts:
" An espionage operation run by the intelligence organization responsible for collecting scientific and technological information for Country A paid a U.S. government employee to obtain U.S. classified military intelligence documents.
" Several citizens of Country A were caught in the United States stealing sensitive technology used in manufacturing artillery gun tubes.
" Agents of Country A allegedly stole design plans for a classified reconnaissance system from a U.S. company and gave them to a defense contractor from Country A.
" A company from Country A is suspected of surreptitiously monitoring a DOD telecommunications system to obtain classified information for Country A intelligence.
" Citizens of Country A were investigated for allegations of passing advanced aerospace design technology to unauthorized scientists and researchers.
" Country A is suspected of targeting U.S. avionics, missile telemetry and testing data, and aircraft communication systems for intelligence operations.
" It has been determined that Country A targeted specialized software that is used to store data in friendly aircraft warning systems.
" Country A has targeted information on advanced materials and coatings for collection. A Country A government agency allegedly obtained information regarding a chemical finish used on missile reentry vehicles from a U.S. person.
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In Spy Trade: How Israel's Lobby Undermines America's Economy author Grant F. Smith describes the long history of Israel spying against the US and how it has negatively impacted the US economy. In a table titled "Israeli Military-Industrial Espionage Incidents" six major violations are listed. As one example, it was found that Israel was marketing "U.S.-developed cruise missile technology" to China, which the CIA asserted "incorporated sensitive U.S. technology." [Spy Trade, p. 83]
The online The Corbett Report on April 10, 2012 included "A Brief History of Israeli Spying in the US." Following is an excerpt from that report:
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