AIPAC Re****t Reveals Long History of Activities Harmful to US - IRmep
Posted : Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:33:53 GMT
Author : Institute for Research:Middle Eastern Policy
Category : Press Release
WA****NGTON, June 2 DC-IRmep-AIPAC-reprt
WA****NGTON, June 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Members of the press,
bloggers and law
enforcement officials may request a free copy of our special 200 page
re****t during the annual
AIPAC Policy Conference being held this week in Wa****ngton, DC.
"Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee from the
1963 Fulbright Hearings
to the 2005 Espionage Scandal" is an expose of AIPAC's encounters with US
law enforcement.
"Foreign Agents" asks tough questions about AIPAC and the Foreign Agents
Registration Act, US
election laws and the 1917 Espionage Act.
It begins with Senator J.W. Fulbright's 1963 hearings on foreign agents
active in the United
States. Fulbright discovered $5 million had been laundered into US
lobbying and propaganda
activities from Israel-based foreign principals. Isaiah L. "Si" Kenen,
AIPAC's founder,
received tens of thousands of dollars to write and distribute his lobbying
newsletter "The Near
East Re****t."
The "Near East Re****t" (NER) is still published today at AIPAC
headquarters. During Kenen's
time it excoriated members of the US Congress who rejected Israeli policy
mandates. The NER
lavished praise on members of mainstream media and "experts" who provided
public relations spin
on controversial Israeli initiatives. One that NER covered up was
Israel's Dimona nuclear
power program which clandestinely produced 150 nuclear weapons in spite of
the
Non-Proliferation Treaty. "Foreign Agents" reproduces the subpoenaed
foreign payment vouchers
and internal public relations strategy do***ents in a groundbreaking
analysis. Israeli lobby
money prevailed in spite of the Foreign Agents Registration Act,
nonproliferation efforts and a
Department of Justice investigation.
In the late 1980s US-Israel trade was roughly in balance. In 1984 the US
and Israel signed
America's first "free trade agreement". Between 1989-2006 bilateral trade
went from parity to
an almost a $50 billion ***ulative US deficit with Israel. In 1984 the FBI
discovered that
AIPAC possessed secret information US companies had supplied to the
International Trade
Commission, but no criminal charges were pursued.
However two years later a former AIPAC director helped rig the California
Senate race by
laundering campaign contributions in collusion with a network of cutout
campaign donors. The
former AIPAC director, Michael Goland, even served a few months of prison
time, but the results
of the dirty election went unchallenged. AIPAC's own reputation and power
in the US Congress
subsequently ballooned.
AIPAC then allegedly coordinated Political Action Committee (PAC)
contributions in violation of
its nonprofit status in order to promote vetted candidates for Congress
and to pick off foes.
The Wa****ngton Post published the internal AIPAC coordination memos in
1988. "Foreign Agents"
analyzes the years of subsequent court actions against AIPAC by concerned
US citizens. The
case reached the US Supreme Court before fading into oblivion. Did AIPAC
transcend US laws?
Finally, "Foreign Agents" provides in-depth analysis of the 2005 criminal
indictments lodged
against two AIPAC executives for alleged violations of the 1917 Espionage
Act. Can this long
delayed criminal trial proceed, or will it require a pardon in keeping
with standard US law
enforcement leniency and special presidential treatment of AIPAC?
"Foreign Agents" provides
one shocking answer.
Re****ters and bloggers can get a hardcopy of "Foreign Agents" by sending
email to
info@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Federal, State and local law enforcement officials may
also receive a free
copy while supplies last if requested through a government email domain.
Members of the public may purchase "Foreign Agents" for $14.95 at
Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble,
and many other fine bookstores. The re****t's ISBN number is
0-9764437-7-5.
About the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc. --
www.IRmep.org
IRmep is a Wa****ngton-based nonprofit that studies U.S. policy formulation
toward the Middle
East. IRmep's Center for Policy & Law Enforcement studies how warranted
enforcement of US laws
would improve trade, development, and America's international standing.
SOURCE Institute for Research:Middle Eastern Policy
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