Excerpts: For almost two years, hundreds of young Israelis falsely claiming to be art students haunted federal offices -- in particular, the DEA. No one knows why -- and no one seems to want to find out.
In January 2001, the security branch of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency began to receive a number of peculiar reports from DEA field offices across the country. According to the reports, young Israelis claiming to be art students and offering artwork for sale had been attempting to penetrate DEA offices for over a year. The Israelis had also attempted to penetrate the offices of other law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies. Strangest of all, the "students" had visited the homes of numerous DEA officers and other senior federal officials.
Reports of the mysterious Israelis with an inexplicable interest in peddling art to G-men came in from more than 40 U.S. cities and continued throughout the first six months of 2001. Agents of the DEA, ATF, Air Force, Secret Service, FBI, and U.S. Marshals Service documented some 130 separate incidents of "art student" encounters. Some of the Israelis were observed diagramming the inside of federal buildings. Some were found carrying photographs they had taken of federal agents. One was discovered with a computer printout in his luggage that referred to "DEA groups."
In some cases, the Israelis visited locations not known to the public -- areas without street addresses, for example, or DEA offices not identified as such -- leading authorities to suspect that information had been gathered from prior surveillance or perhaps electronically, from credit cards and other sources. One Israeli was discovered holding banking receipts for substantial sums of money, close to $180,000 in withdrawals and deposits over a two-month period. A number of the Israelis resided for a period of time in Hollywood, Fla. -- the small city where Mohammed Atta and three terrorist comrades lived for a time before Sept. 11.
In the wake of the NCIX bulletin, federal officials raised several other red flags, including an Air Force alert, a Federal Protective Services alert, an Office of National Drug Control Policy security alert and a request that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) investigate a specific case. Officials began dealing more aggressively with the "art students." According to one account, some 140 Israeli nationals were detained or arrested between March 2001 and Sept. 11, 2001. Many of them were deported. According to the INS, the deportations resulted from violations of student visas that forbade the Israelis from working in the United States. (In fact, Salon has established that none of the Israelis were enrolled in the art school most of them claimed to be attending; the other college they claimed to be enrolled in does not exist.) After the Sept. 11 attacks, many more young Israelis -- 60, according to one AP dispatch and other reports -- were detained and deported.
According to Cameron, some 60 Israeli nationals had been detained in the anti-terrorism/immigrant sweeps in the weeks after Sept. 11, and at least 140 Israelis identified as "art students" had been detained or arrested in the prior months. Most of the 60 detained after Sept. 11 had been deported, Cameron said. "Some of the detainees," reported Cameron, "failed polygraph questions when asked about alleged surveillance activities against and in the United States." Some of them were on active military duty. (Military service is compulsory for all young Israelis.) Cameron was careful to note that there was "no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9/11 attacks" and that while his reporting had dug up "explosive information," none of it was necessarily conclusive. Cameron was simply airing the wide-ranging speculations in an ongoing investigation.
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With Construction Passeshttps://rense.com/general87/14_1.htmProfile: “Israeli art students”http://historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=_israeli_art_students_The 'Israeli Art Student' Fileshttps://www.antiwar.com/israeli-files.php
[ + ] SocksOnCats
[ - ] SocksOnCats 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 12, 2021 05:08:29 ago (+1/-0)
Fuck israel and the israelis.
In fact, fuck the whole middle east. I'm fucking sick of all of them. All they do is cause problems for the rest of the world.
[ + ] Rawrination
[ - ] Rawrination 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 11, 2021 18:31:47 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] yesiknow
[ - ] yesiknow 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 11, 2021 14:45:28 ago (+1/-0)
That rag is a liberal shithole that pries into everyone's sex life and tries to control it by telling the nation how to have sex the way salon writers believe they should have sex. It's never made a dime and is kept alive by a couple of silicon valley hedge fund pricks who also shovel buckets of money at cunts like pelosi, and write it off on their taxes so the scum slaves who work have to work more hours to cover their tax write offs. Honorary jews don't cast aspersions on jews unless they're told to. Dampening the fire. "oh it was maybe organized criminal ecstasy sellers from israel. Or maybe it was just israels spying on arabs, because you know we're not fanatical, extremist pro jews. We can take a little criticism and move on".
There are some useful quotes within, and that's all the internet can absorb, so maybe it will bite those schizoids in the ass anyway.
[ + ] TFS
[ - ] TFS [op] 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 11, 2021 14:52:13 ago (+1/-0)