Comprehensive collection of declassified CIA, FBI, and NSA documents on AIPAC and Israeli intelligence operations
"Pollard's Israeli handlers asked primarily for nuclear, military and technical information on the Arab states, Pakistan, and the Soviet Union – not on the United States."
"Every two weeks between January and November 1985, Pollard dropped off large caches of documents to a D.C. apartment with a specially made, high-speed copier, where they were copied and returned."
"Pollard delivered over 800 classified documents containing more than 1,000 pages of classified information."
"Some of Pollard's disclosures are said to have ended up in the hands of the Soviet Union."
The document reveals Pollard's handlers were from the Israeli scientific intelligence unit reporting directly to the Prime Minister's office, indicating the operation's high-level authorization.
Source: CIA Damage Assessment Report, declassified December 14, 2012, released through National Security Archive FOIA request
"Israeli intelligence agencies have blackmailed, bugged, wiretapped and offered bribes to U.S. government employes in an effort to gain sensitive intelligence and technical information."
The documents revealed a systematic approach to intelligence gathering within the United States, targeting multiple levels of government employees across various agencies.
These revelations came to light through classified American documents that were captured during the Iranian hostage crisis and later published by the Iranian government.
Source: The Washington Post, February 1, 1982, based on captured U.S. embassy documents from Tehran
"Phone conversations that Rosen had en route to the first meeting with Franklin, were monitored by the FBI."
"From Feb. 12, 2003 until July 9, 2004, Franklin had dozens of phone discussions and meetings with the two AIPAC officials."
"FBI agents confronted Franklin with evidence of his espionage activities, and Franklin agreed to cooperate with the government."
"Even after the FBI visits, Rosen and Weissman continued to pass classified data provided by Franklin to select U.S. journalists and even to Israeli embassy officials."
"The 26-page indictment is, in fact, a catalogue of scores of instances of classified information being passed from Pentagon officials to the two AIPAC men, on to Israeli Embassy personnel."
The documents reveal a systematic network where classified Pentagon information flowed through AIPAC officials to Israeli embassy personnel and select journalists, demonstrating the organization's role as an intelligence conduit.
FBI surveillance revealed that the espionage activities had been ongoing since at least 1999, years before Franklin's formal cooperation with investigators.
Source: Federal court indictments, FBI surveillance transcripts, Department of Justice records
"During the 1970s, Western intelligence agencies – including those from Britain, the US, France, and Switzerland – transferred secret information to Mossad that assisted in locating and eliminating individuals suspected of terrorism in Europe."
"This information flowed through a previously undisclosed secret system named 'Kilowatt,' operating without political oversight."
"British intelligence provided Mossad with a photograph of the terrorist who orchestrated the massacre." (Referring to Munich Olympics perpetrators)
"The documents also revealed instances of identification errors and operations conducted based on intelligence received from Western sources."
The documents reveal that Operation Kilowatt functioned as an intelligence-sharing network that operated without political oversight from the participating nations' governments.
The cooperation extended beyond simple intelligence sharing to active support for targeted assassination operations across multiple European countries.
Source: Declassified British intelligence files, The Guardian investigation, May 2025
"From 1965 to 1980, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated Zalman Shapiro, the president of NUMEC, over the loss of 206 pounds of highly enriched uranium."
"In 2009, The FBI released a detailed statement made in 1980 by a former NUMEC employee who said he encountered armed strangers on the uranium plant's loading dock one night in early 1965, loading what appeared to be canisters of HEU onto a truck in racks he had not seen before, with a shipping manifest indicating the material was heading to a ship bound for Israel on the Zim-Israel shipping line."
"On March 18, the ISCAP released 84 additional pages of previously classified documents related to concerns about the illegal diversion of weapons-grade nuclear material from NUMEC to Israel's nuclear weapons program, including a letter dated April 2, 1968 from CIA Director Richard Helms to Attorney General Ramsey Clark about a large loss of uranium from NUMEC."
"In September 1968, Shapiro met with a delegation of Israeli officials, including Rafael Eitan, a high Mossad officer."
"Eitan was reported last year to have headed LEKEM, the scientific intelligence unit in the Israeli government that handled Pollard, the Navy analyst convicted of spying for Israel."
"In 2015, CIA released documents that appeared to add credence to the claim that in 1968 it found HEU traceable to the United States near the Israeli nuclear complex at Dimona."
"The AEC, and subsequently its successor agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Justice Department, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE), the General Accounting Office (GAO), the National Security Council (NSC), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), two committees of the U.S. House of Representatives, spanning four presidential administrations, investigated what became of the missing uranium."
"A secret 1978 review of the episode that was performed for Congress by the General Accounting Office has recently been declassified and released. However, the CIA and the FBI did not cooperate fully with GAO, with GAO being 'continually denied necessary reports and documentation on the alleged incident by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.'"
Source: FBI FOIA releases (2009, 2010, 2014), CIA declassified documents (2015), National Security Archive
"In August 2007, Mossad chief Meir Dagan suggested to the U.S. to use Iranian student unions and ethnic minority groups to try to overthrow the government of Iran."
"WikiLeaks documents also suggest that Dagan denied plans to attack a Syrian nuclear facility, just two months before an attack actually happened."
"In 2008, U.S. diplomats in the Middle East were instructed to secretly collect personal information on Palestinian leaders, and to monitor closely Israeli military and telecommunication capabilities. One U.S. State Department directive orders U.S. diplomats to report on Israeli Military tactics, techniques, and procedures dealing with conventional and unconventional counterinsurgency operations."
U.S. diplomatic missions were directed to collect intelligence on Israeli military capabilities while maintaining the public facade of close cooperation.
The cables reveal a pattern of Israeli officials providing misleading information to U.S. counterparts about planned military operations and intelligence activities.
Source: WikiLeaks Diplomatic Cable Database, published November 28, 2010
"Snowden revealed that material was routinely transferred to Unit 8200, Israel's top military intelligence division, through a memorandum of understanding that has been in effect since 2009."
"The NSA routinely passed private, unedited communications of American citizens to Israel, including intercepts of Arab- and Palestinian-Americans whose relatives in Israel and Palestinian territories could become targets based on the information."
"The shared material included 'unevaluated and unminimized transcripts, gists, facsimiles, telex, voice and Digital Network Intelligence metadata and content' sent in raw form without editing out names or personally identifiable information."
"Snowden documents revealed that Israel heavily relied on U.S. intelligence during the 2006 Lebanon War and made repeated requests for help in locating Hezbollah operatives, leading to the creation of a new framework to facilitate intelligence-sharing between the two countries despite NSA being legally prohibited from sharing surveillance data for targeted killings."
"The 2006 war pushed Israel's Unit 8200 to its 'technical and resource limits,' with Israeli officials turning to the NSA for support and information on Hezbollah targets, including 'time sensitive tasking, threat warning, including tactical electronic intelligence and receipt of geo-location information'."
"43 veteran and reserve members of Unit 8200 signed an open letter claiming they had been directed to spy on Palestinians for coercion purposes, accusing the spy agency of targeting innocent Palestinians and collecting data for political purposes rather than national security."
"Unit 8200 veterans revealed that Israeli spies search intelligence for sexual orientation, infidelity and other indiscretions that could be used to 'blackmail, basically, to coerce innocent Palestinians into working for Israel'."
"A classified document from April 2013 revealed trilateral cooperation between the NSA, Britain's GCHQ, and Israel's Unit 8200 regarding Iran as a regional and cyber threat."
"The Snowden revelations exposed the depth of U.S.-Israeli intelligence cooperation while also highlighting tensions in the relationship, as other documents showed Israel was considered 'one of NSA's biggest threats' and ranked as 'the third most aggressive intelligence service against the U.S.,' behind only China and Russia."
Source: Edward Snowden NSA document leaks, published 2013-2014 by various media outlets
"A leaked document labeled 'top secret' revealed that in February, senior leaders of the Mossad spy service 'advocated for Mossad officials and Israeli citizens to protest the new Israeli Government's proposed judicial reforms.'"
"That the information surfaced as a result, apparently, of U.S. espionage on its closest Middle East ally could further inflame what has been a time of historic political unrest in Israel."
"Two leaked confidential documents detailed measures taken by Israel to prepare for a retaliatory strike against Iran for its strikes on Israeli military bases in October 2024. On October 18, 2024, the classified documents were posted to a Telegram channel called 'Middle East Spectator.' The documents were dated to October 15 and 16, 2024."
"Asif William Rahman, a CIA analyst with top-secret clearance, was indicted on November 7, 2024 and arrested by the FBI. Rahman, a Yale University graduate and Cincinnati, Ohio native, had worked for the CIA since 2016. Rahman illegally downloaded and printed classified documented, then took them home, where he altered the items to obfuscate the source."
"The documents also indicated the use of United States satellites to spy on and gather information on Israeli Air Force operations, contributing to the seriousness of the security breach."
"One of the documents also suggests something that Israel has always declined to confirm publicly: that the country has nuclear weapons. The document says the US has not seen any indications that Israel plans to use a nuclear weapon against Iran."
"These leaks have created significant tensions between the U.S. and Israel, with CNN reporters noting that the data breaches would likely bring anger from Israel against the United States at a period where mutual diplomatic relations have been complicated during the Gaza war and associated conflicts with Iranian proxies."
Source: Pentagon intelligence leaks (2023, 2024), FBI arrest records, Department of Justice indictments
"On May 23 and Aug. 1, 1963, under Fulbright's chairmanship, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee conducted hearings on the Zionist movement as part of an examination into activities of various representatives of foreign entities, aimed at uncovering possible abuses of the Foreign Agents Registration Act."
"Nearly 300 printed pages of testimony, originally classified, brought to light 'one of the most effective networks of foreign influence,' in the words of Newsweek of Aug. 12, 1963."
"The hearings revealed that Israel funneled $5 million (more than $35 million in today's dollars) into U.S. propaganda and lobbying operations, with the funds channeled through the quasi governmental Jewish Agency's New York office into the AZC (American Zionist Council)."
"The AZC was forced to admit this in a deposition to Fulbright: 'the AZC has received virtually all of its operating funds from the Jewish Agency for Israel'."
"Senator J.W. Fulbright's discovery of 'conduit' money-laundering operations in the US financed by Israeli principals touched off deep and important questions about US lobbying on behalf of the fledgling nation and the applicability of laws such as the Foreign Agents Registration Act and the Logan Act."
"The Senate archives related to AIPAC and its registration issue were suppressed for several years before being released in 2010."
Source: Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing transcripts, declassified 2010; compiled by Grant F. Smith, "Foreign Agents" (2007)
"The FARA order pertaining to AIPAC's registration was issued on November 21, 1962."
"In Nov. 1962, Attorney General Robert Kennedy's Department of Justice ordered AZC to register as a foreign agent because of FARA violations, alleging that it was being funded by the Jewish Agency for Israel."
"Going back to the 1950s, the Eisenhower administration repeatedly insisted that the American Zionist Council (AZC) register as 'agents of a foreign government.'"
"The Council eluded registration by reorganizing as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee."
"However, the Department of Justice later withdrew its demand. The AZC was reorganized and AIPAC emerged from it."
"AIPAC made a strategic decision not to register as a foreign agent under FARA, asserting that it was an American organization representing American interests in support of Israel."
"AIPAC has since become what Fulbright most feared: a foreign agent dominating American foreign policy while disguised as a domestic lobby."
Source: Department of Justice FARA enforcement records, Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy archives
"Leaked documents from the Israeli ministry of Justice revealed that in 2018 the ministry was concerned that compliance with FARA would damage the reputation of Israeli-directed American groups."
"The documents showed concerns that political donors would be reluctant to fund them if registered under the law."
The leaked documents reveal Israeli government awareness that FARA registration would expose the extent of foreign direction over American political organizations and potentially reduce their effectiveness in influencing U.S. policy.
The ministry documents indicate a coordinated approach to avoid FARA registration requirements while maintaining influence operations in the United States.
Source: Leaked Israeli Ministry of Justice internal documents (2018)
"Israel controls the United States Senate. Around 80 percent are completely in support of Israel; anything Israel wants, it gets." - Senator Fulbright, Face the Nation, 1973
"In 1988 former Senator William Fulbright and former senior CIA official Victor Marchetti unsuccessfully petitioned the Department of Justice to register the lobby under the Act."
"Former Senator William Fulbright, in the 1970s, and former senior CIA official Victor Marchetti, in the 1980s, contended that AIPAC should have registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)."
Fulbright's statements represent decades of observation regarding the transformation of Israeli lobbying operations from the investigated American Zionist Council to the unregistered AIPAC organization.
Source: CBS Face the Nation interview (1973), Department of Justice petition records (1988)
"The records from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — marked top secret — described aviation exercises and movements of munition carts on an Israeli airfield that were consistent with preparations for a strike on Iran."
"Rahman admitted he leaked 17 classified documents last year. In plea documents filed Friday, Rahman admitted he had also leaked 10 documents classified as top secret in the fall of 2024 in addition to the two documents concerning Israel and Iran."
"Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia said he leaked top-secret materials from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which analyzes satellite and other geospatial imagery, and that the disclosures led Israel to delay its attack plans."
"He deleted more than 1.5 gigabytes of data, including a trove of reports on the Middle East that he had retained after losing authorization to access them, to cover his tracks in the days after the Oct. 17 leaks."
The documents revealed extensive U.S. intelligence collection against Israeli military operations, including real-time monitoring of airfield activities and weapons preparations.
"A former CIA analyst was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for unlawfully retaining and transmitting Top Secret National Defense Information... In addition to the three years and a month in prison, he was sentenced to two years of probation and $50,000 in fines."
Source: Department of Justice press releases, court documents, Washington Post reporting
"Al Jazeera announced in October 2017 that it had installed an undercover journalist inside several Washington-based pro-Israel organisations in 2016 and was planning to air a documentary film based on the reporter's work."
"The resulting film exposes the efforts of Israel and its lobbyists to spy on, smear and intimidate US citizens who support Palestinian human rights, especially BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement."
"It shows that Israel's semi-covert black-ops government agency, the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, is operating this effort in collusion with an extensive network of US-based organizations."
"Al Jazeera's film reportedly identifies a number of lobby groups as working with Israel to spy on American citizens using sophisticated data gathering techniques."
"Some of the activity revealed in the film could include US organizations acting as front operations for Israel without registering as agents of a foreign state as required by US law."
"The film was censored after Qatar, the gas-rich Gulf emirate that funds Al Jazeera, came under intense Israel lobby pressure not to air the film."
"Morton Klein, the head of the Zionist Organization of America who publicly took credit for convincing Qatar's ruler Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to veto broadcast of the documentary."
Source: Electronic Intifada, Haaretz reporting, Al Jazeera investigative unit records
"In March 2001, the Office of Security of the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a 61-page report describing in some detail the attempts of approximately 125 or more nationals of a foreign country, most posing as art students, 'to penetrate several DEA Field Offices in the continental United States.'"
"Agents of the DEA, ATF, Air Force, Secret Service, FBI, and U.S. Marshals Service documented some 130 separate incidents of 'art student' encounters. Around 140 Israelis were arrested or detained between March 2001 and September 11, 2001."
"Geographically, these incidents are very widespread, ranging from California to Florida. The majority of the incidents have occurred in the southern half of the continental U.S. with the most activity reported in the state of Florida."
"On April 30, 2001, an Air Force alert was issued from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City concerning 'possible intelligence collection being conducted by Israeli art students.' Tinker AFB houses AWACS surveillance craft and Stealth bombers."
"Insight had been working on the story before the denials and obtained a Justice Department official's comment saying, 'We think there is something quite sinister here but are unable at this time to put our finger on it.'"
"According to Jane's Intelligence Digest, US officials admitted to reporters that the entire investigation had become 'too hot to handle', but declined to give further details."
Source: DEA Office of Security Programs internal memo, FBI field reports, intelligence community sources
"In January 1997, the National Security Agency (NSA) had intercepted a phone conversation between an Israeli official at the embassy in Washington, and Danny Yatom, the head of the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service."
"According to a source who viewed a copy of the NSA transcript of the conversation, the intelligence officer, speaking in Hebrew, said, 'The ambassador wants me to go to Mega to get a copy of this letter.'"
"In early 1997, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Security Agency engaged in a frantic mole hunt for an Israeli spy, believed to be operating inside the highest levels of the Clinton Administration national security establishment."
"The investigation was focusing on U.S. officials who would have had access to the document in question, a secret letter of assurances then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher had given to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat after successful negotiations to withdraw Israeli troops from most of the West Bank city of Hebron."
"By the time the mole hunt was made public--in a May 7, 1997 Washington Post leak--the hunt had been abruptly ended, and for all intents and purposes, the story disappeared from the news within a matter of days."
"Ambassador Ben Elissar said emphatically that his government had not engaged in any improper activity in Washington, denying that he had made such a request or that Israel has a spy inside the U.S. government. 'I deny it as strongly as one can deny anything,' Ben Elissar said."
The identity of "MEGA" was never officially confirmed, and the investigation was terminated relatively quickly after becoming public, leaving questions about Israeli penetration of the highest levels of the U.S. government unanswered.
Source: NSA intercept transcripts, Washington Post reporting, intelligence community sources