{"id":12111,"date":"2012-08-28T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12111"},"modified":"2012-08-28T08:35:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:35:07","slug":"netanyahu-nuclear-terrorist-smuggles-nuke-triggers-us-israel-use-misdirection-on-iran-nuclear-programs-as-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12111","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu, Nuclear Terrorist &#8211; Smuggles Nuke Triggers &#8211; US-Israel use misdirection on Iran Nuclear programs as cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story of no mention in the US press. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Netanyahu implicated in nuclear smuggling from U.S. \u2014 big story in Israel<\/strong><br \/>\nby Philip Weiss &#8211; 6 July, 2012 &#8211; MondoWeiss<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli press is picking up Grant Smith&#8217;s revelation from FBI documents that Benjamin Netanyahu was part of an Israeli smuggling ring that spirited nuclear triggers out of the U.S. in the 80s and 90s.<\/p>\n<p>Arutz Sheva, the nationalist Israeli press:<\/p>\n<p><em>    Declassified FBI documents from a 1985-2002 investigation implicate Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in an initiative to illegally purchase United States nuclear technology for Israel\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>    Netanyahu was allegedly helped by Arnon Milchan, a Hollywood producer with ties to Israeli prime ministers and U.S. presidents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The original story was broken by Grant Smith at antiwar.com, &#8220;Netanyahu worked inside nuclear smuggling ring&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>  <em>  On June 27, 2012, the FBI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irmep.org\/ila\/krytons\/06272012_milco_mdr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">partially declassified and released seven additional pages<\/a> [.pdf] from a 1985\u20132002 investigation into how a network of front companies connected to the Israeli Ministry of Defense illegally smuggled nuclear triggers out of the U.S.* The newly released FBI files detail how Richard Kelly Smyth \u2014 who was convicted of running a U.S. front company \u2014 met with Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel during the smuggling operation. At that time, Netanyahu worked at the Israeli node of the smuggling network, Heli Trading Company. Netanyahu, who currently serves as Israel\u2019s prime minister, recently issued a gag order that the smuggling network\u2019s unindicted ringleader refrain from discussing \u201cProject Pinto.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Hebrew paper Ma&#8217;ariv, in translation:<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n    According to FBI documents released by the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was involved in smuggling in the 70s from the U.S. components of Israeli nuclear program, and assisted by the businessman Arnon Milchan, who according to previous publications was a former Mossad agent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>    The documents, declassified in part by the FBI after partial classification removed, describe the findings of the investigation has been performed between the years 1985 to 2002 on about how a network of front companies a U.S. security firm illegally smuggled equipment used for weapons seeds out of the U.S..<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2012\/07\/netanyahu-implicated-in-nuclear-smuggling-from-u-s-big-story-in-israel.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D12111&amp;text=Netanyahu%2C+Nuclear+Terrorist+-+Smuggles+Nuke+Triggers+-+US-Israel+use+misdirection+on+Iran+Nuclear+programs+as+cover&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story of no mention in the US press. Netanyahu implicated in nuclear smuggling from U.S. \u2014 big story in Israel by Philip Weiss &#8211; 6 July, 2012 &#8211; MondoWeiss The Israeli press is picking up Grant Smith&#8217;s revelation from FBI documents that Benjamin Netanyahu was part of an Israeli smuggling ring that spirited nuclear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12111#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3420],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12112,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111\/revisions\/12112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}