Declassified FBI files reveal a long
running espionage
and theft of government documents investigation
targeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
and the Israeli embassy in Washington DC during the 1984 US-Israel Free
Trade Area negotiations.The
FBI uncovered allegations that an agent of the Israeli intelligence
services worked undercover as a member of AIPAC's staff.
A
quarter century after the tainted negotiations
led to passage of US-Israel
preferential trade
pact, it remains the most
unfavorable of all
US bilateral
trade agreements, producing chronic deficits, lack of
US market access to Israel and ongoing theft of US intellectual
property.
New! The US Trade Representative was
ordered
by the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) to
declassify and release most of the stolen trade document. Parts of
it remain too sensitive to divulge.
