US State Department investigates AIPAC Director Morris Amitay's acquisition of classified Hawk missile data

US Department of State investigation files reveal the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) director received classified US national defense information. In 1975 the Ford administration tried to sell improved Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Jordan and duly sent notification containing classified Department of Defense data to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee. AIPAC's Director Morris Amitay reviewed the classified document after being informed "secretly by aides of Senator Clifford P. Case, Republican of New Jersey, and Representative Jonathan B. Bingham, Democrat of New York" according to the New York Times.

According to criminal investigation files released on January 20, 2012, this disclosure to AIPAC was "unauthorized" and included the dollar amounts and quantitative configurations of the missile system. The State Department considered "The specific details of Jordan's military equipment needs are information provided us in confidence by that government. The classification of the documents in question was, in our view, substantively proper."

Israel's Diversion of US Nuclear Material

Radio Program: Takes on the World
Program Type: Interview
Featured Speakers/Commentators:Grant Smith, Director, IRmep
Contributor:Jeff Blankfort  [Contact Contributor]
Summary:  Smith discusses his new book, “Divert!: NUMEC, Zalman Shapiro and the Diversion of US Weapons Grade Uranium into the Israeli Nuclear Program, out in 1/12 by IRmep. Smith traces history of covert operations by Israel and US supporters to get arms to Haganah and led to diversion of highly enriched uranium from NUMEC, a US funded corporation in Apollo, PA to serve Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Also how FBI kept tabs on Shapiro, NUMEC’s owner, on US Jewish operatives working for Israel and on Israel spies and scientists who visited NUMEC, now subject of $170 million environmental cleanup.
Source: Israel Lobby Archives , Institute for research: Middle eastern policy

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