WikiLeaks and espionage — Israeli style
The U.S. is under attack by an enemy within. Skilled at game
theory warfare, this foe targets the most sensitive realm of U.S. national
security: its relations with other nations.
The online publication of a quarter-million documents
chronicling diplomatic exchanges is notable both for whats omitted and whats
included. To determine whether this latest release was a form of espionage,
analysts need only examine how this treasure trove of trivia was peppered with
documents certain to damage U.S. relations.
To identify its origins, analysts must answer a key
question: Cui Bono? To whose benefit?
One clue: the release of degrading and insulting language
about Turkish leaders soon after they insisted in late October that the U.S. no
longer share Turkish intelligence with Tel Aviv.
That request from a valued ally marks a critical step in
isolating Israel by requiring that the U.S. shut down Israeli operations inside
its 16 intelligence agencies, the White House and the Intelligence Committees
in both the House and Senate. Tel Aviv was not pleased.
Turks remain outraged at the lack of accountability for the
execution-style killing by Israel Defense Forces of nine Turkish citizens
aboard a humanitarian ship that was boarded in international waters while
sailing to Gaza with provisions to relieve an Israeli siege.
Was this release a tit-for-tat, Tel Aviv style? Is WikiLeaks
the visible face of an Israeli disinformation campaign? Whose interests were
served by disrupting U.S.-Turkish relations?
Intent is determinative
A leak on this scale is only a leak if it is a random data
dump. If items were purposely included or excluded based on their intended
effect, its an intelligence operation. Former National Security Adviser
Zbigniew Brzezinski points out how this release is seeded with information
that is surprisingly pointed.
Take for example the cables indicating that Chinese leaders
are inclined to cooperate with the U.S. in reunifying North and South Korea
under the leadership of the south. That information was guaranteed to embarrass
Chinas leaders, damage U.S. relations with Beijing and make reunification more
difficult.
From a game theory perspective, that damaging result was
fully foreseeable. With the U.S. economy teetering on a meltdown, the creation
of a rift with Americas largest trading partner was also an assault on the
economic strength required for the U.S. to sustain a viable defense.
Similarly, the pointed references to Arab leaders were
destined to weaken their political credibility at home while complicating
relations abroad. By exposing Arab displeasure with Iran, this operation also
sharpened the divide between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, a source of ongoing
tensions and a key barrier to forming a viable government in Iraq.
The effect was certain to complicate U.S. disengagement and
raise Americas costs in both blood and treasure.
The cables involving Saudi leaders were released soon after
Washington agreed to allow Riyadh to purchase $60 billion in U.S. aircraft and
armaments over a multi-year period. Tel Aviv was not pleased.
By targeting the credibility of both Saudi Arabia and the
U.S., this operation targeted the two nations pressing hardest for an end to
Israels occupation of Palestine.
Transparency is the biggest
threat
Has Tel Aviv panicked? After more than six decades of
nonstop provocations while routinely portraying itself as the perennial victim,
has Israels storyline lost traction?
Zionism faces an existential threat though not from Iran or
those Tel Aviv portrays as Islamofascists. The threat lurks in the
fast-emerging transparency that confirms pro-Israelis as the source of the
intelligence that took the U.S. to war on false premises.
A critical mass of disinformation persuaded the U.S. to wage
war in pursuit of an agenda long sought by Zionist extremists.
Steve Rosen, a former employee of the Israel lobby, has
promised to testify on the lobbys routine receipt of classified U.S.
intelligence. Is this massive release of classified materials meant to make the
lobbys intelligence-gathering operation appear routine?
Whats included in the WikiLeaks release is pointed. Whats
excluded is even more so: the lack of facts chronicling the role that Israel
has long played in undermining U.S. interests.
Israel has escaped accountability for more than six decades.
Was the WikiLeaks release seeded to discredit the U.S. at this time-critical
juncture? The evidence suggests that what we see is not a data dump but a
disinformation operation.
Last week, Israeli resistance to a peace plan was front-page
news. This week the news is all about war with Iran. The Jerusalem Post immediately crowed that WikiLeaks vindicated
Israel by citing Arab leaders concerns about Iran.
These latest releases even enabled Tel Aviv to suggest that
if U.S. intelligence was flawed on a nuclear-armed North Korea, how can anyone
trust America to contain a nuclear Iran?
To whom should this release be attributed? Who benefitted?
Jeff Gates is author of Guilt By Association —
How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War. See www.criminalstate.com.