2002-03-14 20:45:29
Reporter Notebook
14 March 2002

The website http://www.intelligenceonline.com has released the names of the Israeli spies arrested in Texas, and published details of the anatomy of the organization.

According to the report, available at http://www.intelligenceonline.com/images/newversion/reseau/HTML/isr-net_A.htm, a Mossad agent named Italy Simon, who was arrested in Irving, Texas, headed the operation, with a man named Michael Calmanovic, an Israeli communications expert who was also arrested in Irving, heading the Texas branch.

Working with Ofir Navon, an explosives expert, and Dilka Borenstein, another intelligence officer, both of whom are still at large, the group recruited 13 "art students", including Eran Moshe, a member of Israeli Special Forces Michael Gal, and Aren Ofak, the son of an Israeli army general.

The group worked with four dummy companies, Retaliz USA, Retaliz Raanana, Nice and Amdocs, each of which were headed by an Israeli Mossad or army officer. Hillel Dor conducted military equipment into the United States, possibly for the purpose of sabotage.

Marina Glickman, a Mossad agent, worked with exposives expert Zeev Miller to run the Retaliz Raanana front. Tomer Ben Dor, an expert in missle defense technologies, headed the Nice company.

Their front man for the AmDocs company was a man named Ophus Baer. The group established branches in San Diego, California, Little Rock, Arkansas, Hollywood, Florida, and Miami, Florida, headed by Yaniv Gilor, Sharon Ratzady, Hanan Serfaty, and Legum Yochai, respectively.

The group worked to infiltrate US Army bases and steal information, and is accused of helping to plan the September 11 World Trade Center attacks. US politicians and media networks, who are either owned or afraid of Israel and its control over much of the US government, have played down the incidents, and information on the penetration has been barred from most nightly newscasts and newspapers.

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[See 60 page DEA report in pdf format: hi20020321DEA.pdf]