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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Welcome to my second podcast! In this edition I speak with Michael Ross, author of The Volunteer: The Incredible True Story of an Israeli Spy on the Trail of International Terrorists. Michael, an ex-Mossad agent, discusses how he was recruited to work for the agency, what training was like, some of what he did when he was in, and gives us his perspective on some current events -- particularly regarding the Ben-Ami Kadish arrest and the truth behind supposed Israeli super-mole Mega.

Oh, we also learn the Mossad's internal code-name for George Tennet.

Though I'm still working on my technique, I know you'll find this recording a lot more listenable than my last effort.

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I'm highly suspicious of the credibility of your source:

* In general, real Mossad agents never speak about anything they do ... ever!

* It would be very difficult for a foreigner, whose family all live outside of Israel, to get security clearance for intelligence work.

* He speaks a little to freely about activities and techniques whose publication could hurt current Mossad activities.

In short ... I don't buy it. Do you have any evidence that he is truly related to the Mossad in any way?

None, other than the book he wrote. It was quite good. If fake, very clever. Nothing too sexy or over the top, everything perfectly believable. It's not like there's never been a book written about the Mossad before, using Mossad sources. There have been a lot of them. Hell, Efraim Halevy wrote one.

I would also think that the Mossad would thrive on foreign-born naturalized Israelis. Also, he doesn't really give any methods or sources away, (The Mossad uses mini cameras to take pictures of sites they're keeping an eye on? Really? Who knew? Mossad agents set up cover identities? Wow!), and the events all happened some years ago. No, I don't really see anything that could hurt current operations.

OTOH, once you place yourself in the paranoid world of the spy, I guess everything is up for grabs. As we discussed either in the interview or while we were chatting before hanging up, there's no reason to believe him about anything. No proof at all. Michael Ross isn't his real name. Of course he'd say all that stuff about Mega being just some guy named Harry at CIA. Hell, it wouldn't be any big thing for the Mossad itself to have written the whole book JUST to put in the bit about Mega. There's no way to know.

I'll tell you he sounded very sincere. So either he's exactly what he said he was or still a spy putting out disinformation, or so extremely smooth because he's an utter sociopath who lies with complete ease.

I believe it. Don't really see any compelling reason not to.

In response I'd like to add the following:

* Plenty of Mossad agents have spoken about their careers and adventures and if you read the Israeli press you'll see that there are lots of articles

* The Mossad's operational divisions are almost solely reliant upon foreign-born Jews that make Aliyah. How could you operate overseas with a thick Israeli accent? Israelis are very easily identified by all kinds of cultural indicators. If I was sending combatants into Iran and Syria I'd want people that look, act, and speak like they have nothing to do with Israel. Again, check the literature. UK-born Ephraim Halevy attained the rank of Director-General after 30 years in the organization

* I don't speak freely at all. If I did, I'd have written a book 5 times as long. It was not the aim of my book and you clearly didn't read it.

At this point, I don't really care if people buy it or not to be honest. What I do care about is that people who are skeptical stop being so damn lazy. How many people know that the Al-Yarmouk was carrying Scuds in 1991 and bunkered in Casablanca on it's way to Lattakia? The facts were checked by Japan's leading daily "Yomiuri Shimbun" only after it was ascertained that the Scuds did depart N. Korea in February of 1991. There's plenty of examples like this. Much of what I have written is verifiable if you take the trouble to do so. Btw, I have also been endorsed by FBI and CIA sources - namely Ishmael Jones, a long-term veteran of the Clandestine Service who operated under deep cover as a NOC and case officer. Israeli journalists have also allowed that I was a 13 year career officer in the Mossad and while they have been disingenuous in many aspects of their writing, they have at least admitted my tenure with the Mossad.

There is no uber-spy burrowing into the heart of the U.S. intelligence community. Pollard was not a Mossad operation but belonged to "Lakam" a function belonging to the PMO (then Yitzak Shamir) that was disbanded in the 1980's.

...and yes, former Mossad officers do speak to the public. You can even go there and meet them if you'd like:

http://israellawcenter.org/template.php?section=MI

Interesting article, it brought to mind the late President Nixon's jew views; he said that Blacks don't spy but the Jew does. Mossad does not need a lot of overseas agents on the payroll. Why waste time and money when they have literally millions of potential pro bono judeo agent provocateurs willing to the job. Scarily undemocratic.

Is Melanie Rozenurg a closet Christian?

Mahmoud Saborjhian is kosher jew! As our Christian saviour, Putin would say; Israel, you have nothing to lose but the country you stole, with our Zionist blessing. Mother Russia wants its loot back and is determined to entertain the jew; for she has large supplies of rope and bullets.

Is Melanie Rozenburg a closet Christian?

Mahmoud Saborjhian is kosher jew! As our Christian saviour, Putin would say; Israel, you have nothing to lose but the country you stole, with our Zionist blessing. Mother Russia wants its loot back and is determined to entertain the jew; for she has large supplies of rope and bullets.

PLATFORM
Rozenburg. I have just started!

What's the matter paula, you still crying that your side lost WW2?

Remember nazi filth, you lost WW2.

You will lose WW3.

:-)

PAULINE EPISTLES
Please call me Pauline, going up pub. World War Three will erupt when the landlord tells me how much the round will cost. Keep the sunny side up. I will be back.

paula, weren't you supposed to go on an autumn foliage drive with your pal Joerg Haider?

JAW JAW NOT WAR WAR!
Never jump to conclusions, my mother was a fully paid up member of the British Communist Party; for years I was one of the youngest demonstrators on the Aldermaston Peace march, during the late fifties/early sixties, Canon John Collins and all that. As for World War Three, I will give you a more realistic scenario: there will be no winners, as we will all be dead or worse; a Nikita Kruschev nightmare world, where the living envy the dead. It is no so much that the Nazis lost the war; it is more that the Zionists won it. Ask yourself why do so many jews (to the chagrin of Israel), wish to emigrate to Germany? As long as we keep mocking one another we will be O.K.

paula, better question, why do so many Muslims emigrate to Germany, Britain (Londonistan), France, Sweden, Hungary, etc. and why Euros eagerly accept their new positions as dhimmis.

I hope you like sharia law.

This time the US will not save Euro ass.

FROM THE GATES OF MOSCOW TO BERLIN.

I dislike vulgar language but if anybody saved my 'Euro ass' it was the heroic Red Army. As they were repsonsible for at least 85% of German military falalities, I wish Spielburg would make factual documentaries of: Siege of Leningrad, Kursk, Stalingrad rather than Schindler's List propaganda dross.

paula, you need a history lesson.

All the Soviet SOCIALISTS did was cleanse EASTERN europe from the nazitional SOCIALIST invaders.

But FIRST your Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics signed a non-aggression pact with their fellow SOCIALISTS, the nazitional SOCIALISTS. That pact lasted until the nazitional SOCIALISTS broke the pact by invading Russia.

The US fought WW2 on MULTIPLE fronts - europeon, African, PACIFIC.

Again, paula, don't expect the US to save your Euro ass this time.

Euroland is a lost cause. It's surrendering to the Religon of Peace like France surrendered in WW2.

SOCIALISM
You keep ranting on about, your (in my mind your distorted) perceived negative views of Socialism! Well, if you are so concerned about a decent, fair, Christian based ideology. Why don't you ask the wealthy Wall Street jewish pan-handlers, to give hard working PRODUCTIVE American taxpayers' money back? That is 700 billion dollars worth of socialism; in order to finance a long overdue free American National health service. I can see the carrion crow, Jewish medical establishment picking up their patriotic suitcases already sic. The jew gave us Communism, now they are giving Capitalism to the poor and Socialism to the rich. That is what I call chutzpah!

Thanks paula, now there is no doubt that you are an admirer of your nazitional SOCIALIST furher SHITler.

Do you dream that you could have been SHITlers first female bride, instead of Eva Braun.

paula, you have a Progressively worsening mental illness. It's called JOOO on Der Brain.

I'm sure you cry every day for your OPEC heroes who no longer get $150 per barrel of oil from the ENTIRE WORLD.

That's a real Nakbah for you.

P.S. "F" "F" PaleSWINE.

JOOO ON THE BRAIN
Eddie, you would give Freud and Wittgenstein a run for their money. I am not a fan of Adolf, his late sister-in-law Gretl Fegelein, admitted that Hitler was not anti-semitic but just an opportunistic, political mountebank. Like Joseph Goebells, I am anti-semitic. Can you blame me, I am only human! Are you? Human that is! Oil is now 71 dollars a barrel, get yourself a bike, and grow as much of your own food as you possibly can. Keep taking the medication and avoid the full moon like the plague.

>Eddie, you would give Freud and Wittgenstein a run for their money.

Thanks paula, you made me blush.

>I am not a fan of Adolf, his late sister-in-law Gretl Fegelein, admitted that Hitler was not anti-semitic but just an opportunistic, political mountebank.

ROTFLMA!!!
Yeah paula, your nazitional SOCIALIST SHITler was "misunderstood". All that crap in mein kampf, all the vile nazitional SOCIALIST swine your SHITler surrounded himself with, all those invasions:
9/1/39 Germany invades Poland
4/9/40 Germany invades Denmark and Norway
5/10/40 Germany invades Luxemborg, Belgium, Netherlands, France.
6/9/40 Germany attacks Britain – Battle of Britain – Terror bombing of London
4/8/41 Germany invades Yugoslavia
4/27/41 Germany invades Greece
6/22/41 Germany invades Soviet Union – despite non-aggression pact
12/11/41 Germany DECLARES WAR ON THE USA.

It was all a misunderstanding?

>Like Joseph Goebells, I am anti-semitic. Can you blame me, I am only human! Are you? Human that is!

anti-semitic? Meaning that you hate Jews or Arabs? Which one?

I hate nazi filth, and their modern day equivalents, the islamofascist swine.

BTW, I hope you remember how your Josef Gerbils ended up, he poisoned his entire family when he realized that Der 1,000 Year Turd Reich vas KAPUT.

> Oil is now 71 dollars a barrel, get yourself a bike, and grow as much of your own food as you possibly can. Keep taking the medication and avoid the full moon like the plague.

Only $71? OPEC must issue a fatwa. Time for more riots of the "Arab Street".

You are the mental price Americans pay for private health care!
Eddie--We have a nutcase, jewbiquitous journalist in England called Melanie Rozenburg; I can only presume she is your mother or you are related to Theodore Kaufman, another nasty piece of yiddish work. Have you taken your medication today? Do not, do not I repeat, look at the moon. Take a day off your high horse and apologise to the Native Americans, or to the Black Americans, the jew was the number one black slave American importer.

paula, you vile sack of SHITler,

What's the matter? Did I strike a raw nerve?

Here's a bit more, like sugar on your infected tooth.

Your nazitional SOCIALIST Germany, surrendering, unconditionally to the US, UK and Soviet SOCIALIST Union.

Here's a picture of your heroes signing the papers of surrender.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/ww2-pix/jodl-signs.jpg

Current Day Slavery in Muzlim Sudan is alright with you.

The near nuclear war between Hindu majority India and near exclusive Muzlim majority PakiSHTan, over land. Sheesh.

paula, your Josef Gerbils is waiting for you to join him and his offspring, in Hell.

Too bad for nazi filth like you paula, that the Israelis are not the unarmed Jews of WW2 nazi vermin infested Europe.

Eddie. You are mentally ill. But I give you 100% for your fortitude.
I believe the German surrender was taken at Karlshorst Engineering College. Zhukov politely invited the German delegation to sign the act of capitulation sic. Keitel signed first, next Stumpff, and Friedeburg; then Zhukov danced to the Russkaya. As far as I am aware none of the participants were mentally ill.

paula, if being against nazi vermin, nazitional socialists, islamofascists, bnp (british nazi party) makes me "mentally ill", then I'm guilty as charged. ;-)

I hope you stare at the photos of your heroes surrendering, unconditionally. It should be a warning to you.

I hope that you agree with the firebombing of Dresden. It was only fair after your heroes bombed London and Coventry.

What should be done to Mecca after the islamofascist attacks on the UK of 7/7/05 and 7/1/07?

Take it easy steady Eddie.
My Polish 'war hero' uncle was liberated by the Americans at Buchenwald. My father deserted from the Polish Deutsches Volk and fought with General Anders: Polish/British forces in Italy and stayed in England after the war. But they never personalized the war; to them, the German Vermacht were just ordinary people caught up in a political/military nightmare. As for me, any early bird German who attempts to get to the hotel pool before me, is in for a Teutonic shock. Yes, I confiscate their towels.

paula, was your uncle in a Buchenwald guard tower when the Americans came in?

Did the nazitional SOCIALISTS consider your father a polak or a german?

Why didn't the "ordinary volk" in the Wermacht desert as your polak father did?

The nazitional SOCIALIST war machine would have ground to a halt if the Wermacht deserted.

I hope the swimming pool you wade into has lots and lots of chlorine in it - to protect those who follow you.

paula, have you ever been mistakenly harpooned?

No I ain't Moby Dick.
Tzipi Livni looks like one of my five sisters, which is not surprising; given that the Jewish people spent centuries in Iraq and most importantly, Poland. Israel, has received over a trillion dollars from the USA, since 1948; the jews should take a leaf out of the New Testament and sit down with their Moslem and Christian brothers and sisters and negotiate; yes, I believe they could make a deal that would bring security and prosperity for all. Yes, I know it is a diplomatic minefield, and it takes a lot of guts to say, that you have wronged more than have been right. But Tzipi Livni, and co.hen (a maleski joke} et al listen to the righteous and not the Zealot, As in Mark the New Testament, 'Why if a kingdom becomes divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand,' Shalom.

> No I ain't Moby Dick.

How do you explain that harpoon sticking out of your heavily clorinated ass?

> Tizipi Livni looks like one of my five sisters, which is not surprising; given that the Jewish people spent centuries in Iraq and most importantly, Poland.

Your sister looks like a Jew? Ask your mother who the biological father is.

> Israel, has received over a trillion dollars from the USA, since 1948

Really? The USA gives Israel recieves 16.6 billion dollars every year since 1948? Just where do you get those numbers from paula? Inquiring minds want to know.

> the jews should take a leaf out of the New Testament and sit down with their Moslem and Christian brothers and sisters and negotiate; yes, I believe they could make a deal that would bring security and prosperity for all. Yes, I know it is a diplomatic minefield, and it takes a lot of guts to say, that you have wronged more than have been right.

The muzzies don't like admitting they're wrong. Just like the polacks and Cardinal Glemp.

Seems that muzlims are at war all over the World - with Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus and fellow muzlims. Why is that, if you believe that Islam means Peace?

> But Tzipi Livni, and co.hen (a maleski joke} et al

femaleski is VERY funny. It's a wonder how you do it.

> listen to the righteous and not the Zealot, As in Mark the New Testament, 'Why if a kingdom becomes divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand,'

New Testament? The muzlims believe that their Koran/Qu'ran has superceeded the New Testament as well as the "Old Testament". Do you accept that paula?

> Shalom.

Yes, Shalom, through Superior Firepower.

MIGHT IS NOT RIGHT!
Eddie, I can only presume that you enjoy being wickedly provocative, or studied over-zealously at the Bobby Fischer School of Diplomacy, or you are psychotic, or a combination of all 3. You can take the trillion dollar figure figuratively; I remember reading somewhere, that the total input of American taxpayers subsidies, and private remittances amounted to 1.4 trillion dollars, since 1948. The figures could be overstated or apocryphal, but it might explain why Israel has become a failed political/economic State, an unhappy country welded together with barbed wire and bullets.
The reason being, that 60 years of American featherbedding of the Israeli economy, has meant that successive governments have not focused constructively on building a sound economy; often doing quite the opposite. Israel has the intellectual and natural resources to sustain an advanced dynamic economy built on: agriculture, tourism/gambling, and Hi Tec industries. This can only work by having harmonious relations with Moslem/Christian Arabs. Israel will not attract sufficient capital investment nor the best brains otherwise. Such a policy would upset Las Vagas, and Silicon Valley. So what? Today, the US economy is in turmoil; if the American taxpayer pulls the plug, it might have just as a disastrous (Diaspora-ific) demographic effect on Israeli jews, as Vespasian's policies did back in AD70.

HERMAN MELVILLE
Eddie, surrender the harpoon; an idiot would know that even a small prick hurts; Captain Ahab wants you on the crew. Best wishes to family.
From Southampton, England. Paul and Danute.

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