Gordon Thomas's Report
On Advance Warnings Of 9/11 Attacks
The Israeli Spy Ring
The report below was published 21 May 2002 by the GLOBE-INTEL web site run by Gordon Thomas.
Thomas is a recognised authority on the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, to which he is considered to have had exceptional journalistic access over the years. Thomas is the author of the book 'Gideon's Spies - The Secret History of the Mossad', which susequently became a major documentary for the UK's Channel 4 TV station. Thomas writes on intelligence subjects for the Sunday Express.
The URL of the 21 May 2002 report below by GLOBE-INTEL was http://www.gordonthomas.ie/104.html at the time of publication. The report is, however, no longer available at that address on the GLOBE-INTEL site. A mhtl copy dowloaded from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (archive date Jun 15, 2007) is available here.
The Israeli spy-ring within the United States referred to by Thomas has been separately reported on by Fox News and the intelligence journal Jane's Security News (further references are available from the Antiwar.com web site and History Commons, 'The Complete 9/11 Timeline').
The Daily Telegraph has separately reported that Israeli intelligence had visited the CIA in August 2001 to warn of imminent terrorist attacks on America. An extract of this report is provided at the bottom of this page. A full copy of the GLOBE-INTEL report is also provided below
More information about the warnings the CIA received from the Israelis and Russians is available here.
Extract
| "Mossad chiefs insist the Israeli
spy agency was tracking Osama Bin-Laden's terrorists in America before September 11 and
that that the information was passed on to the CIA on Five separate occasions before the
attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. As late as
August 24, less than two weeks before the
attacks, a Mossad warning, confirmed by German intelligence, BND, said that 'terrorists plan to hijack commercial aircraft to use as
weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture.' The warning alert was passed to the CIA. The warning was also
passed to MI6. The agency made its own checks and also informed the CIA.
Frustrated by its inability to alert the CIA to an impending attack, Mossad arranged on September 1,
according to Tel Aviv sources last week, for Russian
intelligence to warn Washington 'in the
strongest possible terms of imminent assaults on airports and government buildings.'... According to similar documents shown to the Sunday Express,
Mossad was running a round-the-clock surveillance operation on some of the September 11
hijackers. The details, contained in classified papers, reveal that a senior Mossad agent
tipped off his counterpart in America's Central Intelligence Agency that a massive
terrorist hit was being planned in the US. A handful of the spies had infiltrated the
Al-Qaeda organisation while a staggering 120
others, posing as overseas art students, launched massive undercover operations
throughout America... The spying operations first came to the attention of the DEA in
January 2001 according to a classified 90-page dossier which has been seen by the Sunday Express." BUSH: THE IGNORED WARNING THAT WILL COME TO HAUNT HIM GLOBE-INTEL - NUMBER :- 104 DATE :- 21/05/02 |
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GLOBE-INTEL ***NEWS*****ANALYSIS****COMMENTARY EDITORS: GORDON THOMAS ***MARTIN DILLON***KEVIN DOWLING NUMBER :- 104 DATE :- 21/05/02 |
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon authorised the leak of sensitive documents which reveal America's spy agencies were warned about a terrorist strike weeks before September 11. The controversial move has now directly embroiled President George Bush in the 'how-much-did-he-know?' debate over the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Sharon's reaction is a calculated response to growing claims that Mossad has been running spy operations within the United States and also reveals a split in the special relationship between the two leaders. Mossad chiefs insist the Israeli spy agency was tracking Osama Bin-Laden's terrorists in America before September 11 and that that the information was passed on to the CIA on Five separate occasions before the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. As late as August 24, less than two weeks before the attacks, a Mossad warning, confirmed by German intelligence, BND, said that "terrorists plan to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture." The warning alert was passed to the CIA. The warning was also
passed to MI6. The agency made its own checks and also informed the CIA. Frustrated by its
inability to alert the CIA to an impending attack, Mossad arranged on September 1,
according to Tel Aviv sources last week, for Russian intelligence to warn Washington
"in the strongest possible terms of imminent assaults on airports and government
buildings." Mossad's fury at the failure of the US intelligence community to act has
been compounded by the revelation that the Bush administration had ordered the FBI Only a
Week Before the September attacks to curtail
Sharon's
decision to allow the story of Bush's prior knowledge of the attack
to be leaked comes at a time when Israel is smarting over what Sharon sees as
Bush pressurising the Jewish state into an accommodation with The feeling in Tel Aviv is that Bush's much hyped war on terrorism does not actually fit into the aggressive policy Israel wants to pursue. Sharon has
already suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of his archrival,
former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as the central committee
of their Likud Party ruled out the establishment of a Palestinian The party's
decision, formalized in a resolution backed by Netanyahu, directly
contradicted Sharon's own stated acceptance of a Palestinian state as the
eventual conclusion of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. It came as The support he
was expecting from America failed to materialise, said a source close to Mossad.
"Ariel Sharon is furious because he thinks Bush has not supported him as fully as he
could. His coalition is falling apart, Netanyahu has sneaked ahead of him and the Israelis
are generally fed up of living in fear. Sharon is quite clear where the blame lies - in
the White House. "Now he has really stirred things up by
putting Bush right at the centre of this storm by actively allowing these sensitive
documents to be leaked to the world. He feels he needs to teach Bush a lesson and this
will certainly complicate America's peace efforts in the region," he said. According to similar documents shown to the Sunday Express, Mossad was running a round-the-clock surveillance operation on some of the September 11 hijackers. The details,
contained in classified papers, reveal that a senior Mossad agent tipped off his
counterpart in America's Central Intelligence Agency that a massive terrorist hit was
being planned in the US. A handful of the spies had infiltrated the
Al-Qaeda organisation while a staggering 120 others, posing as overseas art
students, launched massive Other documents
leaked to the Sunday Express from several intelligence agencies including the Drugs
Enforcement Agency show that two Mossad cells of six Egyptian and Yemeni born Jews,
trained at a secret base in Israel's Negev Desert on how to penetrate Osama bin Laden's
Al-Qaeda network. One team flew to
Amsterdam and were under the control of Mossad's Europe Station. This is based at Schipol
Airport within the El Al complex. They later made contact in Hamburg with Mohammed Atta,
the lead hijacker on September 11. By then the
Mossad team had established an attack on the US was "imminent". It reported this
to its Tel Aviv controller through the Israeli Embassy in Washington using a system of
secure communications. In early September Mossad Chief Efraim Halevy sent a warning to the
CIA of the possibility of such an attack. The warning was noted and acknowledged. But CIA
chief George Tenet is understood to have described it as "too non-specific." The
FBI was also informed. Halevy sent a second alert to the CIA that reached Washington
on or around September 7. A spokesman for the
FBI refused to discuss specific details of the Mossad operation but said: "There are
Congressional hearings with regard to possible intelligence failures arising from
September 11. We can't verify Neither the DEA or the
CIA would comment on the record, but a senior US intelligence source said: "Anyone
can be wise after the event but it was extremely difficult to act on a non specific threat
given in a couple of tips from Israeli intelligence. It would be interesting to
know if they could have been more specific with their information. ''Their surveillance teams must have observed Atta and his accomplices going to flying schools. I guess we might never know the real truth." The spying operations first came to the attention of the DEA in January 2001 according to a classified 90-page dossier which has been seen by the Sunday Express. The names, passport details and other personal records of some of the Israeli-born spies are also detailed in the dossier.
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"Russian President Vladimir Putin
has said publicly that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the United States
last summer that suicide pilots were
training for attacks on U.S. targets."
Clues Alerted White House to Potential Attacks
Fox News, 17 May 2002
"Israeli
intelligence officials say that they warned their counterparts in the United States
last month that large-scale terrorist
attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent. The Telegraph has learnt that two senior experts with Mossad,
the Israeli military intelligence service, were sent to Washington in August to alert the CIA and FBI to the existence of a cell of as many of
200 terrorists said to be preparing a big operation...."
Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale
terror attacks
Daily
Telegraph, 19 September 2001
"Eight days before the September 11
attack, Egypt's senior intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, informed the CIA station chief
in Cairo that 'credible sources' had told him that Osama bin-Laden's network was 'in the
advanced stages of executing a significant operation against an American target.' Prior to
that, the FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley had revealed, there was a similar warning from
French intelligence. Both warnings, Globe-Intel has
established, originally came from Mossad. The
Israeli intelligence service chose to pass on its own intelligence to Washington through
its contacts in French and Egyptian intelligence agencies because it did not believe its previous warnings on an impending attack by
the bin-Laden network had been taken seriously enough in Washington....Coupled to the warnings that Mossad arranged to be passed through
French intelligence and which Coleen Rowley has used to lambaste her chief, FBI director
Robert Mueller, the failure to act assumes
frightening proportions. The revelations make a
mockery of George Tenet's claim that he was 'proud' of the CIA's record..... It is beginning to emerge that intelligence relating to
pre-September 11 stopped at the desk of National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice. The question as to why the President was not fully briefed has led to
others. Had a decision been taken by Rice in consultation with Secretary of Defense and
other high-ranking members of the Bush Administration to effectively not inform Bush of
what was developing because they did not trust his limited experience in dealing with
global terrorism – or a major threat of any kind? Officially such a question is
dismissed around the White House as nonsensical. Yet it persists within the State
Department – where Secretary of State Colin Powell remains outside the charmed inner
circle surrounding Bush. There, senior officials point to the fact that the CIA briefing
to Bush last August, less than a month before the attacks on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon, turned out to be conspicuous by what was not said. Yet, at that time the CIA
knew of the impending threat. There are other pointers that the President may have been
kept out of the loop."
Gordon Thomas - The Mossad and 9/11
Globe-Intel 17 June 2002
"A major international espionage saga
is unfolding across the United States.....The nation's most prominent Jewish newspaper,
the New York-based Forward, also has confirmed portions of the vast spying network
--although stating that the Israelis were monitoring
Arabs in the United States, not trying to access
U.S. secrets. Referring to the arrest of five Israeli employees of a New Jersey moving
company who were arrested and held for two months after the Sept. 11 attack, Forward on
March 15 stated: 'According to one former high-ranking American intelligence official, who
asked not to be named, the FBI came to the conclusion at the end of its investigation that
the five Israelis ... were conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their
employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as a front.' Forward also
reported that a counterintelligence probe concluded two of the men were operatives of
Mossad, Israel's spy service. Reports of the spying
were first made public in December broadcasts by Fox News reporter Carl Cameron. It isn't clear whether he had the 60-page document or was only told its
contents. A French online news service has obtained the report, and Le Monde in Paris has
advanced the story. However, in the United States, the media ignored the original Fox
broadcast, and only a handful of publications have aggressively pursued the story in
recent weeks."
Israeli Spies Exposed
Tampa Bay Weekly Planet, 22
April 2002
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