SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The Capture of Washington: How Netanyahu Intensified Israeli influence Over U.S institutions.

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The Capture of Washington: How Netanyahu Intensified Israeli influence Over U.S institutions.

This week, the Pentagon issued a new alert elevating Israel to the critical level of counterintelligence threat, the highest tier on the American scale. In practice, this places a historic ally under the same level of technical and human monitoring reserved for direct adversaries, due to the aggressiveness of recently detected espionage operations.

The alert was triggered by reports that Israeli intelligence was monitoring private communications of senior Trump administration officials, including chief negotiator Steve Witkoff and senior Pentagon official Elbridge Colby. 

The apparent objective was to anticipate Washington’s internal deliberations on a possible peace agreement with Iran.

The Israeli offensive goes far beyond that. U.S. defense personnel deployed in Israel detected the clandestine installation of surveillance software on their cellphones, capable of intercepting communications. A report from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) also cites previous incidents, such as attempts by Shin Bet officers to plant listening devices in U.S. Secret Service vehicles last year.

This suggests that, after consolidating its influence over American politics, Israel under Netanyahu now seeks greater control over U.S. military and decision-making channels.

Israeli influence in American politics is already described as intense by intelligence sources, operating through diplomatic channels, lobbying, and monitoring. Gaining control over the very channels that issue alerts about this influence appears to have become a priority for Netanyahu.

None of this is entirely new. Americans are now facing new, more invasive stages that seek to expand and consolidate previous actions.

In 2019, the U.S. government concluded that Israel was responsible for installing cellular surveillance devices (known as StingRays) found near the White House and other sensitive locations in Washington, D.C. These devices impersonate cell towers to intercept location, identity, and even the content of calls and messages. The goal was to monitor then-President Donald Trump and his close advisers. 

Despite forensic evidence from the FBI, the Trump administration remained publicly silent.

A similar stance occurred during the Obama administration: while negotiating the nuclear agreement with Iran (JCPOA), U.S. officials discovered that Israel had penetrated confidential conversations. Israel obtained details of closed-door meetings, which were then used by Israeli diplomats to lobby against the deal in the U.S. Congress.

Another episode involved the use of Pegasus spyware to hack iPhones of U.S. State Department officials (cases reported in African contexts, such as Uganda). In 2022, the American company Conflict Kinetics sued Israel’s Ministry of Defense, alleging that an Israeli general unlawfully obtained secrets about its combat training software.

In 1985, Israeli Air Force officers were caught stealing more than 50,000 pages of confidential technical documents from the American company Recon/Optical regarding advanced aerial surveillance equipment. The stolen technology reportedly accelerated the development of Israel’s Ofek-3 reconnaissance satellite.
U.S.-Israel relations have been marked by numerous espionage cases, including in the nuclear field. 

In the 1960s, an audit at the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in Apollo, Pennsylvania, revealed the disappearance of approximately 100 to 300 kg of enriched uranium. The company’s president, Zalman Shapiro, a dedicated Zionist with deep ties to Israel, became a suspect. Declassified documents and CIA reports later suggested that the material may have reached Israel and contributed to its early nuclear program.

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