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In March 2001, the Office of Security of the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a 61-page report describing in some detail the attempts of approximately 125 or more nationals of a foreign country, most posing as art students, "to penetrate several DEA Field Offices in the continental United States." Many of these individuals also visited the residences of numerous DEA officials and "other agencies’ facilities and the residences of their employees." The DEA Report states that "these incidents have occurred since at least the beginning of 2000, and have continued to the present." These were ongoing activities in the summer of 2001 and by the date of 911, 140 Israelis had been arrested.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) report was later disowned and removed from www.ncix.gov. However, the contents of it are available, see Exhibit A of the "MEMORANDUM TO THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATES THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE", where there are maps of the residences and other details.
Virtually all of the scores of individuals questioned or detained by the DEA and other federal and local law enforcement authorities were citizens of the State of Israel….
The leaders of the Israeli DEA Groups included Itay Simon (arrested on April 14, 2001 in Irving, Texas), recently discharged from the Israeli army where he had done classified work for the Israeli military…. Another leader was Michael Calmanovic (also arrested in Irving on that day), who rented a number of apartments in Irving, Texas occupied by 25 Israelis. Mr. Calmanovic was a recently discharged electronic intercept operator for the Israeli military. As stated in the DEA Report, traveling about the U.S. to sell paintings "seem[ed] not to fit [the] background" of many of the individuals in question…. Another was Peer Segalovitz of Tamarac, Florida (about 20 miles west of Hollywood), an active officer in an Israeli special forces battalion who commanded 80 men in the Golan Heights. He was detained in Orlando on May 3, 2001.
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When the DEA report was leaked in 2002 it was also revealed that up to 200 young Israelis had been arrested in America in the previous year, about 140 of them before the September 11 attacks. The remaining 60 were arrested on October 31, 2002 by the FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service in San Diego, Kansas City, Cleveland, Houston and St. Louis, Missouri. Rather than selling art, these Israelis were working in kiosks in shopping centres across America selling toys. The FBI was investigating the kiosks as a front operation for espionage activities. The report said that most of the Israelis interrogated by Americans reported having served in the Israeli Defence Force in military intelligence, electronic signals interception and explosive ordnance units. One of the detainees was an Israeli general's son, another was a former bodyguard to the chief of the IDF, and another had operated Patriot missiles. In 2002 several officials dismissed reports of a spy ring and said the allegations were made by a Drug Enforcement Administration who was angry his theories had been dismissed.
The DEA report also claims that Israeli companies that had provided telephony services for U.S. businesses and U.S. federal organizations were connected to the "art students" and advised that Israeli telephony companies should be investigated. It raised the possibility that "back doors" had been installed in communications equipment to assist Israeli espionage.
https:// wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it/Israeli_art_scam#Drug_Enforcement_Administration_report
[Note the obvious attempts to undermine the entries on the matter by placing a paragraph on art scams and suggesting that these are just simple financial fraud at the beginning of this Wikispooks entry. I hope /our guys/ have a a log and ID for the (((person))) who did that.]