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FBI steps up AIPAC espionage probeBy Tom Regan From the Christian Science Monitor December 16, 2004 The FBI has stepped up its investigation into alleged Israeli espionage against the US, United Press International reported last week, and in particular the operations of the most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, also know as AIPAC. The FBI has stepped up its investigation into alleged Israeli espionage against the US, United Press International reported last week, and in particular the operations of the most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, also know as AIPAC. Time reported recently that government sources said the investigations into AIPAC had been ongoing for about two years, looking into allegations that the group was “obtaining sensitive data and passing it along to the Israeli government.” United Press International reported that the initial investigations began when the FBI discovered “new, ‘massive’ Israeli spying operations in the East Coast, including New York and New Jersey.” Meanwhile, a few days after the FBI conducted their second raid on the AIPAC offices earlier this month, The Jerusalem Post reported that AIPAC was allegedly the target of an FBI sting. The Israeli daily Maariv reports on Thursday that “a senior Jewish source” told the paper that the FBI’s investigation of AIPAC was “an improper sting operation aimed at targeting the organization.” Read more here: Middle-East Realities |