...claims that Milchan was recruited into Israel's LAKAM economic espionage unit in his 20s and became a key operative for Benjamin Blumberg (head of LAKAM) and Rafi Eitan (who ran Jonathan Pollard and infiltrated NUMEC). Milchan is also the close confidant of Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu. According to the book, Blumberg himself taught Milchan how to establish front companies and secret bank accounts to launder millions in commissions obtained during LAKAM and Mossad arms transactions. In turn, it was Milchan who encouraged Smyth in 1972 to incorporate MILCO and share profits on export sales to his Tel Aviv-based Milchan Brothers company. Milchan Brothers received purchase orders from Blumberg and sent them on via secure telex to Smyth. MILCO did 80% of its business with Milchan, including shipments of other dual-use technologies useful to Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons program such as gyroscopes, neutron generators, high-speed oscilloscopes, and computerized flight control systems. According to the book, after Smyth was ordered to appear before a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, LAKAM issued a burn notice. Milchan claimed, "I felt bad, but I was ordered to cut all contact with Smyth." Milchan still officially denies any involvement in MILCO/Heli's kryton smuggling...
...Perhaps trying not to be outdone, President Barack Obama announced at AIPAC's Washington conference that he will soon take center stage in the Israeli nuclear Théâtre de l'Absurde. According to author Avner Cohen, Israeli President Shimon Peres was a key architect of Israel's nuclear weapons program from its very beginning. In 2010, scholar Sasha Polakow-Suransky released secret documents revealing how Peres even offered to sell nuclear-tipped Jericho missiles to the foundering apartheid regime in South Africa. That is why this summer, when Obama personally awards Peres a Presidential Medal of Freedom, he'll be conferring America's highest civilian award to the Middle East's most notorious nuclear proliferator....
http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2012/03/21/israels-nuclear-triggers/
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