{"id":24849,"date":"2010-11-05T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=24849"},"modified":"2023-04-04T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T09:33:19","slug":"israel-spying-us-security-wikileaks-and-julian-assange-the-f-35-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/05\/israel-spying-us-security-wikileaks-and-julian-assange-the-f-35-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel, Spying, US Security, Wikileaks and Julian Assange: The F-35 Cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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National Security Alert: F-35 Stealth Fighter Spy Cover-Up. Photo: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter now worthless?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
(veteranstoday.com)<\/p>\n

\u201cWIKI\u201d STYLE ESPIONAGE LANDS $300 BILLION DOLLAR SUPER-PLANE PLANS<\/h2>\n

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER\/Senior Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnother spy disaster like Pollard, shoved under the rug too long due to pressure from the powerful Israeli lobby.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On April 21, 2009, the Department of Defense announced the theft of 1.5 terabytes of data on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the platform meant give the United States and her allies air superiority for the next 40 years.\u00a0 In a flash, all that was gone, $300 billion dollars of funding down the drain, every system, defense, offense, stealth, everything needed to build one or shoot it down, all gone.\u00a0 Day one, China was accused but it wasn\u2019t China, it wasn\u2019t Iran, it wasn\u2019t Pakistan.\u00a0 The theft left a clear signature, one identical to the data Wikileaks has been receiving, sources inside the Pentagon repeating the actions of Israeli-Soviet spy, Jonathan Pollard.\u00a0 As vital as the F-35 is to America\u2019s defense, Pollard\u2019s triumph on behalf of Soviet Russia and Israel dwarfs the current espionage coup.<\/p>\n

Since the 2009 announcement, there has been nothing but silence.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

When the theft was announced, Pentagon \u201cdamage control\u201d went into action immediately branding the disaster as \u201cunimportant\u201d while scrambling to look for any possible way to \u201cput the toothpaste back into the tube.\u201d\u00a0 What Secretary Gates came up with was a simple denial and to pretend it never happened.\u00a0 With the continual efforts by the Israeli government to secure the release of master spy Jonathan Pollard, a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d for another Israeli spy would endanger America\u2019s hopes of winning a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

There was no real question, this was another Israeli operation, their \u201csignature\u201d was all over it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAN UNPRECEDENTED DISASTER\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

What did America lose?\u00a0 15 years of research and development?\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t come close.\u00a0 Key components of the F-35, from stealth materials, flight and weapons systems, to tens of thousands of man-hours of systems programming are now \u201cout there,\u201d available to any potential rival, military or commercial.\u00a0 At best, it could be considered a $300 billion dollar bank robbery, by American standards, nothing new in today\u2019s financial world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At worst, nations whose defense capabilities were decades behind the US can now be at par, as the F-35 was estimated to be \u201cair superiority capable\u201d until at least 2040. Data stolen could make production of a comparable aircraft possible in as little as 36 months, particularly with several projects in the offing, Russia\/India and in China, each of which are capable of quickly adapting upgraded systems.<\/p>\n

The JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) in its three variants, conventional takeoff\/landing (CTOL), carrier variant (CV) and short takeoff\/vertical landing (STOLV), are scheduled for production through 2026 with estimates of service life until 2060 and beyond.\u00a0 Export versions of the F-35, \u201cdetuned\u201d are available for American allies, NATO and Israel.\u00a0 The F-35 delivers more \u201cpunch\u201d per dollar than any current \u201clegacy\u201d fighter by a margin of as much as 8 to 1.\u00a0 The economics of \u201cstealing\u201d the F-35 and auctioning it off, system at a time, is tremendous.<\/p>\n

Any nation with a substantial defense industry will have immediately gained a decade or more in, not just stealth fighter\/bomber design, but hundreds of areas of science applicable to UAV drones, missiles, including nuclear ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), and smaller missile systems, not only air defense but against helicopters and armour as well.\u00a0 Every advanced technology<\/span><\/a> America has is in the F-35 somewhere.<\/p>\n

Stealth technology from the F-35 can be adapted to the guidance systems stolen and transferred to China, believed by Israel also, technology that threatens America\u2019s ability to project air superiority through use of its aircraft carriers.\u00a0 Conventional missiles, not believed capable of \u201ctaking out\u201d America\u2019s carriers can be upgraded to defeat air defense systems years from being off the drawing boards.<\/p>\n

AIR DEFENSE VULNERABILITY<\/strong><\/p>\n

In March, 1999, on the 4th day of American involvement in the Bosnian war, Serbian forces shot down an F-117 stealth bomber using a Soviet SA 300 air defense system with radar modifications based on data secured through espionage.<\/p>\n

Data on the resonant frequencies of the materials and surfaces of the F-117 made it possible for radar to, not only detect a plane previously believed \u201cinvisible\u2019 at a range of 13 kilometers, but to successfully destroy one, an embarrassment the US feels the sting of even today.<\/p>\n

The stolen data on the F-35 covers more than simple materials but all jamming and other defensive systems and performance characteristics.\u00a0 Air defense systems can now be tuned specifically to find only the F-35 if so required.<\/p>\n

INITIAL SECURITY BREACHES IGNORED<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2008, British based BAE Systems, a subcontractor for Lockheed Martin, was discovered to have allowed access to highly classified F-35 technologies through, not only physical access to its facilities but lack of normal computer safeguards.\u00a0 POGO (Project On Government Oversight), a whistleblower\/watchdog group, learned of the Pentagon\u2019s lack of normal project security safeguards<\/span><\/a> and requested a copy of the Inspector General\u2019s security<\/span><\/a> report.\u00a0 Though documents showed the Pentagon was aware that key weapons systems had been compromised in Britain, well before 2008, security at project facilities in the United States was not brought up to required standards.<\/p>\n

Defense Security Service audits from as early as 2001 had not been filed and the agreement with British contractors allowed them to refuse to report to the Department of Defense on an \u201cat will\u201d basis.\u00a0 In fact, the agreement with Britain contained no guarantees of any kind for security and no functioning authority to limit spying.<\/p>\n

THE TRAIL OF THE SNAIL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wikileaks are called \u201cleaks.\u201d\u00a0 Julian Assange darts from country to country, hotel to TV studio, always ahead of the security forces hunting him down, a veritable \u201cNordic\u201d bin Laden. \u00a0\u00a0 Newspapers are peppered with photographs of a boyish face in the uniform of the American army, identified as the potential \u201cleaker.\u201d\u00a0 The 46,000 intelligence\/counter-intelligence officers of the Department of Defense, supplemented by the FBI and 16 other agencies and 40 other departments, more \u201cbodies\u201d than currently serve in Afghanistan, we are told, are unable to rein in this \u201cdangerous duo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Documents<\/span><\/a> by the hundreds of thousands are leaked, upon qualified examination, showing careful screening with many documents edited and more selected out of series with careful gaps and omissions.\u00a0 A single non-commissioned officer, watched 24 hours a day by tens of thousands of security officers and threatened with life in prison, is an unlikely suspect.\u00a0 However, there has been no mention of any others nor has there been a mention of an investigation of any kind.\u00a0 In fact, there seems to me no attempt whatsoever to curtail these current leaks.<\/p>\n

What does this tell us?<\/p>\n

WHEN IS A LEAK \u201cHACKING\u201d AND WHEN IS HACKING A\u00a0 \u201cLEAK\u201d AND WHAT IS \u201cESPIONAGE?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was never announced when, exactly, the theft of the F-35 data occurred.\u00a0 The press release was April 21. 2009, long enough after President Bush left office for the blame to evade his administration, one infamous for \u201cleaks\u201d such as the \u201cScooter\u201d Libby (Liebowitz) \u201couting\u201d of CIA nuclear proliferation specialist Valerie Plame.<\/p>\n

Israeli citizen, Jonathan Pollard, convicted for spying on America and sentenced to life in prison in 1987, is, we believe but can never be sure of, the most successful spy in world history.\u00a0 As with the F-35, the \u201ccover story\u201d is always carefully deceptive as to not panic the public or cause a lack of confidence, perhaps rightly so, in America\u2019s ability to secure secrets.\u00a0 Pollard had two primary targets, our nuclear response capability and NATO\u2019s defense capabilities against the Soviet Union.\u00a0 Both were destroyed by Pollard whose materials were passed through Israel directly to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.<\/p>\n

Every weapon design, yes, our stealth aircraft capabilities and our NATO battle plans were among the truckload of papers Pollard sold to Israel, a country where he is considered a national hero.\u00a0 Pollard may have been our last \u201cpaper\u201d spy.\u00a0 Everything today is electronic and spies who steal American secrets can be compared to unruly chatroom members or video game<\/span><\/a> enthusiasts.<\/p>\n

Despite the \u201ccute\u201d attempt by the Department of Defense and Secretary Gates to refer to espionage as \u201chacking,\u201d there is nothing either innocent or harmless about it.\u00a0 As all data is formatted for electronic media and secured by firewalls and passwords, all espionage is \u201chacking.\u201d<\/p>\n

The difference between \u201cleaking\u201d and \u201cspying\u201d is semantics.\u00a0 The goal is the same, destruction of the defense capabilities of the United States, except \u201cspying\u201d pays better.<\/p>\n

The people responsible for each, particularly when they access the same systems and overcome the same roadblocks, all requiring the same physical access, are one in the same.\u00a0 Those who \u201cleak\u201d perform an identical task to those who spy. Those who leak, those who have leaked appear to be, to any reasonable person, exactly the same people who are spying now and who were supporting Pollard.<\/p>\n

The first place we look, before new Russian, Indian, Iranian or Chinese version of the F-35 take flight or our first F-35 meets a fiery end is Israel.\u00a0 No Chinese or Pakistani\u2019s or Iranians have gained by the F-35 espionage \u201cclone\u201d operations styled after \u201cWikileaks.\u201d\u00a0 Wikileaks has proven one thing, there is a major spy operation in the Pentagon with broad access.\u00a0 It is immune to investigation.\u00a0 Only political power can generate this kind of protection.<\/p>\n

Assange is a recipient of information he likely believes is real.\u00a0 Our investigations prove different.\u00a0 The Pentagon leaks were carefully edited, thousands of reports were reconstructed and falsified and hundreds of thousands were removed as inconsistent with an unknown political agenda.\u00a0 This requires full access to Pentagon computer systems<\/span><\/a>, PROMIS software and hundreds of man hours.<\/p>\n

It requires, in fact, a broad spy operation inside the Pentagon that enjoys its ability to operate with impunity.\u00a0 Wikileaks carries an Israeli signature, the leaks damn only Israeli enemies, shield Israeli operations and are time to serve Israeli interests.\u00a0 Hundreds of Israeli citizens work in the Pentagon.\u00a0 None of this should be a surprise to anyone.<\/p>\n

The F-35 debacle is exactly the same.\u00a0 Where there was some cursory discussion of investigation Wikileaks, the F-35 thefts were, can we say \u201cforgiven?\u201d<\/p>\n

, November 2, 2010<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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