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ism specialist and military-intelligenceofficer who served 19
years in Turkey,Italy, Germany, and Spain. He notes thatIsrael
“always features prominently” inthe FBI’s annual report, “Foreign
Eco-nomic Collection and Industrial Espio-nage.” Its 2005 report,
he says, stated:
“‘Israel has an active program togather proprietary
informationwithin the US. These collection ac-tivities are
primarily directed at ob-taining information on military sys-tems
and advanced computing ap-plications that can be used in Isra-el’s
sizable armaments industry.’ Itadds that Israel recruits spies,
useselectronic methods, and carries outcomputer intrusion to gain
the infor-mation.
“In 1996…the Pentagon’s De-fense Investigative Service
warned[US] defense contractors that Israelhad ‘espionage intentions
and capa-
bilities’ here [in the US] and was ag-gressively trying to steal
military andintelligence secrets. It also cited asecurity threat
posed by individualswho have ‘strong ethnic ties’ to Is-rael,
stating that ‘Placing Israeli na-tionals in key industries … is a
tech-nique utilized with great success.’”
Giraldi says that when the Gen-eral Accounting Office (GAO), the
in-vestigative arm of Congress, researchedspying against US arms
industries in1996, it said Israel “conducts the mostaggressive
espionage operation againstthe US of any U.S. ally.” The GAOalso
reported that
“Israeli citizens residing in the U.S.
had stolen sensitive technology tomanufacture artillery gun
tubes, ob-tained classified plans for a recon-naissance system, and
passed sensi-tive aerospace designs to unauthor-ized users. An
Israeli company wascaught monitoring a Department ofDefense
telecommunications systemto obtain classified information.”
Another ex-CIA officer who ex-pressed grave concerns about
Israel’sspying is Robert David Steele. He said“Israeli penetration
of the entire US tel-ecommunications system means thatNSA’s
warrantless wiretapping actuallymeans Israeli warrantless
wiretapping.”
Jane’s Intelligence Group re-ported in 2004 that Israeli
intelligenceagencies “have been spying on the U.S.and running
clandestine operationssince Israel was established.”
In 2008, Harry Brandon, aformer FBI deputy director of
counter-
intelligence told Congressional Quar-terly (CQ) magazine that
“the Israelisare interested in commercial as muchas military
secrets.” CQ surmised that“One effective espionage tool is form-ing
joint partnerships with U.S. comp-anies to supply software and
other tech-nology products to U.S. governmentagencies.” This is
precisely what Ver-int and Narus have done so effectively.
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In the mid-2000s, two Israeli spycompanies (Narus and Verint)
werecaught in the centre of a huge scan-dal involving the
wiretapping of virtu-ally all US phone and internet mes-sages.
Their mass surveillance serviceswere used by America’s two largest
tel-ecom companies, AT&T and Verizon.(See AT&T pp.7-8, and
Verizon in ta-ble, “CPP Investments,” p.53.)
These telecom giants, which to-gether control 80% of the US
market,were turning over all of their custom-ers’ internet
communications and phonecall records to the US National Secu-rity
Agency (NSA). On hundreds of oc-casions, these data transfers were
donewithout legal warrants or court orders.This warrantless
wiretapping operationwas a gargantuan task requiring the
col-lection, analysis and transfer of data re-lating to billions of
messages per day.To accomplish this, AT&T employedthe services
of an Israeli spy firm calledNarus, while Verizon used a
differentIsraeli spy company, Verint Systems.
The technologies of both Ver-int and Narus have also been
absorbedinto the spy products of other compa-nies. For example,
Amdocs has inte-grated Narus software into its products,while
Verisign has incorporated sys-tems from both Verint and Narus
intoits “NetDiscovery” service. (See Am-docs, pp.5-6, and Verisign
in table “CPPInvestments,” p.53.)
James Bamford, a former ABCNews director and journalist who
hasresearched intelligence agencies forthree decades, has reported
that:
“Verint and Narus are super-intru-sive – conducting mass
surveillanceon both international and domestic[US] communications
24/7. What isespecially troubling, but littleknown, is that both
companies haveextensive ties to a foreign country,Israel, as well
as links to that coun-try’s intelligence service – a servicewith a
long history of aggressivespying against the U.S.”
A glimpse into this “long his-tory” of Israeli intelligence
agenciestargeting the US is discussed by PhilipGiraldi, a former
CIA counter-terror-
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Press for Conversion! (Issue # 66) Spring 201244
VVVVVerint Syerint Syerint Syerint Syerint Systems Incstems
Incstems Incstems Incstems Inc.....Verint is a subsidiary of
ComverseTechnology which is “the world’s lead-ing provider of
…communications in-tercept and analysis” technology.Founded in
Israel and with half its em-ployees based there, Verint’s
parentcompany has attracted its fair share ofpeople from Israel’s
military and intel-ligence communities.
A search of the Business Newswebsite finds the “Executive
Profiles”of about twenty key Comverse peoplewho had worked for
Israel’s military.Of these, at least six were in Israeli
in-telligence. For example, Alon Geva was“an officer at the elite
Intelligence unitof the Israeli Defense Forces,” YoavShaked
“started his career as an officerin the Israeli Defense Force [IDF]
In-telligence Corps,” Chaim Bechor“served as a technical officer in
the In-telligence Corps of the IDF,” UriKolodny “served over 4
years in …Is-raeli Intelligence,” Alon J. Bender wasthe “Senior
Security Technology con-sultant on several Israeli
governmentprojects (Prime Minister’s Office, IDFand Secret
Intelligence), and NoamLivnat “served four and a half years inthe
Israeli Defense Forces’ prestigiousIntelligence Corps ‘Talpiyot’
project.”
Originally called ComverseInfosys, Verint makes electronic
sys-tems to monitor, collect and analysevoice, email and video
communica-tions. In reference to Verint’s role inthis trade,
Bamford notes that by 2004:
“a large percentage of America’s –and the world’s – voice and
datacommunications were passingthrough wiretaps built, installed,
andmaintained by a small, secretive Is-raeli company run by former
Israelimilitary and intelligence officers.”
Verint says its customers include“85 percent of the Fortune
100.” Theyuse the company’s products, Verintsays, “to improve
enterprise perform-ance and make the world a safer place.”Although
secretive about its clients, theVerint website divulges a few.
Among
them are several corporate giants thatsupport Israel’s military,
namely, Cisco,Hewlett Packard (HP), Honeywell, Sie-mens and EMC.
(See p.19, p.36 andpp.39-40. For Siemens and EMC, seetable, “CPP
Investments,” p.53.)
But besides serving big busi-ness, Verint also sells spyware to
“lawenforcement, national security, intelli-gence, and other
government agen-cies.” Its technology was used by UStelecom giant
Verizon to fulfil the masssurveillance requests – legal and
oth-erwise – from the NSA. “[T]he great-est potential beneficiaries
of this mar-riage between the Israeli eavesdroppersand America’s
increasingly centralizedtelecom grid,” says Bamford, “are Is-rael’s
intelligence agencies.”
Besides the US, Verint’s othermajor government clients
includeMexico, Vietnam, Australia and theNetherlands. Government
users in thetwo latter countries have raised grave
concerns about the security of Verint’sproducts and particularly
their remotecontrol from Israel. For instance,Christopher Ketcham
reported that:
“In November 2002, sources in theDutch counterintelligence
commu-nity began airing what they claimedwas ‘strong evidence that
the Israelisecret service has uncontrolled ac-cess to confidential
tapping datacollected by the Dutch police andintelligence
services.’”
In 2003, a Dutch technologymagazine, c’t, ran an article,
“DutchTapping Room not Kosher.” It said“[a]ll tapping equipment of
the Dutchintelligence services and half the tap-ping equipment of
the national policeforce…is insecure and is leaking infor-
mation to Israel.” The leaky technol-ogy was T2S2 tapware
“delivered to the[Dutch] government in the last fewyears by the
Israeli company Verint.”
In 2004, Verint’s mass surveil-lance systems were called “a
lemon”in the Australian media and a parlia-mentary committee
monitoring the gov-ernment’s Corruption and Crime Com-mission (CCC)
summoned Verint ex-ecutives to a “closed session.” Thecommittee
told Verint that they had“some issues” with the “data
intercep-tion” systems being used by “at leastsix different law
enforcement agenciesacross Australia.” The MPs said their“issues”
with Verint included that it“can access data from overseas but
theCCC seems restricted in its ability toaccess data.” Verint’s Tel
Aviv-basedrepresentative confirmed: “We some-times operate by
remote access.”
Bamford has called it “unnerv-ing” “that Verint can
automatically ac-cess the mega-terabytes of stored andreal-time
data secretly and remotelyfrom anywhere, including Israel.”
Verint’s board of directors hasalways included former military
and in-telligence officers from the US and Is-rael. The most
infamous of these isJacob “Kobi” Alexander, an Israeli
en-trepreneur who cofounded both Com-verse and its off-shoot,
Verint. Alexan-der is a former Israeli intelligence of-ficer who
chaired Verint’s board fromits creation in 1994 until 2006, whenhe
was indicted in the US on 36 chargesof conspiracy, fraud and money
laun-dering. Leaving the boards of Verintand Comverse, Alexander
evaded USprosecution by going to Israel. Placedon the FBI’s “Most
Wanted List,”Verint’s disgraced cofounder was even-tually arrested
(and held very briefly)
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in Namibia, where he is still fightingextradition. Despite this,
Alexander’scurrent “Executive Profile” on BusinessWeek’s website
says he has been a Com-verse “Advisor” “since May 1, 2006.”
Another former Verint boardmember with a Israeli
intelligencebackground is Ronen Nir. Before join-ing Verint’s
board, and becoming vicepresident of its Analytics and
Commu-nications Solutions Division, Nir served13 years in “the
Israeli Defense Forces’elite Intelligence unit.” Nir remains
aLieutenant Colonel in Israel’smilitary reserve forces.
Other Verint directorshave links to US intelligenceagencies and
the military in-dustrial complex. For exam-ple, US Lieutenant
GeneralKenneth Minihan joinedVerint’s board in 2002. Sincethe
Vietnam war, this 30-yearveteran of the US Air Forceheld many top
military intel-ligence postings. His careerculminated in leading
the De-fense Intelligence Agency(1995-1996), the National Se-curity
Agency and the CentralSecurity Service (1996-1999).
Two other US military veteranson Verint’s board are Larry Myers
andVictor De Marines. Both have long-standing links to MITRE Corp.,
whichprovides computer security for the USmilitary and intelligence
agencies. DeMarines managed MITRE’s Center forIntegrated
Intelligence Systems andoversaw its Intelligence and
ElectronicWarfare Systems. While managing MI-TRE’s office in
Bangkok, Thailand(1967-1969), he “helped coordinateMITRE’s support
for [US] Air Forcesystems ...on support operations.” De-Marines
still serves on an advisorygroup for the National
ReconnaissanceOffice, a US intelligence agency thatoperates the
CIA’s spy satellites.
Dan Bodner, who has beenVerint’s president and CEO since
1994,was an army engineer in Israel’s De-fense Forces. Another
Verint director,Meir Sperling, held executive positionsin two
Israeli telecom companies,Tadiran and ECI, which both serve po-lice
and military agencies around theworld, including Israel’s armed
forces.
Verint’s ties to Israel’s govern-
ment are personified in Carmel Vernia,who started at Comverse in
1984 andwas its Chief Operating Officer be-tween 1994 and 2000. He
became thefirst Verint CEO in 1999 but was soonappointed by
Israel’s government to be-come the Ministry of Industry andTrade’s
Chief Scientist. His responsi-bilities included overseeing the
annualdistribution of about US$450 millionin R&D grants to
Israel high-techcompanies, including Comverse.
A 2001 Comverse document
states that “we continue to receive sig-nificant benefits
through reimburse-ment of up to 50% of qualified researchand
development expenditures”through a “grant program administeredby
the Office of the Chief Scientist ofthe Ministry of Industry and
Trade.”
After leaving his post as Isra-el’s Chief Scientist in 2002,
Vernia be-came a director of PerSay, an Israelicompany that spun
off from Verint in2000. It received early funding fromPoalim
Investments, a subsidiary ofBank Hapoalim. (See pp.10-11.)
Per-Say’s speaker recognition technologyincludes voice biometrics
systems thatsearch for and identify individualspeakers within the
vast sea of inter-cepted phone calls. Bamford notes that
“PerSay is an example of how closeand interconnected these
companiesare with Israel’s intelligence com-munity – a factor of
great concernconsidering how much of their bug-ging equipment is
now secretly hard-wired into the American telecommu-nications
system.”
Bamford goes on to say thatPerSay’s board included Arik Nir,
“a former senior official in Shin Bet,Israel’s internal security
service. Niris also the managing director of Per-Say’s financial
backer, Athlone Glo-bal Security, which counts formerMossad chief
Ephraim Halevy on itsadvisory board.”
Business Week’s website showsthat Halevy also sits on the board
ofIsrael’s Makhteshim Agan, an explo-sives-making subsidiary of one
of Is-rael’s largest holding companies, theDiscount Investment
Corp. (See p.25.)
In writing about Ver-int and PerSay, Bamfordhas noted that“With
remote access to
the internal and interna-tional voice and data com-munications
of over onehundred countries aroundthe world, including theUnited
States, Verint’sheadquarters in Tel Avivhas a capacity rivaledonly
by NSA’s, if notgreater, especially whencoupled with
PerSay’svoice-mining capability.” In 2004, Verint paid
US$35 million for the “government sur-veillance business” of
Israel’s ECtelLtd. Verint said this would give it “ad-ditional
communications interceptioncapabilities for the mass collection
andanalysis of voice and data communica-tions.”
Yair Cohen, became ECtel’schair in 2006. For the five
previousyears, Cohen led Israel’s equivalent ofthe US National
Security Agency. Busi-ness Week’s online biography says
“asBrigadier General of the special unit8200, the central military
intelligenceunit of the Israeli Defense Force,”Cohen was
responsible for “develop-ing state-of-the-art technology and oneof
the largest, most complex technol-ogy organizations in Israel.”
Cohenwas also a director of IDB Group,which controls Discount
InvestmentCorp., and Vice President of one of itsprized holdings,
Elron Electronics.
In 2011, Verint acquired an Is-raeli firm called Rontal
ApplicationsLtd. which provides governments andbusinesses with
“physical security in-formation management solutions.” Theboard of
this Verint subsidiary has in-
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cluded Israeli Major General AmiramLevin. During his 35-year
military ca-reer, he was the deputy director of Is-rael’s foreign
intelligence agency, theMossad (1998-2000).
Business News online saysLevin held “senior command positionsin
Special Ops and in the Tank Corps –culminating in the post of
Israel’sNorthern Front Commander.” He had“weapon system development
duties”and led “strategic weapon developmenttask-forces comprising
of military de-signers & major Israeli defense contrac-tors.”
Levin also Commanded “SayeretMatkal,” Israel’s “elite intelligence
andcounter-terrorism commando unit.”
Upon leaving the military, Levinentered the private sector and
joined theboards of several Israeli companiesserving the country’s
military and in-telligence agencies. Besides servingwith Verint’s
subsidiary, Rontal, Levinalso joined the advisory board of Sus-pect
Detection Systems (SDS) Ltd.This Israeli company says its
“anti-ter-ror and anti-crime technology ...detectsthe hidden
‘hostile intent’ of assailants-before they commit their
intendedacts.” The SDS website says Levin“brings with him extensive
supportfrom his many years of experience ininterrogation and
counter-terrorism.”Levin also serves on the advisory boardof an
Israeli “homeland security” com-pany called Camero Inc. which
suppliespolice and special forces with technol-ogy that sees
through walls.
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is aptly derived fromthe Latin word “gnarus” for “all know-ing.”
Calling itself “the leader in real-time traffic intelligence for
the protec-tion and management of large [Inter-net Protocol] IP
networks,” Narusmakes “Semantic Traffic Analysis”software, which
“captures comprehen-sive customer usage data.” It alsomakes “Deep
Packet Inspection” sys-tems for “tracking and targeting” emailand
mobile-phone communications.
In 2005, computer engineerMark Klein blew the whistle on
AT&T,where he had worked for 22 years.Klein then became central
to a class-action lawsuit by the Electronic Fron-tier Foundation.
The lawsuit exposedevidence that AT&T had transferredvast
amounts of data to the NSA usinga Narus supercomputer called the
STA6400. Klein testified that:
“In 2003 AT&T built ‘secret rooms’hidden deep in the bowels
of its cen-tral offices in various cities, hous-ing computer gear
for a governmentspy operation which taps into thecompany’s popular
WorldNet serv-ice and the entire Internet. These in-stallations
enable the government tolook at every individual message onthe
Internet and analyze exactlywhat people are doing.”
The law suit ended in 2009when the US government granted
ret-roactive immunity to itself and the tel-ecom companies for
their roles in thewarrantless wiretapping operations.
Narus systems are also used bypolice and intelligence agencies
aroundthe world, as well as by huge internetcompanies that hand
over their custom-er’s data to these agencies. Narus saysits
systems can “immediately detect,analyze, mitigate and target any
un-wanted, unwarranted or malicious traf-fic.” However, deciding
exactly whatconstitutes “unwanted” internet trafficis a matter for
Narus’ customers to de-cide. This is troubling because
besidessupplying its wares to the largest tel-ecom providers in the
US, Narus sys-tems for monitoring, analyzing and con-trolling
people’s everyday use of theinternet are also employed by
telecom
authorities in Egypt, Pakistan, Libya,Saudi Arabia, China and
elsewhere.
So, for example, when wide-spread calls for democracy and an
endto state-sponsored torture and terrorwere fuelling the “Arab
Spring” pro-tests in Egypt, Narus systems were usedto close down
much of the internetthere. In this way, Egypt’s US-backedmilitary
dictatorship benefited fromNarus, an Israeli spy company.
Narus, says the Israeli newspa-per Haaretz, “was founded in 1997
byDr Ori Cohen, Stas Khirman and fourother guys in Israel.” Its
initial fund-ing came from an Israeli venture capi-tal fund, Walden
Ventures, which hasalso funded Israeli “homeland security”firms
like Camero.
Before starting Narus, its keyfounders had all worked for
VDOnet,an Israeli firm that pioneered internetvideo streaming.
Khirman, who wasNarus’ Chief Technical Officer, beganhis high-tech
career at Israel AerospaceIndustries. (See “State-owned IsraeliWar
Industries,” pp.48.) He and otherNarus cofounders, have since gone
towork for other Israeli high-tech firms.For example, Oren Ariel
became thegeneral manager and director of Hew-lett-Packard (HP)
Labs Israel, whoseparent company is a major Israel mili-tary
contractor. (See HP, pp.36-37.)
Narus has extremely close con-nections to US military and spy
agen-cies. William Crowell, who has beenon Narus’ board since 2004,
was deputy
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director of operations before becomingdeputy director of the NSA
between1994 and 1997. Since 2007, Crowellhas chaired the Senior
Advisory Groupfor the US Director of National Intelli-gence, who is
the principal advisor onintelligence matters to the US Presi-dent,
the National Security Council andthe Homeland Security Council.
Another Narus board member isPeter Kersten a “decorated
MarineCorps veteran with combat duty inKuwait and Somalia.” Before
joiningNarus he “managed high-level relation-ships” between
military contractors, theNSA and the Pentagon. Illustrating
thevalue placed by Narus on good rela-tions with US military and
intelligenceagencies, Kersten is now the its vicepresident of US
Federal Sales.
Further demonstrating this com-pany’s integration into
theUS-led, global military-in-dustrial complex, is Boe-ing’s
purchased of Narus in2010. With US$30.9 billionin military
revenues, Boeingis the world’s fourth largestwar industry, and the
pre-miere manufacturer of war-planes.
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Electronics Ltd................................12CAE
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Group............................................14Caterpillar
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Israel............................................17Cemex........................................................18Cisco
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Group................................................23Dell
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