AIPAC Founder's Newly Declassified Foreign Agent File Reveals Shift to Stealth Lobbying

November 24, 2008

Six decades ago Americans working as registered Israeli foreign agents launched New York, Washington and Los Angeles "Israel Office of Information (IOI)" branches. Newly declassified records document IOI actions that forever changed foreign government lobbying on Capitol Hill as IOI director Isaiah L. Kenen shifted Israel lobbying away from FARA oversight into stealth foreign lobbying from the American Zionist Council.

October 27, 2008

Secret DOJ Battle with AIPAC's Parent Organization

Presenting the internal file archive of the 1962-1965 DOJ attempt to register the American Zionist Council as agents of a foreign government.  The chronology provides perspective about how delays, leadership changes, and lobby requests for secrecy resulted in America's first nonpublic Foreign Agents Registration Act declaration: declassified in June of 2008. 

October 17, 2008

Israel Lobby's Secret US Public Relations Plan

In the early 1960's, Israel funneled more than $5 million into US propaganda and lobbying operations.  The funding, equivalent to more than $35 million in today's dollars, was laundered from the quasi governmental Jewish Agency into an Israel lobby umbrella group, the American Zionist Council.  The two page master plan was subpoenaed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and entered into hearing records on the activities of foreign agents in the United States.

August 1, 2007

AIPAC Directs Political Action Committee Candidate Donations

In 1988, internal memos reveal AIPAC directing Political Action Committee donations to preferred candidates in violation of its tax-exempt nonprofit status.

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AIPAC's Battle with the DOJ - DECLASSIFIED

Documents the transition of a public relations employee of the Israeli Foreign Ministry to founder of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or AIPAC.  Provides analysis and all key documents of how the DOJ ordered the American Zionist Council to register as Israel's foreign agent in 1962, and the subsequent transfer of AZC operations to AIPAC.

DOJ and Treasury Refuse to Investigate $60 Billion US-Israel Money Laundering Ring

New! December 22, 2008

Almost four years have passed since former prosecutor Talia Sasson released an Israeli government commissioned report detailing a massive money laundering scheme to finance and build illegal settlements in the West Bank.   

But leadership of the US Treasury Department and Department of Justice have refused to show investigatory interest in publicly substantiated money laundering that originates in the US while actively blocking FOIA requests into agency regulatory activity.

New! November 12, 2008

Cartoons about Arabs and Islam from AIPAC's "Near East Report"

Presenting cartoons appearing in Isaiah Kenen's "Near East Report" newsletter, financed by the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem.

October 17, 2008
AIPAC Founder Ordered to Re-register as a Foreign Agent

DOJ asks AIPAC founder Isaiah L. Kenen to re-register as a foreign agent of the Israeli government if he leaves the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs  - Declassified and released under FOIA on March 13, 2008.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Investigates Israel's Foreign Agents

In 1962 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigated the Jewish Agency and the American Zionist Council.  Their funding flows from Israel as well as lobbying and public relations campaigns in the United States were explored during sworn testimony on May 23, and August 1, 1963.

August 20, 2008

DOJ Orders Israel Lobby Umbrella Group to Register as a Foreign Agent

In 1962 the US Department of Justice ordered the American Zionist Council to register as a foreign agent.  This umbrella organization to Hadassah and the Zionist Organization of America was receiving laundered funds from the Jewish Agency for public relations and lobbying in the United States.