(WMR) -- The
way the corporate media would have it believed is that Israeli �art
students� who aggressively sell cheap art door-to-door, usually at federal
office buildings and the houses of government employees, are merely traveling
abroad after their military service in Israel to �see the world.� In fact,
these �art students� are classic intelligence operatives who have appeared
before and after major terrorist events and covert operations conducted by the
Mossad.
WMR has learned that an Israeli art student cased the
offices of an investigator of the suspicious February 26, 2004, death of Macedonian
President Boris Trajkovski. Trajkovski�s Beechcraft King Air 200 crashed near
Stolac, Croatia, in southern Bosnia while en route to an investors�
conference in Mostar.
After the crash, U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia Lawrence
Butler quickly met with Nikolai Gruevski, the minister of finance in the
VMRO-DPMNE government. Gruevski was an ardent supporter of denationalization, a
globalist, and supporter of NATO membership for Macedonia. Prime Minister
Branko Crvenkovski, although a Social Democrat, was also seen as close to the
globalists.
Although Trajkovski, a Methodist minister, was also a
member of the VMRO-DPMNE party he was viewed as less accommodating to
international demands for privatization of state enterprises in Macedonia.
After Trajkovski and his party were killed in the plane
crash, Macedonian and Bosnian authorities complained that NATO�s investigation
of the plane crash was secretive and the two countries� aviation authorities
were kept in the dark. Many Macedonian officials were opposed to allowing the
United States to investigate the crash and there was confusion about who had
access to the two �black boxes� on Trajkovski�s plane. NATO troops stationed in
Bosnia were the first to arrive at the crash scene.
In April 2004, Crvenkovski, the pro-American, won the
Macedonian presidential election. VMRO-DPMNE officials charged that there was
massive ballot box stuffing in th election and refused to accept the results.
The pro-U.S. Gruevski is now the prime minister of Macedonia.
Although the crash of the King Air 200 was blamed on dense
fog, on Febriary 27, 2004, the Xinhua news agency reported another scenario,
one that suggests terrorism: �A suspected blast occurred on board shortly before the crashed
Macedonian presidential plane went lost from radar, a local Bulgarian radio
reported Thursday. The report quoted Sasho Yordanovski, editor-in-chief of the
Macedonian magazine Forum, as saying that there have been two versions of the
cause of the tragic incident, which claimed the lives of the Macedonian
president and other eight people. One version attributed the accident to bad
weather conditions in the area early Thursday and the other suggested a
technical failure of the 25-year-old aircraft . . . Besides the president, the
victims include his councilors Dimka Ilkova-Boshkovic, Risto Blazhevski and
Anita Lozanovska, foreign affairs official Mile Krastevski, two bodyguards Atse
Bozhinovski and Borsi Velinov, and two pilots Marko Markovski and Branko
Ivanovski.�
WMR has learned that an independent firm hired to
investigate the crash was not able to conduct its investigation because its
private investigator received death threats if he went to the Balkans to
conduct his probe. In addition, a young Israeli male �art student� showed
up selling art sketches at the U.S. offices of the investigation firm. The
Israeli arrogantly entered three office rooms in the facility without
invitation. When asked by office workers what he was doing, he abruptly left.
No other offices in the vicinity received a visit from the art student. It was
later discovered that the office�s surveillance camera had been disabled by an
intruder.
The reported involvement of Israeli security advisers in the
coup d��tat in Honduras also puts into another perspective the following report
from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on the espionage activities
involving Israeli art students in the months prior to 9/11:
�Tegucigalpa Country
Office
�On February 28, 2001, a couple attempted to sell at the
residence of the Tegucigalpa Country Attach�. His neighbors advised the Country
Attach� that a man and a woman in a red car were trying to open the CA�s gate.
The neighbors asked the couple what they wanted and advised them that no one
was home. The couple left the area. No identification information was revealed.�
Some FBI counter-intelligence agents are painfully aware
that Israelis traveling on tourist visas in the United States and who mask
their true intelligence functions as art students, movers, and mall kiosk
vendors pose a significant hostile intelligence threat to U.S. national
security. However, the FBI agents are also aware that any push to pursue
Israeli agents will result in career-ending personnel actions taken as a result
of pressure from the all-too-powerful Israel Lobby in the United States.
Previously
published in the Wayne
Madsen Report.
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