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Bacchus4.0

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Mon Feb 4, 2013, 12:13 PM Feb 2013

Venezuela spying on its Jews, documents reveal

http://www.timesofisrael.com/venezuela-spying-on-its-jews-documents-reveal/

YORK (JTA) — Venezuela’s secret service, SEBIN, is spying on the country’s Jewish community, according to leaked documents said to be from the spy agency.

Last week, Analisis24, a right-leaning Argentinean news website, released 50 documents attributed to the Venezuelan intelligence agency containing private information on prominent Venezuelan Jews, local Jewish organizations and Israeli diplomats in Latin America. The Anti-Defamation League, among others, believes the documents are authentic based on the wealth of detailed and private information included.

The papers include a dossier on Espacio Anna Frank, a coexistence group in Caracas, with clandestinely taken photos of its offices and private information on its personnel, including their home addresses, passport numbers and recent travel itineraries. It identifies the organization as a “strategic arm of the Israeli intelligence agency in the country,” the Mossad, and as a front for “far right-wing Zionists” to recruit agents using “subversive socio-political influence.”

Other documents say the local Jewish community has benefited from the “political and military interference” of the United States in the South American country’s affairs and accuses certain Venezuelan Jews, like journalist Abraham Belilty Bittan and former parliamentarian Paulina Gamus, of being foreign agents.

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Venezuela spying on its Jews, documents reveal (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Feb 2013 OP
It just never goes away, does it? COLGATE4 Feb 2013 #1

COLGATE4

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1. It just never goes away, does it?
Mon Feb 4, 2013, 12:43 PM
Feb 2013

Next thing we'll see is the Venezuelan Ministry of Education recommending 'Protocol of the Elders of Zion' as approved reading for students.

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