AIPACs founder was listed as an Israeli agent - New FBI files The FBI released a 75-year-old archive showing how the foundation of Washington's most powerful lobby was built on broken laws and burial paperwork. What the files reveal: In 1947, the US banned arms shipments to Palestine. Americans sent them anyway. FBI agents arrested four men in Jersey City when mislabeled explosives were discovered on a dock. Another group flew 30 planes out of Florida. One of those men later built Israel's aircraft industry - and received a pardon from Bill Clinton. In 1951, AIPAC founder Isaiah Kenan registered as a foreign agent for the Israeli government—a designation the organization he built never held, insisting instead that it represented Americans. 75 years ago, the FBI actively investigated Israel's influence operations on American soil and made men sign forms about who they worked for. This test is gone. substack | talk.

AIPACs founder was listed as an Israeli agent - New FBI files The FBI released a 75-year-old archive showing how the foundation of Washington's most powerful lobby was built on broken laws and burial paperwork. What the files reveal: In 1947, the US banned arms shipments to Palestine. Americans sent them anyway. FBI agents arrested four men in Jersey City when mislabeled explosives were discovered on a dock. Another group flew 30 planes out of Florida. One of those men later built Israel's aircraft industry - and received a pardon from Bill Clinton. In 1951, AIPAC founder Isaiah Kenan registered as a foreign agent for the Israeli government—a designation the organization he built never held, insisting instead that it represented Americans. 75 years ago, the FBI actively investigated Israel's influence operations on American soil and made men sign forms about who they worked for. This test is gone. substack | talk.