BOOK REVIEW: Foreign Agents by Grant Smith

FOREIGN AGENTS: The American Israel Public Affairs
Committee from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005
Espionage Scandal

FOREIGN AGENTS analyzes the history and activities
of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
FOREIGN AGENTS begins with testimony and subpoenaed
documents from the 1963 Senate investigation into the
activities of the agents of foreign principals. Senator J.W.
Fulbright's discovery of "conduit" money-laundering
operations in the US financed by Israeli principals
touched off deep and important questions about
US lobbying on behalf of the fledgling nation and the
applicability of laws such as the Foreign Agents Registration
Act and the Logan Act. The book then uncovers AIPAC
election law skirmishes in the 1980s-1990s, analyzing
the lobby's role in establishing and coordinating political
action committees and AIPAC's role in alleged election
law violations. FOREIGN AGENTS then turns to the
question of espionage. In 2005, two AIPAC executives,
Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, were criminally
indicted for violating the 1917 Espionage Act. FOREIGN
AGENTS reviews behind-the-scenes defense team motions
and judicial decisions affecting First Amendment freedom
of speech issues and questions about "inside the Beltway"
trafficking in classified US defense information by lobbies.
FOREIGN AGENTS evaluates Rosen and Weissman's
assertions that the conduct alleged in the indictment was
within the scope of their employment with AIPAC and was
undertaken for AIPAC's benefit. FOREIGN AGENTS then
makes comprehensive recommendations for legal
oversight in the context of AIPAC's history as a powerful
and secretive foreign agent for Israel.

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Editorial Reviews of Foreign Agents:
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"In this book, Grant Smith renders a vital public service by
providing chapter-and-verse evidence that the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee--Israel's U.S. lobby--is the
agent of a foreign government and has violated public law
for years in ways that seriously harm U.S. national interests."
-Paul Findley, former US Congressman

"For those who want to understand how AIPAC and the Israel
lobby have hijacked the American political process, Grant Smith's
Foreign Agents is required reading.
-Jeffrey Blankfort hosts the international affairs program "Takes
on the World" on KZYX Pacifica Radio in Mendocino, California.

"Wealthy, powerful, almost covert, with the proven capability of
strongly influencing the media as well as both parties in
Congress and the White House, AIPAC's omnipresent, little-
known activities demand the public scrutiny that Foreign Agents
initiates."
-Ambassador Edward L. Peck is former Chief of Mission in Iraq
and Former Deputy Director, White House Cabinet Task Force
on Terrorism 

AIPAC has proved itself to be a danger to our democracy by using
money and political power to benefit a foreign government, all at the
expense of the American taxpayer.  Grant Smith has done a great deal
of powerful research to bring facts that will benefit us all when
making decisions as to who we vote for." 
-Senator James G. Abourezk

"Grant Smith has produced a momentous scholarly work that reveals an
eye-opening picture of the carefully guarded operations of the Israeli
lobby and its unparalleled influence over US policy in the Middle East.
What makes this daringly debunking research work convincing and its
arguments irrefutable is the fact that it steers past the dangers of
the conspiracy theories surrounding the Israeli lobby by drawing
exclusively on official government and/or public sources of
information.  Foreign Agents is a must read primer for anyone
interested in making sense of our government's policy in the Middle
East and its implications for our domestic politics and priorities." 
-Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Ph.D. is Professor of Economics at Drake
University and Author of the book "The Political Economy of US Militarism"

"In Foreign Agents, Grant Smith has drawn together the historical
threads of a foreign lobby group that has managed to slip between
the cracks despite its connection to numerous illegal activities in the
United States. Foreign Agents reveals what every American citizen
should know about AIPAC, the Israeli lobby which holds sway over
many US politicians, and hence US politics, often to the detriment of
US interests. A must read book." 
-Kim Petersen is the co-editor of the Dissident Voice newsletter

"Grant F. Smith's book provides a superb review of the efforts that
have been made to expose the Israel lobby from 1963 to 2005.
Smith's work is extremely well researched. He gathers together
documents, testimony from closed-door hearings, and news articles
that most Americans have totally forgotten... His work is monumental."
-Richard Curtiss executive editor of the Washington Report on Middle
East Affairs