The Israel Lobby Archive:

An Independent Research Unit Located at the Institute for Research, Middle Eastern Policy

in Washington DC

ccun.org, October 18, 2008

The Israel Lobby Archive is an independent research unit located at The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington DC.  The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents about the Israel lobby, many obtained through Freedom of Information Act filings with law enforcement and intelligence agencies and IRmep directed declassification processes.
 
http://IRmep.org/ila
 
The Archive also serves as a repository for records that briefly enter the pubic domain through court actions or investigative journalism only to vanish into obscurity for lack of sustained mainstream press coverage.
 
The Archive is dedicated to preserving and contextualizing historical records about the Israel lobby's operations in the US, bypassing media filters and educating concerned Americans, students and researchers through enhanced direct access to both recent and older primary source material.
 
Initial documents now available for public download include:
 
*Israel'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.  The many vestiges of this plan can be seen in US media today.
 
*AIPAC Forming and Directing Political Action Committee Candidate Donations*
 
In 1988, internal memos reveal the American Israel Public Affairs Committee establishing  Political Action Committees
(PACs) to direct donations to preferred candidates in violation of its tax-exempt nonprofit status.
 
*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 even if he leaves the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to lobby  in the private sector.
Declassified and released under FOIA on March 13, 2008.
 
*The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Investigates Israel*
 
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. 
 
The complete Senate record of over 1,000 pages of documents and testimony is presented for the very first time on the Internet.
 
*DOJ Orders Israel Lobby Umbrella to Register as Foreign Agents*
 
In 1962 the US Department of Justice ordered the American Zionist Council to register as foreign agents.  This umbrella organization to Hadassah and the Zionist Organization of America was receiving millions in funds from the Jewish Agency for public relations and lobbying in the United States.
 
*AIPAC executives and DOD employee Indicted*
 
AIPAC director of Foreign Policy Steven Rosen, AIPAC Senior Middle East Analyst Keith Weissman and Colonel Lawrence Franklin are indicted under the 1917 Espionage Act for covert efforts to influence US Iran policy.
 
The Israel Lobby Archive may now be accessed at:
 
http://IRmep.org/ila