Caracas – 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.
The ADL says the report is deeply troubling and is a further sign of the government of Hugo Chavez’s inveterate bias against Jews.
“It is chilling to read reports that the SEBIN received instructions to carry out clandestine surveillance operations against members of the Jewish community, as described in detail in documents leaked by the Argentinean website Analisis24,” the ADL said Wednesday in a statement. “In a country where the government and some of its followers have publicly accused the Jewish community of disloyalty and where the community’s institutions and houses of worship have been attacked, reports of this kind of surveillance add fuel to an already incendiary atmosphere inciting prejudice and hate.”
Documents on espionage Venezuelan Jewish community
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1.- 01.09.10 NUEVA RONDA DE NEGOCIACIONES ISRAEL PALESTINA
2.- 14.09.10 SEGUNDA RONDA DE CONVERSACIONES PALESTINO-ISRAELI
3.- 25-07-10. 1602, Respuesta a Requerimiento 076 Gremio Israeli
4.- 37 VERIFICACION DE INFORMACION RECORRIDO EMBAJADA DE ISRAEL 171210
6.- 1392-18072011 INTENTO DE PARALIZACION DE OBRA EN EL HOSPITAL ISRAEL RANUAREZ BALZA DE ROSCCIO
7.- Acusación de Embajador de Israel en Panamá 150910
9.- AWADA AWADA ALI MOHAMAD 518
12.- Caso Arabic Center Studies 270810
13.- Caso_5_Israel_Waizer_Peraza
14.- CONFLICTIVIDAD IRAN 140710
15.- DECLARAC ISRAEL 251010 DEF
16.- EL MOSSAD EN AMÉRICA DEL SUR VERSION FINAL 02072010
17.- GREMIOS ISRAELIES 20-07-2010
18.- IA 090 – 12 DESCONTENTO EN EL HOSPITAL ISRAEL RANUÀREZ BALZA.
19.- IiNFORME ROSH HASHANA 2010 1
20.- INF 1889. Resp. a Req. Organizaciones Israelíes.
21.- INF N 1821 RESP A REQ N°076 relacionado a la presencia de ciudadanos israelies
22.- Informe al Presidente (26ABR10)
23.- INFORME DEMOS USB
24.- INFORME DIASPORA JUDIASEPT10
25.- INFORME ESPECIAL CASO ESCOBAR 30072010
27.- ISRAEL CAMERO. TITULARES DEL 2013
28.- Israel mira con atención vinculos entre Irán y Chávez
29.- Israel Taller de Seguridad
30.- Israel
31.- kfir 051010[1]
32.- Lopez S Programa actualizado del taller de seguridad ciudadana en Israel
33.- MILOS Fraternidad Hebrea.
34.- MOSARD
35.- MOSSAD PRESENTACION
36.- Nota Informativa Cdnos Israeli Nº 706
38.- PERFIL UNIÓN ISRAELITA DE CARACAS
39.- plan de trabajo mediterraneo1
40.- programa de seguridad Israel
41.- Red Patriota Cooperantes ARABES
42.- Reglamento Conjunto (Unidad Israeli)
44.- RESPUESTA A REQUERIMIENTO 076 ORGANIZACIONES DE ORIGEN ISRAELI
46.- RESPUESTA REQUERIMIENTO 076 26-07-10
47.- Respuesta Requerimiento 076
48.- SOLICITUD
