Spy Museum Questions The USA Role of Espionage
By Shout-Africa – WASHINGTON- What do newly declassified documents about weapons grade uranium and dual-use technology diversions from the US reveal about the role of espionage in building Israel’s secret arsenal? Did Israel’s proposed nuclear weapons sales to apartheid South Africa signal they are still for sale if the partner and price are right? Do FBI and CIA cover-ups of investigations into Israeli nuclear espionage signal official US government approval or political acquiescence? Did cooperating with Israel’s policy of “strategic ambiguity” ever make sense for the United States? Is the era of “nuclear opacity” now coming to an end? Are Israel’s nuclear weapons of strategic benefit to the US? Panelists present an exciting discussion of these timely questions!
Present at the discuassion shall be; Sasha Polakow-Suransky the editor of Foreign Affairs magazine at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the 2010 book “The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa.”
John J. Mearsheimer the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago and author of the book “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” and coauthor of “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.”
Grant F. Smith the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) and author of the books “Spy Trade,” “America’s Defense Line” and “Foreign Agents”.
Moderated by Middle East analyst Jeffrey Blankfort, host of the Northern California public radio station KZYX international affairs program, “Takes on the World.”
The sole sponsor of this event is IRmep’s Mordechai Vanunu Open Nuclear Dialogue Initiative. This free panel discussion with Q&A and continental breakfast buffet begins at 10AM, July 7, 2010 in the International Spy Museum’s special events room, 800 F Street NW–Washington, DC 20004.
