cover image Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People

Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People

John Loftus. St. Martin's Press, $24.95 (658pp) ISBN 978-0-312-09535-2

According to one of the authors' anonymous sources, former CIA director Allen Dulles was ``one of the worst traitors in American history'' because of his involvement in the linkage among Nazi corporations, U.S. oil interests and Saudi Arabia in the 1930s. The allegations are synthesized from interviews with some 500 former intelligence officers of various nationalities. The major powers, the authors argue, have repeatedly taken covert action designed to bring about the destruction of Israel, as much out of greed for oil as anti-Semitism. Among the charges made in these pages: Allied leaders conspired to block the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 for fear its presence would threaten the flow of Arab oil to the West. Great Britain and the United States, while pretending to support Israel during the Six-Day War, passed Israeli military secrets to their Arab foes. The Reagan administration tried to set up Israel as the principal scapegoat for the Iran-Contra scandal. Over the past 50 years, virtually every Jew in the world has been the subject of electronic surveillance by the British with the assistance of American intelligence. Loftus and Aarons wrote The Unholy Trinity. (Nov.)