Flashback, 2000-2001:

Before 9/11, DEA and FBI offices across the U.S. were reporting the same anomaly, young Israelis with military intelligence backgrounds appearing at secure facilities and agents’ homes, posing as “art students” with cheap canvases.

The DEA’s Office of Security Programs compiled it all into a classified 60-page memo: over 120 operatives, 30+ cities, coordinated reconnaissance. Then the case vanished.

Here’s the timeline they buried 🧵

The DEA began receiving field reports in January 2001 about young Israelis “attempting to penetrate” DEA offices, with similar appearances at agents’ homes.

The memo notes the pattern had been occurring since at least early 2000, spiked in November–December 2000, and, while raw incident counts dipped after April 2001, the geographic spread widened to places like Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Los Angeles.

Florida carried the heaviest concentration. The behaviors that triggered internal alarms were attempts to circumvent access control at DEA facilities and door-to-door approaches at DEA employees’ residences.

The report describes standardized team tradecraft. Groups typically moved in 8–10s under a designated “team leader,” with members dropped off to canvass while the leader circled back for pickup.

Most were early- to mid-20s, many admitted recent Israeli military service, and a majority of those questioned said they served in military intelligence, electronic signal intercept, or explosive ordnance units; some were tied to senior IDF figures (including the son of a two-star general, a former bodyguard to the army chief, and a Patriot missile operator).

Their cover stories were conspicuously consistent, “art students” from Jerusalem schools, yet they dodged basic questions about studios or training; multiple offices learned the paintings were mass-produced in China.

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Source:

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