Final_Judgment

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Israel, there were many unseen forces at work behind the scenes. In fact,
Israel's Mossad and the Red Chinese intelligence service were engaged in
quiet diplomacy at the highest (and most intimate) levels.
Although the world was led to believe well into the late 1970's that Red
China was actively supporting the Palestinian cause in opposition to Israel,
noted intelligence historian Richard Deacon revealed in 1977 that: "Early
reports of Chinese involvement in the Palestinian guerrilla movements can
now be rejected almost totally. They probably arose originally because
China was the first major nation to grant diplomatic recognition to Al Fatah
and to have provided training for Palestinian guerrillas at the Nanking
Military Academy." 1014
However, Deacon cautioned: "Newspaper and radio reports of Chinese
infiltration of the Palestine guerrilla movement have not only been grossly
exaggerated, but in many cases just not true, even though originally China
as well as Russia established close relations with Al Fatah. It must be
remembered that China also has a great interest in Middle East oil and that
she is anxious to counteract Soviet interest in this part of the world." 1015
"The truth behind all these scares of Chinese intervention against Israel
on the guerrilla front was very different," Deacon reported. "The Chinese
had learned their lesson as a result of their openly aggressive and somewhat
clumsy efforts at espionage in Africa in the early sixties . . . [when] the
Chinese suffered one setback after another in Africa from trying to compete
too soon and too speedily with Russian infiltration." 1016
"Whatever may be their public utterances on the subject of the Middle
East," wrote Deacon, "the Chinese privately acknowledge that Israel is in
effect an ally in all matters relating to the Soviet Union." 1017
Deacon adds: "The private face of Chinese Intelligence is often totally
different from the propagandist public voice of the Chinese Government.
Partly because of setbacks in Africa, but also because there have been
throughout history close links between the Chinese and the Jews (a number
of Intelligence advisers and officers to earlier Chinese governments have
been Jews), China' s attitude to the Arab-Israeli confrontation [was
increasingly] somewhat ambiguous." 1018
THE SECRET NUCLEAR ALLIANCE
It is to Deacon whom we owe the credit for the not insignificant
revelation that Israel and Red China were long engaged in secret, behindthe-scenes
nuclear development programs. According to Deacon:
"The Israelis have also adopted a technique similar to that of the
Chinese in obtaining nuclear secrets and keeping up-to-date on what is
developing in that field outside their country: they have made a point of
carefully recruiting the help of non-Israeli Jews all over the world who are
either scientists or students in nuclear physics, while at the same time