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New Book Says US Has Five Secret Military Bases In Israel

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 5 February 2005
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New Book Says US Has Five Secret Military Bases In Israel
Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent
February 02, 2005

The United States has five secret military bases in Israel, according to a new book published recently in the US.

"Code Names," written by journalist William Arkin, a former U.S. intelligence official, says there have been secret ties between the US and Israel since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Arkin says the American military is present at Ben-Gurion International Airport, in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya Pituah and in three other sites, called bases 51-56, across the country.

The book also claims to decipher 3,000 code names and secret passwords used to develop international military contacts between the Pentagon and other countries, including Israel.

The book also offers a detailed description of US military ties and secret presence in countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa following the 2001 attacks.

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  • I would take everything in Arkin’s book with a grain of salt. This business about US military bases in Israel is a deliberate distortion of the truth

    Under the 1998 Wye River Accords, Israel pledged to move some military bases from Palestinian territories. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency agreed to assist. The US Army Corp of Engineers is engaged in the construction of two Infantry bases and one Logistics Base for an armored division, all within the pre-1967 Israeli border.

    It should not be surprising, then, to see US military personnel in Israel. Nor is it surprising that the US is footing the bill. But to call these "US bases" is misleading.

    Everything in Arkin’s book is already out there in the public domain. He just compiled it all and made some of it look like a revelation.