2013 Hollywood Producer/Spy Arnon Milchan Played A Key Role In Israel's Nuke Program I'm working on a post about Vivi Nevo which is where Arnon Milchan's name came up:  "I ran across Vivi Nevo's name on a list here : "Vivi Nevo, Israeli-born international investment tycoon who holds large takes in Time-Warner, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft. (One of his principal associates is Israeli arms dealer, Arnon Milchan, a major backer of Israel’s secret nuclear weapons development program.)"" Details from my recent posts tie back to Wexner, Diller, Epstein. Arnon Milchan deserves his own post. http://archive.is/fuZ0e Hollywood Producer/Spy Arnon Milchan Played A Key Role In Israel's Nuke Program Film producer Arnon Milchan recently confirmed that he served as an Israeli spy for decades while also working in Hollywood. And it seems he was no ordinary spy. Israel's secretive LAKAM economic espionage unit, which was tasked with securing technology for Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program, recruited Milchan in the 1960s. At one point, the 69-year-old told Channel 2, he operated 30 companies in 17 different countries. (Milcharn reportedly became a key operative for LAKAM chief Benjamin Blumberg and top spy Rafi Eitan ([Esptein/Wexner), who ran jailed spy Jonathan Pollard and infiltrated a U.S. company to obtain tons of highly-enriched uranium.) Milchen, who is good friends with current Israeli President Shimon Peres, also said that he helped Israel obtain key nuclear equipment and information while Peres established the Dimona nuclear reactor as Director-General of the Ministry of Defense. Milchan's company, Heli Trading Co., brokered the shipment of 800 krytons — sophisticated triggers for nuclear weapons — from the California company MILCO International Inc. to the Israeli Ministry of Defense between 1979 and 1983. In 1985, the U.S. indicted and extradited MILCO President Kelly Smyth on 30 counts of smuggling and making false statements. Here's what Smyth told FBI agents in Los Angeles (via IRMEP): Smyth details his recruitment by Arnon Milchan, meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu who then worked at smuggling front Heli Trading (Milchan Brothers Trading Company) in Israel, and how the "Project Pinto" smuggling operation was rolled up after his arrest for smuggling 800 nuclear triggers and subsequent flight from the U.S. Milchan denies that he knew about the nuclear triggers, which require a U.S. State Department munitions license to be exported. In any case, it's clear that he was integral to Israel's nuclear program. Milchan, who still works in Hollywood, has produced over 120 full-length films including "Natural Born Killers," "Heat," "Pretty Woman," “Fight Club,” “L.A. Confidential," and "The Fountain." Documents California-based MILCO International Inc. shipped 15 orders totaling 810 krytrons to the Israeli Ministry of Defense between 1979 and 1983. Israeli movie producer Arnon Milchan's Heli Trading Company brokered the transactions. A krytron is a gas-filled tube used as a high speed switch.  Export from the US requires a US State Department munitions license because krytrons can be used as triggers for nuclear weapons.  The US rejected several requests for krytron export licenses to Israel.  MILCO obtained the krytrons from EG&G Inc., but listed them as "pentode" radio tubes before shipment to Israel. The ruse was uncovered by the FBI in 1983. A US Attorney tried to get MILCO President Richard Kelly Smyth to implicate Milchan in the illegal krytron export during plea bargaining. The negotiation failed, and in May, 1984, Smyth was indicted on 30 counts of smuggling and making false statements. In 1985 a Federal Grand Jury was convened in Los Angeles to investigate potential Atomic Energy Act and Arms Export Control Act violations, but no charges were ever filed against Milchan. Smyth and his wife fled the US and remained at large until captured in Malaga, Spain in July of 2001 after Smyth applied for Social Security benefits.   Smyth pled guilty to violating the US Arms Export Control Act.  In November, 2001 Smyth was sentenced to 40 years in prison and a $20,000 fine, though he was paroled due to his "advanced age." In 2016, Arnon Milchan received a 10-year resident visa after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lobbied Secretary of State John Kerry to grant one over the objections of career State Department employees. see also How Israel Received Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material From A US Company