The Einstein File by Fred Jerome - A Must Read, published 2002

Albert Einstein was harassed and later targeted by the FBI beginning the day he stepped into the US until (after) the day he died.

Over 1800 pages were recovered under the FOIA from the FBI, with at first 25% of the text blacked out. Unsuccessful at destroying the universally popular icon for genius because of his political activism against nuclear proliferation and McCarthyism, after his passing the US government subsequently sanitized his image of politics, seeking to rewrite history.

Hoover had files on almost 10 million Americans. The FBI actively recruited former Nazis into its ranks.

This is an important book. The author himself was son of a man who served three years in prison in Pennsylvania convicted for Communist sympathies during the early Red scare, and in preface recounts FBI agents following his own family during childhood. Well researched with first-hand documentation and evidence.

Wanting more letters to read on Einstein's experience from the Einstein Collection in the National Archive Library in Jerusalem, I was given this book for further background.

© Copyright 2006 Dean Levinson

Game Theory… A topic of interest because of all the games I have been subjected to, and from integrating the concepts in what have become useful tools for maintaining objectivity -- interpersonal transactional analysis, and the perspective of social economics.

Last night I attended a public lecture at Hebrew University given by Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize Winner, and a professor there. The lecture was repetitive – I’d attended it before without realizing at first, and regarding the exact same topic – ‘An Economic Index for Risk’.

Some Observations:

The crowd there including colleagues, students and others weren’t the least bit polite in their questions and comments to him. Perhaps a Nobel Prize doesn’t buy very much these days, at least in Israel, or this is not expected, or, this was deliberately projected as part of the demonstration.

Robert Aumann presented as a humble, polite, and good-humored person, with kippah and lengthy Talmudic beard, and projecting as if absent-minded, and without all the answers, or many.

The topic was simple as might be suited for the general public, but the axioms presented sophomoric and hardly representative of the product of complex thinking. In the model, the strong assumption was that those accepting gambles have the same wealth (and information, security, and other factors built into their decision-making capacity), making the entire Index involved very weak, if not ridiculous. Computer programs utilizing more thorough models already exist for this very thing. And, deliberately poor characteristics were built-in, just to uncover. A range of the kind of math drawn from in game theory was presented through this topic, but simplistically, and not applied in any convincing or particularly useful way.

This presentation was not an accident for a Nobel Prize Winner, nor was it characteristic for him personally. Somehow, it was either an encouragement that you too could win a Nobel Prize if this guy could, as part of a deliberate introduction to the kind of graduate work done there. Or perhaps, as a dissuasion to bother.

More pertinent and disturbing to me however, were the members in attendance, and comments that were made by Aumann and a handful of the others. Many of the people were present in the first lecture also, and sat in the same relative position to me. Certain comments that I made to a couple of those individuals last time, were repeated to me by a neighbor to my left, and in a handful of comments by the participants and Aumann himself. This was more than just a general recruiting forum then. I cannot speak for, or vouch, if there were perhaps other ‘flies’ in the web.

But this has become a familiar game here in Israel. Now, even in the forum of a lecture on game theory to play it! Indeed repetition serves as means by which superior parties at play maintain an ‘equilibrium’, with all that entails. 'Disturbing' doesn’t even begin to describe the level to which this occurs in Israel. Or, how it has been applied to me here for over one year now. Or as it was applied in the US throughout my ex-wife’s unjustifiable use of inappropriate influential assistance, forcing me to eventually leave the country after a long period of nothing less than psychological torture, and a variety of interferences in serious violation of civil and Constitutional laws. All of this beginning over two years prior to divorce by the encouragement of illegal actions by her friends at the Dallas Bar Association, at taxpayer expense no less, and escalating with time with broad defamation and illegal involvements by friend, Harriet Meiers of the Bush Administration, who my ex-wife cited with me.

Aumann himself would be a highly sought after consultant on the most important matters of Israeli foreign relations, governance and security, regarding models and outcomes affecting strategy. His Nobel speech, clearly reflects American-Israeli political thought, particularly the belief in effective deterent through credible threats. He emphasizes this, and gives the example of the nuclear race as a counter-intuitive peace incentive.

In e-mailing both the Decision Science general office and then Aumann personally over a period of two months, and even calling the general office regarding my interests in game theory and potential PhD work, I received no reply. I was informed before the lecture yesterday at the general office, that Aumann’s secretary would have received my e-mail, and yes, it was odd that I received no reply.

No less, near where I am residing lately, a man presenting as a former senior British diplomat, now working for an Israeli-Palestinian peace-related organization, and who has also played the repetition game with me, mentioned his governance involvement at Hebrew University, and posed comment to me during my unmentioned e-mail writing, suggesting I must have abilities in math. He is aware my real interest is in building International Healthcare for Israel, circles for which I have run into the same networked pattern of effects.

Returning last night off the bus to Ein Kerem, Oren, a ‘Hebrew University student’ who has given me an unsolicited ride twice, and also played the repetition game with me, pulled up just as I stepped off at 12:15 am, and queried me. His comments were that he had taken a course with Aumann (prior comment was he hadn’t) and that Aumann just didn’t lecture well.

There is no place I can go without being subject to this (invasions of privacy, networked repetition, stalking, etc.) – not a residence, a shul, an Ulpan, an employer, the Cinemateque, or anyplace it becomes evident I may frequent or head to. For over one year now. My e-mails read, my phones tapped and used as GPS tracking devices. Intense scrutiny with my every movement tracked, most statements recorded and fed back to me. My valuable or colorful ones -- just plain stolen. Property too. Employment, advancement, and self-promotion blocked or undercut. Private comments passed to parties inappropriately overseas. Negative imposition on my memory, affect and health.

This is not a help, as participants often claim, or legitimate, whether the actions are claimed to be part of Absorption, Security, or whatever the hell, as the infrastructure and resources most certainly are related. This is non-stop psychological ops well beyond moderate, the equivalent to an arrest at-large, an ongoing interrogation, and continuing torture. I don’t care how friendly the tone or big the smiles of those engaged in the abuse.

Moreover, there is an intimate tie to investigative agencies broadly, desire to cover-up what was done to me in the US, and also presently in regard to what is being secreted by/for/about my sons and my ex-wife and US intelligence, avoiding penalties and actions for restitution.

© Copyright 2006 Dean Levinson

Let us hope the end of illegal invasions of personal privacy, and a new fair-dealing among representatives of business, health care and government will be occurring where I am concerned, here in Israel.

© Copyright 2006 Dean Levinson

The latter rain...

Yesterday's special prayer for rain on Shemeni Atzeret was recited throughout Israel, Shemini Atzeret being the last day of Sukkot. This morning in Jerusalem, the very next day, there is rain.

Shemini Atzeret means "the eighth [day] of retention." Chassidic masters explain that the primary purpose of the festival is to retain and "conceive" the spiritual revelations and powers that we are granted during the festivals of the month of Tishrei, so that we could subsequently apply them to our lives throughout the year.

To the many who prayed or understand the custom of this prayer, what was conceived in repentance and celebration has this marvelous and highly favorable sign.

© Copyright 2006 Dean Levinson