____________________________________________ 5 IICC Perspectives The Political Department worked in the United States, including among non-Zionist organizations, to rally support in the administration and Congress in order to solve the problem of displaced persons in Europe, and to promote the recognition that the establishment of a Jewish state provides a humanitarian solution for their rehabilitation. Throughout this period, Reuven Shiloah was shuttling between the United States, Britain, and Cairo. Subsequently, Eliyahu Eilat (who was also the agency's envoy in Paris) as well as Shiloah, and Gershon Agron represented the Political Department as observers at the Constituent Assembly of the United Nations in San Francisco (25.4-26.6.1945). In January 1947, in preparation for the partition debate, Sharett held a conference of the Zionist Executive in London, where he called for expanding political activity among Jewish communities around the world. At the initiative of Walter Eitan, contacts were held in Jerusalem and Cairo with the diplomats of the UN member states, ahead of the vote in the UN General Assembly. Representatives of the Political Department abroad, such as Uriel Heyd) Later prof. Uriel Hed), operated from London vis-à-vis the Scandinavian countries, Holland and Belgium. The Paris-based representative, Maurice Fischer, operated vis-à-vis Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Yugoslavia. In Washington, Eilat was also entrusted with contacting Latin America. Regional departments were established at the headquarters in Jerusalem to provide adequate materials to representatives abroad. Activities in the U.S. In early 1945, Reuven Shiloah arrived in Washington, where he met with officials of the Near East Bureau at the State and War Departments, as well as with the OSS (Office of Strategic Service – the nascent CIA). It was agreed that the Political Department of the Jewish Agency would provide intelligence mainly on Nazi war crimes and expose Nazi cells still operating under false identities. The information was extracted from reports of the agency's emissaries in Germany and Austria and from testimonies of Holocaust survivors who arrived in Palestine. The Americans were provided with analyses on the Middle East by experts in the Political Department, like Eliyahu Sasson, David Horowitz, Ezra Danin, and others. Shiloah was also involved in advocating with military circles in Washington and with opinion makers, in order to facilitate the ongoing Yishuv's procurement efforts. Eliyahu Eilat, Director of Neighboring Countries department, the Jewish Agency (Wikipedia) Reuven Shiloah One of the Israeli Intelligence community founders, and the first Head of "Mossad" " (Wikipedia)
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