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| December 2, 2013
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Teheran: Saudis plotting with Israel on new computer worm to sabotage Iranian nuclear program

The Iranian state-owned news agency reports that last week, the Saudi spy agency & Israel’s Mossad hashed out a proposal for production of malware ‘worse than the Stuxnet.’

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Israel and Saudi Arabia are reportedly collaborating to create a new destructive computer worm to “spy on and destroy the software structure” of Iran‘s nuclear program, the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars said over the weekend.

Uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, Iran

A technician checks valves at the uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, Iran, February 3, 2007.- Photo: Reuters

Fars, the outlet of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, quoted “an informed source” close to the Saudi secret service as saying that Saudi spy chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan and Mossad head Tamir Pardo each sent a representative to Vienna on November 24 with the purpose of increasing the “‘two sides’ cooperation in intelligence and sabotage operations against Iran’s nuclear program.” Continue Reading »

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| December 1, 2013
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UK news report: Israel’s PM orders Mossad to gather proof Teheran violating Geneva accord

London’s ‘Sunday Times’ quotes Israeli defense sources as saying Israel wants to discredit the P5+1 Geneva deal by producing evidence of Iranian covert duplicity.

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has ordered both the Mossad and Military Intelligence to search for evidence that Iran is continuing nuclear activities forbidden under the Geneva accord signed with world powers last week, The Sunday Times quoted Israeli defense sources as saying.

Satellite photos show Iran 'sanitizing' Parchin

Satellite photos show Iran ‘sanitizing’ Parchin – Photo: REUTERS

Proof that Iran was violating the terms of the six-month interim deal would complicate US President Barack Obama’s push to delay the passage of new congressional sanctions against Iran while a long-term deal with Iran is being negotiated. Continue Reading »

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| November 28, 2013
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Kuwaiti newspaper: Cairo uncovered Mossad spy ring in Egypt

 

Kuwait’s Al-Rai newspaper reports 17 implicated in espionage for Israel have been detained by Egyptian security forces .

Newspaper suggests some of the suspects are diplomats.

Egyptian sources say case has been placed under a gag order.

By Daniel Siryoti

Egyptian security forces have arrested 17 people of different nationalities on suspicion that they were part of an alleged Israeli spy ring, Kuwait’s Al-Rai newspaper reported Tuesday.

Israel-Egypt border – Photo: AFP

According to the report, which has not been corroborated by any official Egyptian source, the suspects were part of an espionage ring operating in Cairo, Alexandria and other major Egyptian cities.

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| October 26, 2013
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US Tells Paris: Israel Behind Elysee Palace Hacking

Leaked document by Edward Snowden: France believed U.S. was behind a cyber attack on the Elysee Palace but White House pointed finger at Mossad.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

France believed the United States attempted to hack into its president’s communications network but the U.S. hinted that Israel was behind the attack, AFP reported on Friday, based on a leaked U.S. intelligence document.

Hackers (illustration) – AFP/File

According to the report, U.S. agents denied having anything to do with the May 2012 cyber attack on the Elysee Palace, the official residence of French presidents, and appeared to hint at the possible involvement of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. Continue Reading »

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| September 11, 2013
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Israel to Give 4 Million to Family of ‘Prisoner X’

The Family of Ben Zygier, the ex-Mossad agent who died in jail, will receive 4 million shekels compensation.

By Maayana Miskin

 

 

Israel has signed an agreement with the family of former Mossad agent Ben Zygier, Channel 2 reports. The state will pay 4 million shekels in compensation to the family for Zygier’s death in an Israeli prison in December 2010.

Zygier’s grave – Reuters

Zygier managed to commit suicide in a solitary confinement cell, despite being under supervision.

According to the report, 2,400,000 shekels will be paid this year, and another 400,000 will be given per year for the four years that follow. Continue Reading »

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| September 9, 2013
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‘Spy’ stork arrested, interrogated, released then eaten in Egypt

 

Last week, after a stork was caught in Egypt wearing a tracking device, the police held it on suspicion it was a Mossad spy for Israel. After its release, stork hunted down, then eaten.

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Menes the stork was caught in Egypt last week and held by authorities on suspicion of being used to spy for Israel, due to the tracking device attached to its leg. Just days after its release into the wild, it was hunted down and eaten, according to the UK’s Guardian.

Stork ‘spy’ in Egyptian custody – Photo: AP

The stork was brought into police by an Egyptian who spotted a device used to track wildlife that was on it, and thought that this might be a method of spying. Continue Reading »

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| September 1, 2013
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Egyptian Security Arrests Duck, as ‘Zionist Spy’

Egypt’s Police arrests water fowl suspected of being an Israeli spy, maybe for the Mossad.

By Maayana Miskin

 

 

Egyptian police have arrested a duck that they fear was sent by Israel as a spy, Egypt’s Al-Ahram news agency reports.

The bird was spotted by a fisherman in the Nile River, in the Qena region, as it swam with other birds. The fisherman noticed that the bird had a device attached to its feathers, which he feared could be used to gather information.

A security official told Al-Ahram that experts are examining the device to see if it could have been used to gather intelligence. Continue Reading »

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| August 21, 2013
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Netanyahu names deputy Mossad chief Israel’s new National Security Advisor

Yossi Cohen, Israel Defense Prize recipient  to replace out-going Major-General Yaakov Amidror as Israel’s latest National Security Advisor.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to appoint Deputy Mossad Director Yossi Cohen as the new national security advisor. Cohen, 52, married and the father of four, was only known as “Y” until recently. He will be replacing Major-General Yaakov Amidror.

Mossad Emblem

Mossad Emblem

Cohen has been serving in Israel’s security establishment for the past 30 years. In the last two years he served as deputy to the chief of Mossad, Tamir Pardo. He was also the director of Tzomet, the international network operation headquarters of the Mossad, and received the Israel Defense Prize. Continue Reading »

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| August 6, 2013
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Caught Hezbollah terrorists in Nigeria tell court Mossad agents interrogated them

Two Lebanese nationals charged in Nigerian court for plotting attacks against Israeli targets in western African countries say their interrogators were Mossad agents who used sleep deprivation & other harsh techniques in questioning.

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Two Lebanese nationals charged with plotting terror attacks in western Africa told a court in Nigeria on Monday they were interrogated by Mossad agents, AFP reported.

Cache of weapons.

Cache of weapons discovered at home of suspected Hezbollah operatives in Kona, – Nigeria. Photo:AFP

Mustapha Fawaz, Abdallah Thahini and Talal Ahmad Roda, allegedly Hezbollah members, were arrested in May after Nigerian police discovered they had amassed a secret weapons stock. Continue Reading »

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| August 3, 2013
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Obama’s ‘Leaking Info on Israeli Strikes in Syria’ Exposed

World Tribune: Leaks reflect “resentment” toward Israel within the U.S. intelligence community.
Jerusalem asks Congressmen to stop CIA leaks that endanger Israel.

By Arutz Sheva

 

The U.S. intelligence community has been leaking information on Israeli air strikes in Syria, and U.S. President Barack Obama is behind the leaks, according to a report in the World Tribune.

Diplomats told the Tribune that the Obama administration has enabled the U.S. intelligence community to disclose details of Israeli military operations against the armed forces under Syrian President Bashar Assad. These leaks include reporting Israeli air and naval strikes on advanced Iranian and Russian weapons that arrived in 2013. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2013
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Turkey: Detained bird was not spying for Israel

 

Turkish daily Hurriyet reports: After interrogation & X-ray test, the detained kestrel with leg-tag reading ‘4311 Tel Avivunia Israel’ was not carrying microchips & released “to fly away”.

By Ynet

 

Turkish authorities have “cleared a renegade bird captured in the Ağın district of the eastern province of Elazığ on suspicions of working for Israel’s state-of-the-art intelligence agency,” the Hurriyet newspaper reported Friday.

After being arrested, detained, interrogated, & x-rayed, the bird was 'Free to fly away.'

After being arrested, detained, interrogated, & x-rayed, the bird was ‘Free to fly away.’

According to the report by the Turkish newspaper, residents of Altınavya village became suspicious that the little kestrel could be more than a bird that lost its way when they found it wore a metallic ring stamped with the words “24311 Tel Avivunia Israel,” and delivered it to the district governorate. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2013
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Source inside Israel Prison Service: 2nd ‘Prisoner X’ held in total isolation for years

Unidentified testimony provided to Haaretz describes harsh conditions in which the other ‘Prisoner X’ is being held.

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On Tuesday, the Rishon Letzion Magistrate’s Court heard testimony that another Israeli is being held in total solitary confinement in one of the most secure prisons in Israel – the same prison in which the Mossad agent Ben Zygier was held. According to the testimony, the cell is well guarded and without windows. The prisoner has no contact with other prisoners or with his guards, who know nothing of his identity or the details of the indictment against him.

Second Prisoner X

Second Prisoner X

According to prison service officials, except for brief walks in a secluded adjacent yard, the prisoner has not left his cell for a few years now. Continue Reading »

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| July 10, 2013
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Did Mossad snatch Gazan from Egypt to be arrested in Israel?

 

Did Mossad arrest Palestinian terror suspect in Egypt a month ago? News of his arrest was only just cleared for publication when Court extended Abu Rida’s remand for still unknown alleged security offenses.

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A gag order was eased on Wednesday confirming the detention of Wael Abu Rida, a Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip suspected of as-yet unpublishable alleged security offenses.

Wife of Palestinian Wael Abu Rida holding his picture.

Wife of Palestinian Wael Abu Rida holding his picture. – Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Abu Rida, 35, vanished while visiting Egypt last month. His family and Israeli lawyer told Reuters that they did not know how he ended up in Israel.

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| July 8, 2013
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Court gives fake Mossad agent to 27 months prison for impersonation

Man sentenced for lying to continue romantic relationship with woman and ordered to pay for extorted funds from a security adviser.

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Shai Raz, who impersonated the deputy head of the Mossad in order to fraudulently obtain funds and maintain a romantic relationship with a woman, was sentenced on Sunday by the Rehovot Magistrate’s Court to 27 months in prison.

Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The 27 month sentence was part of a plea bargain endorsed by the court in which Raz  confessed to most of the charges that he was facing.In order to convince T.H. to become romantically involved with him, Raz told her that he was deputy head of the Mossad, and regularly showed her a variety of false and forged documents about his enormous wealth.In
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| June 29, 2013
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German intelligence maintains concealment of Eichmann related materials

German Federal Court rules against intelligence services releasing classified Eichmann files that may reveal the post-war gov’t knew of his whereabouts and gave assistance to Israel’s Mossad in apprehending the Nazi official in Argentina.

By Ynet

A German court has prevented the publication of secret intelligence documents regarding the senior Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, the British paper The Daily Mail has reported.

Eichmann trial – Photo: Government Press Office

Assessments believe that the documents reveal that the West Germany’s intelligence knew of the Nazi officer’s post-war whereabouts, and had in the passed blocked the publication possibly fearing embarrassing senior German officials’ secret Nazi past

The Daily Mail reported that the German Federal Administrative Court rejected Thursday a request lodged by the German daily paper Bild to receive the Eichmann related files. Continue Reading »

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