Tikun Olam, August 2014 - Der
Spiegel reports that Israeli intelligence (likely Unit 8200)
eavesdropped on phone calls John Kerry made to his Palestinian
interlocutors during the peace talks he conducted for the past year.
Though Kerry usually talked on encrypted phone lines from his State
Department office or Georgetown home, when he was in flight to or from
the region he had to use a satellite phone, which was not encrypted.
This allowed the Israelis to listen in on everything he said to the
Palestinians. It allowed them to know what ideas he was floating and
prepared for them to counter them in the negotiation process. When the
Israelis really disliked a proposal they knew better how to attack it
before Kerry had even brought the subject up. The Spiegel
reporter was the same one who first revealed that the NSA was
eavesdropping on Andrea Merkel’s cell phone conversations as well.
Newsweek, 2014 - Israel was singled out in 2007 as
a top espionage threat against the U.S. government, including its
intelligence services, in a newly published National Security Agency
(NSA) document obtained by fugitive leaker Edward Snowden, according to a
news report Monday. The document also identified Israel, along with North
Korea, Cuba and India, as a “leading threat” to the infrastructure of
U.S. financial and banking institutions.
Christopher Ketcham, AlterNet, 2009 -
Scratch a counterintelligence officer in the US government and they'll
tell you that Israel is not a friend to the United States. This is
because Israel runs one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage
networks targeting the US. The fact of Israeli penetration into the
country is not a subject oft-discussed in the media or in the circles of
governance, due to the extreme sensitivity of the US-Israel
relationship coupled with the burden of the Israel lobby, which punishes
legislators who dare to criticize the Jewish state. . .
When the FBI produces its annual report to Congress concerning "Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage," Israel and its intelligence services often feature prominently as a threat second only to China. In 2005 the FBI noted, for example, that Israel maintains "an active program to gather proprietary information within the United States." A key Israeli method, said the FBI report, is computer intrusion. In 1996, the Defense Intelligence Service, a branch of the Pentagon, issued a warning that "the collection of scientific intelligence in the United States [is] the third highest priority of Israeli Intelligence after information on its Arab neighbors and information on secret US policies or decisions relating to Israel." In 1979, the Central Intelligence Agency produced a scathing survey of Israeli intelligence activities that targeted the US government. Like any worthy spy service, Israeli intelligence early on employed wiretaps as an effective tool, according to the CIA report. In 1954, the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv discovered in his office a hidden microphone "planted by the Israelis," and two years later telephone taps were found in the residence of the US military attaché. In a telegram to Washington, the ambassador at the time cabled a warning: "Department must assume that all conversations [in] my office are known to the Israelis." The former ambassador to Qatar, Andrew Killgore, who also served as a foreign officer in Jerusalem and Beirut, told me Israeli taps of US missions and embassies in the Middle East were part of a "standard operating procedure."
According to the 1979 CIA report, the Israelis, while targeting political secrets, also devote "a considerable portion of their covert operations to obtaining scientific and technical intelligence." These operations involved, among other machinations, "attempts to penetrate certain classified defense projects in the United States." The penetrations, according to the CIA report, were effected using "deep cover enterprises," which the report described as "firms and organizations, some specifically created for, or adaptable to, a specific objective." . . .
In 2004, the authoritative Jane's Intelligence Group noted that Israel's intelligence organizations "have been spying on the US and running clandestine operations since Israel was established." The former deputy director of counterintelligence at FBI, Harry B. Brandon, last year told Congressional Quarterly magazine that "the Israelis are interested in commercial as much as military secrets."
When the FBI produces its annual report to Congress concerning "Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage," Israel and its intelligence services often feature prominently as a threat second only to China. In 2005 the FBI noted, for example, that Israel maintains "an active program to gather proprietary information within the United States." A key Israeli method, said the FBI report, is computer intrusion. In 1996, the Defense Intelligence Service, a branch of the Pentagon, issued a warning that "the collection of scientific intelligence in the United States [is] the third highest priority of Israeli Intelligence after information on its Arab neighbors and information on secret US policies or decisions relating to Israel." In 1979, the Central Intelligence Agency produced a scathing survey of Israeli intelligence activities that targeted the US government. Like any worthy spy service, Israeli intelligence early on employed wiretaps as an effective tool, according to the CIA report. In 1954, the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv discovered in his office a hidden microphone "planted by the Israelis," and two years later telephone taps were found in the residence of the US military attaché. In a telegram to Washington, the ambassador at the time cabled a warning: "Department must assume that all conversations [in] my office are known to the Israelis." The former ambassador to Qatar, Andrew Killgore, who also served as a foreign officer in Jerusalem and Beirut, told me Israeli taps of US missions and embassies in the Middle East were part of a "standard operating procedure."
According to the 1979 CIA report, the Israelis, while targeting political secrets, also devote "a considerable portion of their covert operations to obtaining scientific and technical intelligence." These operations involved, among other machinations, "attempts to penetrate certain classified defense projects in the United States." The penetrations, according to the CIA report, were effected using "deep cover enterprises," which the report described as "firms and organizations, some specifically created for, or adaptable to, a specific objective." . . .
In 2004, the authoritative Jane's Intelligence Group noted that Israel's intelligence organizations "have been spying on the US and running clandestine operations since Israel was established." The former deputy director of counterintelligence at FBI, Harry B. Brandon, last year told Congressional Quarterly magazine that "the Israelis are interested in commercial as much as military secrets."
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