The government of Israel, likely that of Saudi Arabia and Russia, hopes President Trump will be re-elected in 2020. But that doesn’t mean they don’t spy on him. From POLITICO The miniature surveillance devices, colloquially known as “StingRays,” mimic regular cell towers to fool cell phones into giving them their locations and identity information. Formally...
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Turkish Paper Publishes Saudi Hit Squad’s Gruesome Conversations During Khashoggi’s Murder
The conversations recorded prior to and during the Oct. 2, 2018 murder of the dissident journalist at the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate were obtained by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) right after the gruesome incident, and were shared with related Turkish authorities carrying out an investigation into the incident, as well as with international officials and...
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Trump’s Pressure On Iran May Spark Mideast Conflict
Israeli attacks in three Middle East countries are pushing a volatile region that is already the scene of two long-running wars, closer to a third. The lethal strikes show how the Trump administration has effectively outsourced the military component of its “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran. As a result, one U.S. ally–Israel–is attacking in another...
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The Egyptian Spy Who Worked for Mossad
Heba Salim was an Egyptian woman who said she spied in service of peace. Her story is the basis a famous Egyptian movie, Al sood ila al haweyah. (Climbing to the Abyss) I never knew her story until I read it in Egyptian Streets. At a time when Egyptian President Sadat was planning his next...
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Dutch Mole Aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet Cyberattack on Iran
One intelligence service may need another–or two to successfully mount a covert operation. Case in point: the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program. Its long been known that the United States and Israel collaborated on creating a computer virus known as Stuxnet. The virus caused the Iranian computers controlling centrifuges used to enrich uranium to...