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...that would let them listen in on the security forces as they shuttled weaponry, components, technical manuals and chemical and biological materials around Iraq. Scott Ritter, the former U.S. Marine major who was then a leading UNSCOM inspector, traveled to Israel and persuaded that country's intelligence agency, the Mossad, to provide scanners to tap into the radio and cell-phone frequencies used by the Iraqi security units...
Thoughts of screwball comedy mix-ups flashed through my head: my Harvard ID picture was whisked off the Eliot House Web facebook and somehow landed in the Mossad terrorist files. Those thoughts, however, didn't amuse me. So I gave...
Enjoy "The Manchurian Candidate"? So did Mossad, it seems -- too much, if a report in an Israeli newspaper is to be believed. Ha'aretz, normally a sedate read, went wild Wednesday with claims that the Cold War flick inspired Israeli intelligence agents to hypnotize a young Arab prisoner into attempting to assassinate Yasser Arafat nearly 30 years ago. The plot, allegedly the brainchild of Major Benjamin Shalit, chief psychologist in the Israeli navy, seems too ridiculous for words -- the 28-year old Palestinian, codename "Fathi," was supposedly brainwashed and dispatched over the border with an exploding two-way radio...
...Coming in the same week that Israel?s once-feared Mossad came off like Keystone Spooks in a bungled bugging in Switzerland, the Times report detailing debate over a covert operation still in its planning stages underlined the declining fortunes of the elite intelligence services that had seemed so formidable in the Cold...
...Israel?s Mossad has, in the past year alone, had to deal with a botched assassination attempt on a Hamas leader in Jordan, which turned into a political disaster for Prime Minister Netanyahu, as well as the revelation that alarmist reports of Syria?s military intentions the agency had fed to the government had been dreamed up by the head of its Damascus operation...