CYBER ESPIONAGE THREATS FROM ISRAEL SERIES
In a series of articles last May, Newsweek reported that "Israel has been caught carrying out aggressive espionage operations against American targets for decades," an allegation vociferously denied by Israeli officials, who insisted that Jerusalem stopped spying on the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate ranked Israel as "the third most aggressive intelligence service against the U.S.," behind only China and Russia. A previously released Snowden document said that "one of NSA's biggest threats is actually from friendly intelligence services, like Israel." Another revealed that a U.S.
and Israel, which cooperate closely in military and intelligence operations but also aggressively spy on each other. The new document again underscores the schizoid relationship between the U.S. Critical Information Systems," Israel, India, North Korea and Cuba are identified as "FIS threats." Israel also appears on the list of countries believed by the NSA to be "enabling" electronic warfare "producers/proliferators." Under a section headed "Mastering Cyberspace and Preventing an Attack on U.S. infrastructure, according to the NSA document. Israel has similar company in threats against U.S. In this, Israel has dubious company, according to the NSA: Other leading threats were listed as China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, France, Venezuela and South Korea. The term "manipulation/influence operations" refers to covert attempts by Israel to sway U.S. government, military, science & technology and Intelligence Community" organs. In a section of the document headed "Foreign Intelligence, Counterintelligence Denial & Deception Activities: Countering Foreign Intelligence Threats," Israel was listed as a leading perpetrator of "espionage/intelligence collection operations and manipulation/influence operations…against U.S. In this new document, Israel was identified by the NSA as a security threat in several areas, including "the threat of development of weapons of mass destruction" and "delivery methods (particularly ballistic and nuclear-capable cruise missiles)." The NSA also flagged Israel's "WMD and missile proliferation activities" and "cruise missiles" as threats. with thousands of top-secret documents last year. The threats were listed in the NSA's 2007 Strategic Mission List, according to the document obtained by journalist/activist Glenn Greenwald, a founding editor of The Intercept, an online magazine that has a close relationship with Snowden, a former NSA and CIA contractor who fled the U.S. The document also identified Israel, along with North Korea, Cuba and India, as a "leading threat" to the infrastructure of 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. Israel was singled out in 2007 as a top espionage threat against the U.S.
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