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Hezbollah: 'US Lebanon embassy recruiting spies'
[Iran Press TV] Hezbullies says the United States has been using its Leb embassy as a venue to recruit informants to spy on the Lebanese resistance movement.A report aired on al-Manar TV channel on Saturday said the CIA had mandated a team of 10 officers, including women, with recruiting Lebanese spies to gather information on Hezbullies, Xinhua reported. The spies were to inform the officers at the US embassy in Awkar, north of Beirut, on Hezbullies officials and fighters and provide the addresses of the movement's arms depots. Hezbullies Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem  ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said that the revelation was "only a small fraction" of data at hand on Washington's spy activities in Leb. The officers, registered as diplomats at the US embassy, had served as CIA agents in Leb for three years. The CIA officers were active in recruiting agents from various posts including government employees, security and military personnel, religious, banking and academic figures, the report said. The recruitment of agents reportedly took place inside the US embassy premises while meetings were held in fast-food restaurants and coffee shops. In November, US officials admitted that a group of CIA informants in Leb had been captured by Hezbullies, which served a serious blow on Washington's spying operations in the country. Posted by: Fred 2011-12-11 |
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