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US accuses Israel of spying on Iran nuclear talks
[Guardian] According to the report, the US has long been aware that Israel is among the shortlist of countries with the most aggressive intelligence operations targeting interesting word choice America, alongside Russia, China and France. but not the UK, of course It said American diplomats attending the talks in Austria and Switzerland were briefed by US counterintelligence officials about the threat of Israeli eavesdropping. It also raised the possibility that Israel gathered intelligence about the US position by spying on other participants in the negotiations, from western Europe, Russia, China or Iran. US intelligence had previously provided help to the Israelis to spy on the Iranians, the report said. The US also conducts intelligence operations against Israel so there and learned of the Israeli spying operation when it intercepted communication between Israeli officials exchanging classified information that US intelligence believed could only have been acquired by espionage. However, what appears to have upset administration officials more than the spying is the use of the classified intelligence acquired to brief members of the US Congress and to persuade them to torpedo the talks. After Netanyahu addressed Congress this month, 47 Republican senators wrote an open letter to the Iranian leadership, warning it that a successor to Obama could refuse to honour any agreement reached. seeing the words "honour" and "Obama" in the same sentence kind of gives me the willies "It is one thing for the US and Israel to spy on each other. It is another thing for Israel to steal US secrets So, it went from "spy" to "steal." Interesting. and play them back to US legislators to undermine US diplomacy," the Wall Street Journal quoted a senior US official as saying. Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-25 |
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