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Mossad stole Iran’s nuke archive and smuggled it back to Israel the same night
2018-05-01
[IsraelTimes] Senior Israeli official tells The New York Times the spy agency discovered the warehouse in 2016 and had it under surveillance; Trump briefed on raid by Mossad chief Yossi Cohen

Spies from Israel’s Mossad agency discovered the top-secret location of a warehouse used to store Iran’s nuclear weapons files, broke into the building, took half a ton of documents and managed to smuggle them back to Israel that same night, The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 reported Monday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed the daring operation
... as daring as the rescue of the Israelis held hostage at the Munich Olympics, as daring as the kidnapping of Eichmann, as daring as the rescue of the hijacked hostages his brother died for in Entebbe...
as he displayed the trove of documents in a presentation aimed at proving that Iran has lied about its atomic weapon’s program.

However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
 he gave few details on how or when the agents managed what he called one of the "greatest achievements" of Israeli intelligence.

A senior Israeli official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a secret mission, told the New York Times that the Mossad discovered the warehouse in February 2016, and had the building under surveillance since then.
If only they’d dressed up as squirrels, then the Iranians would surely have noticed the watchers sometime in that two-plus years...
The operatives broke into the building one night last January, removed the original documents and smuggled them back to Israel the same night, the official said, according to the paper.
So is the warehouse now empty, or have the Iranians been working from forgeries the entire time?
US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 was informed of the operation by the Mossad chief, Yossi Cohen, on a visit to Washington in January, the official said.
And not a peep was revealed? So much for the journalistic claims that the White House leaks like a sieve.
The official said the delay in making the material public was due to the time it took to analyze the documents, the vast majority of which were in Persian.
Lots of Persian-Israelis around to help with the work, and none of them let out a peep, either.
Netanyahu described the archive as looking like a "dilapidated warehouse" in the Shorabad District in southern Tehran.
*Snicker*
"This is where they kept the atomic archives. Right here. Few Iranians knew where it was, very few, and also a few Israelis," Netanyahu said.
Do tell.
"Now, from the outside, this was an innocent looking compound. It looks like a dilapidated warehouse. But from the inside, it contained Iran’s secret atomic archives locked in massive files," he said.

He showed a picture, showing long rows of safes and said that the agents managed to bring back "half a ton of the material" consisting of fifty-five thousand pages and another 55,000 files on 183 CDs.
Half a ton spirited out in one night?? How many were involved in this little caper?
The cache, he said, contained "incriminating documents, incriminating charts, incriminating presentations, incriminating blueprints, incriminating photos, incriminating videos and more.

"We’ve shared this material with the United States, and the United States can vouch for its authenticity," he said of the information.
Posted by:trailing wife

#17  "How did they know what was important to haul away? How did they know where the stuff was being stored? Now there's a good story."

I don't care. Take it all.
Posted by: newc   2018-05-01 22:25  

#16  "Two Mullah's and A Truck" could have that moved and in the truck before first morning smoke break... "Two Mossad's and an Invisible Hoovercraft" probably even faster.
Posted by: Capsu78   2018-05-01 18:52  

#15  What about the staples?
Posted by: gorb   2018-05-01 15:53  

#14  The way we talk about paper in the United States is amazingly convoluted. The short answer is that 500 sheets of bond paper with a size of 17" by 22" have a weight of 20 pounds. The manufacturer would cut a sheet that big into four letter-size sheets, so a 500-sheet ream of 20-pound bond paper weighs 5 pounds.
Posted by: magpie   2018-05-01 15:38  

#13  That's papers in folders not packages, multiply the volume by 3 to 5.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-05-01 15:01  

#12  Strike my "bad maths" above- 10 reems per carton would be 20 cartons, which would fit on a pallet and inside a pick up truck.
Posted by: Capsu78   2018-05-01 15:00  

#11  "1/2 ton = 1000 lbs. = About 200 reams of paper? Not so much to haul away. A good pick-up truck load."

A bit more than that actually...It would be about 4 pallets of copy paper, if my prior memories as Print Manager can be trusted.
Posted by: Capsu78   2018-05-01 14:56  

#10  Meanwhile Top Men at the CIA continue to push the dodgy dossier.

Let's zero out their budget and outsource to a pro-American spy organization, shall we?
Posted by: regular joe   2018-05-01 14:27  

#9  I bet they just loaded it up on a Caspian Sea fast boat and sped north.
Posted by: 3dc   2018-05-01 14:15  

#8  A 500-sheet ream of 20-pound bond paper weighs 5 pounds

1/2 ton = 1000 lbs. = About 200 reams of paper? Not so much to haul away. A good pick-up truck load.

How did they know what was important to haul away? How did they know where the stuff was being stored? Now there's a good story.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-05-01 09:58  

#7  I know it sounds slightly out of the box (or possibly more so), but what if the "Archive's" were actually transferred documents, bought and paid for as part of the Obama-Iran deal ?

Think on that for a moment or two.

Posted by: Besoeker   2018-05-01 09:39  

#6  Ballsy indeed, considering getting caught would no doubt lead to torture, show trial, and death
Posted by: Frank G   2018-05-01 09:29  

#5  Half a ton spirited out in one night??

Not really that much. Figure 1000 lbs breaks down to 20 50lb boxes. Don't know how they were packaged but it probably took some time to decide what had to go.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-05-01 09:25  

#4  Not only a huge victory in the espionage field, but ballsy as hell.

The Mossad is still as good and as dangerous as ever while our CIA and NSA have withered on the vine of political correctness.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-05-01 09:04  

#3  Correction....atomics....not nukes.
Posted by: Flilet Omeremble3846   2018-05-01 04:09  

#2  An aside, year after next will be the 75th aniversary of the onlz time nukes were used in war against an adversary.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606   2018-05-01 03:17  

#1  I thought you were just supposed to photograph or copy the evidence and then leave it be.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-05-01 01:45  

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