Israel was singled out in 2007 as a top espionage threat
against the 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.
The document also identified Israel, along with North
Korea, Cuba and India, as a “leading threat” to the infrastructure of
U.S. financial and banking institutions.
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. with thousands of top-secret
documents last year.
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.
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. government, military,
science & technology and Intelligence Community” organs.
The term “manipulation/influence operations” refers to covert attempts by Israel to sway U.S. public opinion in its favor.more
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