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According to a twitter comment by a reporter who didn’t back the claim with any evidence.
by ch4s3 9mo ago
According to a twitter comment by a reporter who didn’t back the claim with any evidence.
- bigyabai 9mo agoWith respects to Mordechai Vanunu, I can understand why he didn't try leaking documents.
- ch4s3 9mo agoIf Ravid isn't even willing to say that someone told him on background, it sounds like bullshit or speculation. Guys like Ravid are intentionally or no part of the myth making around Mossad where they are simultaneously everywhere int he Middle East and nowhere at once.
- chipsrafferty 9mo ago[flagged]
- trimethylpurine 9mo agoWhat's special about how they are doing it that makes the theory centered around Mossad? If it's happening, that seems like it would be business as usual for all intelligence agencies operating in all countries.
- int0x2e 9mo agoThere are not even 7,000 Mossad agents, period. 7,000 is the highest estimate publicly available for the TOTAL number of employees in the Mossad, and 95% of them are not agents - just like most US intel are not field agents. Real numbers for agents are far, far lower without a doubt. Also - Israel got burned so bad with the idiotic Pollard affair, there is zero chance Israel would put so much of their assets in the US when they have a 7 front war. They are many things, but they are not idiots, and they clearly care far more about their immediate security interests than what the US thinks. These theories make absolutely no sense, my dear fried.
- JasonADrury 9mo ago"Mossad agents" would by definition not be "Mossad employees"
- mikkupikku 9mo agoYou've got that backward. Intelligence Agents are employed by intelligence agencies. Intelligence Assets aren't.
- JasonADrury 9mo agoI think you're confusing "agent" and "officer". An agent is specifically some third party acting on your behalf. It's the same when we speak of real estate agents.
- mikkupikku 9mo agoWiktionary says, regarding 'agent': > Someone who works for an intelligence agency: whether an officer or employee thereof or anyone else who agrees to help their efforts (for ideology, for money, as blackmailee, or otherwise). That said, I also asked ChatGPT and it says you're right.
- JasonADrury 9mo agoI think wiktionary will suffer from the fact that the "incorrect" usage of agent is indeed the more common one. 007 is an agent, even though in real life the MI6 would certainly call him an officer. "Agent" is a term of art with a rather strict meaning, but that's obviously only true when used in conversations within that specific field.