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Secret documents, leaked from numerous spy agencies, offer rare insights
- dalke 12y agoThis link goes to a 2 minute promo video for the upcoming Al Jazeera series related to secret security documents leaked to AJ. A better link, in that it has the same promo video along with text (this link has no text) is to http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/spy-cables-world-espionage-snowden-guardian-mi6-cia-ssa-mossad-iran-southafrica-leak-150218100147229.html http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/spy-cables-world-espio... Quoting from the later: > Among the revelations, the Spy Cables disclose how: > * Israel's Mossad told its allies that Iran was not working to produce nuclear weapons just a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned it was barely a year from being able to do so; > * The CIA made attempts to contact Hamas directly despite the US government listing the Palestinian group as a "terrorist organisation"; > * Britain's MI6 sought South African help in an operation to recruit a North Korean official who had previously refused their cash; and > * South African and Ethiopian spies struggled to "neutralise" an assassination plot targeting a leading African diplomat.