No one said it was a happy marriage.Agents with Israel’s Mossad agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani militant group Jundallah, a report in Foreign Policy magazine said Friday. “It’s amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with,” a US intelligence officer told Foreign Policy.
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“Their recruitment activities were nearly in the open. They apparently didn’t give a damn what we thought,” said the official.
The memos were written during the last years of then-president George W. Bush’s administration — the former US leader Bush “went absolutely ballistic” when briefed on the memos, said the magazine.
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“There’s no question that the US has cooperated with Israel in intelligence-gathering operations against the Iranians, but this was different. No matter what anyone thinks, we’re not in the business of assassinating Iranian officials or killing Iranian civilians,” said the official.
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The whole thing is very Judge Judy, isn't it? Both parties are opportunistic and low rent. "Amazing what they THOUGHT they could get away with"? It's not even amazing that we will now try to brand them as the bad agency while we're the good agency, and claim that we're not in the business of assassination and killing civilians.
Of course, he did limit his statement to Iranians.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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