The KGB’s and Israel Files # 2
As far as Moscow was concerned, the years leading up to the 1967 Six-Day War were a successful period for the Russian intelligence in Israel.
As far as Moscow was concerned, the years leading up to the 1967 Six-Day War were a successful period for the Russian intelligence in Israel.
The sudden death this month of writer Vladimir Pribylovsky known for his investigations into the sources of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wealth caused many in Russia to wonder whether anyone can still threaten the president’s entrenched rule.
A short while after the Israeli invasion into Lebanon in June 1982 (called in Israel Tthe First Lebanon War), Azriel Nevo, the military secretary to Prime Minister Menachem Begin, began secretly receiving messages from different officials, mainly from the military.
In 2009, the world watched in disgust and disbelief when Bernie Madoff’s 65 billion dollar Ponzi scam came crashing to the ground.
For at least eight years, the New York State Police have bought an array of programs that sift through mass quantities of social media information — including from companies with access to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram’s internal data — contracts obtained by New York Focus show. The documents shed new light on the state police’s…
DetailsIn accordance with national laws and international agreements, firms such as Mossack Fonseca, which help establish companies and open bank accounts, are supposed to be wary of customers who may be involved in money laundering, tax evasion or other crimes.
Some time towards the end of last year, the public protector conducted inquiries into accusations of state capture made against President Jacob Zuma, his son Duduzani Zuma and his business partners the three Indian Gupta brothers.
“We can’t read them, they are completely impenetrable,” said an Israeli intelligence official attempting to follow North Korea’s ties with Iran and Syria. Israel has obtained information about those ties, but the information has always arrived from the Syrian or Iranian side, never from North Korea.
The FBI did wiretap Trump Tower, but its target was not the future president of the United States and the operation was over well before Donald Trump even declared his candidacy.
It was 2010. Many journalists and editors at the Yedioth Ahronoth group struggled to understand what was happening around them – why the defense minister at the time, Ehud Barak, was suffering belligerent headlines every day in the newspaper and its Ynet website.