Eye Spy - May 2018

EYE SPY INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE 115 2018 49

A DECEPTION & LIES

Candid presentation reveals Mossad’s two-

decade long pursuit of Iranian nuclear secrets

sreal’s Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, in a dramatic press confer-
ence, said his security services had
obtained around 100,000 secret
documents that prove Iran lied to the
Iworld about its past nuclear work. The
Israeli leader fur ther presented information on
how the Mossad secured material purporting
to show that Iran continues to build on its
nuclear know-how in pursuit of a fully
functioning nuclear bomb.

Netanyahu’s claims are based on documents

relating to a 1999-2003 operation in Iran that,

while it falls outside the parameters of the

current international-backed nuclear deal,

allegedly demonstrates that Tehran is acting in

bad faith with regard to its nuclear programme

codenamed Project Amad.

Netanyahu stood on a stage with a pointer. To

one side was a bookcase packed with files

that he said were Iran’s secret nuclear

reviewed are authentic.” This commentary

reveals both the CIA and the Mossad have

cooperated in sourcing the material and its

subsequent analysis.

The State Department added that “new details

in this information are consistent with a large

body of evidence and intelligence the US

Government has amassed over many years on

Iran’s past clandestine nuclear weapons

programme.” A further admission that the CIA

knew the Mossad were engaged in operations

in Iran. Analysts said Iran’s efforts to

“obfuscate this information will be a key

factor” in Trump’s decision on staying or

withdrawing from the nuclear deal on 12 May,

the USSD official said.

Watching intelligence officials from several

countries believe the documents confirm a

long-standing US suspicion that, Iran has

systematically hidden evidence of clandestine

weapons work from international inspectors.

“If there was ever any doubt, every struggling

Iranian citizen must now realise that Iran has

lost countless dollars from nuclear sanctions

for one reason, and one reason alone: the

Iranian regime’s reckless pursuit of nuclear

weapons, weapons that Supreme Leader

Khamenei personally insists are un-Islamic,”

the USSD official said. “It is long past time for

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

speaks of the Mossad operation

Netanyahu discusses the

Middle East conflict areas

with US Secretary of State

and intelligence man,

Mike Pompeo

records, covertly obtained by Israeli Intelli-

gence; alongside, a display cabinet of

compact discs.

Netanyahu then engaged in a slide presenta-

tion disclosing imagery, data and facts that

revealed the breadth of the Iranian nuclear

programme. Showing excerpts from what he

said was sourced from “half a tonne of

documents,” Netanyahu said they demon-

strated conclusively that Iran had not “come

clean” about its nuclear programme and

ambitions. For its part, Iran insisted that it

never has had and never would have a

weapons programme.

CIA AND MOSSAD LIAISON

A US State Department (USSD) official stated:

“The United States has reviewed many of the

documents Israel has obtained relating to

Iran’s nuclear weapons programme. We

assess that the documents that we have

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