The Prime Minister’s Office on Saturday denied
the content of an Associated Press article suggesting Israeli agents
spy on their American colleagues stationed in Israel and constitute a
counterintelligence threat to US interests.
In an unusually brief SMS message to Israeli
journalists, the media advisers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
wrote: “In response to the report about the CIA, the Prime Minister’s
Office states that this a false report.”
Earlier on Saturday, the Associated Press had run an in-depth report quoting
anonymous US intelligence officials incriminating members of Israeli
security services. The article, which was headlined by AP, “US sees
Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat,” described certain instances
where Central Intelligence Agency officers stationed in Israel found
that their secured locked boxes had been “tampered” with. In a different
case, a CIA officer’s fridge had been “rearranged.” In these cases, the
article asserts, “the US government believes Israel’s security services
were responsible.”
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