CIA, MOSSAD and MI6: when the secret services write history

24/02/15

Secret documents. To be clear, reports with the level of secrecy "Top Secret Ultra - Eyes Only" would have been obtained from Al Jazeera and the newspaper The Guardian. The documents, "lost" by the South African secret services, include internal analyzes and secret correspondence with foreign agents.

The first reports - in what has been called Spy Cables - were published just now and would reveal the CIA's attempts to contact Hamas, Britain's efforts to recruit a North Korean spy and the true assessment of Israeli intelligence on the program Iranian nuclear power.

First document: the CIA and Hamas

According to the first document, the Central Intelligence Agency has attempted to get in touch with the Palestinian movement Hamas, despite the official US ban.

An agent of the CIA would have tried in 2012, through a South African agent, to get in touch with the Islamic group.

Hamas is considered a terrorist organization according to the European Union, the United States and Israel.

Second document: Iran according to Israel

In September, 2012, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during the 67 session of the UN General Assembly, illustrated his concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Netanyahu warned the United Nations about Iran's attempts to build a nuclear weapon.

However, Israeli intelligence services have never considered Iran's nuclear activities to be credible.

According to a classified report shared by the Israeli Mossad with South African colleagues, a few weeks after Netanyahu's speech, Iran "is unable to carry out activities that produce nuclear weapons". Indeed, the Mossad would have exerted pressure on the fact-finding mission of the United Nations, in Gaza, known as the Goldstein report, fearing that it might have prejudiced Israel's position in peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

According to secret documents, former Israeli intelligence chief Meir Dagan would have contacted his South African counterpart before the vote on the issue in the UN Human Rights Council.

Dagan would receive the support of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, fearing that the UN report could benefit the rival Hamas movement.

US pressures would have been such that the secret services of South Africa would use immense resources to track Iranian agents, although it did not really consider Iran a threat to the country.

The United Kingdom foreign intelligence service, commonly known as MI6, would have helped suspend South African sales to an Iranian company, allegedly involved in a ballistic missile development program.

Third document: MI6 and North Korea

British intelligence would seek, through the assistance of the South African government, to recruit an agent from North Korea.

MI6 would ask for a list of possible agents to approach during connecting flights between South Africa and North Korea.

The report does not mention the outcome of the British government's proposal and whether a contact with a Koran agent ever took place.

Spy Cables includes data and information ranging from 2006 to December of the 2014 and could be the most significant leak of intelligence data classified by the Snowden case, which occurred in the 2013.

Franco Iacch