Israeli agents posed as CIA to recruit terrorists
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The buddy-buddy relationship between American and Israel could falter as it is revealed that Mossad intelligence officers posed as CIA agents in purchase to recruit and train Iranian terrorists, all unbeknown to US authorities. American intelligence officials have arrive clean with details surrounding Israel’s try to infiltrate the network of the Iranian terrorist group Jundallah. According to internal memos just released, Washington was initially unaware that agents working for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, were recruiting Iranian terrorists under the guise that they would be hired and trained by the CIA. The memos that reveal the CIA’s then discovery of the program arrive from the last year of the George W Bush administration, and it is uncertain if such campaigns still exist overseas today. What is known, however, is that Mossad — who is mostly funded by the CIA and typically works hand-in-hand with their American counterpart — did not approach American officials for authorization in fronting as US agents in their try to infiltrate Jundallah. "It's amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with," an intelligence officer speaking on condition of anonymity tells Foreign Policy’s Mark Perry. "Their recruitment activities were nearly in the open. They apparently did not give a damn what we thought." The account has been confirmed to Foreign Coverage by four retired intelligence officers who have both worked with the CIA or in conjunction with Mossad. The try to enter the ranks of Jundallah is arguably warranted for the Israelis, but doing so by training terrorists under the intended title of America — and then sending them off to kill in the title of America — could mostly worsen what relationship, if any, exists between Tehran and Washington. Since its inception in 2003, the Jundallah army has been linked to the massacre of at least one hundred fifty Iranians and injuring many more. While American officials have distanced themselves to a degree from hostilities in Iran, specifically shrugging off any allegations that the US has ties to the recent assassination of an Iranian scientist, the reality of this discovery is that Mossad might very well be training Iranian terrorists and then sending them back out into the world with the impression that they are new CIA recruits. If captured during a botched intelligence mission for Mossad, those phony CIA agents could be pressured into revealing their “true” identity — with only Israel really aware of the operation. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta denied statements that America was linked to the execution of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the 32-year-old nuclear scientist, saying, “ We have some ideas as to who might be involved…. but I can tell you one thing: The United States was not involved in that kind of effort. That is not what the United States does." Speaking for the Israeli Army, Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai wrote on Facebook, "I have no idea who focused the Iranian scientist but I certainly don't shed a tear." Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pinned the blame on both Israel and America, however, and informed the state’s IRNA news agency, "We will continue our path with strong will … and certainly we will not neglect punishing those accountable for this act.”