out of a lack of security, the mossad became ruthless and even the united states was not spared.
2024-09-27
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why is mossad one of the four major intelligence agencies? for such a small country, the population is only over 9 million. the other three, one is the us central intelligence agency, the second is the russian federal security service, formerly the soviet kgb, and the british mi6, officially known as the "secret intelligence service", are either superpowers or former superpowers. how is israel? can it?
the reason is that israel is too insecure, so it attaches great importance to intelligence work. mossad currently employs about 7,000 people and has an annual budget of about 10 billion pounds or more than 12 billion u.s. dollars. compared with countries of the same size, it is very large. investment. for example, the british mi6 has a publicly disclosed annual budget of just over 3 billion pounds, which shows that israel's investment in mossad is very large.
although mossad does not have an on-screen spokesperson with vast powers and omnipotence like 007 or ethan hunt, it does have a master-level super spy. many of the things it has done have become textbook cases in the espionage industry.
for example, its super spy eli cohen not only infiltrated the upper echelons of syria, but also almost became the minister of defense. his actions and intelligence enabled israel to win the third middle east war in just 6 days. egypt, jordan the three countries of syria and syria suffered more than 60,000 casualties and prisoners, while israel only lost more than 900 people. not only did the three countries' attempt to cut off israel's water sources completely fail, but they also occupied a large amount of each other's land.
there are also examples such as secretly stealing the mirage 5 fighter blueprints from switzerland, which allowed israel to build the "little lion" fighter; stealing a mig-21 fighter, the most advanced fighter at the time, from iraq, allowing the israeli air force to thoroughly study this new type of opponent's aircraft. victory in an air battle with a fighter jet; in 2018, iran stole its nuclear program files from its closely guarded state, and so on.
these are unimaginable and even incredible things, but mossad actually did it.
also, don’t think that mossad only focuses on the hostile countries around it. it even has spies inside its powerful ally, the united states, which provides it with military assistance every year and covers it everywhere. in 1985, the fbi uncovered jonathan pollard, an israeli spy hiding in the u.s. naval intelligence service. he used his identity as an intelligence analyst to provide israel with 500,000 pages of confidential information, including arab countries' military deployments, weapons, nuclear plans, biological and chemical weapons plans, and even the list of u.s. spies in the middle east, u.s. military passwords, etc., which made the united states he was very angry and sentenced him to life imprisonment, which also caused us-israel relations to plunge into a low point.
israel did not recognize it at first, but since 1990 it has been negotiating with the united states to release jonathan pollard. it was not until 1998 that israeli prime minister netanyahu recognized this person's identity as an israeli agent. in 2015, jonathan was released until i moved to israel in 2020 and received a hero's welcome.
and jonathan seems to be just the tip of the iceberg. clinton has hinted that being bugged by mossad and stealing presidential emails are also common. during trump’s term, u.s. security agencies seized surveillance equipment capable of intercepting mobile phone information at the white house and multiple sensitive locations in washington. the former senior u.s. official who broke the news said that after forensic analysis, he was convinced that it was placed by israeli agents.
everyone may find it incredible that the us-israel relationship is so strong, why would israel do this? in fact, this stems from israel's insecurity, fear of being betrayed by the boss accidentally.
there are many things mossad can brag about, but there are also many embarrassing defeats. the funniest thing is that in 2016, two mossad agents performed a simple mission in a small town in germany. they got lost and entered a farm. as a result, they were asked incoherently by a german aunt who owned the farm. they called the police and the police were called. two submachine guns were found, and the two agents had no choice but to take out their ids to prove that they were mossad agents and not terrorists. after negotiations with the israeli embassy, the two were released by the german police, but this also became a big joke.
editor: li suning
video editor: zhao xin
editor: fang liang
