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Al Jazeera to release intelligence documents, to reveal ‘abuses of power’
Al Jazeera to release intelligence documents, to reveal ‘abuses of power’
Al Jazeera, along with the British newspaper The Guardian, will on Monday evening start publishing hundreds of secret documents from the spy agencies of Russia, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Israel, the channel reports.
The first stories are expected to be published at 1800 GMT.
An Investigative Unit called ‘The Spy Cables’ will include detailed briefings and secret correspondence between South Africa’s State Security Agency (SSA) and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Al Jazeera claims the documents – ranging from confidential to top secret – were written between 2006 and December 2014.
In a video promoting the upcoming release, Al Jazeera said it will publish a wide range of stories, though documents will be redacted to protect identities. “The stories expose dozens of operational secrets from all over the globe,” the video says.
The stories reportedly include Israel’s “true assessment” of Iran’s nuclear program, an assassination plot targeting an African Union leader, and an MI6 operation to recruit a North Korean spy.
“The papers reveal abuses of power and cover-ups carried out by the world’s intelligence agencies,” the video teases. “They expose unethical actions, secrets from companies, and embarrassing security failures.”
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/02/al-jazeera-to-release-intelligence.html
