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Mossad Wants Credit for Stuxnet
Mossad Wants Credit for Stuxnet
Posted by Charleston Voice, 06.09.12
Be advised that neither spy agency, Mossad OR CIA can be taken at their word since their partnering-up (even alone, could they ever be trusted?): DEBKAfile a Joint Israeli Mossad/CIA Disinformation News Disseminator
by Phantom Report on June 8, 2012
Source: The Atlantic
Israel’s officials have a message for anyone praising the CIA for its sophisticated cyber attack on Iran: It was our baby. The Stuxnet computer worm, described by David Sanger in The New York Times last week as an invention by the Bush administration, was actually developed by Mossad, according to Israeli officials speaking with Haaretz journalist Yossi Melman on condition of anonymity:
The Israeli officials actually told me a different version. They said that it was Israeli intelligence that began, a few years earlier, a cyberspace campaign to damage and slow down Iran’s nuclear intentions. And only later they managed to convince the USA to consider a joint operation — which, at the time, was unheard of.
The irony of course is that both U.S. and Israeli officials spent years denying knowledge of who carried out the attacks, which reportedly destroyed thousands of Iran’s centrifuges, ever since it became public in 2010. Now that it’s out, it’s time to claim credit! Of course, if you read Sanger’s account, he certainly doesn’t diminish the expertise of Israel’s spies:
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