The American TV network CBS reported Friday that the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) is convinced an Israeli spy is operating inside the Pentagon.
According to the report, the FBI has been conducting an ongoing probe into the issue and is convinced the spy has conveyed highly sensitive intelligence to the Israeli government through two representatives of the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee).
The report indicated the suspected mole is a senior analyst who is employed in the bureau of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The person is also said to be closely associated with two senior Pentagon officials of Jewish origin, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith.
"The FBI has a full-fledged espionage investigation under way and is about to... roll up someone [who] agents believe has been spying, not for an enemy, but for Israel, from within the office of the secretary of defense," CBS reported.
The network said that the mole, whom it described as a "trusted analyst of the Pentagon," had last year passed on "secret White House deliberation on Iran."
According to an additional report, the suspected mole has been a Pentagon employee for 20 years and has been stationed in Israel in the past.
The New York Times reported the analyst worked for Feith, who formed a special intelligence unit before the Iraq war that had sought to build a case that Baghdad had ties to Al-Qaeda. (albawaba.com)
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