Holy Moly. Foreign Policy magazine's Mark Perry has ruffled feathers with its exclusive investigation into Mossad/ Jundallah links and a spate of killings targeting nuke scientists inside Iran, based on some Bush-era CIA memos and follow-up reporting. Some excerpts:
the memos show that the United States had barred even the most incidental
contact with Jundallah, according to both intelligence officers, the same was
not true for Israel's Mossad. The memos
also
detail CIA field reports saying that Israel's recruiting activities occurred under
the nose of U.S. intelligence officers, most notably in London, the capital of
one of Israel's ostensible allies, where Mossad officers posing as CIA
operatives met with Jundallah officials.The
officials did not know whether the Israeli program to recruit and use Jundallah
is ongoing. Nevertheless, they were stunned by the brazenness of the Mossad's
efforts..."The
report sparked White House concerns that Israel's program was putting Americans
at risk," the intelligence officer told me. "There's no question that the U.S.
has cooperated with Israel in intelligence-gathering operations against the
Iranians, but this was different. No matter what anyone thinks, we're not in
the business of assassinating Iranian officials or killing Iranian civilians."Israel's
relationship with Jundallah continued to roil the Bush administration until the
day it left office, this same intelligence officer noted. Israel's activities jeopardized
the administration's fragile relationship with Pakistan, which was coming under
intense pressure from Iran to crack down on Jundallah. It also undermined U.S. claims
that it would never fight terror with terror, and invited attacks in kind on
U.S. personnel."
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