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Re: Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many

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Post by isostatic »

anon007 wrote: post #14

I personally was approached by what I now believe was an undercover spy agent in San Francisco. I believe he might have been Israeli. How we got there is a long story. But, the person (agent) came to a coffee shop that I frequented and made himself very visible talking audibly about certain areas that were my interest. I'm a very outgoing person so after over-hearing him by the second or third encounter there, I appr…

Corbyn smears himself. With you quoting a site called “electronic infitada” you weaken your case dramatically.

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Post by darkpuma »

agumonkey wrote: post #40
Haga wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Massive discredit for any cause you push?

it's just a bit outside what I/we consider spies roles. This sounds more like the usual PR trick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_spying

>Compromise [...] Coercion [...] Extortion

Re: Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many

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Post by isostatic »

tomjakubowski wrote: post #57
jorblumesea wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please report this to a local FBI office, this was obviously an agent trying to co-opt whatever movement you're associated with.

"Ah, glad to hear Agent Johnson's been doing his job."

Disappointed to hear Agent Johnson was so obvious

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Post by aedron »

'By Way of Deception', written years ago by a former high ranking Mossad officer, made it seem like American government institutions in NY and Washington were crawling with Israeli intelligence, some acknowledged, many not. The book was well sourced and generally considered credible.

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Post by darkpuma »

bouncycastle wrote: post #66

Excuse me, but isn't "undercover" redundant in "undercover spy"?.. I mean, all spies work undercover :-)

Not really, some spies have official diplomatic status. Their public job title may not be "spy", but it's generally assumed that the host country knows what's up.

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Post by AsyncAwait »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #69
saiya-jin wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In theory a good suggestion, but Israel specifically gets a lot of free passes, especially from current US govt, so I wouldn't expect any benefit or positive outcome from this, just troubles for OP. Now if it would be an Iranian spy for example, they would hunt him/them down with the full force.

What if it's an Iranian spy who managed to convince the person he was an Israeli spy?

Israel uses the tactic of antisemitism quite often, even when you clearly criticize a government policy of Israel, not the people. So this is nothing out of the ordinary for them and I see no reason to blame Iran for everything Israel does that's unethical. In fact that's their tactic as well.

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Post by stef25 »

anon007 wrote: post #14

I personally was approached by what I now believe was an undercover spy agent in San Francisco. I believe he might have been Israeli. How we got there is a long story. But, the person (agent) came to a coffee shop that I frequented and made himself very visible talking audibly about certain areas that were my interest. I'm a very outgoing person so after over-hearing him by the second or third encounter there, I appr…

Either you're leaving out a lot of important parts to the story or you're just being paranoid?

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Post by thatoneuser »

anon007 wrote: post #14

I personally was approached by what I now believe was an undercover spy agent in San Francisco. I believe he might have been Israeli. How we got there is a long story. But, the person (agent) came to a coffee shop that I frequented and made himself very visible talking audibly about certain areas that were my interest. I'm a very outgoing person so after over-hearing him by the second or third encounter there, I appr…

This message sounds like propaganda

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Post by avip »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #64
avip wrote: post #36

To clarify: NSO is a private company, mostly owned by US firm. The involvement of "Israel" in whatever NSO is doing is as follows: 1. As a vendor of security sensitive products, any NSO deal would be approved by Israel's MOD. 2. They naturally employ loads of secret service "graduates" because it's good for business. Consequently, calling an apparently clumsy NSO employee "an Israeli spy" comes across as kind of fake…

The New York Times identified Lambert as Aharon Almog-Assouline, a former Israeli security official living in the plush Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Hasharon. Maybe not "spy" but ex-security official at least. Not sure how thinly that's splitting hairs though.

By this pretty liberal phrasing I'm also "an Israeli spy".
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