Pentagon raises Israel’s spy threat to highest level: US media
The Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat level for Israel to its highest level over espionage activities on the negotiation with Iran, U.S. media reported on June 6.
The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said Israel’s “ability to conduct human espionage and technical collection is at a ‘critical level’,” NBC News said, citing U.S. officials.
The move came after concerns that Israel had been attempting to spy on top U.S. officials to get information on “the Trump administration’s internal deliberations and decision-making on the conflicts in the Middle East,” the American network said.
The New York Times cited reports of Israeli efforts to eavesdrop on senior officials, including President Donald Trump’s top negotiator, Steve Witkoff, and the Pentagon’s top policy official, Elbridge Colby.
