Zionist Regime’s Mossad Chief:
High-Tech Not Always Spys' Friend
AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – Spying is getting harder because the same technologies that catch terrorists can sometimes uncover foreign intelligence operations, the director of the Zionist regime’s Mossad said on Monday.
Joseph (Yossi) Cohen delivered rare public remarks at a budget conference held by the occupying regime’s Finance Ministry.
Cohen described Mossad as the tip of the Zionist regime’s "spear against threats like Iranian nuclear and missile projects.”
But, outlining challenges to covert Mossad officers such as facial recognition technology and digitally enhanced identification documents, he said: "Everywhere we go, we have to take into account the fact that security services are getting stronger.
"For normal people, this (technology) is good. For people who don’t want it so much, the matter is of course a challenge of a different order.”
"You can imagine that a large part of the agency’s problems or challenges speak to the fact that your passport is, essentially, in your fingerprint, in your retina, or in your face,” Cohen said, describing such measures as often designed primarily for counter-terrorism rather than counter-espionage.
"This arena, which very much affects us, has changed beyond recognition and is ballooning.”
In 2010, the United Arab Emirates accused Mossad of killing a Hamas leader in Dubai and published CCTV video of the fugitive hit team as well as their forged Western passports - an embarrassment for the Zionist regime.
Since Cohen took over in 2016, Mossad is widely believed to have assassinated Hamas members in Malaysia and Tunisia. In neither incident was Dubai-like footage made public - an indication that the killers eluded surveillance.
Cohen praised U.S. President Donald Trump, who has withdrawn from the international nuclear deal with Iran and recognized al-Quds as the Zionist regime’s "capital” - moves that, respectively, dismayed Washington’s major European allies and angered Palestinians, who want East al-Quds as the capital of their own state.
Photofits of two suspects published by Malaysia Police, believed to have assassinated a Hamas lecturer in Malaysia in April 2018.
Joseph (Yossi) Cohen delivered rare public remarks at a budget conference held by the occupying regime’s Finance Ministry.
Cohen described Mossad as the tip of the Zionist regime’s "spear against threats like Iranian nuclear and missile projects.”
But, outlining challenges to covert Mossad officers such as facial recognition technology and digitally enhanced identification documents, he said: "Everywhere we go, we have to take into account the fact that security services are getting stronger.
"For normal people, this (technology) is good. For people who don’t want it so much, the matter is of course a challenge of a different order.”
"You can imagine that a large part of the agency’s problems or challenges speak to the fact that your passport is, essentially, in your fingerprint, in your retina, or in your face,” Cohen said, describing such measures as often designed primarily for counter-terrorism rather than counter-espionage.
"This arena, which very much affects us, has changed beyond recognition and is ballooning.”
In 2010, the United Arab Emirates accused Mossad of killing a Hamas leader in Dubai and published CCTV video of the fugitive hit team as well as their forged Western passports - an embarrassment for the Zionist regime.
Since Cohen took over in 2016, Mossad is widely believed to have assassinated Hamas members in Malaysia and Tunisia. In neither incident was Dubai-like footage made public - an indication that the killers eluded surveillance.
Cohen praised U.S. President Donald Trump, who has withdrawn from the international nuclear deal with Iran and recognized al-Quds as the Zionist regime’s "capital” - moves that, respectively, dismayed Washington’s major European allies and angered Palestinians, who want East al-Quds as the capital of their own state.
Photofits of two suspects published by Malaysia Police, believed to have assassinated a Hamas lecturer in Malaysia in April 2018.