Netanyahu flatly denies AP story on Israelis spying on CIA
'This is a false report, says Prime Ministers Office, rejecting Associated Press article that claims US national security officials consider Israel to be a genuine counterintelligence threat
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"The Prime Ministers Office on Saturday denied the content of an Associated Press article suggesting Israeli agents spy on their American colleagues stationed in Israel and constitute a counterintelligence threat to US interests.
In an unusually brief SMS message to Israeli journalists, the media advisers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote: In response to the report about the CIA, the Prime Ministers Office states that this a false report.
Earlier on Saturday, the Associated Press had run an in-depth report quoting anonymous US intelligence officials incriminating members of Israeli security services. The article, which was headlined by AP, US sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat, described certain instances where Central Intelligence Agency officers stationed in Israel found that their secured locked boxes had been tampered with. In a different case, a CIA officers fridge had been rearranged. In these cases, the article asserts, the US government believes Israels security services were responsible.
According to the Associated Press writers, Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, the quoted episodes served as not-so-subtle reminder[s] that, even in a country friendly to the United States, the CIA was itself being watched.
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