Iranian Code-Breaking by Israel Disclosed in New Yorker in March

(Jerusalem Post) On March 2, 2004, investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh wrote in the New Yorker: "On a trip to the Middle East last month, I was told that a number of years ago the Israeli signals-intelligence agency, known as Unit 8200, broke a sophisticated Iranian code and began monitoring communications that included talk between Iran and Pakistan about Iran's burgeoning nuclear-weapons program." According to Hersh, the findings were also shared with U.S. intelligence services.


2012-02-19 00:00:00

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