(Israel Hayom) Oded Ailam - Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has embraced a model for recruiting spies in Israel that is disturbingly effective. Through aggressive mass campaigns on social media, thousands of Israelis are being approached with messages like, "Want to earn some easy cash?" This is Iran's version of digital marketing applied to espionage. Like any marketing effort, only a tiny fraction need to respond for the campaign to succeed. The Israel Security Agency does impressive work uncovering and thwarting these plots time and again. The writer, former head of the Counterterrorism Division in the Mossad, is a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.
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