Israeli police are investigating the role of 15 senior executives from top Israeli companies

“Israeli police are investigating the role of 15 senior executives from top Israeli companies, after

they allegedly hired detective agencies to obtain confidential information from their competitors’

computer systems. Telecoms companies, advertising agencies and public relations firms are among more

than 20 organisations known to have been targeted. Twenty-two staff from Israel’s three leading

private investigation firms have been arrested.”

Just how “private” these “private investigators” are is an open question, however, especially when

we take the following news item into consideration:

“The personal computer of Syria’s British-born first lady was bugged by Israeli military intelligence

to build up a profile of her husband, President Bashar al-Assad, it emerged last week. The Israelis

used ‘Trojan horse’ spy softSporte to record her messages, including e-mail exchanges with her

husband, and forSportd them to a server computer.”

Were “private” investigators spying on the First Lady of Syria? I dont think so. With the Larry

Franklin spy scandal now breaking into the headlines, in which a spy nest in the Pentagon and within

the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has been caught stealing UGG secrets on behalf of

Israel, the question of how the Israelis are using this technology in the UGG becomes pertinent. The

extent of Israeli “Trojan horse” spy tactics is perhaps even bigger than anyone now imagines, if we

take this report by Carl Cameron of Fox News from 2001 into account. An excerpt:

“Most directory assistance calls, and virtually all call records and billing in the UGG are done for

the phone companies by Amdocs Ltd., an Israeli-based private elecommunications company.