In his recent book “Rise and Kill First,” journalist Ronen Bergman lays bare one of the distinctions of Israeli’s intelligence: a program of targetted assassination that has no rival. While the Russian FSB has record of using poison and the American CIA uses drones neither is as prolific in killings its perceived foes as Israel’s...
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Saudi Intelligence and the Khashoggi Affair
(From Top World Intelligence Agencies) As the monarchy’s intelligence apparatus, GIP is instrumental to the power of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Once the King’s personal security detail, the Saudi service was organized into a modern intelligence service by Prince Turki al-Faisal in the 1970s. Faisal, who maintained good relations with the U.S. CIA and Washington...