A newly published US national security document shows that the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2007 singled out Israel as a top spying threat to the United States.
The NSA document, obtained by US surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden, also identified Israel, along with North Korea, Cuba and India, as a “leading threat” to the infrastructure of American financial and banking institutions, The Intercept reported on Monday.
The Intercept, an online magazine, has been launched by American journalist Glenn Greenwald, who also published Snowden’s leaks.
The threats were pointed out in the NSA’s 2007 Strategic Mission List, according to the document.
The NSA identified Israel and its intelligence agencies as a security threat to the United States in several areas.
It also emphasized on the threat from Israel’s “development of weapons of mass destruction” and “delivery methods (particularly ballistic and nuclear-capable cruise missiles).”
The NSA document also mentioned Israel’s “WMD and missile proliferation activities” and “cruise missiles” as threats.
In one section of the document, Tel Aviv was ranked as a top perpetrator of “espionage/intelligence collection operations and manipulation/influence operations…against U.S. government, military, science & technology and Intelligence Community” organs.
In an interview with Press TV on Sunday, US ctivist and commentator Mark Glenn said that Israel is America’s “most dangerous enemy” that spies on US officials to “control” and blackmail them, forcing American politicians to “bow” before the regime in Tel Aviv.
“Israel spies on our elected officials and uses that information against them, particularly information that is embarrassing or possibly even incriminating,” said Glenn, a writer and co-founder of the Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement.
He went on to say that the US is not a free country that many Americans would like to believe “because at the end of the day, we have politicians who would bow before Israel because they fear the information that Israel’s intelligence services have gathered on them.”
