Former Israeli spies working at CNN and New York Times: MintPress report
Online news outlet MintPress reports that numerous U.S. media figures are also former Israeli spies.
White House Correspondents’ Association award winner Barak Ravid, CNN producer Shachar Peled, and New York Times producer Anat Schwartz are all alumni of Israel’s Unit 8200 — a covert ops, spying, and cyberwarfare unit, MintPress reported on Thursday, adding that they now have prominent media positions.
Unit 8200 has been widely identified as the group behind last month’s pager attack in Lebanon that injured thousands of civilians.
MintPress writer Alan Macleod said he was not accusing them of being current spies but did question their suitability for journalism.
He asked on X: “While I’m not saying these individuals are spies, are people with these pasts truly appropriate candidates to write Americans’ news about Israel/Palestine? What if it were ex-Hamas/Hezbollah intelligence operatives now running things at CNN or elsewhere?”
Former Unit 8200 agents also created the notorious Pegasus software used to surveil journalists, activists, and heads of states around the world.
Unit 8200 is also reportedly behind Lavender, the AI software that automatically generates kill lists of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and aids in the deadly bombing campaign in the enclave.
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