A few
months ago, Ann Norris, a former State Department official, received
a strange e-mail. The production company, Shell Productions, was
asking for help on writing the script of a film about the White
House. "It will be," they wrote to her, "something
between 'All the President's Men' and the West Wing series".
Shell
Productions was never existed. It was a showcase company of Black
Cube - a private information company made up of former Mossad agents
and other Israeli secret services. Their goal was to collect
information about personal life of Norris' husband, Ben Rhodes, who
was former Barack Obama's adviser and key man in the agreement for
the Iran nuclear program.
According
to The Observer, the Black Cube was hired by Trump himself to
smear the protagonists of the deal and thus justify the withdrawal of
the US.
The
Black Cube had come for the first time in the light of international
publicity when it was hired by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein to
smear women who accused him for rape, as well as journalists covering
the case. He even revealed that the man who brought him in contact
with the Black Cube was the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
Today,
it is giant company operating in 60 countries and has offices in some
of the world's largest capitals. It is considered to be dominant in a
market of at least ten billion dollars, which balances between the
state (and/or the parallel state) and the private sector.
As Black
Cube executives revealed in Forbes Israeli version, its agents are
using all means to gather information that their customers require:
in some cases they need to create complex networks with showcase
companies. In others, it is enough to throw an agent of the opposite
sex to their victim, to extract the information - it's an old
technique used by Mossad also against Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed
Israel's secret nuclear program.
The main
advantage of the company, as is the case with companies of
mercenaries, like Blackwater, is that it even allows governments to
carry out dirty missions without being subject to the consequences of
international law. The company's executives, of course, claim that
all their actions are legal, as the data they collect should often be
brought to the court. But the keyword is "often". That is,
not always.
A couple
of years ago, two Black Cube agents were arrested in Romania.
Monitoring systems, photographic equipment and devices for DNA
testing were found in their hotel room. According to local media, the
target of the company was the head of the Anti-Corruption
Directorate, Laura Codruta Kovesi, who, according to the Guardian
newspaper, was “bringing in the scalps" of several corrupt
politicians accused of bribery. Despite the fact that Black Cube
agents were facing serious charges, including cyber attacks against
Kovesi and her relatives, the Romanian authorities imposed an
extremely small penalty on them. Shortly afterwards they were free to
return to their homeland.
Nevertheless,
Black Cube usually manages to go unnoticed, escaping the radar of
prosecution authorities and carry out missions that can change the
fate of entire countries.
In 2011,
a year after its foundation, the company helped the baron of the
British real estate, Vincent Tchenguiz, to be relieved from the
accusation that he was behind the collapse of the Kaupthing bank,
which drifted down the whole Icelandic economy in 2008. The data collected
by Black Cube for those who accused him allowed Tchenguiz not only to
get out of prison, but also to sue for nearly half a billion dollars
the British corruption service, which had ordered his arrest.
Black
Cube is believed to represent the "future" of intelligence
companies that are spreading around the world. A future just as dark
as the secret services, but much more ... private.
Key
parts from the article ‘Mossad Inc.’ by Aris Chatzistefanou,
translated from the original source:
Trump's face.
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