Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz denied a media report that Israel had planted listening devices in Washington D.C.
“Israel doesn’t carry out any espionage operations in the US,” Katz said. “The US and Israel share a large amount of intelligence information and work together to prevent threats and the strengthening of security of both countries.”
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Politico reported on Thursday, citing three former US officials, that the US came to the conclusion within the last two years that Israel was probably responsible for putting cell-phone surveillance devices near the White House and other locations in Washington D.C.
Israel was embroiled in a espionage case in the US decades ago. Jonathan Pollard, a former US navy intelligence analyst, was convicted of passing classified information to Israel and served 30 years in prison before being paroled in 2015.