Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Israeli Private Spy Company Wants To Influence American Elections

Voters casts their ballots in a voting booth in Dover, New Hampshire, January 8, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow, NYMag: Private Mossad for Hire

Inside an effort to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.

One evening in 2016, a twenty-five-year-old community-college student named Alex Gutiérrez was waiting tables at La Piazza Ristorante Italiano, an upscale restaurant in Tulare, in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Gutiérrez spotted Yorai Benzeevi, a physician who ran the local hospital, sitting at a table with Parmod Kumar, a member of the hospital board. They seemed to be in a celebratory mood, drinking expensive bottles of wine and laughing. This irritated Gutiérrez. The kingpins, he thought with disgust.

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Update: A company run by former Israeli spies reportedly tried to influence a local US election — and courted Trump's campaign (Business Insider)

WNU Editor: There is another Israeli spy story making the rounds .... AP Exclusive: Undercover spy exposed in NYC was 1 of many (AP).

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