Agents with Israel’s Mossad agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani militant group Jundallah, a report in Foreign Policy magazine said on Friday. Using American dollars and US passports, the agents passed themselves off as members of the Central Intelligence Agency in the operations, notably in London, according to memos from 2007 and 2008, said the report. “It’s amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with,” a US intelligence officer told Foreign Policy. “Their recruitment activities were nearly in the open. They apparently didn’t give a damn what we thought,” said the official. “The report sparked White House concerns that Israel’s program was putting Americans at risk,” an officer told the magazine. “There’s no question that the US has cooperated with Israel in intelligence-gathering operations against the Iranians, but this was different.” The Mossad activities could further jeopardize the already tense relationship of the United States with Pakistan.
