via ynetnews.com
Allegedly stolen IDF documents include info on weapons, West Bank strategy.
Authorities on Thursday finally lifted the veil on a dramatic case that has made headlines overseas, involving alleged espionage, drastically-breached IDF security, and the conflicting demands of national security and freedom of the press. At an extraordinary press conference, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced that it now planned to accelerate its investigation of Haaretz reporter Uri Blau, who is believed still to be in possession of hundreds of top-secret classified military documents that were stolen from the IDF by a former soldier, Anat Kamm.
With the whereabouts of most of the documents still unknown, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin warned of a direct, ongoing threat to national security, and said his agency should have “taken the gloves off” long ago in pursuing the culprits.
According to the Shin Bet, in a case that was shrouded in secrecy for months until a court-imposed gag was lifted on Thursday, Kamm copied more than 2,000 documents when she was assistant to the bureau chief of OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh between 2005 and 2007.
Kamm, who has been charged with espionage, is under house arrest in Tel Aviv, and Blau is in London, having refused to return to Israel to face investigation.
The stolen documents contained top-secret information concerning General Staff orders, personnel numbers in the Central Command, intelligence information, information on IDF doctrine, and data pertaining to sensitive military exercises, weaponry and military platforms.
The files also contained details on steps the Central Command takes in the event of a major military escalation, including how it deploys forces throughout the West Bank.
“This posed a direct and real threat to the lives of IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens,” Diskin said at the media briefing on Thursday.
Haaretz paper has a minimum of three stories on their front page today-they don't mind the attention now do they-wonder why? Follow the money not their moral or ethical explanations.
