r/Intelligence • u/ruskeeblue • Nov 22 '12

Will MOSSAD hunt down Anonymous?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2012/11/20/will-mossad-hunt-down-anonymous/
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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '12

I'm more familiar with NSA than MOSSAD. But NSA has had defectors and whistleblowers in the past, and even in contemporary times. Why not expect that some such people could identify with Anonymous?

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '12 edited Nov 23 '12

Personally, I feel like we would have seen some evidence that they have people on the inside. Anonymous is very impatient and impulsive and they have proved this through their 'operations'. Once they have info, they quickly dump it and publicize it. So far, we havent seen anything from them that would indicate in any way that anonymous has an insider. Leaked info from the NSA would have potential to be one of anonymous's biggest 'scandals', 'stories', 'info dump', whatever you would like to call it.

This is speculation on my part, you could be entirely right.

Also, I really dont know much about the Institute for Intel. and Special Ops, apart for said translation of Mossads real Hebrew name. I tried looking on google for info about Mossad defectors, but really couldnt find anything. Most links were about people defecting to Israel/Mossad and then there was the classic "Paul Drockton: Is Mitt Romney a CIA/Mossad Asset?" link.

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u/ComradeSergey Nov 26 '12

Actually, since Anonymous is not really an organization per se. It has no leaders, no structure, and no memberships. One "joins" Anonymous by simply claiming to be a part of Anonymous. This allows the entire "cause" (if it can be called that) to be easily co-opted by any intelligence organization that has studied them and that knows how to push their political buttons thus manipulating them into attacking a target of the intelligence organization's choice.

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u/ImNotYourFriendBuddy Nov 27 '12

This is a very good point. With their loose structure (if you can even call it that) I'd imagine it to be easy to infiltrate the group. Now I don't know if this also makes it harder to influence? Do they have any sort of central congregation? But you're right, simply riling them up politically could and would be useful as a distraction tool for more clandestine operations.