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Feb242015
SA spooks red-faced from latest spy data leak
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 01:03PM NEWS 24
A mass leak of South African espionage secrets will cause many foreign agencies to think twice before sharing information with Pretoria, hampering its efforts to walk a delicate diplomatic tightrope between East and West, experts said on Tuesday.
Britain's The Guardian paper and news organisation Al Jazeera said they had obtained hundreds of dossiers, files and cables from the world's top spy agencies to and from South Africa, dubbing it "one of the biggest spy leaks in recent times".
The biggest revelation so far is an assessment by Mossad that counters Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu - backed by a cartoon picture of a bomb - asserting at the UN in 2012 that Iran was a year away from making a nuclear device.
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