Report: Ex-Mossad chief had affair, shared state secrets with woman and her husband

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen revealed state secrets and techniques to a flight attendant with whom he was having an affair, in addition to to her husband, an Israeli tv report claimed Sunday.

Channel 13’s HaMakor investigative program reported that the affair started in late 2018 and noticed Cohen brag to the couple about numerous secret particulars from the spy company’s operations around the globe, in addition to present them with data on his world travels.

“He instructed a lot of tales, together with about Mossad,” Man Shiker, a widely known determine in Israeli capital markets, and husband to the flight attendant, who was not named, instructed this system. “He’s a blabbermouth. He began telling me that Mossad was ‘sitting’ on a health care provider of a widely known Arab chief.”

Shiker stated Cohen additionally shared particulars about his administration fashion.

“He instructed me, ‘Once I was appointed to be Mossad chief, hear fastidiously, inside 10 days, I fired six [top officials]… as a result of they weren’t loyal to the system. They weren’t good. They thought I used to be their finest buddy once we had been equals. The second I used to be appointed [I fired them], with out mercy.’”

Responding to the report, Cohen stated he by no means shared any safety secrets and techniques or any data he was not imagined to.

In a separate clip from this system, which can air in full on Tuesday, Shiker stated Cohen would ship his spouse messages during which he referred to her as “my princess” and “my magnificence.”

“You’re keen on my spouse, she loves you, you’re destroying a household proper now,” Shiker stated.

Man Shiker (Display seize: Twitter)

In June, Channel 13 reported that Cohen was suspected of sharing labeled data with a flight attendant with whom he was in shut private contact, and that Legal professional Basic Avichai Mandelblit was reviewing a criticism filed with the Justice Ministry.

Cohen flatly denied the allegations on the time, telling the community: “There isn’t a flight attendant, there isn’t any shut relationship, the legal professional basic has not contacted me” in regards to the criticism.

Shortly earlier than that episode, Cohen confronted criticism over an interview during which he intimated that the Mossad blew up Iran’s underground centrifuge facility at Natanz, gave a exact description of the 2018 operation during which the company stole Iran’s nuclear archive from safes in a Tehran warehouse, confirmed that Iran’s assassinated high nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh had been within the Mossad’s sights for years, and stated that the regime wants to know that Israel means what it says when it vows to forestall Iran attaining nuclear weapons.

Since leaving the Mossad, Cohen has confronted a number of accusations of ethics violations, together with a report earlier this month that stated he helped safe his daughter a job at a agency with hyperlinks to a senior Emirati official whereas nonetheless serving as Israel’s high spy.

In August, police started probing a number of claims towards Cohen, together with that he was illicitly gifted $20,000.

Cohen admits receiving the money reward from billionaire Australian businessman James Packer for his daughter’s wedding ceremony, as first reported by EuroJournal in Might. In a TV interview in June, shortly after retiring as the top of the spy company, Cohen spoke for the primary time in regards to the incident. He claimed to have accepted the funds after consulting Mossad’s authorized adviser, and stated he was dedicated to returning the reward.

Cohen’s time period as Mossad chief resulted in June, when he was succeeded by David Barnea.

Days later, he was appointed as the top of Israel operations for Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank.

Cohen, who was appointed by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has stated he wouldn’t rule out looking for to grow to be prime minister someday, although he’s not but considering such an ambition.