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How the Israeli intelligence community got its mojo back

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Former CIA officer: Intelligence must not be able to predict world events.

Israel intercepted warning order from within Hezbollah hierarchy, he says.

Israeli intelligence community deserves credit for this intelligence coup, he writes.

Israeli pilots knew the precise location of the Hezbollah rocket and missile units, he adds.

This intelligence saved lives of those Israelis who might have been hit by several hundred rockets and missiles.

Marc Polymeropoulos is a nonresident senior fellow in the Forward Defense practice of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security .

He worked for twenty-six years at the CIA before retiring in July 2019 at the senior intelligence service level.

He says the Israeli intelligence community has pulled itself up by its bootstraps and regained its mojo.

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English

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63

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