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The Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence menace level for Israel to its highest level, U.S. media reported connected Saturday (June 6, 2026).
The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said Israel's "ability to behaviour quality espionage and method postulation is astatine a 'critical level'," NBC News said, citing U.S. officials.
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The determination came aft concerns that Israel had been attempting to spy connected apical U.S. officials to get accusation connected "the Trump administration's interior deliberations and decision-making connected the conflicts successful the Middle East," the American web said.
The New York Times cited reports of Israeli efforts to eavesdrop connected elder officials, including President Donald Trump's apical negotiator, Steve Witkoff, and the Pentagon's apical argumentation official, Elbridge Colby.
The United States and Israel launched associated strikes connected Iran connected February 28, triggering the war.
Since then, Mr. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's narration appears to beryllium nether strain.
Mr. Trump unleashed a profanity-laced tirade implicit the telephone astatine Mr. Netanyahu implicit Israel's threats to weaponry the Lebanese superior Beirut, fearing it would undermine talks with Tehran, the Axios news outlet and ABC News reported earlier successful the week.
