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There are not even 7,000 Mossad agents, period. 7,000 is the highest estimate publicly available for the TOTAL number of employees in the Mossad, and 95% of th
by int0x2e 8mo ago
There are not even 7,000 Mossad agents, period.
7,000 is the highest estimate publicly available for the TOTAL number of employees in the Mossad, and 95% of them are not agents - just like most US intel are not field agents. Real numbers for agents are far, far lower without a doubt.
Also - Israel got burned so bad with the idiotic Pollard affair, there is zero chance Israel would put so much of their assets in the US when they have a 7 front war. They are many things, but they are not idiots, and they clearly care far more about their immediate security interests than what the US thinks.
These theories make absolutely no sense, my dear fried.
- JasonADrury 8mo ago"Mossad agents" would by definition not be "Mossad employees"
- mikkupikku 8mo agoYou've got that backward. Intelligence Agents are employed by intelligence agencies. Intelligence Assets aren't.
- JasonADrury 8mo agoI think you're confusing "agent" and "officer". An agent is specifically some third party acting on your behalf. It's the same when we speak of real estate agents.
- mikkupikku 8mo agoWiktionary says, regarding 'agent': > Someone who works for an intelligence agency: whether an officer or employee thereof or anyone else who agrees to help their efforts (for ideology, for money, as blackmailee, or otherwise). That said, I also asked ChatGPT and it says you're right.
- JasonADrury 8mo agoI think wiktionary will suffer from the fact that the "incorrect" usage of agent is indeed the more common one. 007 is an agent, even though in real life the MI6 would certainly call him an officer. "Agent" is a term of art with a rather strict meaning, but that's obviously only true when used in conversations within that specific field.