JERUSALEM (AP) — Meir Dagan, a former Israeli general and longtime director of its spy agency, died Thursday. He was 71.
Dagan directed the Mossad from 2002 until he retired in early 2011. Under his leadership, the Mossad reportedly carried out covert attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists and unleashed cyber-attacks, including the Stuxnet virus, developed in cooperation with the U.S., that delayed the Iranian nuclear program.
Israel has never publicly confirmed any role in the Stuxnet virus attacks, but its involvement is widely assumed both inside and outside the country.
Dagan’s operations against the Iranian nuclear program restored pride in the Mossad after …read more
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