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Israel's Shin Bet launches blog
BBC ^ | Monday, 17 March 2008 | Tim Franks

Posted on 03/17/2008 8:43:55 PM PDT by fishhound

The Israeli secret service has launched a new venture: it has started to carry an internet diary, or blog, written by four of its agents.

The agents discuss how they were recruited, and what sort of work they perform; they also answer questions sent in by members of the public.

The tone of the blog is chatty, at times even facetious.

The agents from Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, are shown in silhouette.

Agent Chet is the sole woman among them. She works in hi-tech.

She says she went to the agency because it offered her a better "work-life balance" than her previous job in the private sector.

There are parts of her job, she says, which she can't discuss even with her husband - but then again, at home, they don't much like talking about work.

Recruitment drive

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: isreal
There is the opportunity to work on what are described as "irregular missions"; to work on one's own; and to acquire a variety of "special skills".
1 posted on 03/17/2008 8:43:55 PM PDT by fishhound
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To: fishhound

hope they post plenty of girl pictures.


2 posted on 03/17/2008 8:46:13 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (no, I don't read my mail.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

“hope they post plenty of girl pictures.”

Hope they post it in English , not just Hebrew .


3 posted on 03/17/2008 9:00:29 PM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: txflake

Coolness ping


4 posted on 03/17/2008 9:24:37 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Deetes
Hope they post it in English , not just Hebrew .

http://www.shin-tech.org.il/

I hope you know Hebrew.

There actually is a link for English, but the English (and Arabic) versions are not up yet.

5 posted on 03/17/2008 9:30:20 PM PDT by backslacker (Thou shall worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. --Luke 4:8b)
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To: Deetes

I don’t care what language the pictures are in. ;)


6 posted on 03/18/2008 5:06:03 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (no, I don't read my mail.)
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