The fourth Mossad officer resigned.
After three months of the resignation of the three senior Mossad spy agents, due to the dispute with the newly appointed chief of the Zionist organization, the fourth senior officer resigned.
An unnamed Mossad special operations commander has resigned, Israeli media reported. He is the fourth senior Mossad official to step down seven months after the appointment of David Barnia as director of Mossad in June 2021.
According to a report by Israeli Channel 13 television yesterday (Sunday), the senior Mossad commander resigned after Barnia told him and other officials of the spy agency that they had become “an additional burden on the organization.”
The Zionist newspaper Haaretz reported that the deputy chief of staff of Mossad and “a number of members of the organization had also resigned following the incident.” “He wanted to make major changes to the way the unit under the [anonymous commander] operated, and [the commander] did not carry them out as he wanted.”
The head of Mossad had told senior officials that they had become an additional burden on Mossad.
Russia’s Rashatodi network also reported, quoting Israeli media, that a replacement for the senior Mossad commander had been identified and had taken office. This is the fourth Mossad commander to step down in the seven months since Barnia replaced Yossi Cohen as Mossad director.
Last year, the Mossad’s chief technology officer, chief of operations and counterterrorism director all resigned due to deep differences with the director of the Mossad spy agency.
Barnia joined Mossad in 1996, was appointed head of the Tazoom party in 2013, and served as deputy head of Mossad in 2019. Finally, in 2021, he took over as the new head of Mossad, apparently seeking to bring Mossad back. The situation is completely silent and threatens any current or former members of the organization who enter the media to discuss Mossad operations.
