The failure of the Israeli Intelligence Unit 8200 .. The unit commander criticizes his subordinates
Israel Hayom
🔴 A letter sent by an official in the Intelligence Unit (8200) to the unit's members, described this letter as evidence of a lack of leadership, instead of accepting responsibility, and this official calls the published accurate information gossip.
Following the leaks, Brigadier Y sent an e-mail to the members of the unit in which he wrote: "We do not spend a single minute talking bad about our comrades".
🔴 The commander of 8200 indirectly attacks the personnel of his unit after leaking information about the unit's performance on the eve of Black Saturday.
🔴 In an e-mail sent yesterday to all members of the regular, permanent and reserve unit, under the title "on the sanctity of war," Brigadier General Y wrote: "War obliges us to practice holiness. In which way That is, it is not true and it is not possible to give space to things that have no place". "War requires practicality. War requires fellowship. The war requires concentration in the first place (the defeat of Hamas, the return of abductees and abductees, the patronage of the North). Do not give room to background noise. In war, we invest all our energy in defeating our enemies "don't spend a minute gossiping or talking bad about our friends and partners. This is the war of our transformation, this is the war of our generation. This war obliges me, this war obliges us".
🔴 Since the beginning of the war, Brigadier General "J" avoided accepting responsibility for his failure and the failure of the unit to bring information that would have made it possible to thwart the October 7 attack, and so the Golden information brought by 8200 came about a year and a half before the attack was translated into a full Isofi form that would have made it possible to learn more about Hamas ' intentions, and in the unit they also ignored the warnings of counter V, which warned that Hamas was preparing for an attack.
🔴 "Y" had already sent several e-mails to the members of the unit since the beginning of the war, but the one he sent yesterday was especially surprising. "Evidence of a lack of leadership," an official at 8200 sarcastically called it. According to him, instead of accepting responsibility, Y is looking for the culprits and calls the published accurate information gossip.
🔴 Not the only" I " in the intelligence division who avoided accepting responsibility for the failure. The operations division was created as a lesson from the Second Lebanon war, with the aim of synchronizing all intelligence activity with the main objective of the intelligence division. : Warning of war . . "G" and his men knew the Golden knowledge of Hamas, but like 8200 they did not turn it into an action plan.
🔴 Yesterday, Ilana Diane revealed a warning from G that was given three months before Black Sabbath, in which he warned: "We tried, we didn't succeed, we don't know how the Sinwar will behave".
🔴 A senior official called these matters an "incredible escape from responsibility incident," and asked what Brigadier General ji did with him: "did he turn the tables, open a tent outside the chief of staff's office, mobilize all the intelligence services - Aman, Shin Bet - or just had a letter?" The answer is obvious."
🔴 And these publications do not come out of thin air. The information received recently indicates the serious intelligence failure suffered by all formations in Aman, which mainly shows arrogance and mental fixation, which requires at the very least grasping the mistake and accepting personal and leadership responsibility.
🔴 The commander of the 8200th and the head of the operations division avoid this until today, and this is in contrast to their commander, Army Chief Ahron Halifa, who accepted responsibility for the failure (as did the head of the Research Division, Brigadier General Amit sa'ar).
