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SitiWanMahani - ‘Resort
kepada ancaman’ Mossad untuk menghalang yang keluarga dokumentari kehidupan ejen.
Perkhidmatan rahsia Israel telah pergi ke panjang besar untuk menghalang
pengeluaran dokumentari melihat kehidupan ejen dari perspektif peribadi.
Pembikin filem dilaporkan melihat wawancara mereka dibatalkan di bawah tekanan
daripada Mossad.
Dokumentari
TV yang dibuat oleh Amnon Levi untuk mengambil Channel 10 memberi tumpuan
kepada kehidupan ahli-ahli keluarga ejen Mossad dan apa yang digambarkan
sebagai harga diri mereka membayar untuk kerja-kerja rahsia orang yang
tersayang.
Filem
ini tidak ada kaitan dengan mana-mana rahsia negara, tetapi walaupun ini agensi
keselamatan Israel telah menghalang pengeluaran, laporan akhbar Haaretz.
“Laporan
itu berkaitan dengan bahaya seorang kanak-kanak Mossad ejen,” kata Levy. “Kita
bercakap tentang pembinaan semula muka yang ejen Mossad menjalani sebagai
sebahagian daripada perubahan mereka identiti, dan diperiksa jika agensi yang
digunakan ejen wanita sebagai ‘Seductresses’.
“Pada
titik tertentu organisasi mula melawan kita dalam semua cara yang mungkin. Pada
saat-saat akhir, petang sebelum atau pada waktu pagi yang sama satu wawancara
[dijadualkan], kami menerima panggilan membatalkan temu bual itu, kerana
ditemubual dilarang untuk bekerja sama dengan kami.”
Ditemubual
potensi mengancam menerima panggilan telefon dan e-mel dari Mossad, kata
laporan itu.
“Suami
saya, yang merupakan ejen tahun lalu, meminta izin untuk memberikan satu temu
bual. The Mossad tidak memberi kebenaran beliau tetapi memberitahu bahawa anak
perempuan saya dan saya boleh ditemuramah,” ahli keluarga ejen memberitahu
akhbar itu. “Kami bercakap tentang bagaimana beliau tidak ada di rumah, pada
tahap yang benar-benar peribadi.
“Tiba-tiba
mereka mengubah fikiran mereka. Kami menerima panggilan telefon menuntut supaya
kami membatalkan penyertaan kami. Apabila berurusan dengan mereka, satu adalah
lebih baik daripada menjadi bijak betul. Mereka tidak menjelaskan mengapa
mereka berkeras kami membatalkan temu bual itu, tetapi mengulangi mantera ‘anda
tidak boleh.”
Levy
berkata laporan itu telah disediakan dan disampaikan kepada menapis, yang
seterusnya, yang diluluskan pada nama-nama ditemubual Mossad untuk kelulusan.
Kemudian pegawai Mossad mula mengancam ditemubual untuk menarik diri daripada
program ini.
“Kelakuan
Mossad adalah agresif,” kata Levy. “Laporan itu tidak termasuk apa-apa rahsia
negara. Kami hanya membincangkan perkara-perkara peribadi dan keluarga membayar
harga. Saya faham bahawa isu ini juga, adalah bermasalah setakat mereka yang
berkenaan, tetapi mereka tidak menawarkan apa-apa penjelasan yang serius.”
Mossad ‘resorts to threats’ to
block agents’ family
life documentary . . .
The
Israeli secret service has gone to great length to prevent the production of a
documentary looking at the lives of its agents from a personal perspective. Filmmakers
reportedly saw their interviews canceled under pressure from Mossad.
The TV
documentary made by Amnon Levy for Channel 10 takes a focus on the lives of the
family members of Mossad agents and what is described as the personal price
they pay for their loved ones’ secret jobs.
The
film does not deal with any state secrets, but despite this the Israeli
security agency has been obstructing its production, reports Haaretz newspaper.
"The
report deals with the dangers of being a Mossad agent's child," Levy
explained. "We talked about facial reconstruction that Mossad agents
underwent as part of their change of identity, and examined if the agency used
female agents as seductresses.
“At a
certain point the organization began to fight us in all possible ways. At the
last minute, the evening before or in the same morning of a [scheduled]
interview, we received calls canceling the interview, because the interviewees
were forbidden to cooperate with us."
The
potential interviewees received threatening phone calls and emails from Mossad,
the report says.
"My
husband, who was an agent years ago, requested permission to grant an
interview. The Mossad didn't grant him permission but told him that my daughter
and I could be interviewed,” an agent’s family member told the newspaper. “We
spoke about how he wasn't at home, on a completely personal level.
“Suddenly
they changed their minds. We received phone calls demanding that we cancel our
participation. When dealing with them, one is better off being wise than right.
They didn't explain why they insisted we cancel the interview, but repeated the
mantra 'you simply can't.'"
Levy
said that his report was prepared and passed on to the censor, who in turn,
passed on the names of the interviewees to the Mossad for approval. Then Mossad
officials began threatening interviewees to withdraw from the program.
"The conduct of the
Mossad is aggressive," Levy said. "The report does not include any
state secrets. We discuss only personal matters and the price families pay. I
understand that this issue, too, is problematic as far as they're concerned,
but they didn't offer any serious explanation."