The agencies were assessed in three main areas: recruiting âmolesâ and penetrating centers of power; assassination and sabotage operations, including operations such as Israelâs pager attack and Ukraineâs Operation Spiderweb; and intelligence collection, cyber operations and access to encrypted communications.
âI had not imagined that relations between the agencies were much more intense than the official relations between the countries,â a senior Swiss diplomatic figure told the magazine. âAn effective intelligence agency gives a country power no less significant than nuclear weapons.â