Black Cube

Published November 5, 2018

LAST February, Black Cube, an extension of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, shifted to luxurious Bank Discount Tower on Yehuda HaLevy Street and Herzl Boulevard in Tel Aviv. It keeps changing its location.

It is linked to Donald Trump’s ‘echo chamber’ memo against Barack Obama aides. To help Trump, it chased some members of the Obama administration.

Black Cube prepared a ‘map’ of its targets, detailing their occupational history, residences, parents, siblings, spouses, children and hobbies. The purpose is to identify vulnerabilities of targets that could help ‘cultivate’ them.

Black Cube digs through data mine like Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. It specialises in scrutinising banking transactions like Iranian, Saudi, and Pakistani international transactions.

Sometimes it is hired by dictators to identify and hunt down dissidents. It tipped Trump that China was eavesdropping his telephonic conversations. Let Pakistan beware of Black Cubes in our society.

D.J. Malik

Faisalabad

Published in Dawn, November 5th, 2018

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