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category: "Military"
tags:
- Person
- Military
- Intelligence
- Israel
- General
summary: "Colonel Yoel Ben-Porat, known as Buffy, was the unit commander of Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit."
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Colonel [[Yoel Ben-Porat]], known as Buffy, was the unit commander of [[Unit 8200]], an [[Israel|Israeli]] Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. He later became a brigadier general and was appointed official spokesman of the [[Israel Defense Forces|Israeli Defense Forces]].[^1]
Colonel [[Yoel Ben-Porat]], known as Buffy, was the unit commander of [[Unit 8200]], an [[Israel|Israeli]] Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. He later became a brigadier general and was appointed official spokesman of the [[Israel|Israeli Defense Forces]].[^1]
[[Yoel Ben-Porat|Buffy]] was involved in the cover-up of the [[Lockheed Aircraft Company|Lockheed]] bribe scandal involving [[Shimon Peres]], after [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] intercepted a telegram detailing the bribe. He ordered the original telegram, translation, and log to be erased and transferred the young woman working with [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] to another unit.[^1]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.