---
category: "Military"
tags:
  - Person
  - Military
  - Israel
  - General
summary: "Colonel Yoel Ben-Porat, known as Buffy, was the unit commander of Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit."
updated: 2026-10-12
born: 1931
died: 2007
---

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 Israeli Defense Forces.[^1]

[[Ari Ben-Menashe]] wrote that Buffy was involved in the cover-up of the [[Lockheed Aircraft Company|Lockheed]] bribe scandal involving [[Shimon Peres]], after Ben-Menashe intercepted a telegram detailing the bribe. He wrote that Ben-Porat ordered the original telegram, translation, and log to be erased and transferred the young woman working with him to another unit.[^1]

### Footnotes
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015).