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

Colonel Yoel Ben-Porat, known as Buffy, was the unit commander of Unit 8200, an Israel 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 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

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