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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 Israel Defense Forces.1

Yoel Ben-Porat was involved in the cover-up of the Lockheed Aircraft Company 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") ↩︎