According to a report published in a French newspaper, no one in Argentina needed high technology to reveal highly sensitive information about the intelligence services, but rather a clumsy act of the judiciary was sufficient to spread a resounding political scandal by revealing the identities of hundreds of spies during an investigation into the actions of some former officials.
And in a report by Francois Xavier Gomez, “Liberation” said (LiberationA picture of 272-page handwritten documents, which circulated on social media at the end of last September, contains the identities of a thousand FBI employees, indicating that data breaches often come from whistleblowers or hackers who use piracy techniques Sophisticated.
The newspaper pointed out that the documents – which were handed over to the curiosity of data lovers – include the real name, ID number, financial transfers, information, retirement, sick leave, maternity leave, travel and expense reports, and thus every activity related to the service between 2016 and 2018.
This fatal mistake is due – according to Liberation – to a lawsuit filed against the Federal Intelligence Agency, after it was accused of devoting its efforts to spying on the opposition, unions, the press, and even the Catholic Church, during the rule of liberal President Mauricio Macri between 2015 and 2019, so that reforming it became one of the main goals of leftist President Alberto Fernandez when He comes to power at the end of 2019.
Winds of panic
In his capacity as responsible for the investigation of this case, a judge in the southern suburbs of the capital, Buenos Aires, requested in July to lift the secrecy of some documents, which he obtained with strict conditions that prevent copying and reading documents except in an office in the court, but the difficulty of movement imposed by the health status of the judge The investigation made him decide to make the document available on a server that could be accessed by password from all 80 civil parties.
This leak caused a wave of panic in the anti-espionage agency, whose head, Cristina Camagno, is working to restructure, although some of the names that were revealed related to security and cleaning personnel, and activities that had been stopped in 2018.
However, the potential damage could be enormous – as the author of the report says – because many of the officers are still in service, some of them are abroad, and it is urgent to bring them home, because revealing their identity puts them at risk.
In the camp of the former president, this leak was not considered a huge mistake, but rather a maneuver by the left-wing government to defeat the former Federal Intelligence Agency officials who were targeted by justice, and this camp now wants to use the incident to turn the whole process around, says the author of the report.
The conservative opposition demanded that officials clarify their position to Congress, as the press reported in the statements of the head of the intelligence service, which later took a cynical character, when they called for more “transparency” in the administration of the agency, and more effectiveness against electronic threats.
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However, the French newspaper says that the bad reputation of the secret services far predates the era of former President Macri, as it was not clear until now their role in the 2015 assassination of Attorney General Nisman, when he was about to indict leftist President Christina Kirchner for her alleged links to the Iranian regime.
Liberation concluded that, in the final episode of this clumsy behavior, he found on the same server another document related to President Macri’s personal data, including his passport, bank card numbers, private phone numbers, and his Netflix and Facebook IDs, but the more funny thing – according to the writer – is his account password. Mercadolibre is the largest online shopping site in South America.
Defenders of the former president accuse the authority of raising counter-issues to terrify its political opponents and make people forget its failures in the case of angry spies.
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