# Office of Special Plans Israeli leak

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*A major Israeli spy operation John Kiriakou says was uncovered in the 2000s involving a leak from the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, headed by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith — both authors, with Richard Perle, of the "Clean Break" report advocating a dual-containment strategy against Iraq and Iran on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu. Per Kiriakou, Wolfowitz and Feith did not merely fail to take Israeli counterintelligence seriously; he believes they actively helped abet it.*

- **Pentagon office:** Office of Special Plans
- **Heads:** Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith
- **Related document:** "Clean Break" report, co-authored with Richard Perle for Benjamin Netanyahu
- **Per Kiriakou:** Helped abet, not merely overlook, Israeli counterintelligence operations

[John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) discusses a major Israeli spy operation uncovered in the 2000s that ran through a leak from the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, headed by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith — both members of the neoconservative Project for a New American Century, and co-authors, with Richard Perle, of the "Clean Break" report advocating a dual-containment strategy against Iraq and Iran on behalf of [Benjamin Netanyahu](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/benjamin-netanyahu).[1]

## Abetting, not just overlooking

Kiriakou says he believes Wolfowitz and Feith, along with figures like David Addington and Scooter Libby, did not merely fail to take Israeli counterintelligence activity seriously — he thinks they actively helped abet Israeli counterintelligence operations against the United States, reasoning that officials who see the U.S.-Israel relationship as so close as to be functionally one figure that any information Israel obtains through spying is information Washington intended to give it anyway.[2]

## See also

- [Operation Mega](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/operation-mega)
- [Israeli art student spy ring](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/israeli-art-student-spy-ring)
- [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)

## Sources

1. John Kiriakou Part III: 9/11, Israeli Spying, CIA Media Manipulation (2025-09-19), at 41:44. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFhhPsbO9GU&t=2504s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-09-19-harrison-berger/
2. John Kiriakou Part III: 9/11, Israeli Spying, CIA Media Manipulation (2025-09-19), at 42:46. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFhhPsbO9GU&t=2566s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-09-19-harrison-berger/

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