Outgoing IDF Security Division head Col. G. revealed in a Galatz (Army Radio) interview that more than 30 security investigations were opened during the war — equivalent to a decade's worth — and that the Shin Bet has arrested over 80 people who entered IDF bases to gather intelligence. He said soldiers leaked their positions mid-battle, and the military conducted the same investigation every two months.
In an interview published Wednesday on Galatz (Army Radio) by reporters Moriah Asraf and Doron Kadosh, the outgoing head of the IDF's Security Division (Mahabam), Col. G., disclosed new details about the scale of intelligence leaks and espionage during the war.
"More than 30 security investigations were opened during the war — that is equivalent to a decade going back," Col. G. said. "Alongside that, we ran an intelligence campaign against a real enemy — spies on our own soil, people being directed and paid. To date, the Shin Bet has arrested more than 80 people who moved around inside IDF bases collecting intelligence."
Col. G. described an unprecedented challenge: "We never encountered challenges like these. The IDF leaked itself knowingly; it continued during the war and even intensified. Soldiers tweeted their positions while fighting, uploaded pictures. Phenomena we thought we had flagged in IDF investigations — with insights and lessons the IDF learned and forgot it learned — we investigated the same events every two months."
The revelations build on exclusive recordings published Tuesday morning on the same platform, in which Col. G. admitted a "colossal failure" of military information security before October 7. As The Zioneer reported, he argued then that the military had effectively shed its classified and unclassified assets ahead of the Hamas attack.
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