Tel Aviv – Security agents at Ben-Gurion Airport use tough, lengthy screening measures against suspicious passengers, a newly released CIA-sanctioned document claims.
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WikiLeaks, a website that has uncovered classified documents gleaned from the secret files of the US government, released a guide used by the CIA to train its agents to avoid detection at Ben-Gurion Airport.
The document offers instructions to agents who wish to enter Israel through the Lod terminal without having to undergo a “secondary screening process” by security agents.
“Secondary screening – a potentially lengthy and detailed look by airport officials at passengers not passing initial scrutiny – can significantly stress the identities of operational travelers,” the document reads. “Referral to secondary screening can occur if irregularities or questions arise during any stage of airport processing – immigration, customs, or security – and regardless of whether the traveler is arriving, in transit, or departing. Officials may also randomly select travelers.”
“With the exception of Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport and a few others, immigration inspectors conducting primary screenings generally lack the time and tools to conduct in-depth examination of travelers’ bona fides,” according to the document.
Israeli security personnel tend to single out passengers who have traveled to Islamic countries for more thorough questioning while also providing a glimpse into the methods and means used by airport authorities in interrogating suspicious travelers.
“Israel’s security personnel focus on frequent travel to Islamic countries,” according to the document. “Security personnel at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, commonly refer military-aged males traveling alone with backpacks to secondary screening, regardless of their nationality or skin color.”
“At Ben-Gurion airport in Israel, the secondary screening room contains trace-detection equipment for explosive residue; tools for dismantling passengers’ personal items for inspection, particularly items unfamiliar to security officers; and a disrobing area, divided by privacy curtains, to conduct strip searches of individuals, if necessary,” the document said.
Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post
You can fly to Amman and just take bus to Israel, this is much easy than screenings
It’s scary to imagine that the American presidents are really two faces, from one side they won’t let let out a dying Israeli spy for the chutzpah of spying on the American friend, and the same time send to Israel spying Americans
“regardless of their nationality or skin color”
Interesting.
Scary thing is if the CIA has figured this out then Hezbollah can probably figure it out as well