Israeli intelligence experts are gravely concerned that US President Donald Trump’s sharing of classified information with Russia may have compromised an Israeli agent, but don’t expect any long-term consequences for intelligence cooperation. The New York Times, citing a current and a former US official, reported on Tuesday that the information Trump divulged came from an Israeli intelligence asset based in Islamic State-held territory in Syria. Israeli officials have declined to confirm whether they were the source of the information Trump shared, but have been quick to say counter-terrorism coordination with the US is strong. “Israeli intelligence agencies have shown that they can have such human sources,” said Aviv Oreg, former head of the al-Qaeda and global jihad desk in the army’s military intelligence department, who now runs a counter-terrorism consultancy. If we have really lost a human source over there, it’s a major loss and it will take years to regenerate another one,” he said.

Source: Hindustan Times May 17, 2017 11:26 UTC