https://www.timesofisrael.com/harvey-weinstein-says-he-hired-israeli-firm-black-cube-for-days-like-this/

"Harvey Weinstein says he hired Israeli firm Black Cube"

"-the former Hollywood producer left his New York City rape trial and a reporter asked him why he hired Black Cube, a firm founded by former intelligence analysts from the Israel Defense Forces.

Prosecutors say the firm’s investigators used fake identities to meet with journalists and track the accusers to thwart publication of stories about Weinstein’s alleged sex offenses."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/britney-spears-was-spied-on-by-father-using-israeli-firm-ex-employee-says/

"Britney Spears was spied on by father using Israeli firm, ex-employee says"

But she supposedly only has 60 million to her estate...

Britney Spears’ father hired an Israeli-run private security agency to secretly record the pop singer in her bedroom and monitor her communications, a former employee of the firm has said in a new documentary.

Alex Vlasov, an executive assistant and operations and cybersecurity manager for Black Box Security for nine years, showed The New York Times evidence of secretly captured audio recordings, including Spears’ interactions and conversations with her boyfriend and children.

  • BruceWillis [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    mercenaries gonna mercenary. israel is bathed in right wing ideology as much as any settler colonialist state.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      There's also a big PR machine mythologizing them and working to shift the focus from what they're doing (ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and other atrocities) into just how gosh darn good at doing it they are, meaning any rich fuck looking for "the best" is naturally going to gravitate towards former IDF mercs.

  • comi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Same is true with south african or usa mercenaries :shrug-outta-hecks:

  • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I think the gimmick is that by being extranational it makes a mess of jurisdictional laws to untangle.

    So, a good lawyer would let them get away with a bunch of stuff a domestic company couldn't

  • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Another thing: with a volunteer military, you’re going to select for desperate jocks. With mandatory military conscription your going to get more nerds which you funnel through intelligence services.

  • pooh [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    I suspect groups like this still work for Mossad in some capacity, since obtaining compromising info on celebrities and/or wealthy individuals would be useful as a means to control them.

    Related, did you know that Ghislaine Maxwell’s father was a Mossad agent? After he died suspiciously, she moved to NYC and started hanging out with Epstein. A secret pedophile ring that targets the rich and powerful would also be useful for controlling people…

  • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Alex Vlasov, an executive assistant and operations and cybersecurity manager for Black Box Security for nine years

    Cursed surname.

  • Ithorian [comrade/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Probably not the conspiracy reason you wanted but israeli special forces are some of the best in the world. The fact that they pretty much all speak English makes them real easy to higher in the US. There are lots of US ex-military in private security too but american special forces normally end up as government contractors because they already have the security clearance.

    • tails__miles_prower [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I wasnt really making a conspiracy. I just wanted to shed light that people in the entertainment industry are and have been using spy agencies to silence/enslave women. Britney's case is the worst because the court was agreeing to it.