Mossad director Joseph (Yossi) Cohen addresses a budgeting conference hosted by Israel's Finance Ministry in Jerusalem October 22, 2018. REUTERS/ Ronen Zvulun
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Spying is getting harder because the same technologies that catch terrorists can sometimes uncover foreign intelligence operations, the director of Israel's Mossad said on Monday.
Joseph (Yossi) Cohen delivered rare public remarks at a budget conference held by Israel's Finance Ministry. That suggested he may have emerged from the shadows to safeguard the funds and personnel allotment that, according to Israeli daily Haaretz, have made Mossad "the second largest spy organisation in the West" after the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
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