Israel Matzav

Here we go again... IDF documents stolen

An indictment has been filed against a female IDF soldier charging her with endangering the state.

The soldier is accused of removing a disk on key containing hundreds of classified documents, some of them regarding Iran and labeled 'Top Secret', from the offices of the National Security Council. The soldier claims she saw the disk on key during a visit to the offices, and decided to take it in order to prove the need for additional information security.

The IDF said Sunday that it has questioned a soldier who stole sensitive documents on Iran. In a case that echoes the actions of IDF soldier Anat Kam, who stole documents and gave them to a reporter from Ha'aretz, the soldier in this case took a disk-on-key device from the National Security Council that contained some 600 documents, 45 of which were labeled “top secret.” Some of them dealt with the Iranian threat, a report in Yediot Achronot Sunday said. The soldier worked in the IDF computer department.

The soldier said under questioning that she planned to transfer the disk to her commander, in order to show how lax security was in the office, and that storing documents in that manner was irresponsible. She left the building with the disk and traveled to her home in the south. Hours later, someone noticed that the disk was missing, and it was traced to the soldier, who returned it. An IDF spokesperson said that the soldier was being charged, and that since the case was active, there would be no further comment.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:46 PM