*WASHINGTON – Former chief of Mossad, Israeli Intelligence agency, promptedthe American CIA to send an emergency team to Pakistan to learn if a majorconflict between India and Pakistan was imminent in 90s.*
In a recent interview with a magazine and in his book “Head of the Mossad”,Shabtai Shavit has shared his views on a variety of issues.
According to Shavit, In 1990, during a meeting with chief of CIA’s analysisdepartment at a restaurant in the Israeli capital he made the remarks aboutIndia-Pakistan issues.
As he exchanged views and intelligence information on a range of subjectswith the CIA man, he said “if the human race confronted another use of anuclear weapon, he would not be surprised if it would be as part of aconflict between those two nuclear powers”.
When the CIA official desperately probed for what secret informationShavite had that led him to this explosive conclusion, the then chief ofMossad downplayed his comment and said “he was not basing it on anything inparticular beyond his own general knowledge of power and state conflict,and the general lower philosophical concern that some of those nations’leaders placed on the value of the human life of common people”.
But the CIA expert didn’t believe him and upon returning to Washington, anemergency team was sent to Pakistan “to learn if a major conflict wasimminent and what secret information Israel might have that Shavit hadhinted at, but was refusing to share”.
According to a Israeli newspaper, the bottom line of his latest interviewand the book is that Shavit never again spoke off-the-cuff about seriousissues with foreign intelligence agents following the incident.