Israel Had Man Inside Syrian Nuclear Facility

The latest in the string of foreign press reports regarding the September 6 strike in Syria claims Israel had a mole inside a Syrian nuclear facility.

ABC News reported Saturday that, “Israeli officials believed that a target their forces bombed inside Syria last month was a nuclear facility, because they had detailed photographs taken by a possible spy inside the complex.”

The report quotes an unnamed senior U.S. official saying Israel noticed the Syrian nuclear facility this summer, leading the Mossad “to either co-opt one of the facility's workers or to insert a spy posing as an employee. As a result, the Israelis obtained many detailed pictures of the facility from the ground.”

The official described the photographs as showing a large “cylindrical structure with very thick walls all well-reinforced.” He said it was located far from civilization, near a lone pumping station that was to supply the cooling tower for the nuclear reactor. He added that the facility was of North Korean design.