© consilium.europa.auThe Council at work: the Justus Lipsius building is the venue for the EU's most sensitive internal debates, on, among other topics, foreign policy
The report, completed in late 2010, is available on the committee's website in Flemish and French. Committee member Peter de Smet on Tuesday told EUobserver the report says that two people suspected of planting listening devices in the EU member states' headquarters, the Justus Lipsius building, when it was constructed back in the mid-1990s had been trained by the Israeli telecommunications company Comverse, which has known links to the Mossad, the Israeli spy agency.
The report does not name any country other than Israel as the potential guilty party in its findings.
"There is no hard evidence [that the Mossad carried out the operation]," Mr De Smet explained. "But it was really state-of-the-art listening equipment that was placed back in 1993 or 1994 and there were not many countries that had the means at this time. It could be Israel, it could be Russia, it could be England or it could be the US - there you have really the four countries possible, but it will never blow up who did these things. It will remain a game inside the intelligence services."
Comment: Don't know whether it's worth it, Dick? If you were equipped with a conscience like a normal human being there wouldn't be a single doubt in your mind. Too bad for the rest of the world that you don't.