Pentagon Raises Israel Counterintelligence Threat Level to Critical on June 6

According to NBC News, the U.S. Department of Defense raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to the highest designation on June 6, citing growing concerns over expanded Israeli espionage activities targeting the United States. Two current and one former U.S. official disclosed that the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) issued an internal threat assessment report in recent weeks, classifying the threat from Israel as "critical."

The officials attributed the rating to concerns that Israel is intensifying surveillance of senior U.S. officials to obtain intelligence on the Trump administration's internal deliberations and decision-making regarding Middle East conflicts. Israel's Washington embassy denied the allegations in a statement, calling claims of Israeli espionage against the U.S. "completely false." A White House official dismissed the report as "false," stating its sources have no knowledge of the actual situation.