Israel-Morocco Deal Follows History of Cooperation on Arms and Spying
By Ronen Bergman - Dec. 10, 2020 - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/world/middleeast/Israel-morocco-cooperation-history.html
Behind the announcement Thursday that Israel and Morocco will establish their first formal diplomatic ties, there lies almost six decades of close, secret cooperation on intelligence and military matters between two nations that officially did not acknowledge each other.
Israel has helped Morocco obtain weapons and intelligence-gathering gear and learn how to use them, and helped it assassinate an opposition leader. Morocco has helped Israel take in Moroccan Jews, mount an operation against Osama bin Laden — and even spy on other Arab countries. (...)
