The first time the unit's commander speaks to a camera, and the first time the unit's fighting battalion is revealed to the public! Unit 8200 - is an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for collecting signal intelligence and code decryption. It also appears in military publications as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps. Unit 8200 is the largest unit in the Israel Defense Forces, comprising several thousand soldiers.[2] It is comparable in its function to the United States' National Security Agency but is a Ministry of Defense, rather than civilian, body. It is led by a Brigadier-General whose identity remains classified. Subordinate to Unit 8200 is Unit Hatzav (Hebrew: יחידת חצב‎), responsible for collecting OSINT intelligence. The unit monitors and collects military intelligence-related information from television, radio, newspapers, and the internet. The translation of various items accounts for part of what is termed "basic intelligence," which is collected by the corps' units. According to media reports, the unit provides over half of the overall intelligence information for the Israeli Intelligence Community. The IDF's most important signal intelligence-gathering installation is the Urim SIGINT Base, a part of Unit 8200. Urim is located in the Negev desert approximately 30 km from Beersheba. In March 2004, the Commission to investigate the intelligence network following the War in Iraq recommended turning the unit into a civilian National SIGINT Agency, as is in other Western countries, but this proposal was not implemented. In 2010, the New York Times cited "a former member of the United States intelligence community" alleging that this unit used a secret kill switch to deactivate Syrian air defenses during Operation Orchard.[5] Unit 8200 was speculated by many media reports to be responsible for the creation of Stuxnet computer worm that in 2010 infected industrial computers, including Iranian nuclear facilities. Alumni of 8200 have gone on to found leading Israeli IT companies, among them Check Point, ICQ, NICE, AudioCodes, Gilat, and EZchip. (Wikipedia) Some more footage of the unit, a bit older (2008) which I couldn't download, unfortunetly: http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=553324 Music: Disturbed Deify SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE!

• published: 27 Sep 2012
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