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Two hundred dangerous Israelis a year have been coming to New Zealand in pre-selection for Mossad agent training.

Congratulations John Campbell of TV3 for busting up a Mossad operation in New Zealand. It's a pity you don't know what you have done.
This was a self funding operation  that recruited ex-conscripted soldiers for one years culture and language training in New Zealand followed by a years international travel around the world. In return those candidates are now a great deal more worldly than when they were at high school three years prior
The candidates were coming to New Zealand for a year on a working holiday visa. What they were doing was

• Abusing the work limits on their visas
• Not paying their obligations in income tax
• Learning English, and local culture
• Learning how to exploit vulnerable New Zealanders
• Saving income for the next leg of their candidate selection process

What is surprising is why the SIS and GCSB did not shut this operation down, but allowed John Campbell to do so. Persons on working visa's can after all be spied on in New Zealand.
Or was the New Zealand Government in full knowledge of the operation through the GCSB and SIS? Obviously requests under the OIA will result in nothing here. But it does seem such a large operation could have been operating under their noses without their knowledge.
For a moment lets remember  Mossad's motto
"Where there is no guidance, a nation falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety."