Yemeni security services have uncovered an extensive spy network operated by US and Israeli intelligence agencies and active within various institutions in Yemen since 2015, Al Mayadeen reported on 10 June.
The head of Yemen’s intelligence agency, the Security and Intelligence Service, Major General Abdul Hakim Hashem al-Khaiwani, said in a televised statement, “The exposed network collected important information in various fields and carried out direct espionage technical operations on behalf of the enemy’s intelligence services to obtain confidential, sovereign information.”
The agency added that the network gathered critical information across multiple sectors and relayed it to hostile intelligence services.
The information was used to influence decision-makers, infiltrate state agencies, sabotage Yemen’s economy and agricultural sector, and recruit officials within the Yemeni government.
Additionally, the espionage network provided military intelligence to US and Israeli intelligence agencies to weaken the Yemeni army and diminish its capabilities.
According to SABA News Agency, a security official said that the members caught over the past few days were recruited to work on collecting information and monitoring sites belonging to the Yemeni Armed Forces on the western coast of the Republic of Yemen.
The Al Mayadeen correspondent added that dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of members in various ministries, institutions, and organizations are part of the vast intelligence network seized by the Yemeni security services.
Yemeni forces are currently engaged in a conflict with the US, UK, and Israel. Yemeni forces began attacking Israeli-linked commercial ships in November in response to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The US and UK responded by attacking Yemeni naval and land targets.
Earlier this month, Yemeni security forces detained more than a dozen aid workers, including UN staff, in an apparently coordinated sweep, according to a diplomatic source and a Yemeni NGO.
At least 18 Yemeni aid workers were detained, the Yemeni Mayyun Organization for Human Rights said, listing ten workers from UN agencies.
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