US security head in secret visit to Israel

The director of the US National Security Agency, Admiral Michael Rogers, has reportedly paid a secret visit to Israel last week to discuss cooperation in cyber operations.

The Zionist daily, Haaretz quoted a senior Israeli official as saying that the NSA chief, who also heads the US’s Cyber Command, made the trip to meet with in signal intelligence and code decryption agents in the Israeli army.

Rogers also met with other senior Israeli intelligence officials.

The US has also seen “intensified cyberspace operations by state and nonstate actors,” Admiral Rogers told the US House of Representatives panel earlier this month, according to a Department of Defense report.

The daily said the visit dealt with deepening cooperation between Israeli and American intelligence units, especially against Iran and Hezbollah.