Ben Rhodes
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And I knew that similar things were happening in 2018, 2022 in Hungary.
And I got this very bad feeling that it is going for like Israelis work and that there are some firms with a lot of money attacking Slovenia.
I started to talk with very good friends who are journalists and they had a leak that JanΕ‘a met
He's the authoritarian best friend of Viktor Orban.
He's in politics for 33 years, and he wanted to get the power back.
He lost elections four years ago, and he did everything to basically come to the power now.
And we got a leak that basically a group of people speaking β
in not Slovenian language came to him and that they were from Israel and they had a meeting and journalists had this leak.
And when I started to speak, hey, I think there is like a foreign interference.
We started to connect the dots.
We got information when this meeting happened.
We bought an access to fly riders.
So we got the information when the private jet from Tel Aviv landed in Slovenia.
And then we got the names of the people who are there and we realized that it is important.
black cube and then things started to connect and it was this what the fuck is happening in Slovenia moment.
In three days we decided that we will tell the story and that we will go out with the story.
I have friends in Israel who are investigating that kind of stuff for years and they told me who black cube is and then we made the decision that we will expose private Mossad in Slovenia
And in one weekend, we prepared a report about this, about the other cases, about what Black Cube already done in other countries, and also informations about what they were doing in Slovenia.
And what I think it was really important was that we decided that we do it in a very non