Boris Johnson has claimed a listening device was found in his personal bathroom in the Foreign Office after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used it.
In his new book ‘Unleashed’, Boris alleged his security team found a bug in the toilet after Netanyahu used the facilities during a visit in 2017.
Boris wrote: ‘Thither Bibi repaired for a while, and it may or may not be a coincidence but I am told that later, when they were doing a regular sweep for bugs, they found a listening device in the thunderbox.’
Boris was asked about the claim by the Telegraph, to which he replied: ‘I think everything you need to know about that episode is in the book.’
It’s not clear if Israel has responded to the claims, the Telegraph reported. Metro has reached out to the Foreign Office and the Israeli Government for comment.
Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, has high-tech capabilities when it comes to hacking and listening.
Last month, they were thought to be behind the remote detonation of thousands of pagers in Lebanon at once.
The explosions left chaos and confusion in their wake after the devices suddenly detonated following a coded error message sent to all devices.
The consensus seems to be that the pagers were modified by Mossad – Israel’s national spy agency – ‘at the production level.’
It’s alleged up to 3g of explosives were stuffed in the brand-new pagers which went undetected for months.
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