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After Hamas-affiliated gunmen stormed the headquarters of rival Fatah's Preventive Security agency and other Fatah offices in the Gaza Strip on June 14, Hamas claimed to have seized thousands of sensitive intelligence documents the group says detail the level of collaboration between Fatah, moderate Arab governments, the Israelis and the United States. More important, Hamas said it now has details of the CIA's human intelligence (humint) network in the Middle East.
Hamas has an interest in accentuating these allegations -- especially the claim that Fatah is working with Israeli intelligence and the CIA -- in order to portray Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction as an illegitimate and corrupt political entity. However, although the documents seized could reveal the open "secret" of cooperation between Fatah security forces and Western and moderate Arab security organizations, no damaging documents about the CIA's humint network would be in Gaza.
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