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Is IDF intelligence really at fault for not stopping the October 7 massacre? posted at 11:53:51 UTC   via   jpost.com On February 25, the floodgates opened. Ben Caspit of  Maariv  finally got a variety of IDF intelligence personnel to open up about their  Oct. 7 failures . These presumably include Y, head of Unit 8200 (Israel’s NSA) or his supporters. Caspit significantly revealed that an internal Unit 8200 report has mostly cleared Y from special blame for missing the signs of Hamas’s invasion and placed the blame on a decade of problematic processes in Unit 8200 and IDF intelligence more broadly. But what was most significant about Caspit’s article was that it has led to a much wider number of top former Unit 8200 officials being ready to step forward, including several who spoke to the  Magazine . On the one hand, their views are fresh and enlightening, requiring a radical rethink of the performance of the roles of the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate and Unit 8200; as well as