Morocco

nation state

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Location	North Africa
Type	nation state

Morocco is a nation state in North Africa.

An unusual intelligence school

The author and journalist Patrick Searle, told how (no timeframe mentioned, but most likely at least including the 1980s):

The Moroccan government and the CIA ran an unusual intelligence school that specializes in Palestinian affairs. The CIA, which works closely with Israel on Palestinian matters, had brought the Mossad into the arrangement as well. The students were mostly young North Africans who were recruited in Europe and brought back to the Moroccan school to be trained as spies. They were put through courses on the various Palestinian factions, studying their leading personalities, their structure, ideology, and operations - so that by the end of the course, they were able to use the arcane jargon of these organizations. All the principal groups Fatah, the PFLP, the Democratic Front, the PFLP-General Command, the Arab Liberation Front, and Abu Nidal's organization - are studied.
Once their course is completed, the youths are taken back to Europe and instructed to hang about in cafés, meet other Arabs, and speak to them in the language they have been taught. The hope is that they will eventually get taken on by the groups they have learned to mimic, so that the Moroccans, the CIA, or the Mossad can use them. Some of the graduates become informers, some plan operations, and some are even schooled to become ideologues for the groups on which they are planted. Some are killers.

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