New confessions by spy Sinan Abdulaziz reveal recruitment, training, and hostile operations carried out
The Interior Ministry continues to release confessions of the cells belonging to the espionage network run by the joint operations room of the American, Israeli, and Saudi intelligence services, which were dismantled in the operation “And the scheme of those people will fail.”
As part of this, the ministry today broadcast additional details from the confession of spy Sinan Abdulaziz Ali, a member of a cell linked to the CIA, Mossad, and Saudi intelligence, recently arrested, regarding his recruitment, training, and the hostile missions he carried out for the enemy operations room.
Recruitment and induction
Spy Sinan Abdulaziz Ali stated that he entered Saudi Arabia at the end of 2021 and worked in various jobs, including work for relatives in Riyadh for seven months. After his residency expired, he worked briefly at an event-coordination center, then remained unemployed for nine months.
He said:
“My cousin came from Yemen to Saudi Arabia at the end of 2023. I visited him and told him I’d been unemployed for about nine months. He gave me the number of Al-Moheet Company and told me to contact them for work. I told him my situation was messy and my residency expired, but he insisted that the company would fix my status.”
He contacted the company, and two days later a Saudi man named Mohammed phoned him, took his personal details, and later told him another Saudi named Saad would follow up. Saad called him at the end of 2023 and asked to meet the next day at Panorama Mall in Riyadh.
According to Sinan, Saad told him the “organization” worked in population census, and he was excited because “working with organizations means good money.” They trained him on submitting reports and then instructed him to go to Yemen to carry out “survey tasks.”
Training
Sinan said he received training in Riyadh from American and Saudi intelligence officers from the enemy’s joint intelligence room. The training included:
• Surveillance and reconnaissance of buildings
• Preparing detailed reports
• Using direct-streaming cameras
• Extracting network data using specialized devices and apps
• Using location-based apps during reconnaissance
• Using encrypted communication apps
• Installing vehicle-tracking devices
• Practicing disguise and evasion techniques during missions
Saad trained him first by asking him to write a report on a mall. Then he gave him a remote-control device with a hidden camera and trained him on using it. Later, he brought him to a café, where two additional trainers arrived: an American named John and a Saudi interpreter named Abdullah. They moved him to a chalet in north Riyadh for more detailed training.
He was introduced to:
• A vehicle tracking device
• A remote camera
• A black data-storage device
• A phone loaded with espionage apps
• A modem disguised as a portable battery that livestreamed video once powered on
He was trained on:
• Live video transmission
• Using a network-sniffing device capable of capturing phone identifiers within a 20-meter radius
• Marking locations and mapping buildings, residences, gates, guards, armed and unarmed personnel
• Creating excuses while surveilling locations to avoid suspicion
He was later trained on using a GPS tracker with magnetic discs and a concealed chip. He realized at that point that this was espionage work, not “population census.”
Hostile missions
Sinan admitted he carried out several missions assigned by handlers in the joint operations room, including:
• Reconnaissance and photographing residential buildings
• Documenting and reporting on civilian and military institutions
• Monitoring areas from which rockets were launched toward occupied Palestine
• Placing concealed spy cameras inside “blocks” in front of several homes in the Capital Secretariat — some of which were later bombed by American aircraft
• Documenting the aftermath of U.S. airstrikes
• Extracting networks from multiple residential neighborhoods
• Using a car sent to him as a mobile surveillance platform
He said Abdullah would notify him at the start of every mission via a link that opened directly to mapping software.
His tasks included:
• Mission 1: photographing a house in 2024 with the remote camera
• Mission 2: photographing another house; he could not enter due to guards, so he photographed the yard
• Mission 3: reconnaissance of the Grand Hall (Al-Sala Al-Kubra), which had been previously bombed
• Mission 4: photographing the Horse Hall, also previously bombed
• Additional missions: full documentation, photography, and network extraction at several homes and sites
Sinan said Abdullah later instructed him to receive a car arriving from Aden — a 2012 Kia Pride. Inside its panels were:
• A SIM-based device
• A large-capacity black device with multiple ports
• Another device near the fuel tank
• A tracking unit near the ignition
There were also cameras hidden in the glove compartment, trunk lid, and other interior spaces.
He used the car for surveillance and report submission, photographing sites and stopping in front of buildings or government facilities as instructed.
He worked with Abdullah for six months, then with another Saudi handler called Abu Saif. Tasks included:
• Photographing the area in front of Sam Hall a month before it was struck
• On a December 2024 mission, Abu Saif asked him to keep his phone on at 3 p.m. Sinan waited near Al-Tazaj Restaurant. At around 10:30 or 11 p.m., the strike occurred near Sam Hall. He asked to leave, but Abu Saif ordered him to remain and photograph crowds and police cars to identify casualties or movements around the site.
Another mission involved retrieving disguised spy blocks from two locations and installing replacement ones with connected devices and concealed cameras.
He was also ordered to photograph:
• Any military vehicle or truck on the Sana’a perimeter to identify potential rocket-launch areas
• Several mosques
• Additional targeted sites
Later, another Saudi handler, Abu Marwan, took over, gave him a red application, and sent him to survey a house near Sana’a Airport.
Final admission
Sinan confessed to executing around 100 missions, including:
• 70% targeting residential homes in Sana’a
• Surveillance of six mosques
• Multiple military institutions
• Reconnaissance of a major target on the Sana’a perimeter and reporting it to the enemy operations room
