Montenegro Takes On Russia, America and a Former CIA Officer 8/14 Eli Lake /Now Assad says he is being set up by Montenegrin prosecutors to testify about a coup attempt he knows nothing about. Their real goal, he suspects, is to get “a former CIA official to say derogatory things about(
presenting the Israeli leader in a soft, humorous light.In 2016 Shaviv produced satirical commercials on behalf of the DF party, which opposed Nato membership and was generally pro-Russian. As a result, he claimed he was repeatedly stopped and questioned by Montenegrin police and security officers.
The couple became minor celebrities and Michelle published a memoir in February about her service and her Christian faith, titled Breaking Cover. Shaviv specialises in making television commercials for international politicians〜He won prizes for commercials in 2015 for Benjamin Netanyahu,(
specialist in theCIA.After leaving the agency and setting up a private security business, he&his wife Michelle, also a former CIA officer,led a privately financed operation in2015to rescue Iraqi Christians driven outof the Mosul area by the Islamic State, an effort in which Shaviv was also involved.
8/12 Joseph Assad was temporarily working in Montenegro as a security advisor to Aron Shaviv, a British-Israeli political consultant working for a pro-Moscow Montenegrin opposition group,the Democratic Front (DF)/ Assad, an Egyptian-American who came to the US in1990,served as a counter-terrorism(