The intelligence community is investigating whether an agent who served Israeli intelligence, who held an official position in Hamas on October 7, 2023, was part of the deception and actually served as a double agent. The source, a mid-level Hamas operative working for Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), was contacted in the hours before the attack and claimed nothing was happening. It is likely that the source should have known about the attack at the time he was contacted, raising suspicions that he was part of the deception operation.