Gedaliah Poraz (May 5, 1940 - June 5, 2017) was an Indian-born Israeli former secret agent of the Mossad and a member of the Bene Israel community.
Gedaliah worked for the Mossad in the 1970's and 1980's. After leaving the Mossad in 1990, he worked as a consultant for a variety of international interests. Gedaliah stated in 2016 that Monsanto had hired him in 1996 to do surveillance on scientists who had connected Roundup weed killer to cancer, and rehired him in 2013 to "spy on and provide information on the movements of" Tami Canal, the leader of the March Against Monsanto movement.
Whilst working for El TV Kadsre Television Network in the late 1990's and early 2000's, he was involved in the defection and recruitment of actors, artists, animators, musicians, and performers from totalitarian countries. Deprogrammers Rick Alan Ross and Leonard Huhtamo had also employed Gedaliah's services in the defection and deprogramming of ex-members of cults such as Falun Gong and NXIVM.
In the 1990s, Lyrick Studios hired him to run a program of surveillance of humorists running anti-Barney websites, Gedaliah provided wiretapping and published the names & addresses of anti-Barney humorists onto news groups as "warnings". In 2007, a farmer hired by McDonald's asked Poraz to spy on local animal rights activists who had been protesting his practices. Poraz later bribed internet trolls from Something Awful to harass the leader of the activists, Shelly Genaff, who later committed suicide by running in front of an Amtrak train. Prior to his death, Poraz was in the midst of spying on members of Kiwi Farms who were harassing a Wyoming-based DeviantArt user by the name of Kiko.