Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad
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One of the most fascinating interviews was with Uri Saguy. He sat in Zvi Spielmann’s office and spoke candidly on such diverse subjects as the need for Israel to come to an accommodation with Syria and the problem he sometimes had with “tasking” Mossad when he had been Israel’s overall intelligence supremo.
David Kimche rarely let down his guard, insisting on seeing all questions beforehand. Nevertheless, he did impart important insights regarding his personal attitude toward people and events. My enduring memory of him was watching him feed his dog while elegantly destroying the credibility of those who did not measure up to his own standards.
Yaakov Cohen opened his home—and his heart and mind to me. We sat for many hours in the kibbutz where he now lives as he remembered what he had said and felt at the time. As an example, he alone could recall the fear and remorse he had experienced when killing his first man. His reaction was in marked contrast to Rafi Eitan’s feelings about killing.
Yoel Ben Porat had the mentality of the lawyer’s lawyer, dealing only with the facts and slow to conjecture. In many cases he was able to fill in gaps that had been left open by history. Reuven Merhav was a font of information about Mossad’s position in the framework of Israeli politics.
Among the Israeli journalists I spoke with, two need special mention. Alex Doron was ready to sound off about Israeli intelligence in a way that was candid and refreshing. His support was valuable. On the other hand, Ran Edelist, who had been engaged as a researcher by Channel 4 for the TV film I was to present on Mossad, often paced an office in Zvi Spielmann’s studio complex, insisting it would not be “proper” to give “full details” in many cases. At times he seemed more concerned with what should not be in the program than with what should. In some of the interviews he attended, he frequently interrupted interviewees to caution them to “be careful.” Thankfully, few took his advice. Independently of Ran Edelist, I met with other Israeli intelligence operatives who were able to be open on the understanding they would not be directly quoted.
They invited me to their homes; I met their families and came to know something of their private lives; it was a reminder that spies do not live in one dimension. I still remember completing a long interview with a former katsa who provided an account of how he had killed. Suddenly he looked around at the comfortable living room with its views of a biblical landscape and sighed deeply and said, “This world is not this world.”
The words have stayed with me. I think that what he meant was that, compared to his former work, beneath ordinary rhythms and appearances of life, a darkness and menace had never left him. I found that with several of the others with whom I spoke.
It was a sobering reminder that the world of intelligence is, as Saint Paul glimpsed heaven, all too often indeed “seen through a glass, darkly.”
PRIMARY INTERVIEWEES
Meir Amit Edward Kimbel
Haim Cohen David Kimche
Nadia Cohen Otto Kormek
Yaakov Cohen Henry McConnachie
William Casey Ariel Merari
William Colby Reuven Merhav
Rafael Eitan Danny Nagier
Zvi Spielmann Yoel Ben Porat
Isser Harel Uri Saguy
Emery Kabongo Simon Wiesenthal
NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS
Daily Express, London Los Angeles Times
Daily Mail, London Jerusalem Post
Daily Telegraph, London Sunday Times, London
New York Times
ORGANIZATIONS
Palmach Archive, Israel The Press Association Library, London
Public Record Office, London The Library, Trinity College, Dublin
National Archive, Washington The Secret Archives, Vatican City State
The New York Public Library The Archive, Glilot, Israel
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INDEX
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Abbas, Mahmoud
Abdalate, Ali
Abdullah, Abu
Abdullah II (Jordanian king)
Abithol, Felix, and attempted abduction of Umaru Dinko
Abrams, Elliot
Abu Ghraib
Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades (radical group)
Abu-Sharif, Bassam
Achille Lauro hijacking
“Adam” (Mossad case officer)
Adams, Gerry
“Adler” (Mossad agent), and nuclear material trafficking
Adler, Reuven
Admoni, Nahum
and Al-Tuweitha (Iraq) nuclear reactor, destruction of
and Bull’s assassination
and Buckley
and Dikko, attempted abduction of
forged British passports
and Guerrero’s Dimona exposé
and Iran, arms sales to
and Irangate (arms-for-hostages)
and John Paul II assassination attempt
and Maxwell
as Mossad director
and Murphy/Hindawi affair
and Mustapha (Force 17 commander), targeting of
and PLO infiltration
and Pollard
and Promis software
and sexual entrapment
and Sowan
and Vanunu’s kidnapping
Africa
Arab terrorists and
Castro and
and Chinese Secret Intelligence Service (CSIS)
MI6 and
KGB and
Mossad and
most powerful arsenal of WMD in
and relations with Israel
see also South Africa
African National Congress (ANC)
Agca, Mehmet Ali
and assassination attempt on John Paul II
and Grey Wolves (Turkish terrorist group)
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud (Iran president)
Aitken, Jonathan
Akhther, Saeed
Al-Abbas, Abu, and the Achille Lauro hijacking
Al-Abram Weekly newspaper
Al-Ali, Naji
al-Assad, Bashar
al-Assad, Basil
al-Assad, Hafez
Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
al-Azzawi, Hikmet Misban
Albright, Madeleine
al-Faisal, Prince Saudi
Al-Fawwaz, Khalid
al-Fayed, Dodi
death of
al-Fayed, Mohamed
Alford Sidney
Algemene Inlichtingen-en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD—Dutch security service)
Algeria’s nuclear reactor
al-Hamed (ship)
Al-Hasan ibn al-Hatham Institute
Al-Hibid, Abu (Mossad katsa)
Al Himaya
Alibek, Ken (aka Kamovtjan Alibekov)
Alibrandi, Gaetano (Archbishop)
Alison, Rupert
al-Jazeera (television channel)
al-Kurdi, Ashraf
Allen, Richard
Allon, Yigal, and Israel’s nuclear capacity
al-Manar (television channel)
al-Masri, Abu Mohammed
al-Masri, Khaled
al-Massari, Mohammed
Al-Meshad, Yahya,
assassination attempt
Al-Muhajiroun (radical group)
Al-Qabas newspaper
al-Qaeda
affiliates
aligns with Hezbollah
attacks. see terrorism
al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab. see al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab
al-Zawahiri, Ayman. see al-Zawahiri, Ayman
and America’s Hiroshima plan
bin Laden, Osama. see bin Laden, Osama
cells in Britain. see Operation Overt
drug cartels/money laundering
DVD on how to produce bombs
investments in U.S. companies
foreknowledge of kidon attacks
and the G8 summit
global holy war
Husin, Azari. see Husin, Azari
in Ireland
Islamic fundamentalism
and jihad. see jihad(is)
in Latin America
and links with Mexico’s Popular members, torture of
“Mustafa” (al-Qaeda operative)
network in Britain
New Jihad
as new godfather of terrorism
and nuclear weapons/WMD
Mossad’s archives/monitoring of
Mossad’s warnings to United States of
and Pakistan
Pensions Department
recruitment of jihadists
Revolutionary Army (EPR)
and Saudi Arabia
steals smallpox virus
shift of power in
suicide attack/bombers
support
terrorists, transported and interrogated
training camps
and war on terror
Web site(s)
al-Qardawi, Dr. Yusuf
al-Rantisi, Abdel Aziz
al-Sharaa, Farouk
Al-Wazir, Khalil, assassination of
al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab
al-Zawahiri, Ayman
al-Zwai, Mohammed Abdul Qasim
American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
“America’s Hiroshima,”
Amin
Amit, Meir
and Arab informers
and central Africa
and Cohen
and covert diplomacy
and LAKAM (Bureau of Scientific Liaison)
and Lotz
and MiG-21, acquisition of
as Mossad director
Operation Noah’s Ark
on sexual entrapment, A
Amnesty International
Andabo, Nissim
Anderson, James
Andropov, Yuri
Angleton, James Jesus
Annan, Kofi
Ann-Marie Murphy/Nezar a Hindawi affair
annual intelligence budgets
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Arab
nationalism
terror groups
youth, importance of
Arafat, Suha
Arafat, Yasser
as assassination target
becomes radicalized
as caliph
CIA, dealings with
failure to achieve a Palestinian state
Force 17
and Fatah
and Saddam Hussein
illness and death of
and the Intifada
and missing Palestinian Authority funds
Mossad and
PLO opposition to
PLO/Israeli agreement (Oslo accord)
and the Promis software program
and relations with Thatcher government
and relations with Sharon
and relations with United States
and relations with Vatican
sexuality of
Archbishop Tutu
Archer, Jeffrey
Argov, Shlomo, assassination of
Arias, Inocencio
Armitage, Richard
Arratibel, Javier, and nuclear material trafficking
ssassinations
Naji Al-Ali
Shlomo Argov
Mehdi Ben-Barka
Gerald Bull
IRA team
Abu Jihad
Alan Kidger
Robert Maxwell
Yahya Al-Meshad
Mossad and
Yitzhak, Rabin
Ali Hassen Salameh
Muhammad Tamimi
Khalil Al-Wazir
Aswat, Haroon Rashid
Atavarius affair
Atlantic Storm
Atlas Elektronik
Atta, Mohamed
Australian Security and Intelligence Service (ASIS)
Aviv, Yuval
Awali, Ghaleb
Ayad, Father Idi