“Western Sabotage Undermines Iran Nuclear Drive: Experts,” France 24, International News, AFP, April 13, 2010
“Iranian Nuclear Scientist ‘Assassinated by Mossad,’ ” Sara Baxter, Times (London), February 4, 2007
“Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran,” ABC News, May 22, 2007
“Jitters Over Iran Blast Highlight Tensions,” World News on MSNBC, Associated Press, February 16, 2005
“Massive Explosion in Parchin Missile Site of the Guard Corps,” Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, November 14, 2007
MPG’s Bushehr branch video of Petrochemical plant explosion [in Bushehr Province], MPG, Bushehr Branch, Marzeporgohar.org, August 15, 2009
“U.S. Sabotaged Natanz, Sent Defective Equipment to Islamic Republic (Power System Failed and 50 Centrifuges Exploded),” Iran Times International, BNET (CBS Interactive), August 29, 2008
Iranian attack complicates nuclear negotiations (murder of Ali-Mohammadi), Stratfor, Global Intelligence, January 12, 2010
Iran-Israel covert war: the Mossad is said to wage a clandestine campaign of assassination and sabotage against Iran’s nuclear programme, but this could backfire on President Obama’s efforts to negotiate with Tehran, Ed Blanche, The Middle East, Thefreelibrary.com/_/print, July 1, 2009
“Israel Launches Covert War Against Iran,” Philip Sherwell, Daily Telegraph, February 18, 2009
“Sources Expose Covert Israel War on Iran,” Press TV, Payvand Iran News, payvand.com/news, February 17, 2009
“Iran Nuke Laptop Data Came from Terror Group,” Gareth Porter, IPS, ipsnews
.net, February 29, 2008
“Report Ties Dubious Iran Nuke Documents to Israel, ”Gareth Porter, Counterpunch, Counterpunch.org, June 4, 2009
“Mysterious Assassination in Iran—Who Killed Masoud Ali Mohammadi?” Dieter Bednarz, Der Spiegel, January 18, 2010
“Iran’s VIP Plane Crash: Sabotage or Accident?” Stratfor.com, January 10, 2006
“Swiss Engineers, a Nuclear Black Market and the CIA,” William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, New York Times, August 25, 2008
“Iran Hangs Convicted Spy for Israel,” Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post, November 23, 2008
“British Agent Exposed True Purpose of Qom Reactor,” Ron Ben-Ishai, YNET, December 15, 2009 (H)
“How Secrecy Over Iran’s Qom Nuclear Facility Was Finally Blown Away,” Catherine Philip, Francis Elliot, and Giles Whittell, Sunday Times, September 26, 2009
“CIA Knew About Iran’s Secret Nuclear Plant Long Before Disclosure,” Bobby Ghosh, Time, October 7, 2009
“How El-Baradei Misled the World About Iran’s Nuclear Program,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz in English, December 3, 2009
“Mossad: Was This the Chief’s Last Hit?” Gordon Thomas, Telegraph, December 5, 2010
“Israel Seen Engaged in Covert War Inside Iran,” Luke Baker, Reuters (London), February 17, 2009
“West Is Assassinating Scientists as Negotiation Strategy,” JPost.com.staff, December 1, 2010
“Time Magazine: The Scientist Who Was Attacked in Teheran—the Most Senior in the Nuclear Iranian Plan,” Anshil Pepper, Haaretz, December 3, 2010 (H)
“Iran Blames Israel for Killing Its Defense Minister,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, January 2, 2011 (H)
Thomas, Gordon, Gideon’s Spies (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), p. 478
“Report: The Mossad Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist,” Jerry Lewis, Orly Azulay, Itamar Eichner, Yedioth Ahronoth, February 4, 2007 (H)
“Nuclear Sting,” Eldad Beck, Yaniv Halili, Yedioth Ahronoth, August 26, 2008 (H)
“The Enigma of the Chemical Iranian Cargo,” Menachem Ganz, Yedioth Ahronoth, September 25, 2008 (H)
“They Sold Them Faulty Equipment,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, July 13, 2007 (H)
“Did the Mossad Fail?” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, November 25, 2008 (H)
“Straw Companies or the Mossad—How We Screwed Iran,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, November 28, 2008 (H)
“Iran Hanged a Mossad Agent (Ali Ashtari),” “Inyan Merkazi,” news room, November 22, 2008 (H)
THE RUSSIAN AID TO IRAN
“Nuclear Aid by Russians to Iranians Suspected,” New York Times, October 10, 2008
“The Russian Handicap to U.S.-Iran Policy,” Ariel Cohen, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, vol. 8, no. 28, April 22, 2009
Statement by Director, DCI Non-Proliferation Center, John Lauder, on Russian Proliferation to Iran’s Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missile Programs, to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as Prepared for Delivery on October 5, 2000, Documents Home Page, CIA Released Documents, faqs.org
The Collapse of the Russian Scientists and Rogue States, T. P. Gerber, 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Russia-Iran Nuclear Deal Signed,” BBC News, February 27, 2005
“Arctic Sea Was Carrying Illegal Arms Says General,” Shaun Walker, Independent, July 24, 2009
“Was Russia’s Arctic Sea Carrying Missiles to Iran?” Simon Schuster, Time, August 31, 2009
“Report: Netanyahu Transferred to the Kremlin a List of Scientists Who Assist Iran,” Zach Yoked, Maariv, October 4, 2009 (H)
ISRAEL–UNITED STATES—COLLABORATION AND DISPUTE
“U.S. Rejected Aid for Israeli Raid on Iranian Nuclear Site,” David Sanger, New York Times, January 10, 2009
“An Israeli Preventive Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Sites: Implications for the U.S.,” James Phillips, Heritage Foundation, Heritage.org, January 15, 2010
“Facing Iran: Lessons Learned Since Iraq’s 1991 Missile Attack on Israel,” Moshe Arens, The Jerusalem Center for Public and State Matters, March 8, 2010
Segev, Shmuel, The Iranian Triangle, the Secret Relationship Between Israel, Iran, and USA, Maariv, 1981 (H)
STUXNET AND ESPIONAGE
“Computer Virus in Iran Actually Targeted Larger Nuclear Facility,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, September 28, 2010 (H)
“The Meaning of Stuxnet,” Economist, October 2, 2010
“Israel May or May Not Have Been Behind the Stuxnet ‘Worm’ Attack on Iran—and It Doesn’t Matter Whether It Was,” Yossi Melman, Tablet, October 5, 2010
“Iran Executes 2 Men, Saying One Was Spy for Israel,” William Yong, New York Times, December 28, 2010
“Iranian Citizen Hanged for Spying for Israel,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, December 29, 2010 (H)
“Iran: ‘We Hanged an Israeli Spy’—Ali Akbar Siadat Was Hanged for Spying for Israel, Which Paid Him US$60,000,” Smadar Perry, Yedioth Ahronoth, December 29, 2010 (H)
“Tehran Demands UN Intervention, Accuses Israel of Killing Its Minister of Defense (Ali Riza Askari),” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, January 2, 2011(H)
“Iran to the UN: Find Out What Happened to the Missing General,” YNET, December 31, 2010 (H)
“Outgoing Mossad Head Delivers Farewell Words,” Jpost.com.staff, Jerusalem Post, January 7, 2011
“Netanyahu Bids Farewell to Mossad Chief,” Gil Ronen, Arutz Sheva, Israel National News.com, March 1, 2011 (H)
“Iran Threat Is Too Much for the Mossad to Handle: Israel’s Intelligence Agencies Operate Brilliantly but They Can’t Tackle Historic Challenges Singlehandedly,” Ari Shavit, Haaretz.com, February 18, 2010 (H)
“The Superman of the Hebrew State,” Ashraf Abu Al-Houl, El-Aharam, January 16, 2010
CHAPTER 3: A HANGING IN BAGHDAD
Eshed, Hagai, One-Man Mossad, Reuven Shiloach: Father of the Israeli Intelligence (Tel Aviv: Idanim, 1988) (H)
Teveth, Shabtai, Ben-Gurion’s Spy, The Story of the Political Scandal that Shaped Modern Israel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990)
Strasman, Gavriel, Back from the Gallows (Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronoth Books, 1992) (H)
Bar-Zohar, Michael, Spies in the Promised Land (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972)
Interviews with Shlomo Hillel, Yehuda Taggar, Mordechai Ben-Porat
CHAPTER 4: A SOVIET MOLE AND A BODY AT SEA
Avni, Ze’ev, False Flag: The Soviet Spy Who Penetrated the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service (London: St. Ermin’s Press, 2000)
Censored and unpublished chapter about Ze’ev Avni, prepared for Michael Bar-Zohar’s book Spies in the Promised Land, as told by Isser Harel
Interviews of Ze’ev Avni, former ramsad Isser Harel, former head of the Shabak Amos Manor, members of the Mossad and Shabak (anonymously)
A BODY AT SEA
Censored and unpublished chapter about Alexander Israel, “The Traitor,” prepared for Michael Bar-Zohar’s book Spies in the Promised Land
Interviews with Isser Harel, Amos Manor, Rafi Eitan, Raphi Medan, Alexander Israel’s family members and friends (anonymously)
Michael Bar-Zohar, “The First Kidnapping by the Mossad,” Anashim (People Magazine), 19–15, April 1997 (no. 14) (H)
CHAPTER 5: “OH, THAT? IT’S KHRUSHCHEV’S SPEECH . . .”
Interviews with Victor Grayevski, Amos Manor, Isser Harel, Yaacov Caroz
Khrushchev, Nikita, The Secret Speech—on the Cult of Personality, Fordham University, Modern History Sourcebook
“The Day Khrushchev Denounced Stalin,” John Rettie, BBC, February 18, 2006
“Khrushchev’s War with Stalin’s Ghost,” William Henry Chamberlin, Russian Review, vol. 21, no. 1, 1962
“Dreams into Lightning: Victor Grayevski,” Michael Ledeen, asher813typepad.com/
dreams_into_lightning/2007/11/victor-grayevski.html, November 5, 2007
“The Man Who Began the End of the Soviet Empire,” Abraham Rabinovich, Australian, October 27, 2007
Victor Grayevski, Telegraph.co.uk, November 1, 2007
“The Secret About Khrushchev’s Speech,” Tom Perfit, Guardian, as quoted in Harretz, February 27, 2006 (H)
Shimron, Gad, The Mossad and The Myth (Jerusalem: Keter, 2002) (H)
“There Is a Speech of Khrushchev from the Congress,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, March 10, 2006 (H)
“Our Man in the KGB,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, September 22, 2006 (H)
Total change (turnabout) in broadcasting with the entrance of Victor Grayevski, Kol Israel, (H), www.iba.org.il/ kolisrael70
CHAPTER 6: “BRING EICHMANN DEAD OR ALIVE!”
Chapters based on interviews and papers of Isser Harel that were censored and not included in Michael Bar-Zohar’s book Spies in the Promised Land but released in Yedioth Ahronoth in 1970, and in Michael Bar-Zohar’s book Day of Reckoning (Tepper, 1991) (H)
Harel, Isser, The House on Garibaldi Street (Maariv, 1975) (H)
Bascomb, Neal, Hunting Eichmann (Tel Aviv: Miskal Books, Yedioth Ahronoth, 2010) (H)
Malkin, Peter Z., Eichmann in My Hands (Tel Aviv: Revivim, 1983) (H)
“Myth in Operation, the Capture of Adolf Eichmann,” Avner Avrahami, Haaretz, May 7, 2010 (H)
“The Man with the Syringe,” Dr. Yona Elian, Etty Abramov, Yedioth Ahronoth, May 13, 2010 (H)
“The Age and the Trick (Rafi Eitan),” Yael Gvirtz, Yedioth Ahronoth, March 31, 2006 (H)
“Zvi Malkin: The Man Who Captured Eichmann,” Eli Tavor, Yedioth Ahronoth, March 15, 1989 (H)
“Fifty Years After Adolf Eichmann’s Capture and Transfer to Israel, His Abductors Dispel Some Myths About the Operation and Tell How They Felt When the Top Nazi Was in Their Hands,” Avner Avrahami, Haaretz, May 8, 2010 (H)
“Yehudith Nessyahu Is Dina Ron, the Woman Who Kidnapped Eichmann,” Uri Blau, Haaretz, September 19, 2008 (H)
The operation to capture Adolf Eichmann—Official publication of the Shabak and the Mossad, 1960 (H)
“Peter Zvi Malkin, Israeli Agent Who Captured Adolf Eichmann, Dies,” Margalit Fox, New York Times, March 3, 2005
“Mother, I Captured Eichmann,” Michal Daniel, YNET, May 27, 2003 (H)
“A Prickly Souvenir,” Etty Abramov, Yedioth Ahronoth, June 24, 2011(H)
CHAPTER 7: “WHERE IS YOSSELE?”
Harel, Isser, Operation Yossele (Tel Aviv: Idanim, 1983) (H)
Interviews with Isser Harel, Ya’acov Caroz, Amos Manor
“The Convert from Neturei Karta,” Yair Etinger, Haaretz, July 9, 2010 (H)
“For Them, He Remained Yossele: 45 Years After the Operation, the Fighters Did Not Forget Those Days,” Eyal Levi, Maariv NRG, October 18, 2005 (H)
CHAPTER 8: A NAZI HERO AT THE SERVICE OF THE MOSSAD
Interviews with Haim Israeli, Rafi Eitan, Raphi Medan, Isser Harel, Meir Amit, Amos Manor, Wernher von Braun
Trial of Otto Skorzeny and others, General Military Government Court of the US Zone of Germany, August 18–September 9, 1947, a British intelligence file
“The Liquidation of a German Scientist in the ’60s,” Shlomo Nakdimon, Moshe Ronen, Yedioth Ahronoth, January 13, 2010 (H)
Harel, Isser, The German Scientists Affair 1962–1963 (Tel Aviv: Maariv, 1982) (H)
Bar-Zohar, Michel, La Chasse aux Savants Allemands (Paris: Fayard, 1965)
Bar-Zohar, Michael, Shimon Peres: The Biography (New York: Random House, 2007)
CHAPTER 9: OUR MAN IN DAMASCUS
Interviews with Elie Cohen’s family; brothers and wife; Jacques Mercier
Segev, Shmuel, Alone in Damascus: The Life and Death of Eli Cohen (Jerusalem: Keter, 1986) (H)
“Eli Cohen,” a series of articles by Michael Bar-Zohar, Haaretz, September 1967 (H)
“The Daughter of the Spy Eli Cohen Opens Up All Her Wounds,” Jacky Hugi, Maariv, October 14, 2008 (H)
CHAPTER 10: “I WANT A MIG-21!”
Interviews with Meir Amit, Ezer Weizman
Amit, Meir, Head to Head, Maariv (Or Yehuda, Hed-Arzi, 1999) (H)
Nakdimon, Shlomo, The Hope that Collapsed: The Israeli–Kurdish Connection 1963–1975 (Tel Aviv: Miskal, 1966) (H)
The Jewel in the Crown, Yael Bar, Lior Estline, Israel Air-Force Internet site (H)
“Broken Wings,” Sara Leibovitz-Dar, NRG, Maariv, June 2, 2007 (H)
CHAPTER 11: THOSE WHO’LL NEVER FORGET
Interviews with “Anton Kunzle,” Menahem Barabash
“Kunzle, Anton” and Shimron Gad, The Death of the Butcher of Riga (Jerusalem: Keter, 1997) (H)
Bar-Zohar Michel, Les Vengeurs (Paris: Fayard, 1968)
“Menahem Barabash, a Former Lehi Member and One of the Killers of the Butcher of Riga: An Obituary,” Uri Dromi, Haaretz, October 18, 2006 (H)
“Still from the Same Village,” Mika Adler, Israel Today, April 16, 2010 (H)
“Critical Mishap in Paraguay,” Aviva Lori, Yossi Melman, Haaretz, August 19, 2005 (H)
“The Butcher of Riga Was Kidnapped and Found Dead,” news service, Yedioth Ahronoth, March 7, 1965 (H)
“A Quick Trial for the Murderers of Cukurs,” John Alison, Yedioth Ahronoth, March 8, 1965 (H)
“When a Hangman Is Offering You His Gun,” Amos Nevo, Yedioth Ahronoth, July 25, 1997 (H)
“Grandfather Killed a Nazi,” Gad Shimron, Bamachane, February 25, 2005 (H)
CHAPTER 12: THE QUEST FOR THE RED PRINCE
Bar-Zohar, Michael, and Eitan Haber, Massacre in Munich (Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2005), an updated edition of The Quest for the Red Prince (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983)
Dittel, Wilhelm, Mossad Agent: Operation Red Prince (Bitan, 1997) (H)
Tinnin, David B., with Dag Christensen, Hit Team (Jerusalem: Edan Books 1977) (H)
Klein, Aharon, Open Account: Israel’s Killing Policy After the Massacre of the Athletes in Munich (Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronoth Books, 2006) (H)
Black, Ian, Israel’s Secrets Wars: A History of Israel’s Intelligence Services (New York: Warner Books, 1991)
Landau, Eli, Uri Dan, and Dennis Eisenberg, The Mossad (New York: New American Library, 1977)
Payne, Ronald, Mossad: Israel’s Most Secret Service (London: Corgi Books, 1991)
“Mike Harari: A Private Citizen or an Israeli Secret Agent?” Nahum Barnea, Yedioth Ahronoth, December 13, 1989 (H)
“The Spy Who Loved Me: The Husband of Sylvia Rafael . . .
,” Zadok Yechezkeli, Yedioth Ahronoth, February 25, 2005 (H)
The Head of the Mossad watched the killing of a terrorist leader in Paris, Washington correspondent, Yedioth Ahronoth, July 23, 1976 (H)
“Avner’s Liquidation Squad Avenged the Killing of the Athletes in Munich,” Yochanan Lahav, Yedioth Ahronoth, April 29, 1984 (H)
“Revenge Now,” Eitan Haber, Yedioth Ahronoth, October 3, 2005 (H)
“The Planner of the Munich Massacre: ‘I Do Not Regret It,’ ” YNET, March 17, 2006 (H)
“Death of Muhamad Uda, One of the Planners of the Munich Massacre,” wire services, Haaretz, July 3, 2010 (H)
CHAPTER 13: THE SYRIAN VIRGINS
Interviews with Avraham (Zabu) Ben-Zeev, Emanuel Allon, Amnon Gonen, others (anonymously)
“Our Forces in the Heart of Damascus,” Gadi Sukenik, Yedioth Ahronoth, October 17, 2005 (H)
CHAPTER 14: “TODAY WE’LL BE AT WAR!”
Bar-Joseph, Uri, The Angel, Ashraf Marwan, The Mossad and the Yom Kippur War (Or Yehuda, Kinneret-Zmora-Bitan–Dvir, 2010) (H)
Bregman, Aharon, Israel’s Wars 1947–1993 (London: Routledge, 2000)
Bregman, Aharon, A History of Israel (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
Shalev, Arie, Defeat and Success in Warning: The Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War, Maarachot, Ministry of Defense Publications, 2006 (H)
Bar-Joseph, Uri, The Watchman Who Fell Asleep: The Yom Kippur Surprise (Zmora-Bitan, Or Yehuda, 2001) (H)
Haber, Eitan, Today We’ll Be at War! (Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronoth, 1987) (H)
Zeira, Eli, Myth Against Reality: The Yom Kippur War (Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronoth, 1993, new edition 2004) (H)
Landau, Eli, Eli Tavor, Hezi Carmel, Eitan Haber, Yeshayahu Ben-Porat, Jonathan Gefen, and Uri Dan, The Mishap, Special edition, Tel-Aviv 1973 (H)
“Meeting the Mossad—Ira Rosen Meets the Former Head of One of the World’s Top Spy Agencies,” CBS, 60 Minutes, May 12, 2009
“Dead ‘Mossad Spy’ Was Writing Exposé,” Uzi Mahanaymi, Sunday Times, June 1, 2007
“Who Killed Ashraf Marwan,” Howard Blum, New York Times, July 13, 2007
“Was the Perfect Spy a Double Agent?” CBS, 60 Minutes, May 10, 2009
“Thirty Years after the Yom Kippur War, Top Secret Is Exposed by Israeli Historian Aharon Bregman,” Yossi Melman, August 19, 2003 www.freedomwriter.com/issue 28
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