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“One Dead Israeli Spy, Two Theories of Double Loyalty, Three Explanations of How He Died, Four Suspects: Too Many Unanswered Questions,” Huffington Post, Haggai Carmon, July 14, 2010
“Revealing the Source,” Abraham Rabinovich, Jerusalem Post, May 7, 2007
“Billionaire Spy Death Remains a Mystery,” Andrew Hosken, BBC Today, July 15, 2010 (about his connections with the British and Italian secret services)
“Elite Detectives Called in to Probe Spy’s Fatal Fall,” Rajeev Syal, New Zealand Herald, October 6, 2008
“Inquest: Egyptian Spy Suspect’s Death Unexplained,” New York Times, Associated Press, July 14, 2010
“Who Caused the Death of the Spy?” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, May 28, 2010 (H)
“Shabak Investigation: Did Eli Zeira Reveal State Secrets,” Efrat Weiss, YNET, July 17, 2008 (H)
“The Nightingale’s Song,” Moshe Gorali, Maariv, June 13, 2007 (H)
“Low Probability: How a Legend Was Born,” Eli Zeira, Yedioth Ahronoth, December 11, 2009 (H)
“They Tricked Us,” Ron Ben Ishai, Yedioth Ahronoth, September 29, 1998 (H)
“Zamir: Zeira Should Take His Words Back or Publish the Recording,” Amir Rappaport, Yedioth Ahronoth, October 2, 1998 (H)
“In Modest Manner You Carried Out Hard and Daring Operations: Prime Minister to Zvi Zamir on His Retirement,” Eitan Haber, Yedioth Ahronoth, September 2, 1974 (H)
“Indictment Will Be Issued in Rome Against Former Head of the Mossad Zvi Zamir,” Yossi Bar, Yedioth Ahronoth, February 26, 1989 (H)
“12 Days Before Yom Kippur Golda Got Personal Information: Egypt and Syria Are Planning War,” Shlomo Nakdimon, Yedioth Ahronoth, October 8, 1989 (H)
“Former Italian Head of Intelligence: There Is No Proof that the Mossad Blew Up the Aircraft,” Yossi Bar, Yedioth Ahronoth, February 15, 1989 (H)
“Former Head of the Mossad Was Tried and Acquitted in Italy,” Yossi Bar, Yedioth Ahronoth, December 19, 1999 (H)
“Transcript of the Conversation Between Eli Zeira and Zvi Zamir,” Rami Tal, Yedioth Ahronoth, October 23, 1998 (H)
“Aman Was Mistaken in Evaluating the Enemy’s Intentions, and I Am Responsible,” Eli Zeira, Yedioth Ahronoth, October 24, 2003 (H)
“The Mossad Alert About the Imminent Eruption of War Did Not Get to the Chief of Staff,” Zvi Zamir, Yedioth Ahronoth, November 24, 1989 (H)
“Deep Throat Denies,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, January 16, 2003 (H)
“This Is Not the Same State (Zvi Zamir),” Etty Abramov, Yedioth Ahronoth, March 29, 2007 (H)
“Suspicion: The Spy Was Thrown from His Apartment’s Balcony,” Modi Kreitman and Smadar Perry, Yedioth Ahronoth, June 28, 2007 (H)
“The Betrayed,” Nadav Ze’evi, Maariv, December 28, 2007 (H)
“What Do We Know About the Mysterious Death of Dr. Ashraf Marwan, the Agent Who Warned Us,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, May 28, 2010 (H)
“Egyptian Double Agent in the Mossad (Excerpts from Aharon Bregman’s Book),” Rami Tal, Yedioth Ahronoth, May 9, 2000 (H)
“How a Relative of Nasser Deceived Israel,” Aharon Bregman, Yedioth Ahronoth, September 15, 2002 (H)
CHAPTER 15: A HONEY TRAP FOR THE ATOM SPY
“Vanunu Leaked Information ‘to Prevent a Second Holocaust,’ ” Nana News, April 30, 2004 (H)
“About the Protocols of the Vanunu Trial,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, November 25, 1999 (H)
“The Story of Vanunu’s Capture Is Published This Morning in Israel,” Yedioth Ahronoth, March 24, 1995 (H)
“The Life and Times of Cindy, the Mossad Agent Who Tempted Vanunu,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, April 7, 1997 (H)
“From Australia to the Temptation by Cindy: How Vanunu Was Kidnapped,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, April 21, 2004 (H)
“Friends Speak About Cindy,” Zadok Yechezkeli, Yedioth Ahronoth, April 8, 1997 (H)
“Machanaymi: She Slammed the Phone on Me Three Times,” Naomi Levitzky, Yedioth Ahronoth, April 27, 1997 (H)
“The Italian Government Will Continue Investigating the Vanunu Kidnapping,” Yochanan Lahav, Yossi Bar, and Roni Shaked, Yedioth Ahronoth, January 11, 1987 (H)
“I Was Hijacked in Rome—Wrote Vanunu on His Palm,” Zadok Yechezkeli and Gad Lior, Yedioth Ahronoth, December 23, 1986 (H)
“Vanunu Was Not the First to Fall in the Trap . . . The Tempting Girls,” Ohad Sharav, Yedioth Ahronoth, November 17, 1986 (H)
“The Girl Who Tempted Vanunu Is Cheryl Ben-Tov from Nataniya,” Yohanan Lahav, Yedioth Ahronoth, February 21, 1988 (H)
“The Girl Who Tempted Vanunu Lives 18 Years Under His Shadow: Cindy Is Afraid,” Anat Tal-Shir and Zadok Yechezkeli, Yedioth Ahronoth, April 20, 2004 (H)
“The Sunday Times: These Are the Atom Secrets of Israel. Under a Neglected Storeroom, 35 Meters Underground, Atom Bombs Are Being Built,” Yedioth Ahronoth, October 6, 1986 (H)
“He Did It Again,” Ron Ben-Ishai, Yedioth Ahronoth, November 25, 1999 (H)
“That Is How I Photographed the Nuclear Reactor (Second Part of the Interview to the Sunday Times),” Modi Kreitman, Yedioth Ahronoth, June 6, 2004 (H)
“Mordechai Vanunu: ‘There Is No Democracy in Israel,’ ” Gad Lior, Yedioth Ahronoth, June 6, 2004 (H)
“ ‘And Then Entered the Blond Guy Who Kicked and Beat Me.’ Vanunu Testifies About His Kidnapping in Court,” Michal Goldberg, Yedioth Ahronoth, November 24, 1999 (H)
“Cindy from the Vanunu Affair Is Selling Apartments in Florida,” Sunday Times, as quoted in Yedioth Ahronoth, April 20, 2004 (H)
“Missing Cindy,” Shosh Mula and Wata Awissat, Yedioth Ahronoth, September 1, 2006 (H)
“Mordechai Vanunu: That’s How I Was Kidnapped,” Shlomo Nakdimon and Tova Zimuki, Yedioth Ahronoth, January 24, 1997 (H)
“I Told Vanunu: Beware of Cindy,” Michal Goldberg, Yedioth Ahronoth, November 24, 1999 (H)
CHAPTER 16: SADDAM’S SUPERGUN
THE RISE AND FALL OF GERALD BULL
“Project Babylon: Gerald Bull’s Downfall,” Anthony Kendall, www.DamnInteresting, February 16, 2007
“The Man Behind Iraq’s Supergun,” Kevin Toolis, New York Times, August 26, 1990
“The Paris Guns of World War One,” Christopher Eger, Military History @ Suite 101, July 23, 2006
“Shades of Supergun Evoke Hussein’s Thirst for Arms,” James Glanz, New York Times, September 10, 2006
“Murdered by the Mossad,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, February 2, 1991
“Who Killed Gerald Bull,” Barbara Frum, (Video) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, http://archives.cbc.ca, April 5, 1990
THE KILLINGS OF WADIA HADDAD AND FATHI SHAQAQI
“Poisoned Mossad Chocolate Killed PFLP Leader in 1977, Says Book,” Middle East Times, May 5, 2006
“Interview with a Fanatic,” Lara Marlowe, Time, February 6, 1995
“Mossad’s License to Kill,” Gordon Thomas, Telegraph, February 17, 2010
“Islamic Jihad Betrayed by Mossad’s Spy,” Patrick Cockburn, Independent, March 21, 1996
Cordesman, Anthony H., Escalating to Nowhere: The Israeli-Palestinian War—The Palestinian Factions That Challenge Peace and the Palestinian Authority, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2005
“Arafat’s Murder Was Foiled by Malta Killing,” Patrick Cockburn and Safa Haeri, Independent, December 7, 1995
“Der Spiegel: That’s How Shaqaqi Was Killed,” Tomer Sharon, Yedioth Ahronoth, November 5, 1995 (H)
“The Mossad Liquidated the Leader of the Jihad,” Smadar Perry, Roni Shaked, and David Regev, Yedioth Ahronoth, October 29, 1995 (H)
“Five Bullets in the Head, from Zero Range in a Crowded Street,” Yossi Bar and Smadar Perry, Yedioth Ahronoth, October 29, 1995 (H)
“A Search for a Frenchman Who Brought the Motorcycle,” Alex Fishman and Yossi Bar, Yedioth Ahronoth, October 31, 1995 (H)
“The Head of the Mossad Supervised the Operation from a Boat Near Malta,” Israel Tomer, Yedioth Ahronoth, November 5, 1995 (H
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“The Assassination in Malta: The Professional Skills of the Agents vis-à-vis the Negligence of Shaqaqi. No Bullets Were Found at the Killing Location. The Motorcycle Was Brought Especially to the Island,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, October 30, 1995 (H)
“Sometimes a Small Organization Cannot Recover,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, October 30, 1995 (H)
“With a Gun, Explosive, Poison, Without Asking Questions,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, March 17, 1998 (H)
“Der Spiegel: Rabin Ordered the Killing of Shaqaqi,” Akiva Eldar, Haaretz, November 5, 1995 (H)
“5 Shots in Malta,” Yitzhak Letz, Globes, April 15, 2001 (H)
“Despite the Iranian Financing, the Islamic Jihad Is Falling Apart Since the Murder of Shaqaqi,” Guy Bechor, Haaretz, October 14, 1996
CHAPTER 17: FIASCO IN AMMAN
Yatom, Danny, Secret Sharer: From Sayeret Matkal to the Mossad (Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronoth, 2009) (H)
“Back to the Scene of the Crime,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, September 26, 2007 (10th anniversary of the fiasco) (H)
“The Mossad Affair (Mash’al): A Full Recapture of the Events,” Anat Tal-Shir; “Netanyahu Will Bury the Head of the Mossad Slowly but Sophisticatedly,” Nahum Barnea; “Breaking News: The Jordanians Threatened to Break into the Embassy in Amman. Israel Was Forced to Hand the Secret Formula of the Chemical Weapon,” Shimon Shiffer; “Hussein Demands That the Mossad Fire All the People Involved in the Affair, or No Israeli Intelligence Agents Will Be Allowed into Jordan,” Smadar Perry; “Due to Previous Successes, the Mossad Developed the Notion That Such an Operation Is Foolproof,” Ron Ben-Ishai; “Danny Yatom Was Left Alone; Now Everybody Is Turning Their Backs on Him,” Ariela Ringel Hoffman and Guy Leshem; “The Rivalry Between the Intelligence Agencies Is Oozing to the Lower Levels; Senior Security Official: ‘If It Doesn’t Stop Immediately We’ll Pay Dearly,’ ” Alex Fishman—Yedioth Ahronoth, special edition, October 10, 1997 (H)
CHAPTER 18: FROM NORTH KOREA WITH LOVE
September 6, 2007, airstrike, Globalsecurity.org, October 29, 2007
“The Attack on Syria’s Al-Kibar Nuclear Facility,” Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Joshua D. Goodman, Spring 2009, http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org
“Israel Struck Syrian Nuclear Project, Analysts Say,” David E. Sanger and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, October 14, 2007
“Report: Iran Financed Syrian Nuke Plans—Tip from Defector Said to Lead to Israeli Strike on Suspected Reactor in ’07,” Associated Press, March 19, 2009
“Former Iranian Defense Official Talks to Western Intelligence,” Daphna Linzer, Washington Post, March 8, 2007
“Israelis Blew Apart Syrian Cache,” Uzi Mahanaymi, Sarah Baxter, and Michael Sheridan, Sunday Times, September 16, 2007
“Snatched: Israeli Commandos Nuclear Raid,” Uzi Mahanaymi, Sarah Baxter, and Michael Sheridan, Sunday Times, September 23, 2007
“How Israel Destroyed Syria’s Al-Kibar Nuclear Reactor,” Erich Follath and Holger Stark, Spiegel.de, February 11, 2009
Background Briefing with Senior U.S. Intelligence Officials on Syria’s Covert Nuclear Reactor and North Korea’s Involvement, Council of Foreign Relations, www.cfr.org, April 24, 2008
“The Mossad Planned to Sink a Syrian Freighter with Missiles from Korea: A Chapter from the Book The Volunteer: A Biography of a Mossad Agent,” Michael Ross and Jonathan Kay, Yedioth Ahronoth, September 12, 2007 (H)
“Report: Syria and North Korea Are Building Together a Nuclear Site,” Yitzhak Ben-Horin, Yedioth Ahronoth, September 13, 2007 (H)
“That Is How a Syrian Nuclear Project Grew Under Our Nose,” Amir Rappaport, Maariv, November 2, 2007 (H)
“The Syrian Nuclear Reactor Was Attacked Weeks Before It Became Operative,” Yitzhak Ben-Horin, Yedioth Ahronoth, April 24, 2008 (H)
“Report: A Commando Unit Landed in Syria a Month Before the Nuclear Reactor Was Bombed,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, March 19, 2009 (H)
“Report: An Iraqi Defector Uncovered the Syrian Nuclear Reactor—Reveals a Swiss Newspaper,” Amit Valdman, News 2, Mako, March 19, 2009 (H)
“Bush: The Revelations About the Bombing of the Nuclear Reactor in Syria: A Message to Tehran,” Haaretz, April 29, 2008 (H)
“Exclusive: YNET’s Envoy at the Operation Site in Syria,” Ron Ben-Ishai, YNET, September 26, 2007 (H)
“The Syrian Nuclear Plan,” Tzava Ubitachon, Dr. Yochai Sela, The Mideast Forum, September 15, 2007 (H)
“North Korea Assists the Syrians in the Nuclear Field,” Walla, based on the Washington Post, September 13, 2007 (H)
“Sayeret Matkal Operated in Syria Prior to the Attack,” Yedioth Ahronoth, September 23, 2007 (H)
“North Korean Scientists May Have Been Killed in Syria,” Yaniv Halili, Yedioth Ahronoth, September 18, 2007 (H)
“That Is How the ‘Agriculture Compound’ Was Bombed,” Gad Shimron, Maariv, September 16, 2007 (H)
“Aman Chief: Israel Recovered Its Deterrence Capacity,” Yuval Azulay and Barak Ravid, Yedioth Ahronoth, September 17, 2007 (H)
“North Korea for the Sake of Assad,” Smadar Perry and Orly Azulay, Yedioth Ahronoth, September 23, 2007 (H)
“Sayeret Matkal Collected Nuclear Samples in Syria,” Yedioth Ahronoth, September 23, 2007 (H)
“Israel Had an Agent in the Syrian Nuclear Reactor,” Orly Azulay, Yedioth Ahronoth, October 21, 2007 (H)
“Who Is Assisting Damascus in Upgrading Its Falling Nuclear Program?” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, September 16, 2007 (H)
“Israel Made the U.S. Understand,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, April 27, 2008 (H)
“Report: Enriched Uranium in the Nuclear Site That Israel Bombed,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, November 11, 2008 (H)
“Report: Israel Had a Mole in the Syrian Reactor,” YNET, October 20, 2007 (H)
Report: The Compound Which Was Bombed in Syria Was the Building Site of a Nuclear Reactor. The New York Times: The Reactor Was Not in an Advanced Stage and Was Being Built According to a North Korean Design, October 14, 2007
ABC: Israel Sent an Agent to the Syrian Reactor, or Recruited One of Its Workers, October 21, 2007
“Satellite Pictures Show: The Syrian Compound Which Was Bombed Had Been Built Six Years Ago,” William Broad and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times as quoted in Haaretz, October 28, 2007 (H)
“Iran Financed the Building of the Nuclear Reactor That Was Bombed in Syria,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, March 20, 2009 (H)
“The Iranian Officer Who Defected to the U.S. Caused the Attack on the Syrian Reactor,” News 10, news.nana10.co.il, March 19, 2009 (H)
“Report: The Iranian General Emigrated to the U.S.,” Yoni Mendel, Walla, http://news.walla.co.il, February 6, 2007 (H)
“Sayeret Matkal Brought Earth Samples and Bush Authorized the Bombing in the North of Syria,” Inyan Merkazi, News-israel.net, May 10, 2010 (H)
“Report: A Commando Unit Landed in Syria a Month Before the Reactor Was Bombed,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, March 19, 2009 (H)
“Iran to Assad: We’ll Assist as Much as Needed,” Yoav Stern, Haaretz, September 7, 2007 (H)
“The Airplanes Incident: Embarrassed Damascus,” Guy Bechor, Gplanet.co.il, September 15, 2007 (H)
“Between the Lines,” Prof. Eyal Zisser, news.nana10. co.il, November 15, 2010 (H)
“Bush: Olmert Asked Me to Bomb the Syrian Reactor,” NRG News, November 6, 2010 (H)
“The Attack on the Reactor: That’s How It Happened,” Eli Brandstein, Maariv, November 8, 2010 (H)
“Who’s Afraid of Syria,” Ben Caspit, NRG Maariv, November 7, 2010 (H)
George W. Bush, Decision Points (New York: Crown, 2010)
THE DEATH OF GENERAL SULEIMAN
“Syrian General’s Killing Severs Hezbollah Links,” Nicholas Blandford and James Hider, TimesOnline.com, August 6, 2008
“General Muhammad Suleiman Buried in Syria,” cafe-syria.com/syrianews/2706.aspx, August 10, 2008
“Mystery Shrouds Assassination of Syria’s Top Security Adviser,” Manal Lutfi and Nazer Majl
i, Asharq El-Awsat, August 5, 2008
“Slain Syrian Aide Supplied Missiles to Hezbollah,” Uzi Mahanaymi, Sunday Times, August 10, 2008
“Meir Dagan: The Mastermind Behind Mossad’s Secret War,” Uzi Mahanaymi, Sunday Times, February 21, 2010
“The Mystery Behind a Syrian Murder,” Nicholas Blanford, Time, August 7, 2008
“There Was Total Silence,” Lilit Wanger, Yedioth Ahronoth, June 7, 2010 (H)
“Commendation of the Long Arm,” Yossi Yehoshua, Yedioth Ahronoth, June 22, 2010 (H) (Sunday Times: “The Naval Commando Liquidated Muhammad Suleiman Two Years Ago”)
“The End of the Secret Adviser of the Syrian President,” Jacky Huggi, Maariv, August 4, 2008 (H)
“The Hezbollah Member Who Was Liquidated Was Nicknamed in Israel ‘the Syrian Mughniyeh,’ ” Barak Rabin and Yoav Stern, Haaretz, August 4, 2008 (H)
“Death of the North Korean Builder and Security Officer of the Syrian Reactor,” Debka Internet site, August 9, 2008 (H)
“Wikileaks: Syria Believes Israel Killed Top Assad Aide,” Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post, December 24, 2010
“Former CIA Director: The Secrecy Around the Attack on the Syrian Reactor Is Unjustified,” Amir Oren, Haaretz, July 9, 2010 (H)
CHAPTER 19: LOVE AND DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON
“Profile: Imad Mughniyeh,” Ian Black, Guardian, February 13, 2008
“US Official: World ‘Better Place’ with Death of Hezbollah Figure,” Associated Press, February 13, 2008
“Mossad Most Wanted: A Deadly Vengeance (Imad Mughniyeh),” Gordon Thomas, Independent, February 23, 2010
“Commentary: A Clear Message to Nasrallah and the Hezbollah,” Amir Oren, Haaretz, February 13, 2010 (H)
Hezbollah’s report about the liquidation of Mughniyeh, Debka file, February 28, 2008 (H)
“From Argentina to Saudi Arabia, Everybody Was Looking for Mughniyeh,” Yedioth Ahronoth, February 13, 2008 (H)
“Syria: The Liquidation of Mughniyeh Is a Terrorist Act,” Yoav Stern and Yossi Melman, Haaretz, 13.2.2008 (H)
“The Terror Attacks That Put Mughniyeh on the Map,” Yossi Melman, Haaretz, February 13, 2008 (H)
“The Retaliation for the Killing of Mughniyeh Is a Question of Time,” Roy Nachmias, Yedioth Ahronoth, June 30, 2008 (H)