Full Description
This book describes the clandestine missions that were defining moments in the evolution of the Mossad, including its pursuit of the Black September terrorists who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games, its acquisition on the high seas of yellowcake uranium for Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons program, and its role in bringing to justice Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. The agency's more questionable deeds are also covered, among them the assassination of civilian scientists associated with Iraq's nuclear energy program and the abduction of Israeli citizen Mordechai Vanunu, who, like Edward Snowden, has been variously depicted as a principled whistleblower and an unscrupulous traitor. Taken together, the missions discussed in this volume illustrate the Mossad's character, creativity and courage, while acknowledging the problematical moral dimensions of its operations.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part One: Operation Eichmann 9
1. Adolf Eichmann: The Man, the Manhunt 11
2. Mission: Operation Eichmann 26
3. Trial and Tribulations 60
Part Two: Operation Wrath of God 69
4. The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Black September Organization 71
5. Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games 91
6. Mission: Operation Wrath of God 116
Part Three: Operation Entebbe 151
7. The Emergence of Skyjacking as a Tool of Palestinian Terrorism 152
8. Mission: Operation Entebbe 161
Part Four: Operation Opera 187
9. Saddam Hussein and the Nuclear Program of Iraq 189
10. Mission: Operation Opera 196
Part Five: Operation Plumbat and the Vanunu Affair 223
11. Israel's Secret Nuclear Weapons Program 225
12. The Quest for Uranium: Operation Plumbat and the NUMEC Affair 233
13. Mordechai Vanunu: The Seduction of a Nuclear Whistleblower 246
Chapter Notes 275
Bibliography 285
Index 295
