Description
In this unprecedented history of intelligence cooperation during the Cold War, Aviva Guttmann uncovers the key role of European intelligence agencies in facilitating Mossad's Operation Wrath of God. She reveals how, in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre, Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorism were hunted and killed by Mossad with active European cooperation. Through unique access to unredacted documents in the Club de Berne archive, she shows how a secret coalition of intelligence agencies supplied Mossad with information about Palestinians on a colossal scale and tacitly supported Israeli covert actions on European soil. These agencies helped to anticipate and thwart a number of Palestinian terrorist plots, including some revealed here for the first time. This extraordinary book reconstructs the hidden world of international intelligence, showing how this parallel order enabled state relations to be pursued independently of official foreign policy constraints or public scrutiny.
Table of Contents
Introduction: intelligence that kills; Part I. Preparing for God's Wrath: 1. Setting the scene; 2. Preparing the kill list; Part II. Europe's Covert War against the Palestinian Armed Struggle: 3. A firing squad in Rome and four black September attacks; 4. A bomb in Paris and two attacks in Bangkok and Rome; 5. Assassinations in Nicosia and Madrid, attacks in Jordan and Sudan; 6. A 'battle of the spooks' in Paris, Beirut, Nicosia, and Rome; 7. A car bomb in Paris, a firing squad in DC, a thwarted attack near Vienna; Part III. Blunder and Cooperate: 8. Lillehammer fiasco: official condemnation, covert approval; Conclusion: a secret security order.
