The Mossad
Subtitle: six landmark missions of the Israeli intelligence agency, 1960/1990
By: Marc E. Vargo
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780786479146
Subjects: Olympic Games (20th : 1972 : Munich, Germany); National security; Intelligence service; Israel. Mosad le-modiʻin ṿe-tafḳidim meyuḥadim; Special operations (Military science); History; Israel; Entebbe Airport Raid, 1976; Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad; Secret service; Osirak Nuclear Reactor Bombing, Iraq, 1981
Description: "This book describes the clandestine missions that were defining moments in the evolution of the Mossad. 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Operation Eichmann. 1. Adolf Eichmann: the man, the manhunt; title: 2. Mission: Operation Eichmann; title: 3. Trial and tribulations; title: Part Two. Operation Wrath of God. 4. The Arab-Israeli conflict and the Black September Organization; title: 5. Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games; title: 6. Mission: Operation Wrath of God; title: Part Three. Operation Entebbe. 7. The emergence of skyjacking as a tool of Palestinain terrorism; title: 8. Mission: Operation Entebbe; title: Part Four. Operation Opera. Saddam Hussein and the nuclear program of Iraq; title: 10. Mission: Operation Opera; title: Part Five. Operation Plumbat and the Vanunu Affair. 11. Israel's secret nuclear weapons program; title: 12. The quest for uranium: Operation Plumbat and the NUMEC Affair; title: 13. Mordechai Vanunu: the seduction of a nuclear whistleblower.