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Mossad
Mossad (Hebrew: ‫הַ מ סָ ד‬, IPA: [ha moˈsad]; Arabic: ‫اﻟﻤﻮﺳﺎد‬, al-Mōsād, Mossad
IPA: [almoːˈsaːd]; literally meaning "the Institute"), short for HaMossad leModiʿin The Institute for Intelligence and
uleTafkidim Meyuḥadim (Hebrew: ‫המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים‬, Special Operations
meaning "Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations"), is the national ‫מדינת ישראל‬
intelligence agency of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence ‫הַ מ סָד למודיעין ולתפקידים‬
Community, along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal ‫מיוחדים‬
security). ‫اﻟﻤﻮﺳﺎد ﻟﻼﺳﺘﺨﺒﺎرات واﻟﻤﻬﺎم اﻟﺨﺎﺻﺔ‬

Mossad is responsible for intelligence collection, covert operations, and

counterterrorism. In contrast to the government and military, the goals, structure and
powers of the Mossad are exempt from the Basic Laws of Israel. However, its
activity is subject to secret procedures that have never been published. Its director
reports directly to the Prime Minister. Its counter-terrorist unit is known asKidon.

Contents
Organization
"Where no counsel is, the
Executive offices
History
people fall, but in the
Motto multitude of counselors there
Counter-terrorist units is safety." (Proverbs XI:14);
Venture capital (Previous motto: "For by stratagems
Directors you wage war." (Proverbs 24:6))[1]
Operations Agency overview
Africa
Formed December 13, 1949
Americas
as the Central
Asia
Europe Institute for
Oceania Coordination

In fiction Headquarters Tel Aviv, Israel

See also Employees 1,200 (est)
References Agency Yossi Cohen,
Further reading executive Director
External links
Parent Office of the Prime
agency Minister

Organization Website Official Website

Executive offices
The largest department of Mossad is Collections, tasked with many aspects of conducting espionage overseas. Employees in the
Collections Department operate under a variety of covers, including diplomatic and unofficial.[2] The Political Action and Liaison
Department is responsible for working with allied foreign intelligence services, and nations that have no normal diplomatic relations
with Israel.[2] Additionally, Mossad has a Research Department, tasked with intelligence production, and a Technology Department
[3]
concerned with the development of tools for Mossad activities.

History
Mossad was formed on December 13, 1949, as the Central Institute for Coordination at the recommendation of Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion to Reuven Shiloah. Ben Gurion wanted a central body to coordinate and improve cooperation between the existing
security services—the army's intelligence department (AMAN), the Internal Security Service (Shin Bet), and the foreign office's
"political department". In March 1951, it was reorganized and made a part of the prime minister's office, reporting directly to the
prime minister.

Motto
Mossad's former motto, be-tachbūlōt ta`aseh lekhā milchāmāh (Hebrew: ‫ )בתחבולות תעשה לך מלחמה‬is a quote from the Bible
(Proverbs 24:6): "For by wise guidance you can wage your war" (NRSV). The motto was later changed to another Proverbs passage:
be-'éyn tachbūlōt yippol `ām; ū-teshū`āh be-rov yō'éts (Hebrew: ‫ ותשועה ברוב יועץ‬,‫באין תחבולות יפול עם‬, Proverbs 11:14). This is
translated by NRSV as: "Where there is no guidance, a nation falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety
."

Counter-terrorist units

Metsada
Metsada is a unit responsible for attacking the enemy. Metsada runs "small units of combatants" whose missions include
"assassinations and sabotage".[4]

Kidon
The Kidon is a unit which belongs to the Caesarea department (one of Mossad's eight departments). It is described by Yaakov Katz as
"an elite group of expert assassins who operate under the Caesarea branch of the espionage organization. Not much is known about
this mysterious unit, details of which are some of the most closely guarded secrets in the Israeli intelligence community." It recruits
from "former soldiers from the elite IDF special force units."[5] This unit has been a part of Israel's policy of assassinations, a policy
that Israel has used more than any other country in the West.[6] Caesarea tried for many years to assassinate Palestine Liberation
Organization leader Yasser Arafat, a job later tasked by Israel's Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon to a military special ops task force
[6]
code named "Salt Fish," later renamed "Operation Goldfish," specially created for the job of assassinating Arafat.

Venture capital
Mossad has opened a venture capital fund, in order to invest in hi-tech startups to develop new cyber technologies.[7] The names of
[7]
technology startups funded by Mossad will not be published.

Directors
Reuven Shiloah, 1949–53
Isser Harel, 1953–63
Meir Amit, 1963–68
Zvi Zamir, 1968–73
Yitzhak Hofi, 1973–82
Nahum Admoni, 1982–89
Shabtai Shavit, 1989–96
Danny Yatom, 1996–98
Efraim Halevy, 1998–2002
 Meir Dagan, 2002–2011
Tamir Pardo, 2011–2016
Yossi Cohen, 2016–present

Operations

Africa

Egypt

Provision of intelligence for the cutting of communications between Port Said and Cairo in 1956.
Mossad spy Wolfgang Lotz, holding West German citizenship, infiltratedEgypt in 1957, and gathered intelligence on
Egyptian missile sites, military installations, and industries. He also composed a list of German rocket scientists
working for the Egyptian government, and sent some of them letter bombs. After the East German head of state
made a state visit to Egypt, the Egyptian government detained thirty W est German citizens as a goodwill gesture.
Lotz, assuming that he had been discovered, confessed to hiscold war espionage activities.
After a tense May 25, 1967 confrontation withCIA Tel Aviv station chief John Hadden, who warned that the United
States would help defend Egypt if Israel launched a surprise attack, Mossad director Meir Amit flew to Washington,
D.C. to meet with U.S. Defense SecretaryRobert McNamara and reported back to the Israeli cabinet that the United
[8]
States had given Israel "a flickering green light" to attack.
Provision of intelligence on theEgyptian Air Force for Operation Focus, the opening air strike of theSix-Day War.
Operation Bulmus 6 – Intelligence assistance in the Commando Assault onGreen Island, Egypt during the War of
Attrition.
Operation Damocles – A campaign of assassination and intimidation againstGerman rocket scientists employed by
Egypt in building missiles.

A bomb sent to the Heliopolis rocket factory killed five Egyptian workers, allegedly sent by
Otto Skorzeny on
behalf of the Mossad.[9]
Heinz Krug, 49, the chief of a Munich company supplying military hardware to Egypt disappeared in September
1962 and is believed to have been assassinated byOtto Skorzeny on behalf of the Mossad.[9]

Morocco
In September 1956, Mossad established a secretive network in Morocco to smuggle Moroccan Jews to Israel after a ban on
immigration to Israel was imposed.[10]

In early 1991, two Mossad operatives infiltrated the Moroccan port of Casablanca and planted a tracking device on the freighter Al-
Yarmouk, which was carrying a cargo of North Korean missiles bound for Syria. The ship was to be sunk by the Israeli Air Force, but
the mission was later called off by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.[11]

Tunisia
The 1988 killing of Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad), a founder ofFatah.[12]

The alleged killing of Salah Khalaf, head of intelligence of the PLO and second in command of Fatah behind Yasser Arafat, in
1991.[13]

The 2016 alleged killing of Hamas operative, Mohammad al-Zawahri, in Tunisia. Mohammad Zawari, known to Israel's security
echelon as "The Engineer", was a Hamas affiliated engineer who was believed to be constructing drones for the group. He was shot at
close range.[14][15]

Uganda
For Operation Entebbe in 1976, Mossad provided intelligence regarding Entebbe International Airport[16] and extensively
interviewed hostages who had been released.[17]
South Africa
In the late 1990s, after Mossad was tipped off to the presence of two Iranian agents in Johannesburg on a mission to procure
advanced weapons systems from Denel, a Mossad agent was deployed, and met up with a local Jewish contact. Posing as South
African intelligence, they abducted the Iranians, drove them to a warehouse, and beat and intimidated them before forcing them to
leave the country.[18]

Sudan
After the 1994 AMIA bombing, the largest bombing in Argentine history, Mossad began gathering intelligence for a raid by Israeli
Special Forces on the Iranian embassy in Khartoum as retaliation. The operation was called off due to fears that another attack
against worldwide Jewish communities might take place as revenge. Mossad also assisted in Operation Moses, the evacuation of
Ethiopian Jews to Israel from a famine-ridden region of Sudan in 1984, also maintaining a relationship with the Ethiopian
government.

Americas

Argentina
In 1960, Mossad discovered that the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was in Argentina. A team of five Mossad agents led by Shimon
Ben Aharon slipped into Argentina and through surveillance, confirmed that he had been living there under the name of Ricardo
Klement. He was abducted on May 11, 1960 and taken to a hideout. He was subsequently smuggled to Israel, where he was tried and
executed. Argentina protested what it considered as the violation of its sovereignty, and the United Nations Security Council noted
that "repetition of acts such as [this] would involve a breach of the principles upon which international order is founded, creating an
atmosphere of insecurity and distrust incompatible with the preservation of peace" while also acknowledging that "Eichmann should
be brought to appropriate justice for the crimes of which he is accused" and that "this resolution should in no way be interpreted as
[19][20] Mossad abandoned a second operation, intended to captureJosef
condoning the odious crimes of which Eichmann is accused."
Mengele.[21]

United States
During the 1990s, Mossad discovered a Hezbollah agent operating within the United States in order to procure materials needed to
manufacture IEDs and other weapons. In a joint operation with U.S. intelligence, the agent was kept under surveillance in hopes that
[22]
he would betray more Hezbollah operatives, but was eventually arrested.

Mossad informed the FBI and CIA in August 2001 that based on its intelligence as many as 200 terrorists were slipping into the
United States and planning "a major assault on the United States." The Israeli intelligence agency cautioned the FBI that it had picked
up indications of a "large-scale target" in the United States and that Americans would be "very vulnerable."[23] However, "It is not
known whether U.S. authorities thought the warning to be credible, or whether it contained enough details to allow counter-terrorism
teams to come up with a response." A month later, terrorists struck at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the largest terrorist
attack in history.[23]

Uruguay
Mossad assassinated Latvian Nazi collaborator Herberts Cukurs in 1965.[24]

Asia

Central and West Asia

A report published on the Israeli military’s official website in February, 2014 said that Middle Eastern countries that cooperate with
Israel (Mossad) are the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The report
claimed that Bahrain has been providing Israel with intelligence on Iranian and Palestinian organizations. The report also highlights
the growing secret cooperation with Saudi Arabia, claiming that Mossad has been in direct contact with Saudi intelligence about
Iran’s nuclear energy program.[25][26][27]

Iran
Prior to the Iranian Revolution of 1978–79, SAVAK (Organization of National Security and Information), the Iranian secret police
and intelligence service was created under the guidance of United States and Israeli intelligence officers in 1957.[28][29] After
security relations between the United States and Iran grew more distant in the early 1960s which led the CIA training team to leave
Iran, Mossad became increasingly active in Iran, "training SAVAK personnel and carrying out a broad variety of joint operations with
SAVAK."[30]

A US intelligence official told The Washington Post that Israel orchestrated the defection of Iranian general Ali Reza Askari on
February 7, 2007.[31] This has been denied by Israeli spokesman Mark Regev. The Sunday Times reported that Askari had been a
[32]
Mossad asset since 2003, and left only when his cover was about to be blown.

Le Figaro claimed that Mossad was possibly behind a blast at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Imam Ali military base, on October
12, 2010. The explosion at the base killed 18 and injured 10 others. Among the dead was also general Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam,
who served as the commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ missile program and was a crucial figure in building Iran’s long-range
missile program.[33] The base is believed to store long-range missiles, including theShahab-3, and also has hangars. It is one of Iran's
most secure military bases.[34]

Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi has accused Mossad of assassination plots and killings of Iranian physicists in 2010.
Reports have noted that such information has not yet been evidently proven. Iranian state TV broadcast a stated confession from
[35]
Majid Jamali-Fashi, an Iranian man who claimed to have visited Israel to be trained by Mossad.

Mossad has been accused of assassinating Masoud Alimohammadi, Ardeshir Hosseinpour, Majid Shahriari, Darioush Rezaeinejad
and Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan; scientists involved in the Iranian nuclear program. It is also suspected of being behind the attempted
assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Fereydoon Abbasi.[36] Meir Dagan, who served as Director of Mossad from 2002 until
2009, while not taking credit for the assassinations, praised them in an interview with a journalist, saying "the removal of important
brains" from the Iranian nuclear project had achieved so-called "white defections," frightening other Iranian nuclear scientists into
[8]
requesting that they be transferred to civilian projects.

In early February 2012, Mossad directorTamir Pardo met with U.S. national security officials in Washington, D.C. to sound them out
[37]
on possible American reactions in the event Israel attacked Iran over the objections of the United States.

Iraq
Assistance in the defection and rescuing of the family of Munir Redfa, an Iraqi pilot
who defected and flew his MiG-21 to Israel in 1966: "Operation Diamond". Redfa's
entire family was also successfully smuggled from Iraq to Israel. Previously
unknown information about the MiG-21 was subsequently shared with the United
States.

Operation Sphinx[38] – Between 1978 and 1981, obtained highly sensitive

information about Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor by recruiting an Iraqi nuclear
scientist in France.
MiG-21 at the Israeli Air Force
Operation Bramble Bush II – In the 1990s, Mossad began scouting locations in Iraq Museum in Hatzerim
where Saddam Hussein could be ambushed by Sayeret Matkal commandos inserted
into Iraq from Jordan. The mission was called off due to Operation Desert Fox and
the ongoing Israeli-Arab peace process.

Jordan
In what is thought to have been a reprisal action for a Hamas suicide-bombing in Jerusalem on July 30, 1997 that killed 16 Israelis,
Benjamin Netanyahu authorised an operation against Khaled Mashal, the Hamas representative in Jordan.[39] On September 25,
1997, Mashal was injected in the ear with a toxin (thought to have been a derivative of the synthetic opiate Fentanyl called
Levofentanyl).[40][41] Jordanian authorities apprehended two Mossad agents posing as Canadian tourists and trapped a further six in
the Israeli embassy. In exchange for their release, an Israeli physician had to fly to Amman and deliver an antidote for Mashal. The
fallout from the failed killing eventually led to the release of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the Hamas
movement, and scores of Hamas prisoners. Netanyahu flew into Amman on September 29 to apologize personally to King Hussein,
but he was instead met by the King's brother,Crown Prince Hassan.[40]

Lebanon
The provision of intelligence and operational assistance in the 1973Operation Spring of Youth special forces raid onBeirut.

The sending of letter bombs to PFLP member Bassam Abu Sharif. Sharif was severely wounded, but survived.[42]

The targeted killing of Ali Hassan Salameh, the leader of Black September, on January 22, 1979 inBeirut by a car bomb.[43][44]

The killing of the Palestinian writer and leadingPFLP member Ghassan Kanafani, also by a car bomb, in 1972.[45]

[46]
Providing intelligence for the killing ofAbbas al-Musawi, secretary general of Hezbollah, in Beirut in 1992.

[47]
Allegedly killed Jihad Ahmed Jibril, the leader of the military wing of the PFLP-GC, in Beirut in 2002.

Allegedly killed Ali Hussein Saleh, member of Hezbollah, in Beirut in 2003.[48]

Allegedly killed Ghaleb Awwali, a senior Hezbollah official, in Beirut in 2004.[49]

Allegedly killed Mahmoud al-Majzoub, a leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in Sidon in 2006.[50]

Mossad was suspected of establishing a large spy network in Lebanon, recruited from Druze, Christian, and Sunni Muslim
communities, and officials in the Lebanese government, to spy on Hezbollah and its Iranian Revolutionary Guard advisors. Some
have allegedly been active since the 1982 Lebanon War. In 2009, Lebanese Security Services supported by Hezbollah's intelligence
unit, and working in collaboration with Syria, Iran, and possibly Russia, launched a major crackdown which resulted in the arrests of
around 100 alleged spies "working for Israel".[51] Previously, in 2006, the Lebanese army uncovered a network that allegedly
[52]
assassinated several Lebanese and Palestinian leaders on behalf of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.

Syria
Eli Cohen infiltrated the highest echelons of the Syrian government, was a close friend of the Syrian President, and was considered
for the post of Minister of Defense. He gave his handlers a complete plan of the Syrian defenses on the Golan Heights, the Syrian
Armed Forces order of battle, and a complete list of the Syrian military's weapons inventory. He also ordered the planting of trees by
every Syrian fortified position under the pretext of shading soldiers, but the trees actually served as targeting markers for the Israel
Defense Forces. He was discovered by Syrian and Soviet intelligence, tried in secret, and executed publicly in 1965.[53] His
information played a crucial role during theSix Day War.

On 1 April 1978, 12 Syrian military and secret service personnel were killed by a booby trapped sophisticated Israeli listening device
[54]
planted on the main telephone cable between Damascus and Jordan.
The alleged death of General Anatoly Kuntsevich, who from the late 1990s was suspected of aiding the Syrians in the manufacture of
VX nerve-gas, in exchange for which he was paid huge amounts of money by the Syrian government. On April 3, 2002, Kuntsevich
died mysteriously during a plane journey,amid allegations that Mossad was responsible.[54]

The alleged killing of Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, a senior member of the military wing of Hamas, in an automobile booby trap in
September 2004 in Damascus.[55]

The uncovering of a nuclear reactor being built in Syria as a result of surveillance by Mossad of Syrian officials working under the
command of Muhammad Suleiman. As a result, the Syrian nuclear reactor was destroyed by Israeli Air Forces in September 2007
.[54]
(see Operation Orchard), while Suleiman was assassinated by Israel a year later

The alleged killing of Muhammad Suleiman, head of Syria's nuclear program, in 2008. Suleiman was on a beach in Tartus and was
killed by a sniper firing from a boat.[56]

On July 25, 2007, the al-Safir chemical weapons depot exploded, killing 15 Syrian personnel as well as 10 Iranian engineers. Syrian
investigations blamed Israeli sabotage.[54]

The alleged killing of Imad Mughniyah, a senior leader of Hezbollah complicit in the 1983 United States embassy bombing, with an
exploding headrest in Damascus in 2008.[57]

The decomposed body of Yuri Ivanov, the deputy head of the GRU, Russia's foreign military intelligence service, was found on a
Turkish beach in early August 2010,[58] amid allegations that Mossad may have played a role. He had disappeared while staying near
Latakia, Syria.[59]

United Arab Emirates

Mossad is suspected of killing Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas military commander, in January 2010 at Dubai, United Arab
Emirates. The team which carried out the killing is estimated, on the basis of CCTV and other evidence, to have consisted of at least
26 agents traveling on bogus passports. The operatives entered al-Mabhouh's hotel room, where Mabhouh was subjected to electric
shocks and interrogated. The door to his room was reported to have been locked from the inside.[60][61][62][63][64] Although the UAE
police and Hamas have declared Israel responsible for the killing, no direct evidence linking Mossad to the crime has been found.
The agents' bogus passports included six British passports, cloned from those of real British nationals resident in Israel and suspected
by Dubai, five Irish passports, apparently forged from those of living individuals,[65] forged Australian passports that raised fears of
reprisal against innocent victims of identity theft,[66] a genuine German passport and a false French passport. Emirati police say they
have fingerprint and DNA evidence of some of the attackers, as well as retinal scans of 11 suspects recorded at Dubai airport.[67][68]
Dubai's police chief has said "I am now completely sure that it was Mossad," adding: "I have presented the (Dubai) prosecutor with a
.[69]
request for the arrest of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and the head of Mossad," for the murder

South and East Asia

India
A Rediff story in 2003 revealed that Mossad had clandestine links with the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), India's external
intelligence agency. When R&AW was founded in September 1968 by Rameshwar Nath Kao, he was advised by then Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi to cultivate links with Mossad. This was suggested as a countermeasure to military links between that of Pakistan and
China, as well as with North Korea. Israel was also concerned that Pakistani army officers were training Libyans and Iranians in
[70]
handling Chinese and North Korean military equipment.

Pakistan believed intelligence relations between India and Israel threatened Pakistani security. When young Israeli tourists began
visiting the Kashmir valley in the early 1990s, Pakistan suspected they were disguised Israeli army officers there to help Indian
security forces with anti-terrorism operations. Israeli tourists were attacked, with one slain and another kidnapped. Pressure from the
Kashmiri Muslim diaspora in the United States led to his release. Kashmiri Muslims feared that the attacks could isolate the
[70]
American Jewish community, and result in them lobbying the US government against Kashmiri separatist groups.

In 1996, R.K. Yadav, a former RAW official had filed a disproportionate assets case in the Delhi High Court against Anand Kumar
Verma, RAW chief between 1987 and 1990. Yadav listed eight properties that he claimed were purchased illegally by Verma using
RAW's unaudited funds for secret operations. Although his petition for a CBI inquiry into Verma's properties was dismissed, Yadav
managed to obtain more information using in RTI in 2005 and filed another case in 2009. In 2013, the CBI carried out an
investigation of Verma's properties. Proceedings in the Delhi High Court revealed the names of two companies floated by RAW in
1988 - Piyush Investments and Hector Leasing and Finance Company Ltd. The firms were headed by two senior RAW officials V.
Balachandran and B. Raman. Balachandran and Raman retired in 1994 and 1995 respectively. The companies were listed as trading
houses that dealt in several kinds of minerals, automobiles, textiles, metals and spare parts, and also claimed to produce feature films.
The companies purchased two flats in Gauri Sadan, a residential building on Hailey Road, New Delhi in March 1989 for ₹23
lakh.[71]

India Today reported that the two flats were RAW safe houses used as operational fronts for Mossad agents and housed Mossad's
station chief between 1989 and 1992. RAW had reportedly decided to have closer ties to Mossad, and the subsequent secret operation
was approved by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. India Today cites "RAW insiders" as saying that RAW agents hid a Mossad
agent holding an Argentine passport and exchanged intelligence and expertise in operations, including negotiations for the release of
an Israeli tourist by the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front militants in June 1991. When asked about the case Verma refused to
speak about the companies, but claimed his relationship with them was purely professional. Raman stated, "Sometimes, spy agencies
float companies for operational reasons. All I can say is that everything was done with government approval. Files were cleared by
the then prime minister [Rajiv Gandhi] and his cabinet secretary. Balachandran stated, "It is true that we did a large number of
[71]
operations but at every stage, we kept the Cabinet Secretariat and the prime minister in the loop."

In November 2015, The Times of India reported that agents from Mossad and MI5 were protecting Prime Minister Narendra Modi
during his visit to Turkey. Modi was on a state visit to the United Kingdom and was scheduled to attend the 2015 G-20 Summit in
Antalya, Turkey. The paper reported that the agents had been called in to provide additional cover to Modi's security detail, composed
W and IB, in wake of theNovember 2015 Paris attacks.[72][73]
of India's Special Protection Group and secret agents from RA

North Korea
Mossad may have been involved in the 2004 explosion of Ryongchon, where several Syrian nuclear scientists working on the Syrian
[74]
and Iranian nuclear-weapons programs were killed and a train carrying fissionable material was destroyed.

Pakistan
In a September 2003 news article,[75] it was alleged by Rediff News that General Pervez Musharaf, the then-President of Pakistan,
decided to establish a clandestine relationship between Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Mossad via officers of the two services
posted at their embassies in Washington, DC.

Europe

Austria
In 1954, after Mossad received intelligence that an Israeli officer who had access to classified military technologies, Major Alexander
Israel, had approached Egyptian officials in Europe and offered to sell Israeli military secrets and documents, a team of Mossad and
Shin Bet officers was quickly sent to Europe to locate him and abduct him, and located him in Vienna. The mission was code-named
Operation Bren. A female agent managed to lure him to a meeting through a honey trap operation, and he was subsequently
kidnapped, sedated, and flown to Israel aboard a waiting Israeli military plane. However, the plane had to make several refueling
stops, and he was given an additional dose of sedatives each time, which ultimately caused him to overdose, killing him. Upon arrival
in Israel, after it was discovered that he was dead, he was given a burial at sea, and the case remained highly classified for
decades.[76]

Mossad gathered information on Austrian politicianJörg Haider using a mole.[77]

Belgium
Mossad is alleged to be responsible for the killing of Canadian engineer and ballistics expert Gerald Bull on March 22, 1990. He was
shot multiple times in the head outside his Brussels apartment.[78] Bull was at the time working for Iraq on the Project Babylon
supergun.[79] Others, including Bull's son, believe that Mossad is taking credit for an act they did not commit to scare off others who
may try to help enemy regimes. The alternative theory is that Bull was killed by the CIA. Iraq and Iran are also candidates for
suspicion.[80]

Bosnia and Herzegovina

-torn Sarajevo to Israel in 1992 and 1993.[81]
Assisted in air and overland evacuations of Bosnian Jews from war

Cyprus
The killing of Hussein Al Bashir in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1973 in relation to theMunich massacre.[46]

France
Mossad allegedly assisted Morocco's domestic security service in the disappearance of dissident politician Mehdi Ben Barka in
1965.[82]

Cherbourg Project - Operation Noa, the 1969 smuggling of fiveSa'ar 3-class missile boatsout of Cherbourg.

The killing of Dr. Mahmoud Hamshari, coordinator of the Munich massacre, with an exploding telephone in his Paris apartment in
1972.[46]

The killing of Dr. Basil Al-Kubaissi, who was involved in the Munich massacre, in Paris in 1973.[46]

The killing of Mohammad Boudia, member of thePFLP, in Paris in 1973.[46]

On April 5, 1979, Mossad agents are believed to have triggered an explosion which destroyed 60 percent of components being built
in Toulouse for an Iraqi reactor. Although an environmental organization, Groupe des écologistes français, unheard of before this
incident, claimed credit for the blast,[38] most French officials discount the claim. The reactor itself was subsequently destroyed byan
Israeli air strike in 1981.[38][83]

The alleged killing ofZuheir Mohsen, a pro-Syrian member of thePLO, in 1979.[84]

[85]
The killing of Yehia El-Mashad, the head of the Iraq nuclear weapons program, in 1980.

The alleged killing of Atef Bseiso, a top intelligence officer of the PLO, in Paris in 1992. French police believe that a team of
assassins followed Atef Bseiso from Berlin, where that first team connected with another team to close in on him in front of a Left
[86]
Bank hotel, where he received three head-shots at point blank range.

Germany
Operation Plumbat (1968) was an operation by Lekem-Mossad to further Israel's nuclear program. The German freighter
"Scheersberg A" disappeared on its way from Antwerp to Genoa along with its cargo of 200 tons of yellowcake, after supposedly
being transferred to an Israeli ship.[87]
The sending of letter bombs during the Operation Wrath of God campaign. Some of these attacks were not fatal. Their purpose might
not have been to kill the receiver. A Mossad letter bomb led to fugitive Nazi war-criminal Alois Brunner losing 4 fingers from his
right hand in 1980.[88]

The alleged targeted killing of Dr Wadie Haddad, using poisoned chocolate. Haddad died on 28 March 1978, in the German
Democratic Republic supposedly from leukemia. According to the book Striking Back, published by Aharon Klein in 2006, Haddad
was eliminated by Mossad, which had sent the chocolate-loving Haddad Belgian chocolates coated with a slow-acting and
undetectable poison which caused him to die several months later [89]
. "It took him a few long months to die", Klein said in the book.

Mossad discovered that Hezbollah had recruited a German national named Steven Smyrek, and that he was travelling to Israel. In an
operation conducted by Mossad, the CIA, the German Internal Security agency Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), and the
Israeli Internal Security agency Shin Bet, Smyrek was kept under constant surveillance, and arrested as soon as he landed in
Israel.[90]

Mossad is alleged to have been involved inindustrial espionage in Germany. In the late 1990s, the head of the BfV reportedly warned
[74]
his department chiefs that Mossad remained a prime threat in stealing the country's latest computer secrets.

Greece
[46]
The killing of Zaiad Muchasi,Fatah representative to Cyprus, by an explosion in his Athens hotel room in 1973.

Ireland
The assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh – a senior Hamas military commander – in Dubai, 2010, was suspected to be the work
of Mossad, and there were eight Irish passports (six of which were used) fraudulently obtained by the Israeli embassy in Dublin,
Ireland for use by alleged Mossad agents in the operation. The Irish government was angered over the use of Irish passports,
summoned the Israeli ambassador for an explanation and expelled the Israeli diplomat deemed responsible from Dublin, following an
investigation. One of the passports was registered to a residence on Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge, on the same road as the Israeli
embassy. The house was empty when later searched, but there was suspicion by Irish authorities it had been used as a Mossad safe
house in the past.[91][92] Mossad is reported to have a working relationship with Ireland's armed forces' national intelligence service,
the Directorate of Military Intelligence,[93] and has previously tipped the Irish authorities off about arms shipments from the Middle
East to Ireland for use by dissident republican militants, resulting in their interception and arrests.[94] Mossad is also believed to
Operation Flavius, 1988.[95]
cooperate with the British government in combating IRA terrorism, including involvement in

Italy
The killing of Wael Zwaiter, thought to be a member ofBlack September.[96][97]

In 1986, Mossad used an undercover agent to lure Mordechai Vanunu from the United Kingdom to Italy in a honey trap style
operation where he was abducted and returned to Israel where he was tried and found guilty of
treason because of his role in exposing
Israel's nuclear programme.[98]

Malta
The killing of Fathi Shiqaqi. Shiqaqi, a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, was shot several times in the head in 1995 in front of
the Diplomat Hotel inSliema, Malta.[99]

Norway
On July 21, 1973, Ahmed Bouchiki, a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, was killed by Mossad agents. He had been
mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh, one of the leaders of Black September, the Palestinian group responsible for the Munich massacre,
who had been given shelter in Norway. Mossad agents had used fake Canadian passports, which angered the Canadian government.
Six Mossad agents were arrested, and the incident came to be known as the Lillehammer affair. Israel subsequently paid
compensation to Bouchiki's family.[98][100][101]

Serbia
Israel provided weapons to the Serbs during the Bosnian War, possibly due to the pro-Serbian bias of the government of the
time,[102] or possibly in exchange for the immigration of the Sarajevo Jewish community to Israel.[103] The Mossad allegedly was
[104]
responsible for providing Serbian groups with arms.

Switzerland
According to secret CIA and US State Department documents discovered by the Iranian students who took over the U.S. Embassy in
Tehran on November 4, 1979:

In Switzerland the Israelis have an Embassy in Bern and a Consulate-General in Zürich which provide cover for
Collection Department officers involved in unilateral operations. These Israeli diplomatic installations also maintain
close relations with the Swiss on a local level in regard to overt functions such as physical security for Israeli official
and commercial installations in the country and the protection of staff members and visiting Israelis. There is also
close collaboration between the Israelis and Swiss on scientific and technical matters pertaining to intelligence and
security operations. Swiss officials have made frequent trips to Israel. There is a continual flow of Israelis to and
through Switzerland. These visits, however, are usually arranged through the Political Action and Liaison regional
controller at the Embassy in Paris directly with the Swiss and not through the officials in the Israeli Embassy in Bern,
although the latter are kept informed.

In February 1998, five Mossad agents were caught wiretapping the home of a Hezbollah agent in a Bern suburb. Four agents were
freed, but the fifth was tried, found guilty, sentenced to one year in prison, and following his release was banned from entering
Switzerland for five years.[105]

Soviet Union/Russia
Mossad was involved in outreach to Refuseniks in the Soviet Union during the crackdown on Soviet Jews in the period between the
1950s and the 1980s. Mossad helped establish contact with Refuseniks in the USSR, and helped them acquire Jewish religious items,
banned by the Soviet government, in addition to passing communications into and out of the USSR. Many rabbinical students from
Western countries travelled to the Soviet Union as part of this program in order to establish and maintain contact with refuseniks.

Ukraine
In February 2011, a Palestinian engineer, Dirar Abu Seesi, was allegedly pulled off a train by Mossad agents en route to the capital
Kiev from Kharkiv. He had been planning to apply for Ukrainian citizenship, and reappeared in an Israeli jail only three weeks after
the incident.[106]

United Kingdom
Mossad assisted the UK Intelligence organisation MI5 following the 7/7 bombings in London. According to the 2007 edition of a
book about Mossad titled Gideon’s Spies, shortly after the 7/7 London underground bombings, MI5 gathered evidence that a senior
al-Qaeda operative known only by the alias Mustafa travelled in and out of Britain shortly before the 7/7 bombings. For months, the
real identity of Mustafa remained unknown, but in early October 2005, Mossad told MI5 that this person was, in fact, Azhari Husin, a
bomb-making expert withJemaah Islamiyah, the main al-Qaeda affiliate in Southeast Asia. Husin studied in Britain and reports claim
that he met the main 7/7 bomber, Mohammad Sidique Khan, in late 2001 in a militant training camp in the Philippines (see Late
2001). Meir Dagan, the then head of Mossad, apparently also told MI5 that Husin helped plan and recruit volunteers for the
bombings. Mossad claimed that Husin may have been in London at the time of the bombings, and then fled to al-Qaeda’s principal
haven in the tribal area of Pakistan, where he sometimes hid after bombings. Husin was killed in a shootout in Indonesia in
November 2005.[107] Later official British government reports about the 7/7 bombings did not mention Husin.[108]

In addition, Gideon's Spies also claimed that Mossad conducted industrial espionage in the UK, and that shortly after Tony Blair was
elected Prime Minister, MI5 briefed him on Mossad's efforts to obtain British scientific and defense data.

Oceania

New Zealand
In July 2004, New Zealand imposed diplomatic sanctions on Israel over an incident in which two Australia-based Israelis, Uriel
Kelman and Eli Cara, who were allegedly working for Mossad, attempted to fraudulently obtain New Zealand passports by claiming
the identity of a severely disabled man. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom later apologized to New Zealand for their actions.
New Zealand cancelled several other passports believed to have been obtained by Israeli agents.[109] Both Kelman and Cara served
half of their six-month sentences and, upon release, were deported to Israel. Two others, an Israeli, Ze'ev Barkan, and a New
Zealander, David Reznick, are believed to have been the third and fourth men involved in the passport affair but they both managed
to leave New Zealand before being apprehended.[110]

In fiction
In book 4 of Mark Greaney's Gray Man series, Dead Eye, Mossad and the CIA partner to capture the world's most
feared and lethal rogue former black ops agent Courtland Gentry
.

Since the episode "Kill Ari (Part 1)", Mossad has played an instrumental part in the American showNCIS. Mossad's
presence includes one of the main characters, AgentZiva David, who is a former Mossad Agent. She originally filled
the position of Mossad liaison to NCIS, until the end ofSeason 7, when she became a full-time NCIS agent. Her
father, Eli David, was the director of Mossad, until theSeason 10 episode Shabbat Shalom, when he was killed.
Many other characters have been included in the show from Mossad, including Michael Rivkin and Ari Haswari.
Some episodes of the show have taken place in Israel.
The TV series Covert Affairs had a Mossad agent Eyal Lavin as a recurring character .
The TV series The Blacklist has Mossad agent Samar Navabi (played by Mozhan Marnò) as one of the side
characters.
In the 2001 film Swordfish, lead character Gabriel Shear (played byJohn Travolta) is believed to be a Mossad agent.
In Jeffrey Archer's novel Honour Among Thieves, the lead female protagonist is a Mossad agent
Author Daniel Silva's best-selling spy novel series is centered on fictional Mossad agent and assassin,Gabriel Allon.
The term "Mossad" is never used in the novels, but the protagonist is described as working for Israel's intelligence
service (which the characters refer to simply as "the Office").
In the 2005 film Munich, Mossad agents are depicted in their retaliation againstBlack September following the
events of the 1972 Munich Olympics.

See also
Duvdevan Unit – Israel's undercover strike unit
List of Israeli assassinations
Special Activities Division
The Spy Machine (1998), a documentary special about the work of the Mossad
Unit 8200, Israeli Intelligence CorpsSIGINT and cyber unit
Yamam, Israel's elite Border Police SWAT Unit

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Further reading
Bar-Zohar, Michael and Mishal, Nissim.Mossad: The Great Operations of Israel's Secret Service . The Robson
Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84954-368-2.
Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. New York: Sheridan Square Press,
1992. ISBN 1-879823-01-2. OCLC 26586922.
Black, Ian and Benny Morris.Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services. New York: Grove
Weidenfeld, 1991. ISBN 978-0-8021-3286-4. OCLC 249707944.
Central Intelligence Agency. Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services: A Survey . Washington, D.C., 1979.
(Included in Documents from the US Espionage Den. Tehran: Center for the Publication of the USEspionage Den's
Documents, 1982.)
Jonas, George. Vengeance. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. ISBN 0-671-50611-0. OCLC 10507421.
Raviv, Dan and Melman, Yossi. Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret W ars. Sea Cliff: Levant Books,
2012. ISBN 978-0985437831.
Frattini, Eric. Mossad, los verdugos del Kidon. Madrid: Atanor Ediciones, 2011.ISBN 978-84-938718-6-4

External links
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Official website (in Arabic)
GlobalSecurity.org entry for Mossad
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