The Israeli Secret Service

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"The astonishing story of how Israel equipped itself with one of the most fearsomely efficient secret services of modem times Richard Deacon's book is enthralling."
—The New Statesman
Today the Israeli Secret Service is without doubt one of the finest and most sophisticated intelligence organizations in the world. This book teils, of the achievements, the fierce controversies, and the tales of individual initiative in the Israeli Secret Service—including the hunting down of Nazi war crimináis; the brilliant infiltration and "cooking" of enemy signais during the Six Day War; of Elie Cohen, the Israeli spy who was executed by the Syrians despite an offer of six million dollars to save his life; of Wolfgang Lötz, who posed as an ex-Nazi in Cairo and obtained a wealth of Egyptian military secrets; the Entebbe raid and some of the spectacular raids carried out by the secret "avenger squads," which range from a frogman's foray into the Beirut headquarters of the Palestine Liberation... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"The astonishing story of how Israel equipped itself with one of the most fearsomely efficient secret services of modem times Richard Deacon's book is enthralling."
—The New Statesman
Today the Israeli Secret Service is without doubt one of the finest and most sophisticated intelligence organizations in the world. This book teils, of the achievements, the fierce controversies, and the tales of individual initiative in the Israeli Secret Service—including the hunting down of Nazi war crimináis; the brilliant infiltration and "cooking" of enemy signais during the Six Day War; of Elie Cohen, the Israeli spy who was executed by the Syrians despite an offer of six million dollars to save his life; of Wolfgang Lötz, who posed as an ex-Nazi in Cairo and obtained a wealth of Egyptian military secrets; the Entebbe raid and some of the spectacular raids carried out by the secret "avenger squads," which range from a frogman's foray into the Beirut headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the capture of an enemy radar station and its removal by heiicopter. One of the most fasci nating features of the book is the revelation of the surprising extent of the links and interrelation between the Israeli Secret Service and those of Britain, France, West Germany, and the CIA.
Richard Deacon, formerly Foreign Manager of the London Sunday Times, is well known as an histor-ical writer, and especially for his histories of the British, Russian, and Chinese Secret Services. Under his real name, Donald McCormick, he has written several other books including Who's Who in Spy Fiction (now available in paperback from Taplinger). Vissza