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<dt><strong><span style="font-size:medium;"> Mossad - The Israeli<br />
Connection To 911<br />
</span></strong><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> By Christopher Bollyn<br />
Exclusive to American Free Press<br />
4-14-5</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;">U.S. investigators and the controlled media have ignored     a preponderance of evidence pointing to Israel's intelligence agency, the     Mossad, being involved in the terror attacks of 9/11.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> From the very morning aircraft smashed into the World     Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon, news reports have indicated Israeli     intelligence being involved in the events of 9/11 - and the planting of     "false flags" to blame Arab terrorists and mold public opinion     to support the pre-planned "war on terror."</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Shortly after the destruction of the twin towers,     radio news reports described five "Middle Eastern men" being     arrested in New Jersey after having been seen videotaping and celebrating     the explosive "collapses" of the WTC.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> These men, from a phony moving company in Weehawken,     N.J., turned out to be agents of Israeli military intelligence, Mossad.     Furthermore, their "moving van" tested positive for explosives.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Dominic Suter, the Israeli owner of Urban Moving     Systems, the phony "moving company," fled in haste, or was allowed     to escape, to Israel before FBI agents could interrogate him. The Israeli     agents were later returned to Israel on minor visa violations.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> The Assistant Attorney General in charge of criminal     investigations at the time was Michael Chertoff, the current head of the     Dept. of Homeland Security. Chertoff, the son of the first hostess of Israel's     national air carrier, El Al, is thought to be an Israeli national.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> One of the Israeli agents later told Israeli radio     that they had been sent to "document the event" - the event which     took the lives of some 3,000 Americans.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Despite the fact that the Israelis arrested in New     Jersey evidently had prior knowledge or were involved in the planning of     9/11, the U.S. mainstream media has never even broached the question of     Israeli complicity in the attacks.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> ISRAELIS FOREWARNED</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> On September 12, 2001, the Internet edition of The     Jerusalem Post reported, "The Israeli foreign ministry has collected     the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World     Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attack."</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Yet only one Israeli was killed at the WTC and two     were reportedly killed on the "hijacked" aircraft.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Although a total of three Israeli lives were reportedly     lost on 9/11, speechwriters for President George W. Bush grossly inflated     the number of Israeli dead to 130 in the president's address to a joint     session of Congress on September 20, 2001.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> The fact that only one Israeli died at the WTC, while     4,000 Israelis were thought to have been at the scene of the attacks on     9/11 naturally led to a widespread rumor, blamed on Arabic sources, that     Israelis had been forewarned to stay away that day.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> "Whether this story was the origin of the rumor,"     Bret Stephens, the Post's editor-in-chief wrote in 2003, "I cannot     say. What I can say is that there was no mistake in our reporting."</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> ODIGO INSTANT MESSAGES</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Evidence that Israelis had been forewarned several     hours before the attacks surfaced at an Israeli instant messaging service,     known as Odigo. This story, clear evidence of Israeli prior knowledge,     was reported only briefly in the U.S. media - and quickly forgotten.</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> At least two Israel-based employees of Odigo received     warnings of an imminent attack in New York City more than two hours before     the first plane hit the WTC. Odigo had its U.S. headquarters two blocks     from the WTC. The Odigo employees, however, did not pass the warning on     to the authorities in New York City, a move that could have saved thousands     of lives.</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Odigo has a feature called People Finder that allows     users to seek out and contact others based on certain demographics, such     as Israeli nationality.</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Two weeks after 9/11, Alex Diamandis, Odigo's vice     president, reportedly said, "It was possible that the attack warning     was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the company has not received     reports of other recipients of the message."</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> The Internet address of the sender was given to the     FBI, and two months later it was reported that the FBI was still investigating     the matter. There have been no media reports since.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Odigo, like many Israeli software companies, is based     and has its Research and Development (R&#38;D) center in Herzliya, Israel,     the small town north of Tel Aviv, which happens to be where Mossad's headquarters     are located.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Shortly after 9/11, Odigo was taken over by Comverse     Technology, another Israeli company. Within a year, five executives from     Comverse were reported to have profited by more than $267 million from     "insider trading."</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Through Israeli "venture capital" (VC)     investment funds, Mossad spawns and sponsors scores of software companies     currently doing business in the United States. These Israel-based companies     are sponsored by Mossad funding sources such as Cedar Fund, Stage One Ventures,     Veritas Venture Partners, and others.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> As one might expect, the portfolios of these Mossad-linked     funding companies contain only Israeli-based companies, such as Odigo.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Reading through the strikingly similar websites of     these Israeli "VC" funds and their portfolio companies, one can't     help but notice that the key "team" players share a common profile     and are often former members of "Israel's Intelligence Corps"     and veterans of the R&#38;D Department of the Israel Air Force or another     branch of the military. Most are graduates of Israel's "Technion"     school in Haifa, Mossad's Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, or     a military program for software development.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> The IDC, a private, non-profit university, is closely     tied to the Mossad. The IDC has a "research institute" headed     by Shabtai Shavit, former head of the Mossad from 1989 to 1996, called     the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> The IDC also has a "Marc Rich Center for the     Study of Commodities, Trading and Financial Markets" and a "Lauder     School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy." The cosmetics magnate     Ronald S. Lauder, who is a supporter of Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon     and his far-right Likud Party, founded the Lauder school.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Lauder, president of the Jewish National Fund and     former chairman of New York Governor George Pataki's Commission on Privatization,     is the key individual who pushed the privatization of the WTC and former     Stewart AFB, where the flight paths of the two planes that hit the twin     towers oddly converged. Ronald Lauder played a significant, albeit unreported,     role in the preparation for 9/11.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Pataki's wife, Libby, has been on Lauder's payroll     since at least 2002 and reportedly earned $100,000 as a consultant in 2004.     According to The Village Voice, between 1994 and 1998, Gov. Pataki earned     some $70,000 for speaking to groups affiliated with Lauder.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> THE PTECH CUTOUT</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Ptech, a mysterious software company has been tied     with the events of 9/11. The Quincy, Massachusetts-based company was supposedly     connected to "the Muslim Brotherhood" and Arab financiers of     terrorism.</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> The firm's suspected links with terrorism resulted     in a consensual examination by the FBI in December 2002, which was immediately     leaked to the media. The media reports of the FBI "raid" on Ptech     soon led to the demise of the company.</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Ptech "produced software that derived from PROMIS,     had an artificial intelligence core, and was installed on virtually every     computer system of the U.S. government and its military agencies on September     11, 2001," according to Michael Ruppert's From the Wilderness (FTW)     website.</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> "This included the White House, Treasury Dept.     (Secret Service), Air Force, FAA, CIA, FBI, both houses of Congress, Navy,     Dept. of Energy, IRS, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Enron and more," FTW     reported.</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> "Whoever plotted 9/11 definitely viewed the     FAA as the enemy that morning. Overriding FAA systems would be the most     effective way to ensure the attacks were successful," FTW reported.     "To do this, the FAA needed an evolution of PROMIS software installed     on their systems and Ptech was just that; the White House and Secret Service     had the same software on their systems - likely a superior modified version     capable of 'surveillance and intervention' systems."</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> But did the U.S. government unwittingly load software     capable of "surveillance and intervention" operations and produced     by a company linked to terrorism onto its most sensitive computer networks,     or was Ptech simply a Mossad "cutout" company?</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Oussama Ziade, a Lebanese Muslim immigrant who came     to the U.S. in 1985, founded Ptech in 1994. But the company's original     manager of marketing and information systems was Michael S. Goff, whose     PR firm, Goff Communications, currently represents Guardium, a Mossad-linked     software company.</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> And Goff comes from a well-to-do line of Jewish Masons     who have belonged to Worcester's Commonwealth Lodge 600 of B'nai Brith     for decades. So, why would a recently graduated Juris Doctor in Law leave     a promising law career to join forces with a Lebanese Muslim's upstart     company sponsored with dodgy funders in Saudi Arabia?</span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> "As information systems manager [for Ptech],     Michael handled design, deployment and management of its Windows and Macintosh,     data, and voice networks," Goff's website says. "Michael also     performed employee training and handled all procurement for software, systems     and peripherals."</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> AFP asked Goff, who left the Worcester law firm of     Seder &#38; Chandler in 1994, how he wound up working at Ptech. "Through     a temp agency," Goff said. Asked for the name of the agency, Goff     said he could not remember.</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Could it be Mossad Temps, or maybe Sayan Placement     Agency?</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Goff, the original marketing manager for Ptech software,     said he did not know who had written the code that Ptech sold to many government     agencies. Is this believable?</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> Goff leaves a legal practice in his home town to     take a job, through a temp agency, with a Lebanese Muslim immigrant who     is selling software, and he doesn't know who even wrote the code?</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> AFP contacted the government agencies that reportedly     have Ptech software on their computers, and IBM, to ask if they could identify     who had written the source code of the Ptech software.</span> </dt>
<dt> </dt>
<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;"> By press time, only Lt. Commander Ron Steiner of     the U.S. Navy's Naval Network Warfare Command had responded. Steiner said     he had checked with an analyst and been told that none of the Ptech software     has been approved for the Navy's enterprise networks.</span> </dt>
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<h2>Mossad<br />
The Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks<br />
<em>[ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim]</em></h2>
<p><img src="http://www.fas.org/irp/world/israel/mossad/mossad_crest2.jpg" alt="" align="left" />Mossad [Hebrew for “institute”] has responsibility for human intelligence collection, covert action, and counterterrorism. Its focus is on Arab nations and organizations throughout the world. Mossad also is responsible for the clandestine movement of Jewish refugees out of Syria, Iran, and Ethiopia. Mossad agents are active in the former communist countries, in the West, and at the UN.</p>
<p>Mossad is headquartered in Tel Aviv. The staff of Mossad was estimated during the late 1980s to number between 1,500 to 2,000 personnel, with more recent estimates placing the staff at an estimated 1,200 personnel. The identity of the director of Mossad was traditionally a state secret, or at least not widely publicized, until in March 1996 the Government announced the appointment of Major General Danny Yatom as the replacement for Mossad Director Shabtai Shavit, who resigned in early 1996. Danny Yatom (1996-1998) was succeeded by Ephraim Halevy (1998-2002). In September 2002, Meir Dagan was designated the new Mossad director.</p>
<p>Formerly known as the Central Institute for Coordination and the Central Institute for Intelligence and Security, Mossad was formed on 01 April 1951. Mossad was established by then Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, who gave as Mossad's primary directive: "For our state which since its creation has been under siege by its enemies. Intelligence constitutes the first line of defence...we must learn well how to recognise what is going on around us."</p>
<p>Mossad has a total of eight departments, though some details of the internal organization of the agency remain obscure.</p>
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<li><strong>Collections Department</strong> is the largest, with responsibility for espionage operations, with offices abroad under both diplomatic and unofficial cover. The department consists of a number of desks which are responsible for specific geographical regions, directing case officers based at "stations" around the world, and the agents they control. Beginning in 2000, the Mossad undertook an advertising campaign to promote recruitment of collection officers. See a June 2001 recruiting poster <a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/world/israel/mossad/mossad_ad.html">here</a>.  A flash version of the recruiting ad, published September 2002, may be viewed <a href="http://www.mohr.gov.il/intro_flash.html">here</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Political Action and Liaison Department</strong> conducts political activities and liaison with friendly foreign intelligence services and with nations with which Israel does not have normal diplomatic relations. In larger stations, such as Paris, Mossad customarily had under embassy cover two regional controllers: one to serve the Collections Department and the other the Political Action and Liaison Department.</li>
<li> <strong>Special Operations Division</strong>, also known as <strong>Metsada</strong>, conducts highly sensitive assassination, sabotage, paramilitary, and psychological warfare projects.</li>
<li> <strong>LAP (Lohamah Psichologit) Department</strong> is responsible for psychological warfare, propaganda and deception operations.</li>
<li><strong>Research Department</strong> is responsible for intelligence production, including daily situation reports, weekly summaries and detailed monthly reports. The Department is organized into 15 geographically specialized sections or "desks", including the USA, Canada and Western Europe, Latin America, Former Soviet Union, China, Africa, the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia), Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran. A "nuclear" desk is focused on special weapons related issues.</li>
<li><strong>Technology Department</strong> is responsible for development of advanced technologies for support of Mossad operations.  In April 2001, the Mossad published <a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/world/israel/mossad/helpwanted.htm">a "help wanted" ad</a> in the Israeli press seeking electronics engineers and computer scientists for the Mossad technology unit.</li>
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<h2>Sources and Resources</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.mossad.gov.il/Mohr">Mossad</a> official web site (<a href="http://www.mossad.gov.il/Mohr/MohrTopNav/MohrEnglish/MohrAboutUs/">English</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.mohr.gov.il/intro_flash.html">Mossad Help Wanted Ad</a>, flash version, September 2002</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/world/israel/mossad/techops.htm">"James Bond, No Big Deal":  Technological Aspects of Mosad Operations</a> by Dan Yakhin, Globes (Tel Aviv), April 19, 2001</li>
<li>"Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services" by Ian Black and Benny Morris</li>
<li>"Inside Israel's Secret Organisations" <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Jane's Intelligence Review</span> October 1996</li>
<li><em>Ha-Ben shel Rosh HaMossad</em> (short story) by Etgar Karet</li>
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<div class="dablink">For the organization that coordinated pre-state Jewish immigration, see <a title="Mossad Le'aliyah Bet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad_Le%27aliyah_Bet">Mossad Le'aliyah Bet</a>.</div>
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<td><strong>Formed</strong></td>
<td><a title="December 13" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_13">December 13</a>, <a title="1949" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949">1949</a> as the Central Institute for Coordination</td>
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<td>1,200 (est)</td>
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<td><strong>Agency Executive</strong></td>
<td><a title="Meir Dagan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Dagan">Meir Dagan</a>, Director</td>
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<td><strong>Parent agency</strong></td>
<td><a title="Prime Minister of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel">Office of the Prime Minister</a></td>
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<p>The <strong>Mossad</strong> (<em>HaMossad leModi'in v'leTafkidim Meyuhadim</em>) (<span dir="ltr"><a title="Hebrew language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he">המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים</span></span>‎ - <em>Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations</em>) is the national <a title="Intelligence agency" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_agency">intelligence agency</a> of <a title="Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel">Israel</a>. "Mossad" is the Hebrew word for institute or institution.</p>
<p>The Mossad is responsible for <a title="Intelligence (information gathering)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_%28information_gathering%29">intelligence collection</a>, <a title="Counter-terrorism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-terrorism">counter-terrorism</a>, <a title="Covert operation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_operation">covert operations</a> such as paramilitary activities and assassinations, and the facilitation of <a title="Aliyah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah">aliyah</a> where it is banned. It is one of the main <a title="Israeli Intelligence Community" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Intelligence_Community">Intelligence Community</a> entities in Israel (along with <a class="mw-redirect" title="Aman (IDF)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aman_%28IDF%29">Aman</a> (<a title="Military intelligence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_intelligence">military intelligence</a>), <a class="new" title="OADNA (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OADNA&#38;action=edit&#38;redlink=1">OADNA</a> and <a title="Shin Bet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Bet">Shin Bet</a> (internal security)), but its director reports directly to the <a title="Prime Minister of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel">Prime Minister</a>. Its role and function is similar to that of the <a title="Central Intelligence Agency" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> (CIA), the <a title="Secret Intelligence Service" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service">Secret Intelligence Service</a> (MI6), and the <a title="Research and Analysis Wing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_and_Analysis_Wing">Research and Analysis Wing</a> (RAW). the <a title="Australian Secret Intelligence Service" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Secret_Intelligence_Service">Australian Secret Intelligence Service</a> (ASIS) and the <a title="Canadian Security Intelligence Service" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Security_Intelligence_Service">Canadian Security Intelligence Service</a> (CSIS), in their respective countries.</p>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Prior_to_Israel.27s_formation"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Prior to Israel's formation</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Organization"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Organization</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Executive_offices"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Executive offices</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Directors_of_Mossad"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Directors of Mossad</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Organizational_history"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Organizational history</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Activities"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Activities</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#North_America"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">North America</span></a>
<ul>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#United_States_of_America"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">United States of America</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#South_America"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">South America</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Argentina"><span class="tocnumber">4.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Argentina</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Western_Europe"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">Western Europe</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Germany"><span class="tocnumber">4.3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Germany</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Italy"><span class="tocnumber">4.3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Italy</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Malta"><span class="tocnumber">4.3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Malta</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Norway"><span class="tocnumber">4.3.4</span> <span class="toctext">Norway</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Balkans"><span class="tocnumber">4.4</span> <span class="toctext">Balkans</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Bosnia_and_Herzegovina"><span class="tocnumber">4.4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Bosnia and Herzegovina</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Middle_East"><span class="tocnumber">4.5</span> <span class="toctext">Middle East</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Egypt"><span class="tocnumber">4.5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Egypt</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Iran"><span class="tocnumber">4.5.2</span> <span class="toctext">Iran</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Iran_1960s"><span class="tocnumber">4.5.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Iran 1960s</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Iran_2007"><span class="tocnumber">4.5.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Iran 2007</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Iraq"><span class="tocnumber">4.5.3</span> <span class="toctext">Iraq</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Palestinian_territories"><span class="tocnumber">4.5.4</span> <span class="toctext">Palestinian territories</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Lebanon"><span class="tocnumber">4.5.5</span> <span class="toctext">Lebanon</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Africa"><span class="tocnumber">4.6</span> <span class="toctext">Africa</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Ethiopia"><span class="tocnumber">4.6.1</span> <span class="toctext">Ethiopia</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Morocco"><span class="tocnumber">4.6.2</span> <span class="toctext">Morocco</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Uganda"><span class="tocnumber">4.6.3</span> <span class="toctext">Uganda</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Oceania"><span class="tocnumber">4.7</span> <span class="toctext">Oceania</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#New_Zealand"><span class="tocnumber">4.7.1</span> <span class="toctext">New Zealand</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Soviet_Union"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Soviet Union</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Books"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Books</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#References"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>
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<p>The "<a title="Mossad Le'aliyah Bet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad_Le%27aliyah_Bet">Mossad Le'aliyah Bet</a>" was a small, unorthodox <a class="mw-redirect" title="Zionist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist">Zionist</a> organization whose mission in 1938 was to bring Jews to Palestine. This was done to subvert the British quotas on Jewish immigration. The Mossad's modes of operation, its ideology, and politics resulted in the creation of the intelligence agency for the Israeli government once it was established in 1948. The agency consisted of several of the existing members who had worked to establish Israel as a nation and to bring the Jewish people to it.</p>
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<p>From its headquarters in the Israeli city of <a title="Tel Aviv" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>, the Mossad oversees a staff estimated at 1200 personnel, although it may have numbered up to 2000 in the late 1980s.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-Globalsecurity-0">[1]</a></sup> The Mossad does not use <a title="Military rank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_rank">military ranks</a>, although most of its staff have served in the <a title="Israel Defense Forces" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces">Israel Defense Forces</a> as part of Israel's compulsory draft system, and many of them are <a title="Officer (armed forces)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_%28armed_forces%29">officers</a>. It is assumed to consist of eight different departments.</p>
<p>The largest 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.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-Globalsecurity-0">[1]</a></sup> Their field intelligence officers, called <a title="Katsa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsa">katsas</a>, are similar to <a title="Agent handling" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_handling">case officers</a> of the CIA. Thirty to forty operate at a time, mainly in Europe and the Middle East.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-By_Way_of_Deception-1">[2]</a></sup></p>
<p>The Political Action and Liaison Department is responsible for working both with allied foreign intelligence services, and with nations that have no normal diplomatic relations with Israel.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-Globalsecurity-0">[1]</a></sup></p>
<p>Among the departments of the Mossad is the Special Operations Division or '"Metsada" (<em>see</em> <a title="Kidon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidon">Kidon</a>), which is involved in assassination, paramilitary operations, sabotage, and psychological warfare.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-Globalsecurity-0">[1]</a></sup></p>
<p>Psychological warfare is also a concern of the Lochamah Psichologit Department, which conducts propaganda and deception activities as well.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-Globalsecurity-0">[1]</a></sup></p>
<p>Additionally, the Mossad has a Research Department, tasked with intelligence production, and a Technology Department concerned with the development of tools for Mossad activities.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-2">[3]</a></sup></p>
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<th><span style="position:relative;bottom:1px;"><a class="image" title="Flag of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Israel.svg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/25px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png" border="0" alt="Flag of Israel" width="25" height="18" /></a></span><span style="padding-left:.1em;"> </span><span style="position:relative;top:2px;"><a title="Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel"><span style="font-size:150%;color:#ffffff;">State of Israel</span></a></span><span style="padding-left:.1em;"> </span><a class="image" title="Coat of arms of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Coat_of_arms_of_Israel.svg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Coat_of_arms_of_Israel.svg/18px-Coat_of_arms_of_Israel.svg.png" border="0" alt="Coat of arms of Israel" width="18" height="22" /></a></th>
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<th><a title="Geography of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Israel">Geography</a></th>
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<td><a title="Land of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Israel">Land of Israel</a><br />
<a title="Districts of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Israel">Districts</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Israel">Cities</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Transport in Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Israel">Transport</a><br />
<a class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Red Sea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea">Red Sea</a><br />
<a title="Sea of Galilee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Galilee">Sea of Galilee</a><br />
<a title="Jerusalem" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Tel Aviv" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv">Tel Aviv</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Haifa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa">Haifa</a></td>
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<th><a title="History of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel">History</a></th>
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<td><a title="Jewish history" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_history">Jewish history</a> (<a title="Timeline of Jewish history" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Jewish_history">timeline</a>)<br />
<a title="History of Zionism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Zionism">History of Zionism</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Aliyah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah">Aliyah</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Theodor Herzl" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl">Herzl</a><br />
<a title="Balfour Declaration of 1917" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917">Balfour</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="British Mandate of Palestine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine">British Mandate</a><br />
<a class="mw-redirect" title="1947 UN Partition Plan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_UN_Partition_Plan">1947 UN Plan</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Declaration of Independence (Israel)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_%28Israel%29">Independence</a><br />
<a title="Austerity in Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity_in_Israel">Austerity</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="History of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel">History of Israel</a></td>
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<td><a class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Arab-Israeli conflict" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Arab-Israeli_conflict">History of the Arab-Israeli conflict</a><br />
<a class="mw-redirect" title="1948 Arab-Israeli War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab-Israeli_War">1948 War</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="1949 Armistice Agreements" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Armistice_Agreements">1949 Armistice</a><br />
<a title="Jewish exodus from Arab lands" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_lands">Jewish exodus</a><br />
<a title="Suez Crisis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis">Suez War</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Six-Day War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War">Six-Day War</a><br />
<a title="War of Attrition" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Attrition">War of Attrition</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Yom Kippur War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War">Yom Kippur War</a><br />
<a title="1982 Lebanon War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War">1982</a> / <a title="2006 Lebanon War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War">2006 Lebanon War</a><br />
<a title="List of Middle East peace proposals" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Middle_East_peace_proposals">Peace proposals</a><br />
<a class="mw-redirect" title="Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-Egypt_Peace_Treaty">Treaties with Egypt</a> / <a class="mw-redirect" title="Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-Jordan_Treaty_of_Peace">Jordan</a><br />
<a class="mw-redirect" title="International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law_and_the_Arab-Israeli_conflict">International law</a></td>
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<td><a class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Israeli-Palestinian_conflict">History</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli-Palestinian_conflict">Timeline</a><br />
<a title="1948 Palestinian exodus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus">1948 Palestinian exodus</a><br />
<a title="Israeli-occupied territories" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories">Occupation</a><br />
<a class="mw-redirect" title="Peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_process_in_the_Israeli-Palestinian_conflict">Peace process</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Israeli peace camp" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_peace_camp">Peace camp</a><br />
<a title="First Intifada" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Intifada">First Intifada</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Oslo Accords" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords">Oslo</a><br />
<a class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Aqsa Intifada" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Intifada">Second Intifada</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Israeli West Bank barrier" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier">Barrier</a><br />
<a title="Israel's unilateral disengagement plan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%27s_unilateral_disengagement_plan">Disengagement</a></td>
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<a title="Science and technology in Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Israel">Science and technology</a><br />
<a title="Tourism in Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Israel">Tourism</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Israeli wine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_wine">Wine</a><br />
<a title="Israel Weapon Industries" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Weapon_Industries">Israel Weapon Industries</a><br />
<a title="Israel Aerospace Industries" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Aerospace_Industries">Israel Aerospace Industries</a></td>
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<a title="Music of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Israel">Music</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Archaeology of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_of_Israel">Archaeology</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="List of universities and colleges in Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colleges_in_Israel">Universities</a><br />
<a title="Hebrew language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language">Hebrew</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Israeli literature" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_literature">Literature</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Sports in Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_Israel">Sport</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="List of Israelis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israelis">Israelis</a></td>
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<td><a title="Law of Return" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return">Law of Return</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Jerusalem Law" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Law">Jerusalem Law</a><br />
<a title="Referendums in Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums_in_Israel">Referendums</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="List of political parties in Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Israel">Parties</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Elections in Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Israel">Elections</a><br />
<a title="Prime Minister of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Israel">Prime Minister</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="President of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Israel">President</a><br />
<a title="Knesset" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knesset">Knesset</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Supreme Court of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Israel">Supreme Court</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a title="Israeli judicial system" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_judicial_system">Courts</a></td>
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<th><a title="Foreign relations of Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Israel">Foreign affairs</a></th>
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<td><a class="mw-redirect" title="Israel, Palestine and the United Nations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel,_Palestine_and_the_United_Nations">UN</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Israel-United States relations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-United_States_relations">US</a><span style="font-weight:bold;"> ·</span> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Arab League and the Arab-Israeli conflict" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League_and_the_Arab-Israeli_conflict">Arab League</a></td>
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<p><a id="Directors_of_Mossad" name="Directors_of_Mossad"></a></p>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a title="Directors of Mossad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=4">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Directors of Mossad</span></h3>
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<li><a title="Reuven Shiloah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Shiloah">Reuven Shiloah</a>, 1949-1952</li>
<li><a title="Isser Harel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isser_Harel">Isser Harel</a>, 1952-1963</li>
<li><a title="Meir Amit" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Amit">Meir Amit</a>, 1963-1968</li>
<li><a title="Zvi Zamir" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvi_Zamir">Zvi Zamir</a>, 1968-1974</li>
<li><a title="Yitzhak Hofi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Hofi">Yitzhak Hofi</a>, 1974-1982</li>
<li><a title="Nahum Admoni" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Admoni">Nahum Admoni</a>, 1982-1989</li>
<li><a title="Shabtai Shavit" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabtai_Shavit">Shabtai Shavit</a>, 1989-1996</li>
<li><a title="Danny Yatom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Yatom">Danny Yatom</a>, 1996-1998</li>
<li><a class="mw-redirect" title="Ephraim Halevy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Halevy">Ephraim Halevy</a>, 1998-2002</li>
<li><a title="Meir Dagan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Dagan">Meir Dagan</a>, 2002-Present</li>
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<p><a id="Organizational_history" name="Organizational_history"></a></p>
<h2><span class="editsection">[<a title="Organizational history" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=5">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Organizational history</span></h2>
<p>The Mossad was formed on <a title="December 13" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_13">December 13</a>, <a title="1949" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949">1949</a> as the "Central Institute for Coordination", at the recommendation of <a title="Reuven Shiloah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Shiloah">Reuven Shiloah</a> to Prime Minister <a title="David Ben-Gurion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion">David Ben-Gurion</a>. Shiloah wanted a central body to coordinate and improve cooperation between the existing security services — the army's intelligence department (AMAN), the General Security Service (GSS or "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. Its current staff is estimated at 1,200.</p>
<p>Mossad's former motto: <em>be-tachbūlōt ta`aseh lekhā milchāmāh</em> (<span dir="ltr"><a title="Hebrew language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he">בתחבולות תעשה לך מלחמה</span></span>‎, can be translated in various ways. <em>Babylon,</em> the online translator translates the first word - the method of waging war - as by "trick, plot, scheme, guile, ploy, ruse, sleight, subterfuge, wile, chicanery, contrivance," etc. Some translate it with softer words as "For by wise counsel thou shalt wage thy war," and claim it is a quote from the bible (Proverbs XXIV,6).</p>
<p>The motto was changed recently as part of the Mossad's public 'coming out' to another Proverbs passage: <em>be-'éyn tachbūlōt yippol `ām; ū-teshū`āh be-rov yō'éts</em> (<span dir="ltr"><a title="Hebrew language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he">באין תחבולות יפול עם, ותשועה ברוב יועץ</span></span>‎). The word תחבולות is the same as in the original motto and according to <em>Babylon</em> still means trick, etc. However, some translate it as, "Where no counsel is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety." (Proverbs XI, 14). <sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-3">[4]</a></sup></p>
<p><a id="Activities" name="Activities"></a></p>
<h2><span class="editsection">[<a title="Activities" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=6">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Activities</span></h2>
<p><a id="North_America" name="North_America"></a></p>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a title="North America" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=7">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">North America</span></h3>
<p><a id="United_States_of_America" name="United_States_of_America"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="United States of America" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=8">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">United States of America</span></h4>
<p>The Mossad informed the FBI and CIA in August 2001 that 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 that it had picked up indications of a "large-scale target" in the United States and that Americans would be "very vulnerable." <sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-4">[5]</a></sup></p>
<p><a id="South_America" name="South_America"></a></p>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a title="South America" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=9">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">South America</span></h3>
<p><a id="Argentina" name="Argentina"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Argentina" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=10">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Argentina</span></h4>
<p>In 1960, the Mossad discovered that <a class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi">Nazi</a> <a title="War crime" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime">war criminal</a> <a title="Adolf Eichmann" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann">Adolf Eichmann</a> was in <a title="Argentina" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina">Argentina</a> and through <a title="Surveillance" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance">surveillance</a>, they confirmed that he had been living there under the name of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Ricardo Klement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Klement">Ricardo Klement</a>. He was captured by a team of Mossad agents on <a title="May 11" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_11">May 11</a>, <a title="1960" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960">1960</a>, and subsequently smuggled to Israel where he was tried and executed. Argentina protested what it considered as the violation of its sovereignty, and the <a title="United Nations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations">United Nations</a> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Security Council" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Council">Security Council</a> 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 stating 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 condoning the odious crimes of which Eichmann is accused." "<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-5">[6]</a></sup><sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-6">[7]</a></sup> A second plan to capture <a title="Josef Mengele" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele">Josef Mengele</a> was aborted.</p>
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<h3><span class="editsection">[<a title="Western Europe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=11">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Western Europe</span></h3>
<p><a id="Germany" name="Germany"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Germany" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=12">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Germany</span></h4>
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<li><a title="Operation Plumbat" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbat">Operation Plumbat</a> (1968) was an operation by <a title="Lekem" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lekem">Lekem</a>- Mossad that was undertaken in support of the Israeli nuclear weapons effort. The German freighter "Scheersberg A", disappeared on its way from <a title="Antwerp" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp">Antwerp</a> to <a title="Genoa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa">Genoa</a> along with its cargo of some 200 tons of <a title="Uranium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium">uranium</a> oxide (<a title="Yellowcake" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake">Yellowcake</a>). When the freighter reappeared in the Turkish port of İskenderun, the cargo was missing; it had been transferred at sea to an Israeli ship.</li>
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<li>The sending of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Letter bombs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_bombs">letter bombs</a> during the <a title="Operation Wrath of God" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wrath_of_God">Operation Wrath of God</a> campaign. Some of these attacks were not fatal, although their purpose might not have been to kill the receiver. Some of the more famous examples of the Mossad letter bombs were those sent to Nazi war-criminal <a title="Alois Brunner" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Brunner">Alois Brunner</a>.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-7">[8]</a></sup></li>
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<p><a id="Italy" name="Italy"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Italy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=13">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Italy</span></h4>
<p>The abduction of nuclear technician <a title="Mordechai Vanunu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu">Mordechai Vanunu</a> in 1986 after <a title="American Jews" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews">American-Israeli</a> agent <a title="Cheryl Bentov" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Bentov">Cheryl Bentov</a> lured him from the <a title="United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-8">[9]</a></sup></p>
<p><a id="Malta" name="Malta"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Malta" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=14">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Malta</span></h4>
<p>The assassination of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Fathi Shiqaqi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathi_Shiqaqi">Fathi Shiqaqi</a>, a leader of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian Islamic Jihad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Islamic_Jihad">Palestinian Islamic Jihad</a>, in 1995.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-9">[10]</a></sup></p>
<p><a id="Norway" name="Norway"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Norway" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=15">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Norway</span></h4>
<p><a title="Lillehammer affair" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair">Lillehammer affair</a>. On July 21, 1973, Mossad agents in Lillehammer murdered Moroccan busboy, Ahmed Bouchikhi, whom they mistakenly believed to have been involved in the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Munich Olympics massacre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Olympics_massacre">Munich Olympics massacre</a>.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-10">[11]</a></sup></p>
<p><a id="Balkans" name="Balkans"></a></p>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a title="Balkans" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=16">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Balkans</span></h3>
<p><a id="Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" name="Bosnia_and_Herzegovina"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Bosnia and Herzegovina" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=17">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Bosnia and Herzegovina</span></h4>
<p>Assisted in air and overland evacuations of the Jews from war-torn <a title="Sarajevo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo">Sarajevo</a> to Israel in 1992.</p>
<p><a id="Middle_East" name="Middle_East"></a></p>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a title="Middle East" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=18">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Middle East</span></h3>
<p><a id="Egypt" name="Egypt"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Egypt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=19">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Egypt</span></h4>
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<li>Directed missions for Israeli spy <a title="Wolfgang Lotz" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Lotz">Wolfgang Lotz</a> in Egypt 1957-1965.</li>
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<ul>
<li>Directed missions for Israeli spy <a title="Eli Cohen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen">Eli Cohen</a>(was born and worked in his youth in Egypt but spied on Syria) in 1964, who provided vast amounts of valuable intelligence. Eli Cohen was, however, caught in 1965 in Syria while he was monitoring radio frequencies.</li>
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<li>Provision of key intelligence on the <a title="Egyptian Air Force" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Air_Force">Egyptian Air Force</a> for <a title="Operation Focus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Focus">Operation Focus</a>, the opening airstrike of the <a title="Six-Day War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War">Six-Day War</a>.</li>
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<ul>
<li><a title="Operation Bulmus 6" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bulmus_6">Operation Bulmus 6</a> - Intelligence assistance in the Commando Assault on <a class="mw-redirect" title="Green Island, Egypt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Island,_Egypt">Green Island, Egypt</a> during the <a title="War of Attrition" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Attrition">War of Attrition</a>.</li>
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<p><a id="Iran" name="Iran"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Iran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=20">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Iran</span></h4>
<p><a id="Iran_1960s" name="Iran_1960s"></a></p>
<h5><span class="editsection">[<a title="Iran 1960s" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=21">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Iran 1960s</span></h5>
<p>Prior to the <a title="Iranian Revolution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution">Iranian Revolution</a> of 1978–79 in Iran, <a title="SAVAK" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK">SAVAK</a> (Organization of National Security and Information), the Iranian <a title="Secret police" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_police">secret police</a> and intelligence service was created under the guidance of United States and Israeli intelligence officers in 1957 to protect the regime of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Reza Shah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Shah">shah</a> by arresting, torturing, and executing the dissidents (especially Leftists). After security relations between the <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a> and Iran grew more distant in the early 1960s which led the <a class="mw-redirect" title="CIA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA">CIA</a> training team to leave persia, Mossad became increasingly active in Iran, training SAVAK personnel and carry­ing out a broad variety of joint operations with SAVAK.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-11">[12]</a></sup><sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-12">[13]</a></sup></p>
<p><a id="Iran_2007" name="Iran_2007"></a></p>
<h5><span class="editsection">[<a title="Iran 2007" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=22">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Iran 2007</span></h5>
<p>It was alleged by private intelligence agency <a title="Stratfor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor">Stratfor</a>, based on "sources close to Israeli intelligence", that Dr. <a title="Ardeshir Hosseinpour" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeshir_Hosseinpour">Ardeshir Hosseinpour</a>, a scientist involved in the <a title="Nuclear program of Iran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran">Iranian nuclear program</a>, was killed by the Mossad on <a title="January 15" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15">January 15</a>, <a title="2007" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007">2007</a>.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-13">[14]</a></sup></p>
<p>A US intelligence official told <em><a title="The Washington Post" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post">The Washington Post</a></em> that Israel orchestrated the defection of Iranian general <a class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Reza Askari" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Reza_Askari">Ali Reza Askari</a> on <a title="February 7" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_7">February 7</a>, <a title="2007" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007">2007</a>.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-14">[15]</a></sup> This has been denied by Israeli spokesman <a title="Mark Regev" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Regev">Mark Regev</a>. <em><a class="mw-redirect" title="The Sunday Times (UK)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunday_Times_%28UK%29">The Sunday Times</a></em> reported that Askari had been a Mossad asset since 2003, and left only when his cover was about to be blown.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-15">[16]</a></sup></p>
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<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Iraq" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=23">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Iraq</span></h4>
<p>Assistance in the defection and rescuing of the family of <a title="Munir Redfa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munir_Redfa">Munir Redfa</a>, an <a title="Iraq" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq">Iraqi</a> pilot who defected and flew his <a title="Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21">MiG 21</a> to Israel in 1966.</p>
<p>Operation Sphinx <sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-By_Way_of_Deception-1">[2]</a></sup> - Between 1978 and 1981, obtained highly sensitive information about Iraq's <a title="Osirak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osirak">Osirak</a> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear reactor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor">nuclear reactor</a> by recruiting an Iraqi nuclear scientist in France. On <a title="April 5" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_5">April 5</a>, <a title="1979" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979">1979</a>, the Mossad destroyed 60 percent of the Iraqi reactor components being built in France; "[An] environmental organization named <em>Groupe des écologistes français</em>, unheard of before this incident, claimed credit for the blast."<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-By_Way_of_Deception-1">[2]</a></sup> The reactor was subsequently destroyed by <a title="Operation Opera" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera">an Israeli air strike</a> in 1981.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-By_Way_of_Deception-1">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-16">[17]</a></sup>.</p>
<p>The alleged assassination of <a title="Canada" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada">Canadian</a> scientist <a title="Gerald Bull" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull">Gerald Bull</a>, developer of the Iraqi <a title="Supergun" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergun">supergun</a>, in 1990. The most common theory is that the Mossad was responsible, and its representatives have all but claimed responsibility for his assassination. Others, including Bull's son, believe that the 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 <a title="Iran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran">Iran</a> are also candidates for suspicion.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-17">[18]</a></sup></p>
<p><a id="Palestinian_territories" name="Palestinian_territories"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Palestinian territories" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=24">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Palestinian territories</span></h4>
<ul>
<li>The assassination of members of <a title="Black September (group)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September_%28group%29">Black September</a>, which was responsible for the <a title="Munich massacre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre">Munich massacre</a> at the <a title="1972 Summer Olympics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Summer_Olympics">1972 Olympic Games</a>, called "<a title="Operation Wrath of God" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wrath_of_God">Operation Wrath of God</a>".<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-18">[19]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>In July 1973, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Ahmed Bouchiki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Bouchiki">Ahmed Bouchiki</a>, an innocent <a title="Morocco" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco">Moroccan</a> waiter in <a title="Lillehammer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer">Lillehammer</a>, <a title="Norway" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway">Norway</a>, was killed while walking with his <a class="mw-redirect" title="Pregnant" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnant">pregnant</a> wife. He had been mistaken for <a title="Ali Hassan Salameh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Hassan_Salameh">Ali Hassan Salameh</a>, one of the leaders of <a title="Black September (group)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September_%28group%29">Black September</a>, the <a title="Palestinian people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people">Palestinian</a> group responsible for the <a title="Munich massacre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre">Munich massacre</a>, who had been given shelter in Norway. The Mossad agents had used fake <a title="Passport Canada" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_Canada">Canadian passports</a>, which angered the Canadian government. Six Mossad agents were arrested, and the incident became known as the <a title="Lillehammer affair" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair">Lillehammer affair</a>.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-19">[20]</a></sup><sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-20">[21]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The assassination of <a class="mw-redirect" title="PFLP" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFLP">PFLP</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" title="PFLP-EO" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFLP-EO">PFLP-EO</a> leader <a title="Wadie Haddad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadie_Haddad">Wadie Haddad</a> in 1978.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The assassination of <a title="As-Sa'iqa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Sa%27iqa">As-Sa'iqa</a> leader <a class="mw-redirect" title="Zuhayr Muhsin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuhayr_Muhsin">Zuhayr Muhsin</a> in 1979.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a class="mw-redirect" title="Tunis Raid" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunis_Raid">Tunis Raid</a> - The assassination of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Abu Jihad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Jihad">Abu Jihad</a> from the <a title="Fatah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah">Fatah</a> in 1988.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The assassination of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Fathi Shqaqi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathi_Shqaqi">Fathi Shqaqi</a>, the head of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian Islamic Jihad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Islamic_Jihad">Palestinian Islamic Jihad</a>, in 1995.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>In 1997, two Mossad agents were caught in <a title="Jordan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan">Jordan</a>, which had signed a peace treaty with Israel, on a mission to assassinate Sheikh <a title="Khaled Mashal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_Mashal">Khaled Mashal</a>, a leader of <a title="Hamas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas">Hamas</a>, by spraying him with <a title="Poison" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison">poison</a> at a pro-Hamas rally in <a title="Amman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman">Amman</a>. Again, they were using fake Canadian passports. This led to a diplomatic row with Canada and Jordan. Israel was forced to provide the <a title="Antidote" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidote">antidote</a> to the poison and to release around 70 Palestinian prisoners, in particular the Hamas leader Sheikh <a title="Ahmed Yassin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Yassin">Ahmed Yassin</a>, in exchange for the Mossad agents, who would otherwise have faced the <a title="Capital punishment" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment">death penalty</a> for <a title="Attempted murder" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_murder">attempted murder</a>.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>In March 2004, 7 years after he was released, <a title="Ahmed Yassin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Yassin">Ahmed Yassin</a> was killed in an Israeli helicopter airstrike.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The assassination of <a title="Hamas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas">Hamas</a> leader <a title="Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_El-Deen_Sheikh_Khalil">Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil</a> in <a title="Damascus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus">Damascus</a> in 2004.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The sending of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Letter bombs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_bombs">letter bombs</a> to PFLP member <a title="Bassam Abu Sharif" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassam_Abu_Sharif">Bassam Abu Sharif</a>.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-21">[22]</a></sup></li>
</ul>
<p><a id="Lebanon" name="Lebanon"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Lebanon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=25">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Lebanon</span></h4>
<p>The provision of intelligence and operational assistance in 1973's <a class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Spring of Youth" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spring_of_Youth">Operation Spring of Youth</a>.</p>
<p><a id="Africa" name="Africa"></a></p>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a title="Africa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=26">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Africa</span></h3>
<p><a id="Ethiopia" name="Ethiopia"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Ethiopia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=27">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Ethiopia</span></h4>
<p>Assistance in <a title="Operation Moses" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Moses">Operation Moses</a>, the immigration of <a title="Ethiopia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia">Ethiopian</a> Jews to Israel in 1984.</p>
<p><a id="Morocco" name="Morocco"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Morocco" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=28">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Morocco</span></h4>
<p>According to <a class="mw-redirect" title="Time Magazine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Magazine">Time Magazine</a>, the Mossad was involved in what is known as the Ben Barka Affair (see <a title="Mehdi Ben Barka" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Ben_Barka">Mehdi Ben Barka</a>).</p>
<p><a id="Uganda" name="Uganda"></a></p>
<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="Uganda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=29">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Uganda</span></h4>
<p>The provision of intelligence regarding <a title="Entebbe International Airport" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entebbe_International_Airport">Entebbe International Airport</a> and grant of refueling rights in <a title="Kenya" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya">Kenya</a> for <a title="Operation Entebbe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe">Operation Entebbe</a> in 1976.</p>
<p><a id="Oceania" name="Oceania"></a></p>
<h3><span class="editsection">[<a title="Oceania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=30">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Oceania</span></h3>
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<h4><span class="editsection">[<a title="New Zealand" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=31">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">New Zealand</span></h4>
<dl>
<dd><em>Further information: <a class="mw-redirect" title="Israel-New Zealand relations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-New_Zealand_relations">Israel-New Zealand relations</a></em></dd>
</dl>
<p>In July 2004, <a title="New Zealand" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand">New Zealand</a> imposed <a title="International sanctions" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions">diplomatic sanctions</a> on Israel over an <a title="2004 Israel-New Zealand spy scandal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel-New_Zealand_spy_scandal">incident</a> in which two Australian based Israelis, Uriel Kelman and Eli Cara, who were allegedly working for the Mossad (Israel denied it), attempted to obtain New Zealand passports fraudulently by claiming the identity of a severely disabled man. Israeli Foreign Minister <a title="Silvan Shalom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvan_Shalom">Silvan Shalom</a> later apologized to New Zealand for their actions. New Zealand cancelled several other passports believed to have been obtained by Israeli agents.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-22">[23]</a></sup> Both Kelman and Cara served half of their 6 month sentences and, upon release, were <a title="Deportation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation">deported</a> to Israel. Two others, an Israeli, Ze'ev Barkan, and a New Zealander, David Reznick, are believed to have been the third and 4th men involved in the passport affair but managed to leave New Zealand before being traced.</p>
<p><a id="Soviet_Union" name="Soviet_Union"></a></p>
<h2><span class="editsection">[<a title="Soviet Union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=32">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Soviet Union</span></h2>
<p>In February 1956, a friendly member of the <a title="Politburo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo">Politburo</a> provided the Mossad with a copy of <a title="Nikita Khrushchev" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a>'s speech denouncing <a class="mw-redirect" title="Josef Stalin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Stalin">Josef Stalin</a>. The Mossad passed it on to the United States, which published the speech, embarrassing the USSR. This was a major intelligence coup that raised the prestige of the organization. <sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_note-23">[24]</a></sup>.</p>
<p><a id="See_also" name="See_also"></a></p>
<h2><span class="editsection">[<a title="See also" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=33">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">See also</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><a title="Israeli Intelligence Community" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Intelligence_Community">Israeli Intelligence Community</a></li>
<li><a title="List of Israeli assassinations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinations">List of Israeli assassinations</a></li>
<li><a title="Shin Bet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Bet">Shin Bet</a>, Israel's internal security service</li>
</ul>
<p><a id="Books" name="Books"></a></p>
<h2><span class="editsection">[<a title="Books" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mossad&#38;action=edit&#38;section=34">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Books</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><a class="mw-redirect" title="Yuval Aviv" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Aviv">Yuval Aviv</a> - <em><a title="The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vengeance:_The_True_Story_of_an_Israeli_Counter-Terrorist_Team">Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team</a></em></li>
<li><a title="Ari Ben-Menashe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Ben-Menashe">Ari Ben-Menashe</a></li>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.namebase.org/sources/UW.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.namebase.org/sources/UW.html">Black, Ian and Morris, Benny. Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. 603 pages.</a></li>
<li><a title="Victor Ostrovsky" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ostrovsky">Victor Ostrovsky</a> - <em><a title="By Way of Deception" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Way_of_Deception">By Way of Deception</a></em> and <em><a class="new" title="The Other Side of Deception (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Other_Side_of_Deception&#38;action=edit&#38;redlink=1">The Other Side of Deception</a></em></li>
<li>Parsi, Rita. <em>Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States</em>, Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN-10: 0300120575.</li>
<li>Central Intelligence Agency. "Israel. Foreign Intelligence and Security Services, 1979". Included in the volume "Documents from the US Espionage Den", Tehran, 1982.</li>
</ul>
<p><a id="References" name="References"></a></p>
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<li>^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-Globalsecurity_0-0"><sup><em><strong>a</strong></em></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-Globalsecurity_0-1"><sup><em><strong>b</strong></em></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-Globalsecurity_0-2"><sup><em><strong>c</strong></em></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-Globalsecurity_0-3"><sup><em><strong>d</strong></em></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-Globalsecurity_0-4"><sup><em><strong>e</strong></em></sup></a> <a class="external text" title="http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/israel/mossad.htm" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/israel/mossad.htm">Mossad profile</a>, Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved October 28, 2006.</li>
<li>^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-By_Way_of_Deception_1-0"><sup><em><strong>a</strong></em></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-By_Way_of_Deception_1-1"><sup><em><strong>b</strong></em></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-By_Way_of_Deception_1-2"><sup><em><strong>c</strong></em></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-By_Way_of_Deception_1-3"><sup><em><strong>d</strong></em></sup></a> Ostrovsky, Victor. <em>By Way of Deception-The making and unmaking of a Mossad Officer</em>. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. <a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0971759502">ISBN 0-9717595-0-2</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-2">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://www.fas.org/irp/world/israel/mossad/index.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fas.org/irp/world/israel/mossad/index.html">the Mossad profile</a>, Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved <a title="October 28" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_28">October 28</a>, <a title="2006" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006">2006</a>.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-3">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://www.mossad.gov.il/Mohr/MohrTopNav/MohrEnglish/MohrAboutUs/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mossad.gov.il/Mohr/MohrTopNav/MohrEnglish/MohrAboutUs/">About Us</a>, Official Mossad Website. Retrieved October 28, 2006.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-4">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/mossadwarn.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/mossadwarn.html">Mossad Warned U.S. Of Impending Attack</a>.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-5">^</a></strong> "Argentina claimed, quite plausibly, that the "illicit and clandestine transfer of Eichmann from Argentine territory constitutes a flagrant violation of the Argentine State's right of sovereignty[.]" Bass, Gary J. (2004.) The Adolf Eichmann Case: Universal and National Jurisdiction. In Stephen Macedo (ed,) <em>Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes</em>. (ch.4) Philadelphia: U.Penn. Press. In Eichmann's case, the most salient feature from the perspective of international law was the fact of Israeli law enforcement action in another state's territory without consent; the human element includes the dramatic circumstances of the capture by Mossad agents and the ensuing custody and transfer to Israel[.] Damrosch, Lori F. (2004.) Connecting the Threads in the Fabric of International Law. In Stephen Macedo (ed,) <em>Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes</em>. (ch.5) Philadelphia: U.Penn. Press. The principle of territorial integrity (in Art. 2(4) UN Charter) At its most obvious level this means that the exercise of enforcement jurisdiction within the territory of another state will be a violation of territorial integrity <sup>32</sup> Note 32: E.g. after Adolf Eichmann [...] was abducted from Argentina by a group of Israelis, now known to be from the Israeli Secret Service (Mossad), the Argentine Government lodged a complaint with the UN Security Council [...] It is however unclear whether as a matter of international law the obligation to make reparation for a violation of territorial sovereignty such as that involved in the Eichmann case includes an obligation to return the offender. <a class="mw-redirect" title="Rosalyn Higgins" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Higgins">Higgins, Rosalyn</a> and Maurice Floy. (1997). <em>Terrorism and International Law.</em> UK: Routledge. (p. 48)</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-6">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://www.un.org/documents/sc/res/1960/scres60.htm" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.un.org/documents/sc/res/1960/scres60.htm">Security Council Resolution 138, "Question Relating to the Case of Adolf Eichmann"</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-7">^</a></strong> Henley, Jon. "<a class="external text" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/nazis/article/0,2763,445717,00.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/nazis/article/0,2763,445717,00.html">French court strikes blow against fugitive Nazi</a>", <em>The Guardian</em>, <a title="March 3" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_3">March 3</a>, <a title="2001" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001">2001</a>. Retrieved October 27, 2006.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-8">^</a></strong> Martin, Susan Taylor. "<a class="external text" title="http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/21/Worldandnation/The_spy___and_the_man.shtml" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/21/Worldandnation/The_spy___and_the_man.shtml">The spy - and the man she busted</a>", <em>St. Petersburg Times</em>, <a title="March 21" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_21">March 21</a>, <a title="2004" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004">2004</a>. Retrieved <a title="October 27" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_27">October 27</a>, <a title="2006" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006">2006</a>.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-9">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://www.military.com/Resources/ResourceFileView?file=PIJ-Organization.htm" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.military.com/Resources/ResourceFileView?file=PIJ-Organization.htm">Military.com Resources</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-10">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E6DA1639F93BA15752C0A960958260" rel="nofollow" href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E6DA1639F93BA15752C0A960958260">Israelis to Compensate Family of Slain Waiter - New York Times</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-11">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://www.iranica.com/newsite/index.isc?Article=http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/v5f3/v5f3a002.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.iranica.com/newsite/index.isc?Article=http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/v5f3/v5f3a002.html">CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) IN PERSIA.</a> In <em><a class="mw-redirect" title="Encyclopaedia Iranica" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopaedia_Iranica">Encyclopaedia Iranica</a></em>. Retrieved July 03, 2008</li>
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<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-13">^</a></strong> "<a class="external text" title="http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=283793" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=283793">Geopolitical Diary: Israeli Covert Operations in Iran</a>" (HTML) (in English).  <a title="Stratfor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor">Stratfor</a> (<a title="2007" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007">2007</a>-<a title="February 2" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2">02-02</a>). Retrieved on <a title="2007" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007">2007</a>-<a title="February 4" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_4">02-04</a>. (requires premium subscription)</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-14">^</a></strong> Linzer, Dafna. "<a class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030702241.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030702241.html">Former Iranian Defense Official Talks to Western Intelligence</a>", <em>The Washington Post</em>, March 8, 2007. Retrieved March 8, 2007.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-15">^</a></strong> Mahnaimi, Uzi. "<a class="external text" title="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1497034.ece" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1497034.ece">Defector spied on Iran for years</a>", <em>The Sunday Times</em>, March 11, 2007. Retrieved March 11, 2007.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-16">^</a></strong> "<a class="external text" title="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0611FF385C0C738DDDAF0894D9484D81&#38;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fIraq" rel="nofollow" href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0611FF385C0C738DDDAF0894D9484D81&#38;n=Top%2fNews%2fWorld%2fCountries%20and%20Territories%2fIraq">FRANCE PROTESTS TO ISRAEL ON RAID</a>", <em>The New York Times,</em> <a title="June 10" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_10">June 10</a>, 1981. Retrieved <a title="November 16" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_16">November 16</a>, <a title="2006" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006">2006</a>.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-17">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-74-626/people/gerald_bull/" rel="nofollow" href="http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-74-626/people/gerald_bull/">Dr. Gerald Bull: Scientist, Weapons Maker, Dreamer</a> at CBC.ca</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-18">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m13s43&#38;SecId=43&#38;AId=54848&#38;ATypeId=1" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m13s43&#38;SecId=43&#38;AId=54848&#38;ATypeId=1">The Jewish Chronicle</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-19">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903989,00.html?internalid=ACA" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903989,00.html?internalid=ACA">Fatal Error</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-20">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0198/9801026.htm" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0198/9801026.htm">Canadian Press Calls for Inquiry into Allegations Regarding Mossad Use of Passports</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-21">^</a></strong> Guerin, Orla. "<a class="external text" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/2072849.stm" rel="nofollow" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/2072849.stm">Arafat: On borrowed time</a>", <em>BBC News</em>, <a title="June 29" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_29">June 29</a>, <a title="2002" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002">2002</a>. Retrieved <a title="October 27" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_27">October 27</a>, <a title="2006" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006">2006</a>.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-22">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&#38;ObjectID=10332767" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&#38;ObjectID=10332767">Israeli government apologises to New Zealand - 26 Jun 2005 - NZ Herald: New Zealand National news</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad#cite_ref-23">^</a></strong> <a class="external text" title="http://zionism-israel.com/Israel_espionage_timeline_1948.htm" rel="nofollow" href="http://zionism-israel.com/Israel_espionage_timeline_1948.htm">Timeline:Israeli intelligence and covert operations From the War of Independence to 1956</a></li>
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<li>Shimron, Gad 2007, "Mossad Exodus; The Daring Undercover Rescue of the Lost Jewish Tribe", Gefen Publishing House. <a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789652294036">ISBN 978-9652294036</a></li>
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<li>Thomas, Gordon 2007, "Gideon's Spies; The Secret History of the Mossad", Thomas Dunne Books. <a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780312361525">ISBN 978-0-312-36152-5</a></li>
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<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.mossad.gov.il" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mossad.gov.il/">Official website</a></li>
<li><a class="external text" title="https://www.mossad.gov.il/Eng/recruit/Register/Explanations.aspx" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.mossad.gov.il/Eng/recruit/Register/Explanations.aspx">Online employment application. "Your particulars are protected. This site is stored in the highly secured databases of the State of Israel."</a></li>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/israel/mossad.htm" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/israel/mossad.htm">GlobalSecurity.org entry for Mossad</a></li>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/concepts_israeli_covert.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/concepts_israeli_covert.html">The Israeli Intelligence Services; Deception and Covert Action Operations</a></li>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.krav.ca" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.krav.ca/"><strong>Israeli IMI System</strong> (IIS) - Israeli Close Combat &#38; Fighting Tactics used by Mossad's agents</a></li>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.kravmaga-paris16.com" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.kravmaga-paris16.com/">Operational Krav Maga</a></li>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.omedia.org/Show_Article.asp?DynamicContentID=2344&#38;MenuID=681&#38;ThreadID=1014003" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.omedia.org/Show_Article.asp?DynamicContentID=2344&#38;MenuID=681&#38;ThreadID=1014003">Relations Between the Mossad and the Media</a></li>
<li><a class="external text" title="http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1598" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1598">Former chief of Mossad not Beware of Gaydamak</a></li>
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<dc:creator>porschephd</dc:creator>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana;">Originally when we bought the 997TT in from Chicago there were little in the way of modifications available. We created some in the form of tuning, worked with other companies to build intakes, etc. The one thing that simply was not available while leaving the PASM in place was suspension modifications. Knowing that the car was really not headed to the Dakar Rally we quickly teamed with Tech Art and waited until the first set of TA lowering springs hit American soil. Once in and on the car finally had a stance that we could be proud of. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana;">The ride was firmer but like any lowering spring addition you always seem to find your self saying, does that rebound with the spring feel right....nah must be in my head. So we accepted that for the money it was certainly well worth the gain and the looks it created. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana;">Over the summer we received a brand new Bilstein Dampstronic suspension. It has sat what feels like forever next to the couch in my office. Projects and day to day business certainly put the slow down on personal projects. So finally as we have found a small enough window to have installed my brand new suspension. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana;">Unlike the suspension kits from Bilstein for past cars or current cars that would use the PSS9s or PSS10s this system doesn't have the ability to control damping of the system by a knob on the top of the housing. The system remains completely PASM compliant and has all the workings to internally lock up the strut for a stiffer ride just like the factory. The difference is the progressive nature of the system. The more the system is pushed the more aggressive it becomes on the road. Drive to the grocery store and the system is very compliant and drives well. In fact much better than stock in my opinion. No bobbing, uneasy roll, very firm and sure on the road. Need a little more than that, hit the sport button and allow the system to lock it down and hit the track. This is without question one of the best improvements for the car both on the street and track use. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana;">Install is pretty straight forward, pull the old ones off, install the new ones in the exact same fashion. This system is completely adjustable so ride height is open to the hearts content. I personally chose a GT3RS ride height. The alignment specs we chose are not that of GT3RS but one of a cross between the Gt2 and the TT. Win win for many situations and certainly daily driving. </span></p>
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<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s with Arash Farboud and wannabe supercars? After selling his previous company, Farboud, ]]></description>
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<p>His newest concept isn't so bad, but I can't say it's good until there is a prototype of the car built. It will apparently be powered by a Corvette LS motor out of the current Z06 and covered by a carbon fiber body.Curb weight is projected at 2600lbs. Lots of independant exotic car manufacturers use Corvette motors, so it's no suprise this is powered by one. The car's design is essentially ripped off the Enzo.  Just about none of the the design elements are original, Enzo body, Lotus headlights, Porsche indicators. Arash, you're not fooling anyone. I'll respect this guy and his companies when he can build a car from scratch, instead of mooching off others. Then again, it's not nearly as bad as the Frem F1, a Lebanese "supercar" powered by a Volkswagen 2.0L motor, which claims an <em>intense</em> top speed of 124mph. If that's a supercar, then your mother's Camry is a hardcore race car.( http://www.nextautos.com/future-watch-lebanon%E2%80%99s-first-supercar-the-frem-f1?gid=11269&#38;nid=28346#gallery-11269 )</p>
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[caption id="attachment_145" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Here&#39;s a photo of the rear of the AF10..err, Enzo, for reference."]<a href="http://blufaction.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/aaa.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-145" title="aaa" src="http://blufaction.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/aaa.jpg" alt="Here's a photo of the rear of the AF10..errr, Enzo for reference." width="450" height="337" /></a>[/caption]
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<title><![CDATA[Quinn says no to term limits. Not on my watch.]]></title>
<link>http://stjohnsdemocrats.wordpress.com/?p=535</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Chris Puntarelli</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Recently New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said something about term limits. It was her ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said something about term limits. It was <a href="http://council.nyc.gov/html/releases/SpeakerQuinn_termlimits_10_12_08.shtml">her statement</a> on overturning the referendum on term limits which caused much anger.</p>
<p>She cites a "global economic crisis that has led to unprecedented challenges for our City. Indications are, those challenges will continue to grow more severe."</p>
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<p>I'm sure this city has been through worse before. From a city which came near all out bankruptcy to which we had to appeal to then President Ford. We might all remember his reply as shown by the New York Daily News front cover.</p>
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<p>We have also been through times of discrimination which have at times caused riots in the streets. New Yorkers came together in those times to support their fellow New Yorkers.</p>
<p>9/11 is a time when New Yorkers made it through a tough time. We didn't need continual leadership through what I can say without a doubt was the most emotional moment in our history. We've made it through wars, depressions, recessions, and violence. Don't give me this bull about an unprecedented crisis.</p>
<p>Would President George W. Bush get away with trying to extend his term due to the current crisis? Surely Mayor Bloomberg has done great things for this city but we can not go backwards.</p>
<p>What are your thoughts on the issue?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Fabled Enemies - o último documentário sobre 11Set2001]]></title>
<link>http://ovigia.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/fabled-enemies-o-ultimo-documentario-sobre-11set2001/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ovigia</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ovigia.cs.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/fabled-enemies-o-ultimo-documentario-sobre-11set2001/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Um interessante documentário, o mais recente, sobre os atentados de 11 Setembro 2001.
Chama-se Fabl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://prodos.thinkertothinker.com/wp-content/photos/alex_jones_9_11_was_an_inside_job.jpg" alt="http://prodos.thinkertothinker.com/wp-content/photos/alex_jones_9_11_was_an_inside_job.jpg" width="321" height="300" />Um interessante documentário, o mais recente, sobre os atentados de 11 Setembro 2001.</p>
<p>Chama-se <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2144933190875239407">Fabled Enemies</a>.</p>
<p>Aqui fica uma <a href="http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/a-review-of-jason-bermass-fabled-enemies/">análise ao documentário</a>.</p>
<p>Como sempre gosto mais de privilegiar a leitura e como tal recomendo a leitura dos livros a que já <a href="http://ovigia.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/escritor-david-r-griffin-e-movimento-pela-verdade-do-11setembro2001-nomeados-para-o-nobel-da-paz-de-2008/">fiz referência</a>.</p>
<p>De qualquer forma cá fica o <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2144933190875239407">link</a> para a versão do video google.</p>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/a-review-of-jason-bermass-fabled-enemies/">Dissident Voice : A Review of Jason Bermas’s Fabled Enemies</a><br />
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<blockquote><p><em>Fabled Enemies is written and directed by Jason Bermas, who was a co-producer of the Loose Change series, and produced by Alex Jones. It is a significant improvement over the Loose Change videos, which, although progressing in quality which each new version, focused heavily on questions like whether or not a plane hit the Pentagon, whether Flight 93 crashed in the field in Pennsylvania, and whether the WTC buildings were brought down in controlled demolitions, while failing to sufficiently address the enormous amount of other information demonstrating that the official story is a lie. Fabled Enemies goes a number of steps further than the third and final edition of Loose Change toward bringing a good number of these other matters to the attention of the viewing public.</em></p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[John Key or 911. Well no it has to be both]]></title>
<link>http://aotearoaawiderperspective.wordpress.com/?p=3054</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>travellerev</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Some of you may have noticed that the subject of 911 has been moved to the background while I give a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Some of you may have noticed that the subject of 911 has been moved to the background while I give a wider stage to the international financial collapse and NZ politics. Rest assured that this is just a temporary situation. I still feel that the events of 911 need a full and independent reinvestigation and I will get back to the subject ASAP.</strong></p>
<p>However in three weeks time there will be an election in New Zealand and the leader of the opposition party National, John Key aims to be the new Prime Minister of New Zealand. John Key has spent 14 years as an international investment banker and from 1995 until march 2001 John Key was a prominent banker for Merrill Lynch and as such lived in bothe London and New York. He was a a Foreign Exchange, Bonds and Derivatives specialist and as such his titles amongs others were Global head for Foreign Exchange, Managing director of debt and European head for Bonds and Derivatives. As such he was involved in the developement and sales of the very products now causing the Financial meltdown of the western  world. Added to that he worked in New York and London until March 2001 and was one of onely four upon invitation only advisor to the Federal Reserve of New York and Alan Greenspan.</p>
<p>This makes him unconfortably close to the centre of financial worl domination and a such I have made it a priority to bring out as much information as I can about the pending financial holocaust and his connection to the perpetrators and his willing coopration with these criminals.</p>
<p>So while I feel that the only way to healing truth is to reinvestigate the events of 911 through an independent body for the next three weeks I will make the exposure of Wall street and John Key my priority.</p>
<p>Travellerev</p>
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<title><![CDATA[T-Shirts from Hell!]]></title>
<link>http://iambilly.wordpress.com/?p=470</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>(((Billy)))</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I enjoy people watching.  Not in any perverted sexual sense, I just enjoy observing my fellow homo ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I enjoy people watching.  Not in any perverted sexual sense, I just enjoy observing my fellow <em>homo sapiens </em>in their natural environment.  Sometimes, however, people watching becomes disturbing.  Very disturbing.</p>
<p>I saw a family today who were, quite obviously, McCain/Palin supporters.  It was quite obvious from the five inch wide pasty blue (who picked that shade of blue for the McCain campaign?) button with the idiotic 'America First' slogan that Mom was wearing.  And the pasty blue McCain hat that covered Dad's bad toupee (if you are going to get a toupee, fine, but make sure your hair colour and the toupee match!).  What made the view disturbing was the T-shirts. </p>
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<p>Mom's shirt sported a caricature of Barack Obama.  The shirt was a rather well-done silk screen.  Professional, even.  Obama, however, was pictured complete with a turban and in the act of lighting a crack pipe.  Underneath, the words "This is your brain voting for Hussein."</p>
<p>Dad wore a Dallas Cowboys shirt.  Offensive, but not abnormal.</p>
<p>The kids, though.  The kids.  Their shirts were somewhere between sick and twisted, but not in a good way.</p>
<p>The youngest looked to be about six years old.  A cute little girl with blond curls and blue eyes (proper white-supremacist Aryan).  Her shirt looked home made.  The words:  "Obama, will you teach me about sex?"  You have to wonder about parents who would make their kid where such a shirt?  You also have to wonder why her parents don't like the idea of teaching little kids about 'good touch, bad touch' and 'it's okay to tell'?</p>
<p>A second little girl, even younger, sported a shirt (homemade look) stating:  "9/11 = God Saying No!"  No to what?  Intolerance?  Bigotry?  Stupid shirts? </p>
<p>The little boy, who looked about eight (dark hair and brown eyes (same father?)) wore a shirt upon which was printed:  "God.  Guns.  The G.O.P.  Protecting America Since 1776."  Never mind that the G.O.P. didn't even exist until 1854, when it was formed from the ashes of the Whig party.  Never mind that the British Army was defeated by a combination of a regular U.S. Army (the citizen-armies never held together long enough to be effective, long term, against the British regulars (and yes, I know I am simplifying here)) and a lot of help from the French.  Never mind that many of the clergy opposed attempts 