Mossad
The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים |
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Formed | December 13, 1949 as the Central Institute for Coordination |
Employees | 1,200 (est) |
Agency Executive | Meir Dagan, Director |
Parent agency | Office of the Prime Minister |
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www.mossad.gov.il |
The Mossad (HaMossad leModi'in v'leTafkidim Meyuhadim) (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים - Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations ), is the national intelligence agency of the State of Israel.
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[edit] Prior to Israel's statehood
The Mossad was a small, unorthodox Zionist 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 that had worked to establish Israel as a nation and to bring the Jewish people to it.
The Mossad is responsible for intelligence collection, counter-terrorism, covert operations such as paramilitary activities and assassinations, and the facilitation of aliyah where it is banned. It is one of the main Intelligence Community entities in Israel (along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security)), but its director reports directly to the Prime Minister. Its role and function is similar to that of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), the Research and Analysis Wing and the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) in their respective countries.
[edit] Organization
[edit] Executive offices
From its headquarters in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, the Mossad oversees a staff estimated at 1200 personnel, although it may have numbered up to 2000 in the late 1980s.[1] The Mossad is a civilian service, and does not use military ranks, although most of its staff have served in the Israel Defense Forces as part of Israel's compulsory draft system, and many of them are officers. It is assumed to consist of eight different departments.
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.[1] Their field intelligence officers, called katsas, are similar to case officers of the CIA. Thirty to forty operate at a time, mainly in Europe and the Middle East.[2]
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.[1]
Among the departments of the Mossad is the Special Operations Division or '"Metsada" (see Kidon), which is involved in assassination, paramilitary operations, sabotage, and psychological warfare.[1]
Psychological warfare is also a concern of the Lochamah Psichologit Department, which conducts propaganda and deception activities as well.[1]
Additionally, the Mossad has a Research Department, tasked with intelligence production, and a Technology Department concerned with the development of tools for Mossad activities.[3]
[edit] Directors of Mossad
- Reuven Shiloah, 1949-1952
- Isser Harel, 1952-1963
- Meir Amit, 1963-1968
- Zvi Zamir, 1968-1974
- Yitzhak Hofi, 1974-1982
- Nahum Admoni, 1982-1989
- Shabtai Shavit, 1989-1996
- Danny Yatom, 1996-1998
- Ephraim Halevy, 1998-2002
- Meir Dagan, 2002-Present
[edit] Organizational history
The Mossad was formed on December 13, 1949 as the "Central Institute for Coordination", at the recommendation of Reuven Shiloah to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. 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.
Mossad's former motto: be-tachbūlōt ta`aseh lekhā milchāmāh (Hebrew: בתחבולות תעשה לך מלחמה, "For by wise counsel thou shalt wage thy war." - Proverbs XXIV,6.
The motto was changed recently as part of the Mossad's public 'coming out' to another Proverbs passage: be-'éyn tachbūlōt yippol `ām; ū-teshū`āh be-rov yō'éts (Hebrew: באין תחבולות יפול עם, ותשועה ברוב יועץ, "Where no counsel is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety." - Proverbs XI, 14). [4]
[edit] Activities
[edit] North America
[edit] United States of America
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." [5]
[edit] South America
[edit] Argentina
The apprehension and illegal extradition out of Argentina[6] of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. In 1960, the Mossad discovered that Eichmann was in Argentina and through surveillance, they confirmed that he had been living there under the name of Ricardo Klement. He was captured by a team of Mossad agents on May 11, 1960, and subsequently smuggled to Israel where he was tried and executed. A second plan to capture Josef Mengele was aborted.
[edit] Brazil
Assassination of alleged Nazi war criminal Herberts Cukurs hiding in Brazil in 1965.[7]
[edit] Western Europe
[edit] France
The theft of French Mirage 5 plans, which led to the development of the Kfir in the 1960s.
[edit] Germany
- Operation Plumbat (1968) was an operation by Lekem- Mossad that was undertaken in support of the Israeli nuclear weapons effort. The German freighter "Scheersberg A", disappeared on its way from Antwerp to Genoa along with its cargo of some 200 tons of uranium oxide (Yellowcake). When the freighter reappeared in the Turkish port of İskenderun, the cargo was missing; it had been transferred at sea to an Israeli ship.
- The sending of letter bombs during the Operation Wrath of God 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 Alois Brunner.[8]
[edit] Eastern Europe
[edit] Bosnia and Herzegovina
Assisted in air and overland evacuations of the Jews from war-torn Sarajevo to Israel in 1992.
[edit] Middle East
[edit] Egypt
- Directed missions for Israeli spy Wolfgang Lotz in Egypt 1957-1965.
- Directed missions for Israeli spy Eli Cohen in 1964, who provided vast amounts of valuable intelligence. Eli Cohen was, however, caught in 1965 in Syria while he was monitoring radio frequencies.
- Provision of key intelligence on the Egyptian Air Force for Operation Focus, the opening airstrike of the Six-Day War.
- Operation Bulmus 6 - Intelligence assistance in the Commando Assault on Green Island, Egypt during the War of Attrition.
[edit] Iran
It was alleged by private intelligence agency Stratfor, based on "sources close to Israeli intelligence", that Dr. Ardeshir Hosseinpour, a scientist involved in the Iranian nuclear program, was killed by the Mossad on January 15, 2007.[9]
A US intelligence official told The Washington Post that Israel orchestrated the defection of Iranian general Ali Reza Askari on February 7, 2007.[10] This has been denied by Israeli spokesman Mark Regev. The Sunday Times reported that Askari has been a Mossad source since 2003, and left only when his cover was about to be blown.[11]
[edit] Iraq
Assistance in the defection and rescuing of the family of Munir Redfa, an Iraqi pilot who defected and flew his MiG 21 to Israel in 1966.
Operation Sphinx [2] - Between 1978 and 1981, obtained highly sensitive information about Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor by recruiting an Iraqi nuclear scientist in France. On April 5, 1979, the Mossad destroyed 60 percent of the Iraqi reactor components being built in France; "[An] environmental organization named Groupe des écologistes français, unheard of before this incident, claimed credit for the blast."[2] The reactor was subsequently destroyed by an Israeli air strike in 1981.[2][12].
The alleged assassination of Canadian scientist Gerald Bull, developer of the Iraqi supergun, 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 Iran are also candidates for suspicion.[13]
[edit] Israel
The abduction of nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu in Italy in 1986 after American-Israeli agent Cheryl Bentov lured him from the United Kingdom.[14]
[edit] Palestinian territories
- The assassination of members of Black September, which was responsible for the Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games, called "Operation Wrath of God".[15]
- In July 1973, Ahmed Bouchiki, an innocent Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, was killed while walking with his pregnant wife. He had been mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh, one of the leaders of Black September, the Palestinian group responsible for the Munich massacre, who had been given shelter in Norway. The Mossad agents had used fake Canadian passports, which angered the Canadian government. Six Mossad agents were arrested, and the incident became known as the Lillehammer affair.[16][17]
- The assassination of PFLP and PFLP-EO leader Wadie Haddad in 1978.
- The assassination of As-Sa'iqa leader Zuhayr Muhsin in 1979.
- Tunis Raid - The assassination of Abu Jihad from the Fatah in 1988.
- The assassination of Fathi Shqaqi, the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in 1995.
- In 1997, two Mossad agents were caught in Jordan, which had signed a peace treaty with Israel, on a mission to assassinate Sheikh Khaled Mashal, a leader of Hamas, by spraying him with poison at a pro-Hamas rally in Amman. Again, they were using fake Canadian passports. This led to a diplomatic row with Canada and Jordan. Israel was forced to provide the antidote to the poison and to release around 70 Palestinian prisoners, in particular the Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in exchange for the Mossad agents, who would otherwise have faced the death penalty for attempted murder.
- In March 2004, 7 years after he was released, Ahmed Yassin was killed in an Israeli helicopter airstrike.
- The assassination of Hamas leader Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil in Damascus in 2004.
- The sending of letter bombs to PFLP member Bassam Abu Sharif.[18]
[edit] Lebanon
The provision of intelligence and operational assistance in 1973's Operation Spring of Youth.
[edit] Africa
[edit] Ethiopia
Assistance in Operation Moses, the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1984.
[edit] Uganda
The provision of intelligence regarding Entebbe International Airport and grant of refueling rights in Kenya for Operation Entebbe in 1976.
[edit] Oceania
[edit] New Zealand
- Further information: Israel-New Zealand relations
In July 2004, New Zealand imposed diplomatic sanctions on Israel over an incident 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 Silvan Shalom later apologized to New Zealand for their actions. New Zealand cancelled several other passports believed to have been obtained by Israeli agents. [1] Both Kelman and Cara served half of their 6 month sentences and, upon release, were deported to Israel. Two others, an Israeli, Ze'ev Barkan, and a New Zealander, David Reznick, are believed to have been the third and 4th men involved in the passport affair but managed to leave New Zealand before being traced.
[edit] See also
- Israeli Intelligence Community
- List of Israeli assassinations
- Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service
[edit] Books
- Yuval Aviv - Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team
- Ari Ben-Menashe
- Black, Ian and Morris, Benny. Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. 603 pages.
- Victor Ostrovsky - By Way of Deception and The Other Side of Deception
- Parsi, Rita. Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN-10: 0300120575.
- Central Intelligence Agency. "Israel. Foreign Intelligence and Security Services, 1979". Included in the volume "Documents from the US Espionage Den", Tehran, 1982.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Mossad profile, Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved October 28, 2006.
- ^ a b c d Ostrovsky, Victor. By Way of Deception-The making and unmaking of a Mossad Officer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. ISBN 0-9717595-0-2
- ^ the Mossad profile, Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved October 28, 2006.
- ^ About Us, Official Mossad Website. Retrieved October 28, 2006.
- ^ Mossad Warned U.S. Of Impending Attack.
- ^ U.N. resolution 1960/138
- ^ Simon Wiesenthal Center
- ^ Henley, Jon. "French court strikes blow against fugitive Nazi", The Guardian, March 3, 2001. Retrieved October 27, 2006.
- ^ Geopolitical Diary: Israeli Covert Operations in Iran (HTML) (English). Stratfor (2007-02-02). Retrieved on 2007-02-04. (requires premium subscription)
- ^ Linzer, Dafna. "Former Iranian Defense Official Talks to Western Intelligence", The Washington Post, March 8, 2007. Retrieved March 8, 2007.
- ^ Mahnaimi, Uzi. "Defector spied on Iran for years", The Sunday Times, March 11, 2007. Retrieved March 11, 2007.
- ^ "FRANCE PROTESTS TO ISRAEL ON RAID", The New York Times, June 10, 1981. Retrieved November 16, 2006.
- ^ Dr. Gerald Bull: Scientist, Weapons Maker, Dreamer at CBC.ca
- ^ Martin, Susan Taylor. "The spy - and the man she busted", St. Petersburg Times, March 21, 2004. Retrieved October 27, 2006.
- ^ The Jewish Chronicle
- ^ Fatal Error
- ^ Canadian Press Calls for Inquiry into Allegations Regarding Mossad Use of Passports
- ^ Guerin, Orla. "Arafat: On borrowed time", BBC News, June 29, 2002. Retrieved October 27, 2006.
[edit] Further reading
- Shimron, Gad 2007, "Mossad Exodus; The Daring Undercover Rescue of the Lost Jewish Tribe", Gefen Publishing House. ISBN 978-9652294036
- Thomas, Gordon 2007, "Gideon's Spies; The Secret History of the Mossad", Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-0-312-36152-5
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Online employment application. "Your particulars are protected. This site is stored in the highly secured databases of the State of Israel."
- GlobalSecurity.org entry for Mossad
- The Israeli Intelligence Services; Deception and Covert Action Operations
- Israeli IMI System (IIS) - Israeli Close Combat & Fighting Tactics used by Mossad's agents
- Relations Between the Mossad and the Media
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