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A Mossad katsa spotted a Fiat van parked in a field close to the flight path. The agent ordered the driver to step out. The back door then flew open, and two militants opened fire. The agent returned fire, severely wounding both of them. The van was found to contain six missiles. The driver escaped on foot, and was pursued by the agent.
Operation Diamond [1] (Hebrew: מִבְצָע יַהֲלוֹם, Mivtza Yahalom) was an operation undertaken by Mossad. Its goal was the acquisition of a Soviet -built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 , the most advanced Soviet fighter plane at that time.
The explosion shook Beirut, and was seen by Mossad agent Mike Harari from a boat off the coast. [4] Immediately following the operation the three Mossad officers fled without trace, as did up to 14 other agents believed to have been involved in the operation. [3] Salameh was buried in front of a crowd of 100,000 mourners in Beirut's Martyr's ...
Thus, the Mossad left the subordination of the Foreign Ministry and came under the Prime Minister's authority and was included in the apparatus of the head of the government. Until 1957, the Mossad had no operational units, so it could only carry out operations using agents from other intelligence services. [58] [59] [19]
Operation Sharp and Smooth (August 1–2) – Israel Defense Forces raid on a Hezbollah-run hospital in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Tyre raid (August 4) – Night mission carried out by the Israel Defense Forces frogmen, Shayetet 13, in the southern Lebanon town of Tyre. It targeted the Hezbollah cell responsible for the rocket attack on Hadera on ...
Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre (17 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Mossad operations" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Spy Machine is a UK documentary special about the work of the Mossad, written and narrated by Gordon Thomas. [1] It was made by Open Media and Israfilm and first broadcast by Channel 4 in May 1998. [2] [3] The producer/director was Per-Eric Hawthorne.
Operation Damocles was a covert campaign of the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad in August 1962 which targeted German scientists and technicians, formerly employed in Nazi Germany's rocket program, who were developing rockets for Egypt at a military site known as Factory 333.