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...DIED. ISSER HAREL, 91, legendary Israeli spy and one of the founders of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence organization, which he ran from 1952 to '63; in Petah Tiqwah, Israel. During Mossad's early years, he directed the 1960 capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who had for years been living under an assumed name in Argentina and was later tried and executed in Israel. Harel recalled dragging Eichmann back to Israel and walking into Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's office with the message "I brought you a present...
...DIED. ISSER HAREL, 91, Israeli spymaster who headed Mossad, the country's intelligence agency during the 1950s and early 1960s, and who masterminded the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1960; in Petah Tikva, Israel. In the 1975 book The House on Garibaldi Street, which was made into a TV movie, Harel wrote about how he snared Eichmann. Much feared by his enemies, Harel unmasked Israel Beer, a Soviet mole who had penetrated Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's inner circle, and once made a man confess by simply saying: "I know you're a Russian...
Wiesenthal also criticizes Israeli secret-service chief Isser Harel, whose memoirs did not mention Wiesenthal's contributions to the capture of Eichmann. (The story of that raid is vividly told in a new memoir by the actual capturer, Eichmann in My Hands, by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein, to be published in May by Warner Books.) Other Wiesenthal targets include former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, a Jewish Socialist, for including four ex- Nazis in his first Cabinet, and Elie Wiesel, for not including a Gypsy on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council...
...sale of U.S. weapons to the militant Islamic regime in Tehran. The renewed furor over the Pollard affair thus not only dragged Israel's most shocking security misfire back into the spotlight but dredged up the whole sorry security mess. The Pollard case, says founding MOSSAD Chief Isser Harel, ranks as "the worst-bungled affair in Israel's history...
...Isser Harel, the head of MOSSAD at the time, recalls in his memoir, The House on Garibaldi Street, his men were convinced on at least three other occasions that they had cornered Mengele: in 1961 on a farm near the sleepy Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, in 1962 on a farm near Sao Paulo, and a few months later along the Paraguayan-Brazilian border. Each time they came away emptyhanded...