Word: mossad
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...though Ariel Sharon is reluctant to listen to a hard line on security, but it helps when the tough talk comes from someone he trusts. Sharon's Mr. Security is Avi Dichter, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic spy and security service. (The Mossad handles foreign intelligence.) According to Israeli intelligence officials, he has had a more profound effect on the Prime Minister's handling of Palestinian terrorists than any other adviser. "He has the Prime Minister's ear," says a senior Israeli security official. With 27 years' service in the Shin Bet, the mild-looking Dichter...
...insiders and another one for regular suckers--the journalistic equivalent of Martha Stewart and ImClone. Too many Americans already live in parallel universes, one controlled by a vast right-wing conspiracy, another in which Vincent Foster was murdered. In even more polarized and desperate quarters, people believe the Mossad brought down the World Trade Center. At the extreme, this world view is the mind-set of terrorism: that history is a hermetic system and the only way to get inside it is to smash it from without. In law-abiding society, it's an excuse for cheap cynicism, an excuse...
...insiders and another one for regular suckers - the journalistic equivalent of Martha Stewart and ImClone. Too many Americans already live in parallel universes, one controlled by a vast right-wing conspiracy, another in which Vincent Foster was murdered. In even more polarized and desperate quarters, people believe the Mossad brought down the World Trade Center. At the extreme, this world view is the mind-set of terrorism: that history is a hermetic system and the only way to get inside it is to smash it from without. In law-abiding society, it's an excuse for cheap cynicism, an excuse...
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...