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...shadowy world of cloak-and-dagger spy operations, tiny Israel for years ranked as a world-class player. Agents of MOSSAD, the country's equivalent of the CIA, electrified the world in 1960 by capturing Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann and spiriting him out of Argentina under the noses of authorities. The intelligence network cast by MOSSAD and Shin Bet, Israel's FBI, was so exhaustive in the Middle East that Washington often relied on it for information and analysis. Even when the objectives of Israel's spooks were debatable, their methods virtually defined professionalism and supersecrecy...
...Israelis and soon began to steal documents from the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md., where he worked. On a trip to Paris that fall, he met Yosef Yagur, scientific attache at the Israeli consulate in New York City, and Rafi Eitan, the former deputy head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. Eitan was running the small, little-known intelligence unit to which Pollard was passing information. Month after month, Pollard delivered highly classified documents to the apartment of Irit Erb, a secretary at the Israeli embassy in Washington, where the material was photocopied...
...Vanunu suddenly vanished in early October, under circumstances that are increasingly mysterious. His disappearance is thought to have involved the Israeli intelligence service, MOSSAD; he may have been lured by MOSSAD agents aboard a ship berthed on the Thames and later transferred to an Israeli navy vessel on the high seas. Other observers suggested last week that Vanunu's abduction was considerably messier and may have violated British law. Still others speculate that the Vanunu affair may have been part of a deliberate Israeli propaganda campaign aimed at impressing the Syrians with Jerusalem's nuclear capabilities...
...MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence agency, had in the meantime been stepping up its pursuit of Nazis scattered across South America. In 1960, in a raid on a house in Buenos Aires, Israeli commandos seized Adolf Eichmann, the man in charge of Hitler's "final solution," and took him to Jerusalem to be tried -- and hanged. During the same campaign the Israelis descended on a house in the Vicente Lopez area of the Argentine capital where they were sure they would catch Mengele. They arrived to find that the doctor had vanished...
...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...