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...Desert; an overt purchase might have pushed the Soviet Union into supplying nuclear arms to the Arab states. The Scheersberg A, which is still in service as a tramp steamer under the name Kerkyra, was secretly owned at the time of the uranium caper by the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. It was one of three ships (another was called the Vita) that Israel used in the late 1960s for secret operations. TIME has discovered that the Scheersberg A was almost certainly involved in the refueling in the Atlantic of five gunboats seized by Israeli agents from the French harbor...
...Lillehammer, members of an Israeli assassination squad shot and killed a Moroccan waiter thought to be the chief of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Black September terrorists. The man was innocent, the Israeli agents were arrested. Perhaps the most serious consequence of the blunder was that the Mossad, the Israeli spy agency responsible for the killing, lost its reputation for reliability. When, a few days before the October War, the organization produced plans for the Arab attack, Israel's leaders were not convinced that the plans were genuine...
...other activities during the 1972-73 war of assassination between Israeli intelligence and its counterpart in the P.L.O. David Tinnin, an associate editor at TIME, and Norwegian Journalist Dag Christensen pieced together this story of international dirty tricks from leads provided by the Norwegian court that tried the Mossad agents...
Tinnin and Christensen date the origins of Israel's killer teams to Black September's murder of the eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The Mossad's first dozen victims were dispatched with silencer pistols or blasted in their hotel rooms or cars with plastique explosives. One of the hit team's victims turned out to be a coordinator of activities among Black September, the I.R.A. and Basque separatists. His replacement: the mysterious terrorist known as "Carlos," who in 1975 engineered the kidnaping of representatives of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting...
Based on information obtained from the freed hostages and by the Mossad, and largely confirmed by diplomats in Kampala and officials in West European countries, Israel's Herzog argued, among other points, that...