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...least known but most feared intelligence operations in the Middle East is a special branch of Mossad-the Israeli version of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, known familiarly as the "Institute"-which was organized in 1972 to conduct anti-terrorist campaigns against the Palestinian guerrillas. Last week there were indications that Mossad was on the offensive again. In Paris, possibly as a result of a Mossad tip, French counterespionage agents moved in on a sleepy-eyed, Spanish-speaking foreign visitor known only as "Carlos," who had in his possession forged Peruvian, Venezuelan and U.S. passports. He also had an arsenal...
TIME has been told that agents of Mossad also took advantage of the recent fighting in Lebanon to assassinate some of Israel's most implacable foes within the Palestinian movement. The Israelis claim to have killed eight and wounded 15 others in and around Beirut. Here is how the campaign of revenge was carried...
...objective of the latest mission, like that of a similar Mossad raid in Beirut two years ago, was to seek out and destroy Palestinians known to be connected with recurring fedayeen attacks on Israelis. Two teams of six people each were chosen for the mission: a killer team and a spotter team to pick out their targets. The killers went first, leaving Israel around 8:30 on the night of June 11. It was an ideal time: the moon had set early and the sky was black. The six-five men and a young woman-assembled at an airfield...
...down gently in an area not far from Beirut while its gunship hovered overhead protectively. The killers were met by waiting Israeli agents, who drove them to a safe house in the Beirut suburbs. From there, a one-word code message was flashed to an Israeli monitoring station, informing Mossad that the team was in place and Operation Caesarea...
...raids were staged the day after Arab guerrillas had attacked Israeli targets in Cyprus (see following story). But the detailed planning had actually begun a month earlier, when two nondescript men and a dark-haired woman in her mid-30s visited Beirut on Western passports. Agents of Mossad, the Israeli external-intelligence network, they laid the groundwork for the extraordinary invasion. They were helped by Israeli agents living in Beirut, including some who had infiltrated the fedayeen movement itself and others who arrived later. To get ready for the commandos, six agents went to Avis and a local firm called...