Mossad / Spy games
Netanyahu Gives Mossad Its Mission: Bring Down Iran’s Regime
At an officers’ graduation ceremony, Israel’s prime minister said he had directed Mossad and the military to topple Tehran’s rulers.
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Israel / United States / Power & scandal
Israel’s Security Men Had the Keys to Epstein’s Apartment
An alarm, a consular official and a familiar guest: the emails show how comfortably official protection fitted into Epstein’s private world.
Opinion · The Editorial
AMAN / Unit 8200 / Cyber & technology
Unit 8200 Put a Population’s Phone Calls in the Cloud
Israel’s intelligence unit gained the storage to keep intercepted calls on a vast scale. Microsoft’s partial cutoff exposed the commercial machinery behind the surveillance.
Mossad / Spy life · History
Syria Kept Eli Cohen’s Last Will for 60 Years
The 2025 recovery brought back the operative’s false papers, apartment keys and original death sentence.
Mossad / Spy games · History
Hezbollah Paid for the Bombs in Its Pockets
Mossad’s pager operation turned a communications purchase into a mass attack. Hezbollah was still handing out devices hours before they exploded, Reuters reported.
CIA / Power & scandal · History
Israel’s American Spy Came Home to a Prime Minister’s Welcome
Jonathan Pollard’s airport reception supplied the public ending to an espionage case whose intelligence damage remains partly classified.
Shin Bet / Power & scandal · History
Iran Turned Israel’s Former Energy Minister Into a Spy
Gonen Segev had sat in Israel’s cabinet. Years later, Shin Bet said he was introducing Iranian handlers to Israelis as ordinary businessmen. He admitted espionage and received an 11-year sentence.
Epstein Offered a Future CIA Chief an Apartment
Texts to William Burns, favors involving an FSB Academy graduate and years of access to Ehud Barak trace Epstein’s reach into the intelligence establishment.
Member article
Mossad / Spy life · History
Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower Wrote His Kidnapping on His Hand
Mordechai Vanunu exposed Dimona, disappeared into Israeli custody and found a way to tell reporters where he said the operation had taken him.
Member article
Mossad / Spy games · History
Mossad’s Poison Plot Ended With Israel Handing Over the Antidote
The failed attempt to kill Khaled Meshaal in Amman put Israeli agents in custody, enraged Jordan’s king and brought Canada into the crisis.
Shin Bet / Spy games · History
A Bomb Hidden in a Phone Ended the Hunt for Hamas’s Engineer
Yahya Ayyash had eluded Israeli forces for months. In January 1996, a call said to be from his father reached him through a booby-trapped mobile.
Shin Bet / Power & scandal · History
Israel’s court barred a pardoned Shin Bet official from a ministry’s top job
The 1993 Ginosar judgment examined the Bus 300 cover-up and the Nafso interrogation and perjury affair.
AMAN / Unit 8200 / Power & scandal · History
Kissinger’s Warning About Israel’s False-Flag Bombers
Twenty-one years after the Egyptian bomb plot, America’s secretary of state brought it up in the Oval Office as a reason to distrust a new arrangement.
AMAN / Unit 8200 / Power & scandal · History
Israel’s Spies Saw the Armies Moving. Their Report Still Said War Was Unlikely.
AMAN’s October 5, 1973 assessment described emergency deployments and Soviet evacuations, then assigned a low probability to an Egyptian attack. The invasion began the following afternoon.
Mossad / Power & scandal · History
Mossad killed the wrong man in Lillehammer. The arrests exposed a European trail.
Norway’s inquiry traced the murder, the criminal convictions and the diplomatic limits of the investigation.
Switzerland / Israel / France / Cyber & technology · History
Israel Bought Engine Secrets From the Man Sent to Burn Them
A Swiss engineer substituted fake bundles for Mirage engine documents headed to an incinerator. A 1971 judgment laid out the trade.
AMAN / Unit 8200 / Spy games · History
The Radio Chatter That Exposed Moscow’s Secret Air War
Russian voices betrayed the Soviet pilots flying from Egypt. Israeli intelligence then helped prepare a fighter ambush over the Suez front.
AMAN / Unit 8200 / Cyber & technology · History
Israel Stole Egypt’s Radar. The Helicopter Almost Couldn’t Lift It.
A Soviet radar was worth taking home intact. In December 1969, Israeli commandos dismantled it in the dark and discovered their prize was dangerously heavy.
Mossad / Spy life · History
Mossad’s Champagne Spy Rode Into Egypt’s Military Bases
Wolfgang Lotz’s horses, gifts and supposed German military past opened doors for an Israeli agent in Cairo.
Shin Bet / Spy life · History
Israel’s Military Historian Had Invented His Own War Record
Israel Beer’s lawyer acknowledged the fabricated combat past after his arrest. The historian’s espionage conviction eventually brought a 15-year sentence.
Mossad Hunted a Missing Boy Across Three Continents
A child hidden under false identities became a mission for the spy chief who had captured Eichmann.